Archive for December, 2011
29
Dec
Posted by John S in Going to '11, Music. Tagged: 2011, Adele, Alex Ebert, Bay of Pigs, best songs of 2011, Bon Iver, Calamity Song, Circuital, Civilization, Codex, Come See About Me, Cut Copy, Deerhoof, Derek Trucks, Destroyer, Eleanor Friedberger, Helplessness Blues, Holocene, I Won't Fall Apat on You Tonight, I'm So Happy I Found You, James Blake, Justice, Lady Gaga, Last Night at the Jetty, Lonely Boy, Lucinda Williams, Million Years, My Morning Jacket, Need You Now, Panda Bear, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Rankings, Someone Like You, Someone Like You v. Rolling in the Deep, songs of the year, Talking at the Same Time, Tedeschi Trucks Band, the 99%, The Black Keys, The Decembrists, The Edge of Glory, The Merry Barracks, The Wilhelm Scream, The Words that Maketh Murder, Tom Waits, Tomboy, TV on the Radio, You. Leave a Comment
Last year, my “Best Of” music post didn’t come out until January 27th. Well, I wasn’t about to let that happen again. Hopefully, you’re not sick of reviews of 2011 music yet. Here are the best songs of 2011 (with a limit of one song per artist): 25) “The Merry Barracks” – Deerhoof – Deerhoof [...]
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28
Dec
Posted by John S in Music, Going to '11. Tagged: albums of 2011, All Eternals Deck, best albums of 2011, Bon Iver, Cut Copy, Destroyer, El Camino, Eleanor Friedberger, electronic music, Hurry Up We're Dreaming, Kaputt, Last Summer, M83, Midnight City, Nine Types of Light, One Sunday Morning, Rankings, Steven Hyden, The Black Keys, The Decembrists, The King is Dead, The Mountain Goats, The Whole Love, The Year of no Important Albums, TV on the Radio, Wilco, Zonoscope. Leave a Comment
At the start of the 2010, I made a goal for myself to read one book a week—a goal I ended up abandoning by, I believe, the end of January. (Do you realize how much reading that entails?) In 2011, I tried to keep it more manageable: I made a plan to listen to one [...]
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27
Dec
Posted by John S in Music, Going to '11. Tagged: MTV, YouTube, Radiohead, Infinite Jest, TV on the Radio, The Black Keys, The National, The Decembrists, music videos, Second Song, Lonely Boy, 2011. Leave a Comment
I always think that nobody watches music videos anymore, but then I remember that like 75% of the “Most Viewed” videos on YouTube are music videos that have, collectively, been viewed over five billion times. Nevertheless, it still seems like the cultural importance of music videos have waned. It seems like they exist now for [...]
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26
Dec
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: billy on the street, christmas, Community, David Sedaris, documentaries, funny or die, Jonah Keri, Louis C.K., Matt Taibbi, NBC sucks, roger ebert, top movies, Twitter. Leave a Comment
What we read while wondering what it’d be like if we’d never been born… Yesterday was the best day of the year (according to Tim), in part because of the music and the television specials associated with the holiday. In honor of Christmas, a classic David Sedaris essay about how they celebrate the holiday overseas. [...]
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25
Dec
Posted by John S in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Religion. Tagged: christmas, consumerism, contrarianism, gifts, God, Religion, reposts, Santa Claus, shopping. 1 Comment
John S explained why he hates Christmas last year (and the year before that), but it’s all still true: It probably doesn’t come as much of a shock to you to hear that I hate Christmas: For one, I like hating things that are popular. More substantively, though, Christmas combines two of my least favorite things in [...]
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19
Dec
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: 60 Minutes, Alan Sepinwall, anthony jeselnik, atheism, Barack Obama, christmas card photos, Christopher Hitchens, death in venice, longreads, Lost, louis ck, peanut butter, Reddit, Religion, Ron Paul, the art of fielding, the iraq war, the millions, Tyler Cowen, year end lists. Leave a Comment
What we read while the Egyptian government REALLY cracked down on Tebowing… Christopher Hitchens, a great writer whose passionate defenses of atheism and attacks on the sanctity of religion were a source of pleasure for some at this blog, passed away last week. His intellectual contributions were certainly impressive, and many will miss him, but [...]
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12
Dec
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: 9/11, Albert Pujols, Chuck Klosterman, David Wain, derek boogaard, high-speed rail, john branch, Jonah Keri, Los Angeles Angels, Louis C.K., paul shirley, racism, Ron Paul, Ron Swanson, serious eates, Slate, sports interview, st. louis cardinals, the millions, the new york times, tim keown, tim tebow, Wainy Days, will leitch, year in reading. 3 Comments
What we read while turning down the Donald Trump debate… Tim Tebow keeps engineering miraculous comebacks (it’s almost making John S believe in God) and last week two of NPI’s favorite writers tried to figure out why so many hate him: Paul Shirley analyzed the racial aspect of the Tebow phenomenon, while Chuck Klosterman thinks [...]
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11
Dec
Posted by Tim in Sports, Sunday Book Review. Tagged: chad harbach, death in venice, Freedom, guert affenlight, gustav von aschenbach, henry skrimshander, Jonathan Franzen, middle-class, mike schwartz, pella affenlight, Roger Angell, steve blass, the art of fielding, The Corrections, westish college. 2 Comments
“What happened to Steve Blass? Nobody knows, but some speculation is permissible—indeed, is perhaps demanded of anyone who is even faintly aware of the qualities of Steve Blass and the depth of his suffering. Professional sports have a powerful hold on us because they display and glorify remarkable physical capacities, and because the artificial demands [...]
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5
Dec
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: aaron rodgers, Boise State, Citigroup, Closing Time, Comedy, eric legrand, Jonathan Chait, Judge Rakoff, michael weinreb, military detention, National Defense Authorization Act, Patrice O'Neal, Politics, SEC, Semisonic, Sports Illustrated, sportsman of the year, war. Leave a Comment
What we read while Newt Gingrich started quoting Dragon Ball Z… The comedy world lost another great comic last week, when Patrice O’Neal passed away at 41. Comedians from Greg Fitzsimmons to Jon Stewart to Mike Birbiglia paid tribute to O’Neal and his comedy. Sports Illustrated will unveil its Sportsman of the Year this week. To be honest, our [...]
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3
Dec
Posted by NPI in NPI Comes Alive!, Sports, The Double Bonus. Tagged: ACC Big Ten Challenge, Austin Rivers, Belmont, Florida State, harrison barnes, Harvard, jared sullinger, john beilein, kentucky, Kyrie Irving, north carolina, NPI Comes Alive!, roy williams, The Double Bonus, Tom Izzo, UK/UNC, UNC, UNC/Wisconsin, Wisconsin. Leave a Comment
The Double Bonus podcast is back! In the second podcast of the 2011-12 season, Tim and John S discuss the surprises of the first few weeks of this season. Is UNC as good as we expected? Is Ohio State even better? Have our sleepers looked good so far? Who is the third best team in [...]
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