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Sarah Palin Lets the Twitterati Sleep in the Same Room
Twitter, the ideal medium for feigning emotion! Bonnie Fuller pretended to be shocked, Erick Schonfeld and Kara Swisher pretended to fight, and Sasha Frere-Jones pretended to function. Today's real fake tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by rustneversleeps: Bonnie is shocked that Sarah Palin is more of a douche than we thought. Considering Palin's public stance on sex... more » | Other threads
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The New Yorker is not going biweekly. "Report it out, or shut the fuck up."
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The Twitterati Drink Alone, or with Jenny 8. Lee
What's Twitter good for? Knowing that your life of quiet desperation is shared by the rich, powerful, or merely well-read, for starters. Steve Case, Sasha Frere-Jones, and Rob Corddry deserve twitty pity: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Golly Gee Holly: Why don't these people just text their twitter things?!? I have a blackberry but I don't have twitterberry. IT'S NOT... 4 Responses | Other threads
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John McCain Doesn't Know How to Manage a Beaver
Oh, Twitter! Even senators say the darnedest things on the dynamic compendium of Internet users' stupidest thoughts. "How does one manage a beaver?" asked John McCain mid-pork tirade. More tweets that left us speechless: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by lobstr: if john mccain didnt ever use email or a cellphone, why the hell would we believe that he actually TWITTERS???... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Self-Improvement, 140 Characters at a Time
Today's tweets: Ashton Kutcher tried to be more tolerant, the New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones tried to be more zen, and a guy who dropped out of journalism school tried to be more drunk. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Sproing: If Ashton's neighbor is following him, the hammering will now commence at 5. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Everyone's Atwitter About Tomorrow
Look, everyone's a little excited about the inauguration. Here's a snapshot of a media elite which just won't shut up, in 140 characters or less: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by DevilsAvocado: Well, hello, 'fuck a vacuum'. You are now officially appointed as the chief officer of exasperation in my coterie of... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Sasha Frere-Jones Sings!
Would you like to hear New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones sing the hits of Kelly Clarkson? Sure, we all would! Thankfully, The New Yorker has us covered. Sasha wrote an entertaining piece on auto-tune (the software that corrects pitch problems and can also be used to make wacky robot vocals), and then went to Hoboken with a sound crew to get auto-tuned himself. Attached, a clip of Sasha singing "Since U Been Gone." Click through to the whole piece to hear him get all T-Pained out. [New Yorker] -
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What T-Pain Sounds Like Without Auto-Tune: Not That Much Better Than Sasha Frere-Jones
While Sasha Frere-Jones sings worse than a season-premiere American Idol reject, the New Yorker music reviewer's voice sounds almost passable after plugging it into Auto-Tune, the standard industry post-production tool. According to Frere-Jones's interview with producer Tom Beaujour, pretty much every recording artist on the radio uses Auto-Tune in the studio. Of course rapper T-Pain cranked up the tuner to create a robotic vocal effect often misdubbed the "Vocoder." But without it he's just another flat-singing rapper, as shown by the YouTube video below. More » -
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David Brooks Discovers "Dozens Of Niche Musical Genres Where There Used To Be This Thing Called Rock"
Friedman's oblivious egomania, Dowd's insouciance to basic norms of logical argument, Kristof's admirable ambulance chasing: all such other Times op-ed superpowers pale in comparison to David Brooks's truly awe-inspiring, magisterial laziness. Like a frat boy funneling a brew, he sits waiting for ideas to trickle down and, when he's had his fill, spits out a rank, frothy mess whose resemblance to last week's rank, frothy mess he takes as affirmative proof of his unfalsifiable claims about life and stuff. Today, he pretends to write about music. Why? More »
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By JonLiuComment by CleophusWayne: Brooks has a real handle on Joy Division. You can tell by the way he mentions Ed Sullivan in the... more » | Other threads
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Arcade Fire: We "Steal Quite Blatantly From Black People"
The mostly-Canadian collective Arcade Fire, reacting to a New Yorker article by Sasha Frere-Jones in which he claimed that "If there is a trace of soul, blues, reggae, or funk in Arcade Fire, it must be philosophical," has actually assembled an mp3 of bits that they have taken from the music of the blacks! It's sort of the most awesome thing they've ever done, though by our lights that isn't saying much. More »
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By ChoireComment by drewheyman: @Trampoline: well trampoline, a few points. 1. PE sucks. yeah, sure they seemed alright at the time, but we all knew flavor... more » | Other threads
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who stole the soul?
New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones is concerned that all the indie kids don't try to sound like black people anymore. He went to an Arcade Fire show and was totally bored! Do they even have a rhythm section? It's all shouting and French horns, isn't it? "But, in the past few years," says Sasha, "I've spent too many evenings at indie concerts waiting in vain for vigor, for rhythm, for a musical effect that could justify all the preciousness." Ok so he didn't he get there in time for LCD Soundsystem then? [New Yorker] -
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The 'New Yorker' Dance Party: Surprisingly Dirty
Floridian disc jockey Diplo played on Friday night at Hiro for the annual New Yorker Dance Party. If you wanted to see Adam Gopnik shake his strangely wide ass, you'd have been disappointed. But who are the New Yorker readers who appreciate both the sternness of Hendrik Hertzberg and dancing to a song whose refrain is "Put your panties on/Put your pussy away"? We sent photographer Kathy Lo to find out. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by Lolaclaire: Josh, you are very cute and muscular, as we have all seen, but I think it's time to choose a... more » | Other threads
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'New Yorker' Critic Needs Your Donations
Alert! Sasha Frere-Jones, the New Yorker's resident Justin Timberlake and Mariah Carey enthusiast, is also an amateur photographer, which you may know if you ever visit his website, where you will see photographs of such things as purple tulips, turkey sandwiches with a side of orange, and graffiti. But Sasha would like your help, for his external hard drive has failed, and he has lost "every photo taken between October 2003 and December 2005." To retrieve these photos, he needs $5,000. That's where you come in! More »
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Comment by Dwayne Provecho: Maybe he should just revive the fine art of Payola. A little hint here and there at his next interview... more » | Other threads
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BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING! Hot 'New Yorker' Festival ACTION ACTION ACTION
New Yorker Festival Tickets are on sale RIGHT NOW! Rush your ass over to Ticketmaster or risk being shut out of Sasha Frere-Jones' dance party! Do you really want to be the only one in your circle who doesn't see Bill Buford discuss pig butchery with Mario Batali? (Try not to shake Batali's hand; it may be catching.) And how could you pass up the opportunity to spend hours on a boat with Paul Goldberger and dozens of bald men wearing Danny Libeskind glasses? Once these tickets are gone, they're gone; hurry up and get them now. Oddly enough, this is not an advertisement. Consider it news you can use.
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By abalk2Comment by Pandora Spocks: I went 5 years ago before it was so crazy. Met Wendy Wasserstein and Steve Martin, among others. Now it's... more » | Other threads
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Media Bubble: Katie Loves Her Uncle Walter
• Katie Couric to narrate PBS docu on Walter Cronkite. No one ever said she's not clever. [B&C] More » -
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Music Critic Catfight: Sasha Frere-Jones v. Nick Hornby
The New Yorker's wildman music critic Sasha Frere-Jones has called out New York Times op-ed music-lover Nick Hornby. Looks like he's going to kick Hornby's ass after school, by the bike racks:It turns out that the [NYT's] idea is not to find rockist crackers or closet bigots or plain old crabcakes who just wanna rail against music as it exists and operates now — the idea is to find people who are unable to hear music as it exists and operates now, and then ask them to write about it. And if you're looking for someone who can't confront or discern the present moment, there is no greater spokesbaldy than Nick "Mojo Magazine Invented Me In a Diabolical Laboratory And Now They Can't Kill Me" Hornby.
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