Note: All entries are 100% spoiler free. It’s true what they say about these lists. They’re incredibly self-indulgent, a pretty lame attempt at showing others how cool you think you are, how modern and plugged into popular culture your tastes happen to be. The selections will inevitably match most popular critics’ lists, with a few [...]
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Year End/Decade Lists — 2 and 1/2 Stars
Posted in Film, Music, Television, tagged Best of list, Best of the Decade, The Wire on January 10, 2010 | 10 Comments »
The Pitchfork Music Festival 2009 – 4 Stars
Posted in Music, tagged Flaming Lips, Frightened Rabbit, Fucked Up, Green Day, Grizzly Bear, Japandroids, Jesus Lizard, Pitchfork Music Festival, The National, The Thermals, Yeasayer on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You can say what you want about “hipster douche bags,” their Ray Bans, cut off jeans, and other “look-at-me” style choices. You can say they’re smelly, holier than thou, and phony. You might have a point about all of it; I don’t know, the whole “I hate hipsters/yuppies/gentrifiers/pseudo-intellectuals, but I’m sort of one myself” conversation [...]
