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As I slowly, slowly trudge through my favorite hit songs of the decade, I thought I’d take a little while to reflect on the worst of the worst, the songs that sucked so bad that I spent much of the last ten years clutching my head in agony and ranting that I wished the world would just hurry up and end already. On the bright side, they also made the good ones sound so much better. I guess.
Here’s The Bottom 40, posted in pieces:
10/29/09: #40-#31
10/30/09: #30-#21
11/2/09: #20-#16
11/2/09: #15-#11
11/3/09: #10-#6
11/4/09: #5
11/4/09: #4
11/4/09: #3
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: $pread magazine, abortion, bad art, books, boys, liz phair, parker posey, photography, porn, sex, sex workers, sextech, stephen elliott, terminators, the internet, the white tiger
$pread Magazine is having a little bit of trouble coming up with the funds to get their next issue printed. They’re asking for donations, which you can make on their website. A quarter of their issues are given free of charge to sex workers who can’t otherwise afford it. Also, I’ve got an article in the next issue, so for very selfish and vain reasons I’d like to make sure it gets printed. Donations can be made through their website.
The legal defense fund for the killer of Dr. George Tiller tried to raise money via an eBay auction this week. And, not that this is very surprising, it was was a total creepstravaganza. It’s already been taken down for TOS violations by Youtube. (via Lizz Winstead)
Blogs you might like: The Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys. Heavy on the Youtubery but quite entertaining.
Jason Scott’s (hour-long) presentation on The Atomic Level of Porn.
Speaking of which, the deadline for proposals for the SexTech conference is Tuesday.
Aravaind Agida’s The White Tiger leads the long, long, longlist for the Impac Dublin Prize, voted on by librarians the world over. I actually really liked the book, though most of the reviews I read were snobbily negative about it.
Stephen Elliott is a very great writer and a very smart man. Except, I guess, when he is talking about Liz Phair. Whitechocolatespaceegg is one of the greatest albums ever and I have no patience for people who smugly dismiss everything she did after 1994 as though Headache and Ride and Shitloads of Money and Baby Got Going aren’t wonderful, wonderful songs.
In the UK, 52 pubs are closing each week. Photographer Chris Etchells is documenting it. (via the BBC)
[photo: Parker Posey in Party Girl, an imperfect yet completely lovable movie. It's her birthday today.]
Filed under: personal, tv | Tags: music, new york, sex bloggers, sweden, television
Swedish television.
This is from last week’s episode of Korslaget, the show where famous yet available musicians return to their hometowns to organize choirs. The show’s in its fourth season there, though it (stupidly) only lasted for one in the US.
I thought I’d leave you with this. I’m off to New York in the morning, for a mini-vacay with the boyfriend and also for some work-ish things. (more…)
Filed under: design of a decade, lists, music | Tags: 2003, design of a decade, jewel, yes u can
[I am so not finishing this list before the end of the year...]
6. Jewel, Yes U Can*
Picture it: Cranston, Rhode Island, 1996. I am fifteen years old and nightly my parents and I sit down to painfully awkward and uncomfortably starchy dinners. To stop me from complaining too much they let me pick out the dinner soundtrack. I am at the height of my angst-ridden period, but unlike most other angst-ridden teenagers I don’t do drugs or explore Satan worship or wRiTe In ThE kOrN sTyLe. No, my cathartic muse was Jewel, the Alaskan singer who once lived in a van and who had an eight-minute long song about a very bad canoe accident. Jewel had messed-up teeth and sang that song about how she was sensitive and wanted to stay that way. She yodeled, too, and had that other song that went “oh Jew! oh Jew!”
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Today:
gay males in rhode island with pictures
alex kapranos cigarette
brutos eros steve hammond
how do i completely cancel a craigslist
how could a village turn into a town von
asian hookers looking for love
Yesterday:
god hates anal sex
terry richardson moneyshot
men often makes passes at boys
gay splits
“girl with cum on her face”
(more…)
Filed under: shameless self-promotion | Tags: men, naked men, naked pictures of your dad, tumblr
Big week for me over on the ol’ Tumblr. Yesterday my Tumblarity went into four digits for the first time ever, and today I got my 10,000th Like.
For those of you unacquainted with the Tumblr concept, if you have an account you can ‘like’ other people’s posts by clicking a little heart that’s in the corner of the screen. With 10,002 likes and 1936 posts, that means each post I’ve written was liked by 5.16632231 people. Tumblarity I’m less sure about, but it’s a number that goes up the more popular you are. Folks sure do like looking at pictures of naked dudes!
[photo: Richard Pierce]
Filed under: people from rhode island, personal | Tags: i haven't got a stitch to wear, internet, obama, weather
ObamaWeather hates me.
Filed under: design of a decade, lists, music | Tags: 2003, design of a decade, kelis, milkshake
[The best of 2003 continues with the only great song that year to have been performed by cast members of a daytime soap opera.]
7. Kelis, Milkshake
New York singer Kelis first appeared at the tail end of the last millennium. Caught Out There–the “I hate you so much right now!!” song–hit #4 on the UK singles chart, but the song had minimal impact stateside. Americans also ignored the follow-up singles from the Kaleidoscope album, and Young Fresh n New, the only single released from her follow-up album, didn’t even do particularly well in Britain.
After two big misses, most R&B singers wouldn’t get the chance to make a third album, but luck was on Kelis’s side. Luck, and her longtime collaborators The Neptunes, who were suddenly in the middle of a very successful run of chart hits. They wrote and produced the whole of her Tasty album, and abruptly the singer transformed from Macy Gray-ish cuckoo to batshit sexpot.
Filed under: art, magazines | Tags: highbrow, life magazine, lowbrow, taste
[Click image to enlarge.]
From Crooked Timber comes this handy chart from a 1949 issue of Life Magazine, letting you know what’s highbrow and what isn’t. My favorite part is that the useful highbrow objects are a decanter and an ashtray from a chemical supply company.
I’m all over the place. I like the Eames chair, but I also prefer a jukebox to Bach. And don’t even get me started on the joys of bourbon and ginger ale.
Filed under: books, in praise of athletic beauty, magazines | Tags: asterix, bobbleheads, culture, france, gay, new hampshire, peyton place, spandex, the 00s, wrestling
[Because I spent most of the week reading about prostitution in Rhode Island, this news update is abbreviated.]
The Village Voice called wrestling organization Ring of Honor the Best Place To See Straight Men Get All Homoerotic. Wrestling fans responded, obviously, by calling for the death of people from the Village Voice.
Grace Metalious, author of scandalous fifties bestseller novel Peyton Place, has been honored with a bobble head by the New Hampshire Historical Society. That’s pretty cool, although I’m more excited by their Old Man In The Mountain bobblehead. [via Largehearted Boy]
The Telegraph has a list of 100 cultural moments that defined the decade. It’s interesting to read British ideas of what’s culturally important, because we’re so alike and yet so not. I can’t imagine something like The Beethoven Experience capturing American hearts and breaking sales records, for instance, or any American calling “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” a significant cultural moment.
Finally, Asterix, the plucky French comic hero, turned 50 this week.
[image from Glory By Honor VIII: The Final Countdown]
The special All Saints’ Day edition of The Pop Chart kicks off in about seven minutes right here. And you can always follow along with the Top 40 over at the Pop Chart blog.
