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
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
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
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?
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
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]
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':
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!
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"
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
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
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
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.
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.
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…
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
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
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:
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)
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/
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
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
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
“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 ✨
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.
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
"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:
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
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.
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