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And I’m not talking a 30 second clip, I’m talking all three minutes and forty-five seconds, full song action. \u003c/em>Trainspotting\u003cem> was released 17 years ago this month and in celebration, let’s raise a glass to the directors of today who are keeping the movie soundtrack alive and so well. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/2qw6Hon013E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel & Ethan Coen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the folks walking towards the water in peasant-like garb chanting an unearthly hymn. Standing in a line for their baptism. Arguably more successful than the movie, the Coen brothers \u003cem>O Brother Where Art Thou\u003c/em> soundtrack brought—weirdly enough—Americana back to the American mainstream. 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She makes Gwen Stefani’s “Cool” work elegantly in \u003cem>Somewhere\u003c/em> and The Cure’s “Plainsong” sound as lush as ever in \u003cem>Marie Antoinette. \u003c/em>We are taken to a different place, a divine place, and that’s exactly the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/bl6FbeoXeHQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wes Anderson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s face it. Whether we love him or hate him, his movies take music seriously. Here in \u003cem>The Royal Tenenbaums\u003c/em>, the combination of slow motion and Alec Baldwin’s baritone voice-over set up Nico’s “These Days” perfectly, her voice almost mimicking Baldwin’s boom. Wes Anderson isn’t afraid to push the sonic envelope. \u003cem>Moonrise Kingdom\u003c/em> places Françoise Hardy beside Leonard Bernstein and of Benjamin Britten’s, \u003cem>Noye’s Fludde\u003c/em>, Anderson \u003ca href=\"http://www.brittenpears.org/page.php?pageid=771\">stated\u003c/a>: “It is the color of the movie in a way.” With an impressive catalog of big music and big color, he rarely disappoints. 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It makes you pretty pumped for his upcoming film, \u003cem>Only God Forgives\u003c/em>, and judging by \u003ca href=\"http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/ryan-gosling-poster-only-god-forgives.jpg\">this movie poster\u003c/a>, it’s going to be a hell of a ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/dmxVYzKvF98\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quentin Tarantino\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uma Thurman presses play on Urge Overkills’ cover of the Neil Diamond track “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon,” dances a bit, has a smoke, and then overdoses on some serious heroine, blood immediately dripping from her nose. Tarantino is direct, he doesn’t waste time. His song choices mirror his storytelling. 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I say luckily because, have you ever seen an aging punk who is still clinging to a bygone era? Like the white-haired hippies we always detested driving art cars around with largely ignored conspiracy theory signs in the windows, it’s just sad. We become other things because it's not hot to be a sad weathered crusty. I saw an old punk guy in a plaid sports jacket with spiked bi hawks walking six dogs in the cemetery the other day. Part of me wanted to high five him for sticking to his guns, but the other part was depressed by the male pattern baldness in between his mohawks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cemetery part brings me to this: yes, I do walk in the cemetery. In fact, it’s the only way I get exercise. But I’m too old to become a goth now, and there’s the reality that it’s embarrassing to be an old goth. Just ask Marilyn Manson. Has anyone seen him around lately? He’s getting fat. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Punks all become something else one day. They transition into rockabillies, off-the grid wild people, skin heads, math rock science professors, or even, god, the worst, roller derby girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was never a very serious or hard core punk. I wasn't born into a prime time period of the movement nor belonged to a cool part of the scene. Unfortunately, I came of age in the '90s , chasing Eddie Vedder through my formative years, but in awe of the street urchins who occasionally came to school with Rancid patches safety pinned to their leather vests. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NxfShLDLoI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Ruby Soho”\u003c/a> was on MTV and I was eating it up, unaware that I had missed the boat. Obviously, any waves of a real punk scene had already swelled, crested, and fallen into a placid lake of suburbanization, but I can only see that in retrospect. I was a few years ahead of Hot Topic’s mall domination at least, and I set about copying things I saw in \u003cem>Sid and Nancy\u003c/em> like sewing my own bondage pants. My mom even wrote me a letter telling me she was embarrassed to be seen with me, which seemed like success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/06/are-you-a-closet-goth/punk-me/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-440\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-440 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/punk-me-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"punk me\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a> \u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-436 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/15968_1283700537766_6289221_n-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"15968_1283700537766_6289221_n\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, I outgrew this stage before Blink 182 claimed to be punk, too. I say luckily because, have you ever seen an aging punk who is still clinging to a bygone era? Like the white-haired hippies we always detested driving art cars around with largely ignored conspiracy theory signs in the windows, it’s just sad. We become other things because it's not hot to be a sad weathered crusty. I saw an old punk guy in a plaid sports jacket with spiked bi hawks walking six dogs in the cemetery the other day. Part of me wanted to high five him for sticking to his guns, but the other part was depressed by the male pattern baldness in between his mohawks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cemetery part brings me to this: yes, I do walk in the cemetery. In fact, it’s the only way I get exercise. But I’m too old to become a goth now, and there’s the reality that it’s embarrassing to be an old goth. Just ask Marilyn Manson. Has anyone seen him around lately? He’s getting fat. Fat does not look right on a 40 year old monster goth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_316\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/i-am-not-afraid-of-you-i-will-shake-your-hand-how-to-meet-your-favorite-band-of-all-time/record_store_show/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-316\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-316\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/record_store_show-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"record_store_show\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Monty Suwannukul\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Meeting your favorite anyone of all time can be a daunting process. Here are ten easy tips to have you face-to-face with those immortals who soundtrack your days:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Decide on your favorite.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore you meet them, you must know who they are. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/30/9-tv-theme-song-you-wouldnt-be-ashamed-to-have-on-your-playlist/knowyourboo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/KnowYourBoo-e1359471759864.jpeg\" alt=\"KnowYourBoo\" width=\"630\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/KnowYourBoo-e1359471759864.jpeg 630w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/KnowYourBoo-e1359471759864-400x183.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The art of the TV theme song is somewhat of a dying one. The world no longer moves to the beat of just one drum and the era of a lengthy ditty played over shots of a photogenic cast is all but over. It's no wonder, fewer and fewer people watch TV live and instead prefer to watch on a DVR or a computer where opening credits are easy enough to fast forward through. That being said, there are a few current TV themes that are definitely worth your notice. While they may not all have been written expressly for their shows, they are all performed by artists that have an impressive and enjoyable catalogue worth exploring. So if someone catches you with any of these nine songs on your playlists, don't be embarrassed. They're impossibly catchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Shameless\u003c/em> \"The Luck You Got\" by The High Strung\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEverything about this delightfully depraved Showtime series is not safe for work. Oh yes, including the opening credits. But the theme song by the Detroit-based indie group The High Strung is good old fashioned fun. The High Strung may sound familiar to fans of \"This American Life\" for their episode titled \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/294/image-makers?act=1#play\">\"The Dewey Decibel System.\"\u003c/a> Check out another one of their tracks, the more sedate \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjM0RFz_EeM\">Standing At The Door Of Self-Discovery\u003c/a> to see if The High Strung is more than a one hit wonder.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5rT7ZsJaK8E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5rT7ZsJaK8E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Justified\u003c/em> \"Long Hard Times To Come\" by Gangstagrass feat. T.O.N.E.-Z\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere couldn't be a better fit for the Kentucky neo-noir \u003cem>Justified\u003c/em> than this rousing hick-hop song from Gangstagrass. Even author Elmore Leonard is a fan, crediting the group with doing \"nothing short of creating a new form of music.\" So slap on a Raylan Givens Stetson and wriggle into your tightest Wranglers; this track will make you feel both citified and countrified at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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This psychedelic band has been around since the 1990s and were the subject of the fantastic 2004 documentary \u003cem>Dig!\u003c/em>, so if you're not already a groupie, you should get on that.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/crKcNqg-A44'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/crKcNqg-A44'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Parks & Recreation\u003c/em> \"Theme For Parks & Recreation\" by Gaby Moreno\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe bright and brass-heavy theme for this NBC sitcom is just the tiniest slice of what Guatemalan singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno is capable of. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/rip-gossip-girl-attempts-at-reconciling-guilt-pleasure/gossip-girl-press-images/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-270\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-270\" alt=\"gossip-girl-press-images\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/gossip-girl-press-images.jpg\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/gossip-girl-press-images.jpg 950w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/gossip-girl-press-images-400x224.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/gossip-girl-press-images-800x449.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/gossip-girl-recap-series-finale-gossip-girl-revealed-dan.html\" target=\"_blank\">RIP \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. In the weeks since the series finale I’ve been obsessively seeking meaning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/12/farewell-gossip-girl.html\">reading summaries in \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and aimlessly searching \u003ca href=\"http://imchuckbass.tumblr.com/\">Chuck Bass Tumblrs\u003c/a>. I’m feeling wistful pangs of withdrawal, and trying to decide what my love for all this glittery mess says about who I am, and the nature of my guilty pleasures. Much like the characters on \u003cem>Gossip Girl,\u003c/em> pleasure doesn’t make me feel the guilty part. Instead I luxuriate in it, finding intellectual and aesthetic justifications, drowning happily in the ridiculousness of the melodrama. If it isn’t guilt, though, what do these pleasures make me feel, and should they make me feel guilty? \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> has inspired me to look for the answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A heady six seasons of masquerade balls and hipster cotillions, the show follows a group of insanely rich, good-looking upper-East side high school students, who are (briefly) college students before embarking on grown-up pastimes like socialite, \u003ca href=\"http://www.believermag.com/issues/201206/?read=article_crosley\" target=\"_blank\">famous novelist\u003c/a>, fashion designer, and hotel mogul. They \u003ca href=\"http://chair4ever.tumblr.com/post/13817495124/chuck-and-blair-quotes\" target=\"_blank\">fall in and out of love\u003c/a> with each other in impressively complicated geometries, drink martinis, canoodle with high-priced escorts, open speakeasies, and maintain love/hate relationships with the mean-spirited, anonymous blogger who somehow knows all their dirt. Anyone vaguely gothy or artsy is written off or banished to London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>’s thesis statement is all pleasure and zero guilt, the appeal and detriment both. Is this dizziness just what pleasure feels like when unadulterated by guilt? Pleasure invokes the senses, and the satisfaction of sensual desires being met or, more interestingly, not met, which fascinates me. After all, when desires aren't met, there’s the promise or suggestion they will be and so we have to wait. That kind of waiting is my favorite thing to do and yet this type of consumption feels a tad irresponsible too. Every once in awhile I’d pause and notice something sneaky at work on \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>, a shiny, inculpable cruelty, or narrative laziness. In those moments I must admit I worried, but forged anxiously ahead. After all, maybe it was trying to teach me guilt is part of the fun, an emphasis, not a contradiction, to the pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a show with clever touches such as a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prada_Marfa\" target=\"_blank\">Prada Marfa\u003c/a> sign hanging in the swanky penthouse, and a dad who used to be in a 90’s grunge band, before marrying Lisa Loeb. Sonic Youth guest starred, both playing songs and having Kim Gordon officiate a wedding. Not to mention, I regularly Shazam-ed songs that crooned during rooftop plummets and frantic cab hailing. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmvOQNBkCxA&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Fighters\u003c/a>, whose mode of discovery I kept a deep, dark secret, are my favorite. It’s also worth mentioning Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass) is in a rock band, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUztXAdwKyE&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">The Filthy Youth\u003c/a>, the extent of whose oeuvre seems to be videos on YouTube with comments about him being Chuck Bass (and/or hot), reactions that must disappoint him. Then, of course, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/gossip-girl-series-finale-fashion-photos_n_2313402.html#slide=1888773\" target=\"_blank\">the fashion\u003c/a>. I preferred Serena’s look: boots, over-sized necklaces, fishtail braids…wait…why do I have an opinion on this? Every legitimate compliment I might pay \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> only makes me more uncertain I should love it so much, as if a tiny bit of real-world cool is worth a lot more than it ought to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our profound and complicated lives are full of sensations, artifacts and aesthetic choices. Guilty pleasures are the diversionary details, no more or less true about us than anything else. They’re definitely true though, and that’s worth acknowledging as we fall under their spells. What we choose as our indulgence and why is our ink blot, fans and anthropologists both. After all, I like fashion, Sonic Youth, cute bad boys, speakeasies, gossip, and Marfa, and feel the opposite of guilt about those interests. I was a teenager in the 90’s and have a soft spot for grunge bands too. Any show that contains these elements is going to get my attention, though inevitably I wonder if it’s merely the references that amuse me, and there I rest perpetually between immersed and uneasy. One of my most smarty-pants friends (with a PhD no less!) has seen every episode twice, an eccentric predilection I instinctively admire, perhaps because it seems so unexpected for him. I would love to watch an episode with his brain though, and that’s kind of interesting too, because what is it exactly that I worry my brain is missing or unconsciously absorbing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guilty pleasure is by nature transitory, devoured and forgotten. Zen-like, it inhabits only the present, and there’s something pure about that. But the most provocative appeal is the guilty pleasure’s lack of apology for its exploits, something \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> perfected. That lack of apology makes me relieved, entertained, full of the best kind of irreverence and amnesia. Glamour trumps difficulty. Real life rules do not apply, nor do real life concerns need revelation or solution. Instead, bagging our sulky, brooding bad boy is everything we hoped it would be. We cultivate fraudulent identities, survive airplane crashes, and publish short stories in \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> when we are 19. It’s not about catharsis or recognition. Ultimately it makes me wonder if the content, and analysis therein, is beside the point. The point is the ritual of the pleasure: the wine I pour, the blanket I pull over myself, the quiet of my apartment when I’m alone (you have to be alone to watch \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>). It all feels so good it’s outrageous. There, outside of itself, is the guilty pleasure’s true power, in the spaces it creates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of that space, I watched \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> over many delicious years. I watched the infamous Season 2 (Chuck and Blair spend it refusing to say \"I Love You\") and waited with giddy impatience for them to \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfKdH7e1hcg&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">SAY IT\u003c/a>. As long as they didn’t though, something perfect was happening, something that encapsulates the thrill of the guilty pleasure. The frustration, the suspense, the sighing, the eye-rolls; they dragged themselves out in lavish, hilarious, unsustainable splendor. In the upcoming weeks I’ll be without it all, which is probably a good thing. Like a steamy love affair I threw myself into headlong, but never quite took seriously, \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> and I were so good while we lasted.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In the weeks since the series finale I’ve been obsessively seeking meaning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/12/farewell-gossip-girl.html\">reading summaries in \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and aimlessly searching \u003ca href=\"http://imchuckbass.tumblr.com/\">Chuck Bass Tumblrs\u003c/a>. I’m feeling wistful pangs of withdrawal, and trying to decide what my love for all this glittery mess says about who I am, and the nature of my guilty pleasures. Much like the characters on \u003cem>Gossip Girl,\u003c/em> pleasure doesn’t make me feel the guilty part. Instead I luxuriate in it, finding intellectual and aesthetic justifications, drowning happily in the ridiculousness of the melodrama. If it isn’t guilt, though, what do these pleasures make me feel, and should they make me feel guilty? \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> has inspired me to look for the answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A heady six seasons of masquerade balls and hipster cotillions, the show follows a group of insanely rich, good-looking upper-East side high school students, who are (briefly) college students before embarking on grown-up pastimes like socialite, \u003ca href=\"http://www.believermag.com/issues/201206/?read=article_crosley\" target=\"_blank\">famous novelist\u003c/a>, fashion designer, and hotel mogul. They \u003ca href=\"http://chair4ever.tumblr.com/post/13817495124/chuck-and-blair-quotes\" target=\"_blank\">fall in and out of love\u003c/a> with each other in impressively complicated geometries, drink martinis, canoodle with high-priced escorts, open speakeasies, and maintain love/hate relationships with the mean-spirited, anonymous blogger who somehow knows all their dirt. Anyone vaguely gothy or artsy is written off or banished to London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>’s thesis statement is all pleasure and zero guilt, the appeal and detriment both. Is this dizziness just what pleasure feels like when unadulterated by guilt? Pleasure invokes the senses, and the satisfaction of sensual desires being met or, more interestingly, not met, which fascinates me. After all, when desires aren't met, there’s the promise or suggestion they will be and so we have to wait. That kind of waiting is my favorite thing to do and yet this type of consumption feels a tad irresponsible too. Every once in awhile I’d pause and notice something sneaky at work on \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>, a shiny, inculpable cruelty, or narrative laziness. In those moments I must admit I worried, but forged anxiously ahead. 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It’s also worth mentioning Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass) is in a rock band, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUztXAdwKyE&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">The Filthy Youth\u003c/a>, the extent of whose oeuvre seems to be videos on YouTube with comments about him being Chuck Bass (and/or hot), reactions that must disappoint him. Then, of course, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/gossip-girl-series-finale-fashion-photos_n_2313402.html#slide=1888773\" target=\"_blank\">the fashion\u003c/a>. I preferred Serena’s look: boots, over-sized necklaces, fishtail braids…wait…why do I have an opinion on this? Every legitimate compliment I might pay \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> only makes me more uncertain I should love it so much, as if a tiny bit of real-world cool is worth a lot more than it ought to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our profound and complicated lives are full of sensations, artifacts and aesthetic choices. 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I would love to watch an episode with his brain though, and that’s kind of interesting too, because what is it exactly that I worry my brain is missing or unconsciously absorbing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There are certain things in life you can't control: growing old, embarrassing yourself at holiday parties, kissing all the wrong people, ordering three éclairs at Tartine and pretending that two are for friends, and karaoke. Sure, you might not have any musical ability or rhythm or a thirst for the spotlight, but your time on the karaoke stage will come. One of your friends will get engaged and want to have a last boozy hurrah singing Journey songs en masse. Same goes for birthday parties, bat mitzvah after parties, and those work outings meant for getting to \"really know each other.\" Point is, unless you want to be a terrible friend or lose your job, there will come a time when you will have to listen to friends butcher songs for a few hours so you might as well be ready for this inevitability. Luckily for you, I'm here to give you a few pointers so you won't embarrass yourself too much and maybe come out of this not only unscathed but with a winning musical number under your belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>1. THOU SHALL NOT ABSTAIN\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cimg src=\"http://data.whicdn.com/images/18631279/tumblr_lvjlqcZnX71qlalx2o1_500_large.jpg\">\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your friend is marrying some dude and invites you to karaoke in order to celebrate a lifetime of spooning and arguing over what kind of take-out to order, you kind of have to go. Yes, even if the guy she's marrying is the worst. You might think that showing up is all that is required of you. WRONG. Absolutely no one likes the person who shows up and then says something meek like \"Oh, I can't go up there. I can't sing! But I'll watch you guys!\" Sure, no one will point a gun to your head and force you to sing a Natalie Imbruglia song, but they will make a little mental note about you and file it away in the deepest most immutable part of memory. That note says \"So and so is a no-fun bore. No wonder he/she doesn't have a boyfriend/girlfriend.\" You don't want to be that person, do you? So down your favorite mixed drink and do a vocal exercise in the bathroom if you must 'cause you are going up there one way or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>2. 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THOU SHALL CHANNEL REAL LIFE EMOTION (TO A POINT)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/63ffed20c6b4eecd30a0b4b15a17f15c.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/63ffed20c6b4eecd30a0b4b15a17f15c.gif\" alt=\"63ffed20c6b4eecd30a0b4b15a17f15c\" width=\"388\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emotion from real life events is the fuel to the flame of your karaoke superstardom. So pin your former emo angst onto that song you used to sing in your teenage bedroom. But make sure you don't overdo it and burn the house down. Another anecdote from my personal saga: Bottomless mimosas and a bad breakup led me to the karaoke stage. In the beginning, things went well. 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THOU SHALL NOT JUDGE, LEST YE BE JUDGED\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/1fc6684f9a7683215d6e782a0f0a8a89.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/1fc6684f9a7683215d6e782a0f0a8a89.gif\" alt=\"1fc6684f9a7683215d6e782a0f0a8a89\" width=\"234\" height=\"176\">\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of the karaoke experience is waiting for your turn. For impatient people like me, this can be an ordeal, especially if you have to sit through messy performances from people who haven't followed Commandment #2. But I warn you not to roll your eyes or make snide comments or talk loudly over their numbers. These people are your future audience and you need to be in their good graces for when it's your turn. So pay it forward: smile, applaud, woot and holler cause karma takes names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>4. THOU SHALL NOT SING WHITNEY OR MARIAH OR ADELE\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know you want to. I do too! But you shouldn't, unless you're opera trained or something. Take it from someone who learned this lesson the hard way. I had one Fernet too many (I'm not perfect!) and I decided it would be a hoot to sing Mariah's \"Fantasy.\" Face flushed and a sloppy grin on my face, I leapt on stage and heard those opening chords and instantly knew I had made a big mistake. I looked at the crowd and actually said \"Oh. 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I sang Alanis Morissette's classic ode to all the wronged lovers out there, \"You Oughtta Know.\" But things took a turn for the real soon enough and I ended up crying Laura Dern-style by the side of the stage. That kind of sobbing is reserved for private late night showings of Bambi/Beaches/Blue Valentine/Brokeback Mountain/etc. So take inventory of your flood gates before unleashing a tsunami of feelings onto a bunch of strangers. The last thing the world needs is you singing that depressing Sarah McLachlan song from the adopt-this-one-eyed-dog commercial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>7. 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"content": "\u003cp>MTV might have ditched music videos for sloppy tan people long ago, but that doesn't mean the medium is dead! Far from it actually. 2012 was a great year for music and that carried over to its visual counterpart. Take a break from bickering with your family to hitch a ride on the side of a BMW with M.I.A. in Morocco, convert a locker room into a rave with Grimes, and attend Drake's bar-mitzvah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>GRIMES \"OBLIVION\"\u003c/b> (dir. Emily Kai Bock)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/grimes-2.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/01/grimes-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motorcycle rallies. Football games. Frat parties. All things I have no interest in. Yet insert my favorite lightly-lisping baby-voiced Canadian into each setting and I am so there. To shoot the video for the first single from \u003ci>Visions\u003c/i>, Claire Boucher (a.k.a. Grimes) enlisted her friend Emily Kai Bock and cinematographer Evan Profofsky and they hit some testosterone-heavy spaces with rented 35mm cameras. The result is a spontaneous free-for-all that documents how easy it is for Grimes to turn random shirtless sports fans (and anyone, for that matter) into her #1 fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>M.I.A. \"BAD GIRLS\"\u003c/b> (dir. Romain Gavras)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/6355e82aaf5f42a3668f85b7bb24992e/tumblr_megeloX0kP1ri7eqco1_r1_400.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, M.I.A. can be insufferable and bratty at times (see: middle finger at the Super Bowl or \u003ca href=\"http://gawker.com/5553404/mia-framed-by-a-french-fry\">Truffle Fry-Gate 2010\u003c/a>). But you know what? So are you. We all have our moments. What counts in the end is whether we're adding more good things to the world than bad. And I think anyone with working eyeballs can agree that M.I.A. has given the world something truly great with the music video for \"Bad Girls.\" Shot in Morocco, Maya kicks back (and files her nails!) on the side of a BMW ghost riding through the desert. Beyond the bad ass peacocking, scenes of women in hijab drag racing when they can't even legally drive in places like Saudi Arabia make this music video not only fun to watch, but important too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>LE1F \"WUT\"\u003c/b> (dir. Sam Jones)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/ee86ce6f0f8e8c98f112cb5d5d3219e3/tumblr_meq2esCK3Q1rm1xpoo1_400.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last New Year's Eve, I unintentionally left my beautiful bike unlocked outside of a house party. I ran out three hours later panicked and there was Blondie safe and sound (yep, I named her after watching \u003ci>True Grit\u003c/i>). The flood of serotonin was instant and it's the same kind of feeling I got when I saw Le1f's video for \"Wut\" for the first time. The rap scene isn't exactly known for its tolerance of gays, which is why it's so refreshing to see someone as skilled and as flamboyant as Le1f doing his thing so unapologetically. Get light in your loafers and finally order that Pikachu mask you've been eyeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>TAME IMPALA \"FEELS LIKE WE ONLY GO BACKWARDS\"\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n(dir. Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_menvu4pc1G1rz7uaao1_500.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are acid flashbacks a real thing? Who knows? But Tame Impala's music video for \"Feels Like We Only Go Backwards\" sure feels like one. British directing team Becky & Joe takes us on a mind trip through the universe and in and out of K holes, using 1000 hand-made plasticine collages. And you can \u003ca href=\"http://beckyandjoes.com/tame-impala\">get your hands on one of the collages for 10 euros\u003c/a>! It's a beautiful life, isn't it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>SOLANGE \"LOSING YOU\"\u003c/b> (dir. Melina Matsoukas)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy9W_mrY_Vk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/6eeeb7d7bed6aa3b991b8c39bba5e58c/tumblr_mf27i0aC661qz5yzjo1_r2_500.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being Beyonce's sister can't be easy. Her shadow looms large (just ask those other girls from Destiny's Child—not you, Kelly Rowland). Despite the challenge of making a name for herself, Solange has recently been getting her own attention and it has nothing to do with nepotism. With the help of Devonte Hynes of Blood Orange, her new music is fresh and all her own. And the video, shot in Cape Town by Melinda Matsoukas, is just as fly, a mix of the runway and village life. And, most interesting is the presence of Les Sapeurs (Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People), a subculture of the Congo in which men rock French dandyism while living in the slums. \"Losing You\" might be about absence, but what the video really proves is the presence of beauty even in the unlikeliest of places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>DANNY BROWN \"GROWN UP\"\u003c/b> (dir. Greg Brunkalla)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHfWY0is3rE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny Brown's music is perfectly fine, but holy moley is this video a knockout! Taking the place of the Detroit rapper is 9 year old Dante Hoagland, who mimicks Brown's look, from the bangs to the missing teeth. Clad in a tiger-striped hoodie, young Dante rocks training wheels around the hood, trashes a library, and even makes riding a toy horse look gangsta. It's all so adorable, you'll be wondering about the moral implications of cloning yourself in miniature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>FATHER JOHN MISTY \"HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY SINGS\"\u003c/b> (dir. Noel Paul)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtOToiIDNRA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcobntSFzj1qi6d7ao3_250.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Back into the gaping maw of obscurity I go,\" said J. Tillman about no longer drumming for Fleet Foxes. Turns out he was being a little dramatic as he's already back with a musical project. For his first solo music video, he recruited everyone's favorite side-eye connoisseur Aubrey Plaza of \u003ci>Parks and Recreation\u003c/i> to play a freakshow of a protagonist. No manners, just tantrums! Makes you want to knock someone's cocktail over and step on some toes a.k.a. what cats do every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>DRAKE \"HYFR\"\u003c/b> (dir. Director X)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KCWqnldEag\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I still can't believe that the boy in the wheelchair from the Canadian soap \u003ci>Degrassi: Next Generation\u003c/i> is now on top of the hip-hop game. It's kind of like looking at people you went to middle school with on Facebook and saying \"Really?!\" only way less depressing. In his video for \"HYFR,\" Drake celebrates his Jewish heritage with a revival of his bar-mitzvah 'cause famous people get to do whatever they want. I wonder if I could channel the .003% fame I got when KTVU recently asked me a question on air and revive that time period when I just sat around reading books, eating calzones, and complaining (it's known in some circles as college).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>SPIRITUALIZED \"HEY JANE\"\u003c/b> (dir. AG Rojas)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U_EqgBWnmc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 10 minute video?! \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAd8OuwwPk\">Ain't nobody got time for that\u003c/a>! At least that's what I thought when I first found Spiritualized's music video for \"Hey Jane,\" but I got over it and I'm so glad! This video is equal parts touching and brutal. The clip follows a trans woman going about her day with her young son. If she looks familiar, it's because the actor is no other than James Ross a.k.a. Tyra Sanchez, season 2 winner of \u003ci>RuPaul's Drag Race\u003c/i> (the young boy is his real son, too). I was more than a little bitter when Tyra won over Raven (don't get me started), but all that angst has disipated upon viewing this video. Shantay, you stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>KINDNESS \"HOUSE\"\u003c/b> (dir. Daniel Brereton)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmwCxCVsWV4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you ever question the innate goodness of humanity? Endless wars, petty election sniping, and that jerk mean muggin' on the Geary bus can get to a person. Thankfully for us, there's this British singer/songwriter by the name of Adam Bainbridge that is so nice that he named his music project Kindness. But he doesn't stop at making cheery dance music. He takes it one step further in the music video for \"House,\" in which he teaches a young boy how to use a drum machine and then recruits him to help out with the song and some cute-as-pie dancing too. If you're not smiling by the end of this video, I'm sorry to say you're kind of a monster.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Her shadow looms large (just ask those other girls from Destiny's Child—not you, Kelly Rowland). Despite the challenge of making a name for herself, Solange has recently been getting her own attention and it has nothing to do with nepotism. With the help of Devonte Hynes of Blood Orange, her new music is fresh and all her own. And the video, shot in Cape Town by Melinda Matsoukas, is just as fly, a mix of the runway and village life. And, most interesting is the presence of Les Sapeurs (Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People), a subculture of the Congo in which men rock French dandyism while living in the slums. \"Losing You\" might be about absence, but what the video really proves is the presence of beauty even in the unlikeliest of places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>DANNY BROWN \"GROWN UP\"\u003c/b> (dir. 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