Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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Last Night: Ke$ha, LMFAO and Spank Rock at Gexa Energy Pavilion – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
Last Night: Ke$ha, LMFAO and Spank Rock at Gexa Energy Pavilion – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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links for 2011-08-03
Debt Ceiling Deal: The Democrats Take a Dive | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy The Democrats aren't failing to stand up to Republicans and failing to enact sensible reforms that benefit the middle class because they genuinely believe there's political hay to be made moving to the […]
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In Defense of … LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
In Defense of … LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night This is the first of my new column “In Defense of…”. Where I extol, in my editor’s words, the redeemable aspects of pop music. I revel at this challenge. I think a lot of of today’s pop music borrows sounds […]
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Last Night: Katy Perry and Robyn at the Verizon Theater – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
Last Night: Katy Perry and Robyn at the Verizon Theater – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. If I didn’t make it clear, I’m not really into the young image that Katy Perry is selling. The high-pitched kiddie voice and sexually suggestive candy theme highlights both the infantilization of women and sexualization of girls. However, as an […]
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links for 2011-07-29
The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice | Food Renegade The reason your store bought orange juice is so consistently flavorful has more to do with chemistry than nature. (tags: food)
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The Problem With… Pitbull’s “Give Me Everything feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Pitbull’s “Give Me Everything feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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links for 2011-07-28
Anders Breivik, The American Tea Party, Norway and "Sharia Creep" | The Awl Sharia creep is just one more item of proof that the EU nationalists and American Tea Party right-wings are speaking the same language (even when they're not speaking the same language). When Progress Party leader Siv Jensen warned about the Islamic threat, […]
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links for 2011-07-26
H+ trailer: a post-McLuhanist reading .. the underlying premise appears to be The Hubris Of Technology Will All But Annihilate Our Species, with a sideserving/undercurrent of Moral Panic. Handwringing over the potentially corrosive-to-civilisation properties of social media is common currency (as regular readers will be only too aware already), which means the soil is well-tilled […]
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The Problem With… Britney Spears’ “I Wanna Go” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Britney Spears’ “I Wanna Go” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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links for 2011-07-20
New Pop Music Sounds Like Its Predecessors – NYTimes.com Mr. Sterling sees the time-out-of-joint nature of today’s pop as a side effect of digiculture. One of the curiosities of the futuristic-seeming information technology that we now enjoy is that it has dramatically increased the presence of the past in our lives. From YouTube to iTunes, […]
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