November 2011
Whither Review of My Cat Reviews Reviews?
It hilariously manages to not mention Matt Pinfield, who hosted the event.
The Oral History of the Oral History of Oral Histories | The New York Observer (via rachael-maddux)
Yo dawg, I heard you like oral histories, so I got you an oral history so you can oral history while you oral history.
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Jon Hamm reveals that Kristen Wiig is secretly Eddie Vedder.
This is why the New Yorker hired her!
This was a fun write-up, actually. Here’s my coverage of the ceremony itself.
If you are on the red carpet, and you are not there from Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood or maybe 3-5 other outlets, you’re going to spend your three hours talking to teenagers with “a really exciting new single/movie/TV pilot!” who will never be famous, ever, and then maybe John Legend will walk by. He’s really handsome.
They’re not glamorous at all. Mostly they’re like if all the worst-dressed extras from an episode of The Hills put on too much makeup and invaded the Nokia Theatre. Then they show up in the press room after the show and debate whether or not they should go to an afterparty and how hot Drake is. (Not as hot as John Legend, real talk.)
Usually the food backstage is good, unless you’re at the AMAs, where the food was from Johnny Rockets. It actually made me miss the VMAs.
Members of the press are apparently filing stories on iPads now (pretty smart, with the lack of wifi), or at least checking their tweets during Pitbull performances.
Taylor Swift still acts like a 16-year-old getting her first award, which is shifting for me from endearing and genuine to psychologically worrisome.
Kanye West needs to play more award shows. As in, all of them.
The only corner that has wi-fi. Journalism!
hardcorefornerds replied to your link: In an iTunes Age, Do We Need The Record Store?
Impossible to say. I’ve long since given up trying to understand anyone else’s purchasing habits.are there that many people concerned with the objective quality/fidelity of vinyl - rather than the general experience/packaging/cache - that they’re driving store purchases? from my perspective the bigger threat is online purchasing (of vinyl)
A nice piece by Marc, though the trending spectre of THE DEATH OF THE RECORD STORE that I’m sure allowed him to sell the pitch undersells the self-evident truth of the matter: smart business owners who can keep their costs down and find successful niches are doing just fine. I think we’ll see the real, final death of the record store (or at least more of them) in 5-10 years, when faster broadband and more efficient file sizes lets everybody listen to vinyl-quality audio on their phones.
I have mixed feelings about record stores: I spent my teenage years benefiting from them, I know store owners and I enjoy shopping at them when I’m in the neighborhood. But I personally am rarely going to make a discovery there that I haven’t already online and more importantly, there’s so little money in the industry that I feel like as much as possible should be going toward artists and labels, not toward Amoeba’s rent. Then again, you could say the same thing about my blog, you know?
A.O. Scott briefly addresses what I like to call the Tyranny of New in a fine essay on the state of film.
