2008
Jul
Watch
Jul 24th
Sleevage
Jul 24th
Does the world need another indie band?
Jul 20th
Five literary hotels
Jul 19th
The Rut
Jul 17th
“Coding around Internet Explorer is like planning a meal for...”
— Merlin Mann
— Merlin Mann
Jul 15th
In the mix: The rebirth of the mixtape
Jul 14th
Read Print
Jul 13th
LAST.FM Spiral
Jul 12th
Watch
Where the Hell is Matt?
Jul 10th
The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th...
Jul 9th
CASSETTE FROM MY EX
Jul 9th
The 100 Best Albums on eMusic
Jul 8th
Gonzo
Jul 8th
Jun
How Tony Wilson changed music
Jun 21st
Catching a literary wave
Jun 20th
A list of samples used in Girl Talk's new...
Jun 19th
Lessons from My Father: The Outlaw
Jun 17th
A Masters Thesis on My Bloody Valentine
Jun 16th
Lester Bangs: Aw, man. You made friends with them. See, friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong.
William Miller: Well, it was fun.
Lester Bangs: They make you feel cool. And hey. I met you. You are not cool.
William Miller: I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn’t.
Lester Bangs: That’s because we’re uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don’t have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we’re smarter.
William Miller: I can really see that now.
Lester Bangs: Yeah, great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love… and let’s face it, you got a big head start.
William Miller: I’m glad you were home.
Lester Bangs: I’m always home. I’m uncool.
William Miller: Me too!
Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.
William Miller: I feel better.
Lester Bangs: My advice to you. I know you think those guys are your friends. You wanna be a true friend to them? Be honest, and unmerciful.
William Miller: Well, it was fun.
Lester Bangs: They make you feel cool. And hey. I met you. You are not cool.
William Miller: I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn’t.
Lester Bangs: That’s because we’re uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don’t have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we’re smarter.
William Miller: I can really see that now.
Lester Bangs: Yeah, great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love… and let’s face it, you got a big head start.
William Miller: I’m glad you were home.
Lester Bangs: I’m always home. I’m uncool.
William Miller: Me too!
Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.
William Miller: I feel better.
Lester Bangs: My advice to you. I know you think those guys are your friends. You wanna be a true friend to them? Be honest, and unmerciful.
Jun 9th
“The ball is round. The game lasts ninety minutes. Everything...”
— Sepp Herberger
— Sepp Herberger
Jun 7th
The best soccer Web sites and books to read...
Jun 7th
someecards.com
Jun 3rd
May
Juggernaut Still Rides: Behind the Scenes and...
May 23rd
Announcing the Totally Unofficial Build a...
May 20th
YouTomb
May 20th
50 best British songwriters
May 19th
PHD Comics
May 19th
How to make a perfect cuppa
May 19th
Watch
Best ad I’ve seen in a while.
May 17th
“A wiser fella than myself once said, sometimes you eat the...”
— The Stranger
— The Stranger
May 17th
Why Twitter Matters
May 15th
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s...
May 15th
List of actors who have played comic book...
May 14th
PHD Comics
May 13th
Procrastination Lit
May 13th
50 Most Memorable Movie Cars
May 11th
Five science fiction movies that get the...
May 10th
“Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos. I don’t work, I...”
— Walter Sobchak
— Walter Sobchak
May 10th
Indexed by Jessica Hagy
May 9th
Four Must-Read Books for Aspiring Writers
May 9th
Remembering Hunter Thompson
May 9th
Destroyer Debate: "Streethawk: A Seduction"...
May 7th
Jane Austen: In the novelist's footsteps
May 6th
A voyage around my father
May 6th
Che anything
May 6th
someecards.com
May 6th
The Bostonians
May 3rd
Literary greats
May 2nd
Apr
Mark E Smith: wonderful and frightening
Apr 27th
The Fall guy
Apr 27th
The 20th century, with its scores of millions of supernumerary dead, has been called the age of...
Apr 26th
50 best cult books
Apr 25th
Were I (who to my cost already am
One of those strange prodigious Creatures, Man)
A Spirit free, to...
Apr 25th
“Books should be brought to the doorstep like electricity, or...”
— Joseph Brodsky
— Joseph Brodsky
Apr 24th
30 Ways to Celebrate America's National...
Apr 24th
pdf-mags.com
Apr 23rd
“The English are not usually given to patriotic boasting -...”
— Kate Fox
— Kate Fox
Apr 23rd
“The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I...”
— Voltaire
— Voltaire
Apr 23rd
The Box Office Belletrist: Love in the Time...
Apr 21st
The Poetry Archive
Apr 20th
Free eBooks - Classic Books and Novels
Apr 17th
My rise and fall
Apr 14th
Composer's 'song journal' revisits gonzo...
Apr 13th
Watch
A tribute to Ted Hughes, one of my favourite poets.
Apr 13th
someecards.com
Apr 10th
“There are some albums that take you back to your early teens...”
— Billy Bragg in the New York...
— Billy Bragg in the New York...
Apr 6th
Indexed by Jessica Hagy
Apr 6th
110 best books: The perfect library
Apr 6th
Supercharge Your Camera with Open-Source...
Apr 4th
10 top live music venues in London
Apr 3rd
British Sea Power: Free World Rock Music
Apr 3rd
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Wondering how I’d missed these guys, I replayed “Discovery,” which I’d...
Apr 2nd
Mar
Pitchfork Interview: Nick Cave
Mar 31st
The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever
Mar 30th
“It’s really easy to lock myself in my apartment and...”
— Dan Snaith
— Dan Snaith
Mar 29th
Hunter S Thompson: our crazy gonzo life
Mar 24th
Smoking gun
Mar 22nd
Someone's watching you
Mar 17th
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the...”
— Joseph Addison
— Joseph Addison
Mar 16th
Great poets of the 20th century
Mar 16th
This Be The Verse
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.They fill...
Mar 14th
“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the...”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Mar 12th
How to Defend Your Coffee Habit
Mar 9th
Watch
Justice - DVNO
Mar 3rd
Feb
Is depression good for you?
Feb 28th
When bands go through the cool cycle
Feb 24th
A Place to Bury Strangers: Prefix Mag...
Feb 22nd
Pitchfork Feature: Poptimist #12
Feb 22nd
Ten Years of 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea'
Feb 16th
All things to all men
Feb 15th
State of the union
Feb 15th
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society,...
Feb 14th
Hear where you're coming from
Feb 14th
“I guess I’m slowly becoming one of those crusty old...”
— Mark Oliver Everett
— Mark Oliver Everett
Feb 13th
Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally...
Feb 13th
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion
Feb 8th
“Our Jerusalem’s right here, in England’s green...”
— Michael Smith
— Michael Smith
Feb 8th
The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of...
Feb 5th
Jan
He Was a Crook
Jan 28th
“We must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
— Kurt Vonnegut
Jan 28th
Arts & Letters Daily
Jan 26th
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the...”
— Edward Gibbon
— Edward Gibbon
Jan 26th
Pazz and Jop 2007
Jan 26th
I was Morrissey's roadie
Jan 26th
“The opposite of religious feeling is not atheism,...”
— Martin Amis
— Martin Amis
Jan 25th
Writing on the Wall: An Interview with Hunter...
Jan 23rd
The Philosophy of Atheism
Jan 23rd
Schooled in cool
Jan 21st
Project 1968
Jan 21st
Missing a kick at the icebox doorIt closed anyway.
- Jack Kerouac
Jan 19th
“Gotta little sand in your egg sack there, fella.”
— Zeke “Big Z”...
— Zeke “Big Z”...
Jan 18th
Top 10 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
Jan 18th
How to drive fast on drugs while getting your...
Jan 18th
With friends like these...
Jan 15th
A Technical Guide for Editing Gonzo
Jan 14th
The soul of Chelsea in 50 moments
Jan 9th
Top 10 Drug-Fueled Novels
Jan 9th
Top 10 Drunk American Writers
Jan 9th
Best Feet Forward
Jan 6th
“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go...”
— Philip K. Dick
— Philip K. Dick
Jan 5th
A Nice Cup Of Tea by George Orwell
Jan 5th
Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell
Jan 5th
“It’s a simple game made complicated by too many. Don’t knock...”
— Alan Hudson
— Alan Hudson
Jan 5th
2007
Dec
Watch
Jack Kerouac reads from ‘On the Road’ on the Steve Allen Show, 1959. [Part 2]
Dec 16th
Watch
Jack Kerouac reads from ‘On the Road’ on the Steve Allen Show, 1959. [Part 1]
Dec 16th
“The universe always conspires to help the dreamer.”
— Paulo Coelho
— Paulo Coelho
Dec 13th
“Rock ‘n’ roll is an attitude, it’s not a...”
— Lester Bangs
— Lester Bangs
Dec 12th
Free Jazz / Punk Rock
Dec 11th
The Problem With Music
Dec 9th
“Trained fingers might as well be trained seals unless...”
— Lester Bangs
— Lester Bangs
Dec 8th
Brian Eno: A Sandbox In Alphaville
Dec 8th
Watch
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume
Dec 7th
Nov
Watch
Nov 30th
Rock Band vs. Real Band
Nov 28th
Gaping Void - “Social Media”
Nov 28th
Watch
Daft Bodies - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Nov 26th
Pitchfork Interview: Kevin Drew
Nov 26th
Watch the film
Nov 22nd
Blender Magazine: The 100 Greatest Indie-Rock...
Nov 20th
Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick...
Nov 16th
My Bloody Valentine announce reunion concerts!
Nov 15th
Pitchfork: Twee as Fuck
Nov 13th
Pitchfork Interview: Matthew Dear
Nov 13th
Pitchfork Interview: PJ Harvey
Nov 5th
Oct
Pitchfork Interview: Robert Wyatt
Oct 29th
Watch
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Oct 26th
PJ Harvey emerges from the musical...
Oct 26th
Arcade Fire discuss the bitter taste of...
Oct 26th
Dilbert
Oct 24th
Neil Gaiman: The man who turns fantasy into...
Oct 22nd
Watch
A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix The Gash in Your Head
Oct 22nd