The Modern Age

It’s product placement gone amok! Amazon.com has entered into the arena of film shorts. After you view the featurette, you can then purchase the products that appear in the film…without ever leaving the Amazon site. Minnie Driver appears in the first episode, “Portrait,” and you can click on her Wish List to purchase any of [...]

Don’t be alarmed. We did see the American Music Awards last night. It was just really lame. We had only a handful of thoughts during the show.
One was during some horrible country singer’s performance…We think the dude was named Kenny Chesney? He was wearing a rainbow tie-died sleeveless tshirt with little cartoon love and peace [...]

Today we saw a great docusode of Frontline entitled “The Persuaders.” They talk about how companies and politicians try to trick consumers/voters into buying into their messages. Watch it online.

What’s the girl from Curly Sue doing with Val Kilmer?

This made our month.
In their first proper interview of 2004, The White Stripes talk to the Observer about their formerly friendly Detroit comrads, why they dislike America, and why they just might move away from their hometown.
The highlights from the interview by Andrew Perry:
Jack on Jim Diamond: “Some people, you realise that they’re looking at [...]

Today we checked out the much hyped about new Karl Lagerfeld wares at H&M on 34th Street. The verdict? Big fat stinking snooze fest. We’re so disappointed Karl.
Most of the line was comprised of boxy black items. One $100+ sequined jacket looked promising as we viewed it from afar on the mannequin, but then when [...]

Blogger Heather Hunter details the highs and lows of being a blogger who dates another blogger…who dates other people.

The New York Times kindly puts everything already known about JT Leroy into one article.

Relationships like theirs always seem to fizzle when the sex is no longer an act of statutory rape.

Nick Valensi of The Strokes and Matt Bellamy of Muse, seperated at birth?

Photo of Nick taken by Andrew Kendall.