Author: J T. Ramsay
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You found yourself reading a dog-eared copy of Hard Times again.
This is probably perfect for those frozen morning hangovers we all have from time to time, or at least it sounds like one of those frozen morning hangovers. Blackmail Is My Life eagerly anticipates new Psychic Paramount material.
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We should probably talk about priorities.
Welcome to 2007, right? Sorry for my extended absence, but lets say that a New Year’s Day rainstorm combined with a postponed Mummer’s Day Parade for an impromptu move to the new place that’s just about ended. A few administrative things: Over the course of the extended absence, I’d hoped to post my Idolator Jackin’ Pop…
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We argued the meaning of “White Christmas.”
Listen: Kenny Rogers — Kentucky Homemade Christmas I’m definitely starting to feel the holiday spirit, just not for Imaad Wasif. I prefer my holiday favorites schmaltzy and loud. If you’re going to be sentimental, make them drunken, mawkish affairs. But then again, I grew up listening to this, Johnny Mathis and Anne Murray on a…
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Everyone’s off to the style wars.
Listen: Spank Rock - Lindsay Lohan’s Revenge [via Gorilla vs. Bear] It was during the tragic third act of this documentary about Villanova’s national basketball title that it I was reminded of another of 2006 short-lived neologisms: gallery rap. Early this year, Spank Rock’s YoYoYoYoYo revived the mid-eighties hiphop polyglot. A combination of old school…
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Let that 9mm turn a fella ghostly.
Listen: Demonologists — Unhealthy Culture Listen: Scott Walker — Clara Listen: Clipse — Ride around Shining As quickly as hauntology arrived, it got busted. Everyone laughed at last year’s EMP topic in whiggishness as it applies to music and cultural crit, but Reynolds’ attempt at making spurious linkages sexy, if not plausible, is de rigeur.…