Gawker 
Enter your username and password.
New York, 5:55 PM
Wed Dec 2
56 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip Your Editors:
Tipline: 646-214-8138
Editor-in-Chief:
Gabriel Snyder |
West Coast Editor:
Richard Rushfield |
Contributing Editors:
Valleywag:
Ryan Tate |
Media:
Hamilton Nolan |
Politics:
Alex Pareene |
Investigations:
John Cook |
Entertainment:
Brian Moylan |
Nights:
Adrian Chen |
Azaria Jagger |
Ravi Somaiya |
Weekends:
Foster Kamer |
Video Editor:
Richard Blakeley |
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
11/30/09
11/30/09
11/30/09
Also to his credit, he kicked Chris Martin out of the studio.
12/01/09
12/01/09
11/30/09
And that ain't cool--wait a second--I suddenly understand my longing for simpler days...
11/30/09
I assume other commenters will be happy to tell me just how doomed I really am, on this evidence.
11/30/09
11/30/09
Except of course for these guys. They will never be cool. [tremendousnews.com]
11/30/09
He's talking about something that I've been thinking about for a while (yes, he stole my idea! Just like he stole electronic music from the Germans!), which is that we are beyond the post-modern age now, and we've entered an age where everything is just one big mashup. There is nothing that's culturally "of the moment" anymore. You can even see the progression as this happened. The 1950's through the 1980's are all very well-defined decades in pop culture history.
But the 1990's? Whaddya got? Grunge? Ok, that was like, 1992. After that? And what about this decade? I'm not just talking music, either, but fashion, interior design, everything. I suppose the one thing I can think of that's going to immediately date the early part of this decade when we watch TV shows or whatever 10 years from now is going to be a lot of blue and brown paint on peoples' walls. Kinda like the avacado green from the 1970's. But that's kind of a stretch.
Pretty much everything has "come back" now, including neo-Victorian fashion (which is now called gothic & lolita), so we've pretty much got the full gamut of styles going on these days from the present day all the way back to the 1800's. I'm just waiting for the top hat to get popular again.
The non-destructiveness of the internet and digital media has allowed this to happen. Styles used to change, and be adopted en masse, because the old stuff would literally wear out and people would forget how to make it anymore. Nowadays we have basically permanent records of everything that goes on. If you see something you like, you can grab it. It didn't used to be that way; you basically had to just wear what everybody else did at any given time because that's what there was and that was all anyone knew about. There was no "oh, I'll go order something from France on the internet". You went to JC Penney and bought what was on the shelf.
While I appreciate the choice we have now, I also think there's at least *something* to miss about having shared cultural experiences and well-defined eras. It doesn't really feel like things are moving forward anymore.
11/30/09
11/30/09
11/30/09
"Blue, blue, electric blue..."
11/30/09
Imagine if instead of working with him they had done their follow up to Joshua Tree with Bob Rock.
11/30/09
11/30/09
And, creepin' Jesus, even Electric Warrior!
11/30/09
11/30/09
11/30/09
11/30/09
11/30/09
11/30/09
He's the dude who stole electronic music from the Germans in the 70s and passed it off as his own.
11/30/09
.....G-good for him?