DADDY, WHERE DO SONGS COME FROM?
Don’t know how to answer this embarrassing question when your little one asks it? Read them this interview with Neil Tennant and Rufus Wainwright. Link from The Fold Drop.
Archive for May 2004
I’M WITH THE BAND
It takes the whole of Coldplay to walk baby Apple. Some dudes are so needy.
NEWS THAT WILL GRAB YOU
Clay Aiken discovers boobs.
WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL
NYT reviews The Strokes at Central Park.
UNRELATED ITEMS:
The Japanese have a strikingly popular sexual obsession with schoolgirls (called “Loli-con”), resulting in “image clubs” that cater to this exact fetish. But the social ramifications of the increasing focus of the coveting of the young female form can be alarming. Some young girls have even capitalized on the schoolgirl fasination, occasionally prostituting themselves to raise pocket money.
Susan Sontag writes about the way digital media has changed the meaning, practices, and ramifications of visually documenting times of international conflict. “Where once photographing war was the province of photojournalists, now the soldiers themselves are all photographers — recording their war, their fun, their observations of what they find picturesque, their atrocities — and swapping images among themselves and e-mailing them around the globe.” … “The media may self-censor but, as Rumsfeld acknowledged, it’s hard to censor soldiers overseas, who don’t write letters home, as in the old days, that can be opened by military censors who ink out unacceptable lines. Today’s soldiers instead function like tourists, as Rumsfeld put it, ‘running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise.’” … “After all, we’re at war. Endless war. And war is hell, more so than any of the people who got us into this rotten war seem to have expected. In our digital hall of mirrors, the pictures aren’t going to go away. Yes, it seems that one picture is worth a thousand words. And even if our leaders choose not to look at them, there will be thousands more snapshots and videos. Unstoppable.”
Get Ryan Seacrest hair.
UNDER CONTROL
Julian’s getting married. In other news, Drew has started looking at Fab all weird.
Now that Julian is getting married, we are seriously in need of new potential husbands. Chris Martin is all married with babies and shit, James Walsh has a kid too. There’s like no one left. Oh wait… Sondre Lerche. We feel a lot better now.
ROCK WITH YOU, ALL NIGHT
The DJs of MisShapes give sex advice on Nerve.com!
GWYNETH HAD A BABY AND ALL WE GOT WAS THIS STUPID VIDEO
Check out “The Nappies” video on Coldplay.com.
More on baby Apple: The Sun, The New York Post
Coincidentally, we like apple martinis.
In more shocking baby news, Pete Libertines has a child? Dear lord.
This weekend we saw Something’s Gotta Give. Old people can be so cute!
FUELING INQUIZATIVE TEEN MINDS AROUND THE WORLD
Today Scott Stereogum revealed that he is the number one link on Google for the name of Britney Spears boy-toy Kevin Federline. Congratulations, Scott.
Yesterday we saw Mean Girls, today we saw Napoleon Dynamite. Tonight, watch Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on SNL. Tomorrow: go to the mall, talk on the phone, chew gum, flirt with boys, get a new Juicy Couture t-shirt, and like totally write in our diary.
Just like “deck”, “fetch” is so never happening.
