cristal
Great. Now I have to hide my vintage bottle of Cristal, because if friends come over and see it, I'm a racist. On with the links:
MEDIA
The Nation's annual Entertainment State diagram.
MUSIC VIDEOS
Just forget you had a day of work ahead of you: Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos, with YouTube vids included.
Moz versus the paparazzi in "The Youngest Was The Most Loved" video.
Tapes 'n Tapes got video!
Flaming Lips cover War Pigs with Cat Power.
Sunday Bloody Sunday. Video of the year.
ARCHITECTURE
So in Minneapolis last weekend, I saw both the new Cesar Pelli library and the Jean Nouvel theater. L.A. Times has a good review of the latter. Those two plus the new Walker and new Michael Graves MIA expansion make Minneapolis the hottest architectural city of the last couple years. (UPDATE: Newsweek's "Design Dozen" drops Minneapolis as #1 in its Design City issue.)
WORDS
FILM
Slate's profile of Keillor is gosh darn good.
Onion A/V: 10 Classic Movies It's Okay To Hate.
ONLINE
You saw Ze Frank in the Sunday Times, right?
T-SHIRTS
Is This What Passes for an Ironic T-shirt.
KLOSTERMAN
Book cover to A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas is out. That's Chuck above the 'K'.
On the lack of influential video game critics in Esquire.