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culture editor @gqmagazine . wrote a book about Steely Dan and one about Keanu. writing another one about the Grateful Dead. angular banjos sound good to me

preaching on the burning shore
Joined August 2007
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simply incredible hypothetical from child’s 7th grade health class textbook
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this book does ask some genuinely important questions, such as: if you’re home alone and splatter bleach in your eyes, should you tough it out, or call your parents, like a narc
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every third thing on the timeline being an ad for like a rejected Shark Tank product is actually amazing, it’s like we’re tweeting on daytime TV
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he’s gonna make it through this year then he’ll kill you
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listens to GAUCHO (1980) once
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“so it’s Perry Mason but he has PTSD from World War I and never goes to court” sounds like a joke about reboots but as it turns out this show rips
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I don’t think Richard Dreyfuss should be canceled but I think anybody who says stuff like that should be *required* to play Othello now. Like, rent a hall! Show us what we’re missing and why it’s not weird that you want to do it
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best read in escalatingly upset Tim Robinson voice
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rat king 🐀
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truly amazing indictment statement opener
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hi we’re Teenagers Problems With Cybertruck! 1-2-3-4
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rest easy Gordon
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what I like about this is how not ominous it is
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name this reunited post-hardcore band
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there are no other notable songs about a guy eating up all the corn on a boat due to sea madness; “Sloop John B” both founds and dissolves a genre
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[pathos filled “guy from The National” voice]
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very curious about the genesis of the Hasan Minhaj piece-- was the pitch always "this guy's stories seem made-up" or was it going to be a normal profile until none of the anecdotes passed fact-checking?
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love it in “Venus de Milo” when Tom says he fell and everybody else asks “Didja feel low?” like a Greek chorus of T-Birds or Sweathogs
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if owning 3 adjacent Hollywood Hills houses— one for family, one for business, and one for smoking cigarettes and making weird art— isn’t the secret to making it work long term man I don’t know
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when they watermark the screener and you have to stare at your own name
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been too busy figuring out how to work the CMS to post about this but it’s true, I am in my second @GQMagazine era, editing culture stories on the .com side. [Sent from the pocket of a gigantic Loro Piana shearling]
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for my first @gqmagazine piece under the @pappademas regime i engaged in some speculation about who will take over for val kilmer's iconic chris shiherlis in 'heat 2':
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this should be a federal holiday and a national day of reflection
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Found Footage Fest
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On this day 23 years ago, our pal Rick and his weirdo friends held a garage sale in Denton, Texas where prices were determined by a mysterious entity known as The Pricemaster. Today only, EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE!
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whatever tomorrow brings I’ll be there 20 minutes late
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Millennials are killing the Mafia
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“The younger generation of the mafioso” isn't killing people, a judge says in granting bail to two alleged members of New York's Gambino crime family.
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it rules that all Tangerine Dream songs have titles like "Alpha Centauri" and "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" except the soundtrack cuts which have titles like "Get Off the Babysitter" and "Guido the Killer Pimp"
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I also enjoy cinematographer Gordon Willis’ work on The Godfather (1972)
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STORED IN HIS GARAGE, WHERE A FUCKING GHOST COULD JUST POP OUT OF THE WALL AND
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"These two poems by David Berman, not previously published, were provided to the editors by Bob Nastanovich from his private collection."
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rest in power Wayne Kramer. the reporting on this one included me sitting in an otherwise empty rehearsal studio while Wayne, Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Don Was ripped thru all of KICK OUT THE JAMS at face melt volume. a pretty good day at work
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my face as I scan these replies and see no mention of the Wolverine up to Annendale
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WITHOUT GOOGLING Can you name a famous train?
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RIP Robbie & condolences to Marty
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the job I am most suited for is “lighthouse-based smooth jazz DJ”
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Martin Kessler
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Favourite John Carpenter character?
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the masterpiece painted by John Creasey in Man on Fire, whose art is death
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Joseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻
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What are examples in any form of media where a "brilliant song/painting/play/etc" within the story is actually as good as the characters act like it is? Note: NOT the same as just "I liked it". It needs to actually fully match its fictional reputation
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I like how Frank Herbert’s Wiki picture makes him look like the lone survivor of a sandworm attack
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rest in peace Wayne Shorter, tenor man in my favorite Miles Davis band, the double helix in "Aja"'s night sky. he left footprints
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Braugher is so, so good in this sequence— which I think is straight out of Simon’s book— and in so many others, I was a fan forever after, RIP
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it’s weird that “All I see is a tower of dreams/Real love bursting out of every seam” is Family Matters and not Nick Cave
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I believe in its fictional universe the Larry Sanders Show is not supposed to be a particularly good show but I would definitely have watched it in the 90s. tonight Larry’s guests were Adam Sandler, Calvin Trillin and Dinosaur Jr
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[intense Zack de la Rocha voice] ERRING ON THE SIDE OF
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happy for John Waters today
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BREAKING: Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten has been released from prison after serving 53 years for two murders.
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bonjour welcome to Jackass this is the Seine Swim
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Organizers of the 2024 Olympics in Paris promised the Seine would be clean enough for Olympic swimmers and then Parisians to swim in. The job was bigger than anyone knew.
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so weird to imagine Marlene Dietrich living until the spring of 1992. it’s possible Marlene Dietrich heard Nevermind
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OTD 1992 Marlene Dietrich died. She recorded songs in German for the OSS Morale Operations Branch that were broadcast to demoralize German soldiers. When she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, she said it was the proudest moment of her life.
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nonpartisan: somehow this is how I found out that congresspeople have a special twee word for their little offices
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NEWS — HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP has kicked @RepStenyHoyer out of his Capitol hideaway. Republicans — McCarthy — are taking revenge for Democrats voting with @mattgaetz to boot @SpeakerMcCarthy from the speakership. Expect more of this, GOP sources tell us. Me and…
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RIP Glen Michael Lockett bka Spot. His production and engineering discography could be your life
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favorite tense is the Seventies Conditional
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new character: guy who first checked out Neil Young through Spotify during the last two years and knows him only as that guy who did a song with DRAM on the soundtrack to the Will Smith orc cop movie
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. @Neilyoung is putting his music back on Spotify
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nothing left to do but write, write, write
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Here is our obligatory @PublishersWkly screen shot. @PAPPADEMAS and I have been waiting for MONTHS to announce that we have signed a two-book deal with @randomhouse . Our next book is called FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL--the format of QUANTUM CRIMINALS, but about... @thegratefuldead
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apologies to @kalebhorton who found out about Shane MacGowan dying when I texted him and asked if he’d write this piece. You should read it. Let him go, boys:
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we come to this place (the $1 DVD guy’s table by the farmers’ market) for magic
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[staring at the ceiling, 2:45 AM] there will never be a Gandolfini Hot Ones
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excited to get into the second half of this, in which I’m sure things will go terrifically well healthwise for these men who drink 700 drinks a day
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feels like a circa-1992 neo noir film in the best way
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RIP to Eleanor Coppola among other things author of one of the best books ever written about the making of a movie (& its brilliant and feckless director)
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So: our book QUANTUM CRIMINALS: RAMBLERS, WILD GAMBLERS & OTHER SOLE SURVIVORS FROM THE SONGS OF STEELY DAN— w/ text by me & over 100 full color paintings of people & things from the Steely Dan universe by the el supremo @joanlemay — is out 5/23 from @UTexasPress , and 1/
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me sitting in my garage office promoting my work on a podcast
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day of the OJ chase was also the first day I heard this album, I am available for interviews
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KOST 103.5 just came out of “Genie in a Bottle” and announced the death of Jerry Springer over the “Ants Marching” intro— today is truly the last day of the ‘90s
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@offbeatorbit the fact that Pacino isn’t walking away with this just proves not enough people have seen Scarecrow (1973)
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What sports moments that occurred pre-Twitter (July 2006) would cause chaos on the app if it existed at that time?
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you ever try to build a piece of Ikea that makes you sure God is dead
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rare footage of the monkey in my soul
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have a blessed week everyone
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at one point midconversation I went to avail myself of Dave Matthews' outhouse, left the recorder on, and told him to "keep talking," and when I got the transcript back I found this
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@SopanDeb @GQMagazine @PAPPADEMAS I’m sorry I’m having trouble moving past this
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peak “I’m 30 and I cook once a year” hours at Whole Foods tonight
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me: I’d like to use the search function on my computer to find something that I saved to my computer macOS 🔎: LOL fuck you
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a journey to the end of taste & a story about two dads walking in the woods with coffee thinking about death & also I reflect probably too much on the sex lives of grunge singers. Dave is a dream, this was a joy, I hope you like it
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“We’re like magnificent worms.” 🪱🌱 a hilarious, beautiful, and life-affirming profile of the icon Dave Matthews by @PAPPADEMAS . can't recommend this one enough ✨
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never knew this, can’t not hear it now
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Ken Layne
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Cyndi Lauper sang the Pee-Wee's Playhouse theme (by Paul Reubens, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh & Groundling/Pee-Wee writer/actor George McGrath) but she made 'em keep it secret. Completely unhinged performance, just beautiful.
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can’t believe the surprise disc 2 of Tortured Poets is just a Sharpie-labeled Office Depot CD-R with all of Diamond Jubilee on it, is that even legal
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it’s-a me, Don DeLillo
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via ⁦ @ExpandingDan ⁩ & the estate of Roger Nichols, Steely Dan’s legendary long lost Schlitz jingle 🍺
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Radicals who resent how you live your daily life are coming for your ashtray, your chair, your paddleball game, your remote control and your matches
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[Will Oldham voice]
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it’s not a sandwich it’s a
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corncobbed while disguised as Dril. poetic
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Mike Scollins
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Zaslav getting hit with a Pay Your Writers chant in Boston. This is so good.
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every time a web site tells me "you've read your last free article" I feel like Batman and Robin are handing me over to the Gotham City police, putting an end to my life of crime
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Conan goes to a pure Chris Farley place by the end of his Hot Ones and it’s fucking beautiful
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new at @GQMagazine today: a really fun conversation between two of the guys in this photo
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no idea how good this is going to be but more people should file off the serial numbers on their unmade STAR WARSes and make them as not-STAR-WARSes
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VANITY FAIR
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Exclusive: @ZackSnyder is world-building, yet again. Your first look at Netflix’s #RebelMoon has arrived.
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“fear of threat” is inadvertently a perfect description of what’s going on here
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"My husband doesn't let me ride the subway anymore because of the fear of threat." #TheView 's Alyssa Farah Griffin and her family feels unsafe riding public transportation in New York City:
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THE DEADWOOD BIBLE is fascinating & ultimately heartbreaking & along the way confirms how much of JOHN FROM CINCINNATI was basically free jazz
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"the writing process"
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[unintelligible country rapping intensifies]
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Folks... our Boy is Back
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loved this show in part because there was no Discourse about it, which I assume is why this is how it ends
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philip lewis
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‘Winning Time’ canceled by HBO after 2 seasons
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I felt bad for the “I didn’t know who J Dilla was before yesterday” guy because he’s a sports writer not a music writer and sometimes our beats take us outside our expertise and admitting ignorance is braver than feigning authority but, dude
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I’m just mad that he outlived Norm
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new at GQ: talked to Michael Stipe, the new face of Saint Laurent, about 40 years of incredible fits
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excited to announce that the results of this epic FaceTime call are now public
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a #PynchonNames gold medalist
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Record-breaking jump of 17-year-old Mondo Duplantis
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can't trust anybody else with the aux, relatable
@GRRLmusic
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the thought of ryuichi sakamoto compiling a playlist for his own funeral is destroying me today
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we don't live in Bel Air
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this guy was the real US Attorney who got the real Henry & Karen to flip; Scorsese asked him to read for it after location scouting his office
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Every Goodfellas Second
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02:15:27
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RIP Marty Krofft I hope the afterworld is as psychedelic as this felt
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what a premise. you Ruben Östlund for this one, Ruben Östlund
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
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Keanu Reeves will star in Ruben Östlund’s next movie ‘THE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM IS DOWN’ The film is a social satire set on a long-haul flight on which the entertainment system isn’t working which sparks major chaos. (Source: )
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turned on Criterion24/7 & they’re killing it from minute 1
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