Slog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Charles Mudede on Claire Denis and the modern urban family: The urban family has a different and deeper set of values that are not connected by a sense of soil, wholesomeness, health, or devotion, but by the condition of being with (and close to) others who share the same fate, loneness, and melancholy. The urban family exists in a disenchanted world —science, capitalism, and cosmopolitanism...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
What Dave Segal recently wrote about the darkling sounds of King Midas Sound : [Producer] Kevin Martin and vocalist Roger Robinson strikes me as a fantastical fantasy project hatched from two of Charles Mudede's biggest musical crushes—Burial and Tricky. The duo's album on Hyperdub, Waiting for You... (due in November), sounds like an ideal merging of those artists' phenomenal...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
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Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
by Megan Seling by Grant Brissey by Trent Moorman by Charles Mudede by Dave Segal by Grant Brissey by Eric Grandy by Paul Constant by Eric Grandy by Eric Grandy
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Apparently $3.2 billion in tax incentives over 20 years and everything else the state has forked over isn’t good enough. This is partly about neoliberal corporate executives chasing non-union low wages, as Charles Mudede alluded to at Slog yesterday, but it’s also an attack on unionism itself. This isn’t about economics, it’s about an ideology that long ago concluded...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
News & Arts Music & Nightlife | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Problematic Polling Posted by on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:44 PM Why has SurveyUSA been so wrong this election? An answer .Share via Comments (0) Comments are closed. Most Commented on Slog by Dan Savage by Dan Savage by Dan Savage by Dominic Holden by Dominic Holden by Dan Savage by Dan Savage by Eli Sanders by Charles Mudede by...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... it does sap the concept of its joy, its cleverness, and its heart. "Yaaaaaay!" says Charles Mudede ! "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!" The standard arrangement for a crime film has been this: The viewer watches the detective watching, focusing on the world he is in. With The Headless Woman , we have a new arrangement: The viewer watches the film from the position and with the...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
King Midas Sound ( producer Kevin Martin and vocalist Roger Robinson ) strikes me as a fantastical fantasy project hatched from two of Charles Mudede's biggest musical crushes— Burial and Tricky . The duo's album on Hyperdub , Waiting for You... (due in November), sounds like an ideal merging of those artists' phenomenal talents. Difference is, Robinson can really sing, emitting...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Charles Mudede reviews Chris Rock's new documentary: So black people would learn nothing new from this documentary. What about white people? Is it for them? Are they the ideal spectators? Not really. Why? Because what is it to them that blacks are burning their scalps and inhaling toxic fumes for the sole purpose of looking like their masters (their bosses, politicians, movie stars)?...
The Eclectic Chapbook (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Meredith Kercher Murder Case - Charles Mudede has posted a commentary on the Slog pointing to the sun wheel tattoo on Amanda Knox's back pictured in the same First Post article by Tim Edwards I referred to in my previous entry earlier today. In the course of Mudede's informal riffing, he notes: "But what is truly amazing about this tattoo is its absence from the stream of...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
by Eli Sanders by Dan Savage by Christopher Frizzelle by Dan Savage by Dominic Holden by Dominic Holden by Charles Mudede by Dan Savage by Brendan Kiley by Dan Savage
Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Charles Mudede to thread, please! As Pitchfork reports: Earlier this year, FlyLo posted the mysterious track on his MySpace page, then removed it. Thankfully, it is on YouTube, and you can hear it below, via Gorilla vs. Bear. It's a particularly murky bit of downbeat electronic heaviness with, of all things, a bit of V.I.C.'s dance-rap goof "Get Silly" thrown in at the end....
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Charles Mudede on Capitalism: A Love Story : The area of time covered in the documentary is just before and just after the crash of September 2008. What is it we see all across America? That it has become Flint . Indeed, the American-style capitalism that removed Flint's economic base and industrial production, and relocated it to poorer parts of the world has spread its program to every...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
... the English Beat generated a lot of energy, a lot of excitement that is still with us today. CHARLES MUDEDE Undertow, Unbroken, Strain, Balance of the World, the Helm, Marginal Way (El Corazón) Tonight's four top-billed bands broke up in the mid-'90s. Seattle's seminal Undertow ditched the breakneck speeds and positivity of late-'80s straight-edge hardcore in favor of half-time...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
by Brendan Kiley by Dan Savage by Dan Savage by Charles Mudede by Dan Savage by Dan Savage by Dan Savage by Dan Savage by Paul Constant by Dan Savage
