Just when you think Hipster Runoff has hit a peak, or that it has fulfilled its potential, Carles takes it to the next level. This is brilliant.
When will Carles address the HR phenomenon itself? It almost happens in the Meaningful Near-Death Experience intro, but then it goes on to just be the website in audio form. I want HR to explode in a blaze of self-referential glory.
Year-end album lists are so boring and unimaginative. This one, however, is precisely the opposite. (Here is the list from last year. I totally owe him for turning me on to Dog Chorus #17.)
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”
Also, from David Lynch Keeps His Head:
“Griffith Park, though lovely in a kind of desiccated, lunar way, turns out itself to be a kind of Lynchian filming environment, with perfusive sunshine and imported beer-colored light, but a weird kind of subliminal ominousness about it. This ominousness is hard to put a finger on or describe in any sensuous way. It turns out that there’s a warning out today for a Santa Ana Wind, a strange weather phenomenon that causes fire hazards and also a weird but verifiable kind of high-ion anxiety in man and beast alike.
L.A.’s murder rate is apparently higher during Santa Ana Wind periods than any other time, and in Griffith Park it’s easy to confirm that there’s something Lynchian in the air today: Sounds sound harsher, breathing tastes funny, and the sunlight has a way of diffracting into knives that penetrate all the way to the back of the skull.”
“General Motors CEO Richard Wagoner, left, arrived on Capitol Hill for a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)”
Is that a fucking electric car?
M.T.A. Plans Steep Service Cuts and Fare Increase | City Room Blog
Welcome to bizarro NYC, everybody! Sounds great!
