Season 7
Community’s bravura 6th season closer: “If I had no self-awareness, I think I’d know,” (Britta). Send Yahoo kudos, #andamovie.
Their Satanic Majesties
Rolling Stones featured on Visualoop
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman Should Not Have Been Published
by William Giraldi, TNR
“In a conscious confusion of purity for quality, HarperCollins boasted that they were publishing Watchman unedited—as if they could have done anything else, short of rewriting it themselves: The author cannot see or hear… Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird in ‘the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present,’ as Percy Shelley put it in a different context. And futurity, I’m certain, will forgive Go Set a Watchman. I’m not at all certain that it will forgive those who conspired to sell it to us.”
The Cruel Truth About Rock’n’Roll
by Ann Powers, NPR
“Loving rock and roll requires engaging with a terrible reality, one that the music itself has not solved and sometimes helped its fans to forget. It’s this: The real erotic freedom many women, and young people in general, have experienced through rock and roll is always partial and precarious. As great as it feels for a girl to let the noise and rhythm surge through her body, that body still moves within a world where others wield all kinds of weapons to contain you…”
UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists
by Ryan Gallagher, Intercept
“Media lawyer Mark Stephens told The Intercept he believes there is little realistic prospect of a prosecution being brought against any journalists – and said he thinks the authorities are more interested in creating a “chilling effect” to stifle reporting on secretive national security-related issues…” See also: Laura Poitras Files a FOIA
35 Years of RDA Covers
Grandiose totality, plus curiously popular pinterest iphone board
New and Noteworthy on Spotify
ILX thread, including a ongoing updates, hacks, clouds, and links to internal bloggers
OBITS:
See rileyrockindex for listening habits, iphone screens.