I am listening to “Turn Up The Radio,” which, while not exactly a work of genius, is a solid double and an OBVIOUS choice for a summer single, which it still is not, and I have to know: Why does Madonna seem so bound and determined to not have hits anymore?
If you ever feel like you should put two spaces after periods when turning in copy, stop that feeling.
Don’t do that. Just don’t.
Love,
Every Editor Ever.
Co-signed.
Good lord, a mixed-race person who is president of the United States just endorsed gay marriage several years after passing health care reform. Do you know how many of those things were inconceivable 5 years ago? You can be happy about this without having to be happy about everything else the man or the country does. Tomorrow morning we should certainly go back to being unhappy about drones and torture and global warming and everything else, but for today, let’s not pretend this was inevitable. This moment is a reasonably big deal. It’s a good thing, and it didn’t have to happen, but it did. The fact of its happening can be good without saying anything about the goodness of the person doing it. There’s still a ways to go, but this had to happen before we got there, and now it has. Hooray. Have a small drink.
This, this, this, this, a billion times this, Award For Accuracy.
I reviewed last night’s Florence show. I like this band a lot and was pretty much blown away when I saw their MTV Unplugged taping, but this set was messed up by weird pacing, terrible lighting and a drummer who cluttered their best songs with plodding beats. I think I was more into the Unplugged show because they toned down the arrangements and carved out more space in the music for her voice, which is pretty amazing.
I went with Matthew to this one, and I can’t disagree — still a pleasure to see her live, but it wasn’t what you’d call a magical night.
There was going to be an HBO series from the creator of Designing Women about Dallas real estate starring Lily Tomlin. There are six complete episodes that never aired. I MUST SEE THIS. (Via this excellent Vulture article about HBO’s many stillborn shows.)
