2008

Jul

One day you’re in, the next day you’re out. Now...

Six People Who Just Fucking Disappeared.

The Chemical Brothers “Midnight Madness” To be frank, house music videos generally bore...

Which is crazier? Chrisafer captures a screengrab from last...

Grand opening in Beirut: Fast-food...

Christian Falk feat. Robyn & Ola Salo “Dream On” It’s been a while since I...

The music industry crisis is over!

Leave it to Avril Lavigne and 2.2 million Americans in jail to figure out how to make money off this...

British authors are not as well-read as you’d suspect. As someone who returned to college...

McCain Makes Historic First Visit to...

Dancers in the dark.

Michaelangelo Matos reprinted Mixmag’s Top 25 Dance Tunes of the Last 25 Years over at...

Pitchfork is finally funny. Because banality is the name of...

A picture of 1,000 words. Wordle takes your website, prose,...

In sickness and in health.

Two articles that interested me on a personal tip: The Nose That Never Knows is the first story...

The Boiling Point. Mikhaela Reid is a political cartoonist...

Techno's first pioneer was a young British...

Ryan Adams is not finished talking, thank...

The Notwist “Boneless” I’m knee deep in Shakespeare right now — long story — so...

Breaking: You Can't Get Drunk On Beer.

The demise of Scrabulous has been greatly exaggerated. The...

How to write with style, by Kurt Vonnegut.

Fonzworth Bentley feat. Kanye West & André 3000 “Everybody” Everybody’s...

Aziz Ansari confirmed, Amy Poehler rumored to...

Unbelievable Truth “Settle Down” Andy Yorke (yes, his brother) has a solo record coming...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13)

The Gangs of New York. A story about a...

Compact Discs: The new business model.

A very, very brief history of Threadless. Now that I think...

The economics of "sounding black."

A collection of poorly chosen photos from real estate...

Gay Man Sues Bible Publishers For $70...

The Verve “Love Is Noise” Admittedly I find something fairly amazing about a band who...

Pet Shop Boys “Flamboyant” (Michael Mayer Kompakt Mix) Neil Tennant turns 54 today, and...

Flava Flav claims to have lost his virginity...

The 71-Year-Old Virgin. If you’ve ever lived in San...

The first six minutes of The Dark Knight.

A collection of typography wallpaper. Looking for a new...

How Starbucks lost their way.

The Rock-afire Explosion Movie Trailer. The Rock-afire Rennaissance has already gone from being a...

Heterosexuals finally earn the right to...

The side effects of Intervention.

Every Night, Fire Works. This extraordinary collection of...

I’m Not Here to Make Friends! The best part about this montage is knowing that someone...

Army Veteran Refuses Call To Deploy To Iraq.

The longest concert in the world.

Rite-Aid does not want you to feel uncomfortable. A reader...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-6)

Jesse Helms Dies at 86.

Killer Mike feat. Ice Cube “Pressure” The original link to this video, posted at Nah...

“Love In This Club”: Remade in Garageband. If you were reading Nervous Acid early this...

Scientists say gene editing may create an...

Have these scientists cured cancer?

Fear not! John McCain is “aware of the Internet.” Earlier this year, the Republican...

Gay Adulterer and Prostitution Client seek to...

Design Within Wal-Mart. The craziest thing about...

One Post Wonder.

Jun

Here! with Josh & Sara. I’ve got a pretty busy day ahead of me, so I won’t have time...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29)

For If You Cannot Fly. I’m not sure that this...

The 2008 Pride Muxtape.

For this month’s Nervous Acid muxtape, I went all gay pride on you. The parade and festival...

The New Punks of St. Marks Place.

The Rock-afire Explosion “Love In This Club” Performed by a programmable group of...

Is Colin Powell about to endorse Barack...

Man loses 14 inches from his waist on a...

Biggie in Bed-Stuy: A Memory.

The Week in Law & Order. Chris Meloni goes in black...

Think Vampire Weekend is cool? Ezra Koenig's...

Cyndi Lauper “Can’t Breathe” Most will remember Bring Ya To The Brink for its...

Soulja Boy vs. Ice-T. I love hip-hop rivalry, but this one — between a 17-year-old kid and a...

Amy Winehouse has been diagnosed with...

Magic Marker Porn. Ernie, the old school gay-blogger from Little Yellow Different, recreated a porno...

The monetary value of music is shrinking.

Things you can’t do coked up. Such as look as good in...

At Bank of America, even six-year-olds...

Obama campaign gives in to Muslim-baiting. At a recent Obama...

Nick Drake “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” If Nick Drake hadn’t...

There goes the neighborhood. Somebody scanned a 1984 article...

A good day for white people.

Ten Toys That Might Have Made You Gay in the ’80s. Having never owned any of these, I’m...

We cannot love and be limited. As of 5:01 p.m. last night,...

EMI hates new music.

In a profile of Guy Hands, the very rich man running EMI’s music division, the New York Times...

Britons! Get to your nearest thrift shop, now. Chris Evans,...

Historians see little chance for McCain.

Did Coldplay steal this song? A Brooklyn band called Creaky Boards claims that the melody for...

R. Kelly is the new O.J. Simpson.

Memories of Glastonbury, by Felix Buxton of...

Meet A Black Person. It seems the Rent-A-Minority program I wrote about last week is not the first...

The unexpected rise of the Obamacon.

Crucified. Pete Doherty has commissioned a marble scuplture...

Buy George Nelson's vomit for only $25,000.

The Top 10 Most Illegible Metal Logos. Somewhere in this...

A tale of two ledes.

Every action has a reaction: “U.S. President George W. Bush claimed Wednesday that he had no...

Feeder “We Are The People” The first single from Silent Cry isn’t the most...

The Weather Diaries. Another great piece from P.S. 1’s...

A salmonella scare has led to a tomato ban at...

The Complaints Choir of Chicago. I caught this video as part of the Arctic Hysteria exhibit at P.S....

Life before choice.

Now Showing. As part of an exhibit curated by Wear It With...

A British man claims to have subsisted on a...

One day celebrities will stop filming their own drug...

The 1979 Disco Handbook. Conspicuously absent: the gay black...

Jello Biafra and the Politics of Punk.

Radiohead are still great mostly because they inspire greatness in other people. Not even Autechre...

Rent-A-Minority.

Reverend Al Sharpton rides a bike. It’s not much, but it was enough to make me laugh. Also,...

The nagging questions behind Sex and the ...

The definition of dense. The most interesting thing about...

L. Ron Hubbard's 5 Most Impressive Lies...

May

The June 2008 Muxtape. I’m off to California for the...

Kraak & Smaak “Squeeze Me” I’ve been listening to this song a lot lately;...

MT9 is the new MP3.

Basement Jaxx feat. Siouxsie Sioux “Cish Cash” I’m feeling like the Birthday MP3...

The FBI would love to try some of your tofu...

Helvetica is getting edgy. Hey, everyone. My birthday is...

Why I love Jon Brion, as told by Jon Brion.

Mark Kozelek “Bedtime Lullaby” There’s something satisfyingly warped about Mark...

We are all the same people, all of us.

Bad Brains and Supreme team up for some tragic merch. Does...

Weezer “Pork & Beans” You’ll probably see this a million and one more times...

America's Next Top Superhero?

Japanese Bug Fights. This is so much better than anything on the National Geographic Channel. And...

McCain's pastor on Hitler: "He was sent by...

Boy-band svengali will be in jail for a long time. 25 years...

How to set up a pirate radio station.

The other side of the law. It’s been so long since...

Lowgold “Burning Embers” One of these days we’ll realize that Lowgold was quite...

John Darnielle represents for Detroit...

The best excuse for disqualification from...

Thank you, Gavin. Yesterday’s historic ruling in...

Community Techno Unit. The Pod are a pair of UK producers who are dealing with the death of British...

America's Most Overrated Product: the...

Brian Eno “Becalmed” Another birthday MP3, this time for Eno, who turns 60 today....

Extending album art. Photoshop always offers the best and...

America doesn't hate Hillary as much as it...