May 2012
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“Rihanna is sexual icon, known less for the music she’s penned (which is negligible compared to the volume of number one hits written for her), the image she’s curated for herself (from which her voice is noticeably absent, suggesting the package, from personal aesthetics to video production, is put together by someone other than her) or any particular skill in art or advocacy. Rihanna is,...
April 2012
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When You Have A Broken Heart
[Me for @ThoughtCatalog]
Twister as a metaphor for relationships: Belt yourself down or you’re totally fucked.
When you feel sad, go to the shower. Turn on the water as hot as it will go. The room must be steamy to set the mood. Imagine now there is a camera filming you at ground level, capturing your naked ankles as you step out of your pants. Get in the shower. The camera is now at face level. Turn your face up to the nozzle and let the water wash over you as you run your hands over your face and then...
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I still love our good Prez Obamz.
[11 Reasons President Obama Isn’t As Cool As They Say via Buzzfeed]
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“It’s confession time. We want to do filthy things with Mark Foster. Yes, Foster The People‘s formulaic electro-pop is mildly annoying for it’s infectiousness, and no, that is not our toes enthusiastically tapping to the beat of “Houdini,” damnit. Moreover, that is definitely not our saliva on the keyboard as Mark Foster does his perfectly coiffed,...
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“It’s a bleak landscape in Portugal. The Man‘s new video for “All Your Light (Times Like These)” [NSFW], but despite the initial foreboding and indeed, arid setting, there’s something joyful seething beneath the surface of this desert trailer park world. Directed by Dan Brown, the joy comes in the perverse pleasure of the grotesque; the intriguing beauty of death, bugs and deformity.
The...
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“If you didn’t pick up on Brooklyn band Caveman’s 2011 debut, CoCo Beware, then think fast, and catch it while you can. Their sound is a little bit primal in its beats (as the moniker would suggest), and yet seems to be cast in a soft focus that renders it as beautifully melodic and sweetly resonant as a summer breeze at sunset. Indeed, much of their music seems fitting of a New York...
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“If you’ve been living under a rock today you probably haven’t heard that supermodel slashie extraordinaire Abbey Lee Kershaw is set to star in Mad Max 4: Fury Road alongside Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy and Zoe Kravitz, under the direction of the inimitable George Miller. Stylistically, the pairing makes sense; there’s something frighteningly post-apocalyptic in Kershaw’s pale, gaunt...
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I love Carly Rae.
[Read this week’s “Guilty Pleasures” by @JayGabler at Portable.tv]
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I want to boyfriend you.
[Watch Devendra Banhart being sexy exclusively at Portable.tv]
Last summer I helped research my amazing friend Denver Nicks’ first book, and I’m so proud to finally have it in my hands. Support Denver and Bradley Manning by getting educated; you can purchase the hardcover at Amazon now.
“Having the immense pleasure of knowing Thought Catalog Editor Ryan O’Connell in person is somewhat of a privilege. Fans of his writing know him as the always hilarious, sometimes emotive, socially and culturally astute voice of 20-somethings not only in New York but in cities the world over. Now fans have a chance to see Ryan as we see him over a Skinnygirl at happy hour; having dropped...
“As Lana Del Rey kicked down all the grand sandcastles we’d built around her, Azealia Banks snuck onto the scene, not so quietly but entirely unannounced (and already favorited by Uncle Karl), with the immense promise, “Imma ruin you cunt.” I was intoxicated by Azealia the same way I was intoxicated by Lana; Azealia was brash, filthy, but the kind of girl that made me think, “Man, we could...
“If pink is your favorite color, or even if it’s only your second favorite color, New York producer The Zax‘s video for “Nothing To Celebrate” will have you tickled… pink. Yeah, that was bad, but we’re not sorry. The only thing more infectious than the “Nothing To Celebrate” video is the song itself, and between the two you’ll be dreaming of pink champage, weird dog puppets, and, if you’re...
Guilty Pleasures: Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
By @JayGabler
“In the latest trailer for the much-hyped Prometheus, Michael Fassbender plays the robot David, and engaged in a simple question and answer style interview with an invisible narrator, is still disturbingly sexy. Or maybe that’s because we remember seeing him nude… [Shudder]. OK, OK, for one second let’s put aside the unnerving sex-appeal of Fassbender and visions of his splendid… knees...
“Goodbye, Guetta, Harris et al. Pop is going back to pop, and all we can say is, “PHEW!” As you’re all likely keenly aware, something horrible happened to pop music in 2011 and it had something to do with a 90s dance music redux the likes of which The Real McCoy and even Gina G didn’t even anticipate. Our saviour is the one and only Rita Ora, who we introduced you to recently as the “New...
The Do’s And Don’ts Of Drinking “Ballerina Tea”
[me for Thought Catalog]
“Our two favorite things are collages and the Internet, and every week we’ll be bringing the two together so you can find out what links have been doing the rounds of the Portable offices, along with a pretty picture to match! This week: M.I.A gets political again, Slutever‘s Karley Sciortino talks pee drinking and the promise of the yet-to-be-release Girls offends everyone. Oh, and Kanye...
“This week we visited the VICE offices in Williamsburg to chat with Slutever‘s Karley Sciortino and producer Adri Murguia about VICE‘s new video series based on Karley’s blog. There’s not much more we really need to say, other than we’re huge fans of these two girls, and that what they’ve produced is every bit as tender and revealing as it salacious. Above you can watch the third...
