June 2013
20 posts
JON HOPKINS - OPEN EYE SIGNAL
I highly suggest taking a pizza-induced nap to the new Jon Hopkins album.
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“People come to movie theaters to be alone together. They use the Internet in order to socialize and interact while being apart. That’s the crisis of film culture in a nutshell: it’s attempting to celebrate one medium using another with opposite properties. But, of course, film culture is chock full of crises and paradoxes—and always has been. Cinema is a very mutable and adaptable medium; as a result, it’s perpetually in crisis. Before the digital crisis, there was the home-video crisis, the television crisis, the widescreen crisis, the color crisis, the sound crisis—and so on and so forth.”
—This paragraph that is part of a questionnaire with Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (and a bunch of other film critics) stood out to me.
“I know this is going to sound bad, but sending a woman to review Star Trek is kinda asinine, evidenced by the fact that her intent was to ruin the movie. I have a feeling deep down inside she hates these kind of movies, so she figured she’d screw everybody by telling everything that happened. You guys might lose some readers over this.”
—Oh, okay.
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Jacques Greene
Not going to see this guy when he played here a couple of months ago will probably stand to be my biggest regret of 2013.
Fat Tony - Hood Party (ft. Kool A.D. and Despot)
It ain’t a hobby, it’s a way of life.
Sorry (not sorry), going to chime in on the Roy Hibbert “no homo” controversy that’s kinda boiling over on my Twitter feed right now. A few people have been understandably noting that that certain expression has a context beyond what most people (read: white) have been giving it credit for and then some others see that their context-giving as a defense of that expression.
I think that when those within a (sub)culture spend enough time within it to the exclusion of other cultures, they end up seeing criticism coming from the outside as being solipsistic and whatnot without realizing their own shortsightedness. No culture, especially ones that exist in North America in 2013, exists in a vacuum. I understand the desire for context but instead of wagging your tongue at outsider criticism and basically saying, “but you don’t get it!” and leaving it at that, maybe you could calmly, and respectfully, explain why something like “no homo” should be allowed. If you can’t even attempt to rationalize it to an outsider, especially to an outsider who could possibly be impacted by this kind of language, then maybe you should think about whether you’re on the right side.
