Vintage Books has released—for the first time as e-books—all twenty-two books in Nobel Laureate William Faulkner’s critically acclaimed backlist. Now available in E-book: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, Go Down, Moses, Collected Stories, The Hamlet, The Reivers, The Wild Palms, Sanctuary, Intruder in the Dust, The Unvanquished, Big Woods, Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner, Pylon, Famous Short Novels, The Town, The Mansion, Flags in the Dust, A Fable, Requiem for a Nun, and Knight’s Gambit. MORE RELATED: Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy, and in 1924 he […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Bell X1
We have two pairs of tickets to see Talking Heads-ian Irish alt-rockers Bell X1 tomorrow night at First Unitarian for the first two readers that email us at FEED@PHAWKER.COM with the answer to this trivia question: What is the name of the Bell X1 song that plays in the background of the infamous lesbian kiss scene on the O.C.? Good luck and godspeed! RELATED: Bloodless Coup is the fifth album from the Irish band Bell X1. And similar to their previous works, listening to these songs only makes one wonder what the larger scale American audience is missing. If you […]
HIPPO-OCRACY: Fiscal Conservative Chris Christie Takes State Police Helicopter To Son’s Baseball Game
STAR-LEDGER: Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son’s baseball game [yesterday] afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter. Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field, a noise from above distracted the spectators as the 55-foot long helicopter buzzed over trees in left field, circled the outfield and landed in an adjacent football field. Christie disembarked from the helicopter and got into a black car with tinted windows that drove him about a 100 yards to the baseball field. During the 5th inning, Christie and First Lady Mary Pat Christie got into the car, rode back to the […]
Library Of Congress To Make A Massive Archive Of 20th Century Recordings Available For Free Online
LOS ANGELES TIMES: The bunkers are a repository containing nearly 100 miles of shelves stacked with some 6 million items: reels of film; kinescopes; videotape and screenplays; magnetic audiotape; wax cylinders; shellac, metal and vinyl discs; wire recordings; paper piano rolls; photographs; manuscripts; and other materials. In short, a century’s worth of the nation’s musical and cinematic legacy. This is the Library of Congress’ $250-million Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, a 45-acre vault and state-of-the-art preservation and restoration facility on Virginia’s Mt. Pony. It’s here that a recent donation from Universal Music Group, nearly a quarter-million master recordings by musicians […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
ALL SONGS CONSIDERED Wilco never makes the second record twice, which makes it doubly remarkable that so many of them are tremendous. As formidable as frontman Jeff Tweedy’s catalog is, the sonically inventive rock band really stands out on stage — the place where extreme technical skill meets the chemistry and rousing showmanship of passionate rock veterans. Of course, it helps that the group has the luxury of drawing highlights from seven very different records when it performs. To see Wilco on stage is to hear the best of the best. Recorded live at The Gorge on Monday, May 30, […]
WTF: Girl Kills Rapper With One Punch?
DAILY MAIL: A 22-year-old woman allegedly killed an aspiring rap singer with a single punch for a $5 party bet. Tiffany Startz is accused of killing John ‘Fatboy’ Powell with a single blow to the face and has been told she has to stand trial. The 25-year-old had agreed to be hit in the face by Starr in return for $5. After being struck and collecting his money he walked away to talk with friends, only to collapse minutes later from a burst artery in his neck. An autopsy ruled that he had died from a brain haemorrhage caused by […]
SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: Pounding Sand
[Illustration by Ajda Gregor?i?] BY WILLIAM C. HENRY I just finished reading a column in the New York Times by Stanley Fish titled “What’s up with the Jews?” The article poses the question of whether it’s ever possible for any of us to completely eliminate anti-semitic characterizations of Jews from whatever opinions we may form, or conclusions we may draw, with reference to any particular Jewish affected action or stance. In conclusion he offers this statement with respect to the Israeli/Palestinian situation: “Those who offer the criticism can never quite be sure that their distaste for Israel’s actions with respect […]
Palin Pops In At Liberty Bell Momentarily To Address Her Core Constituency — Fat, No-Neck White People And Their Dreadful Cracker Spawn The Media
PREVIOUSLY: Why Louis CK Doesn’t Talk About Sarah Palin’s Vagina On Twitter Anymore PREVIOUSLY: “This message—even at a time of national crisis—was a base-rousing rallying cry, perpetuating her own victimhood and alleged bloodthirstiness of her opponents. One would have thought that Palin, like any responsible person in her shoes right now, could have mustered some sort of regret about the unfortunate coincidence of what she had done in the campaign and what happened afterwards. Wouldn’t you? If you had publicly defended a map with cross-hairs on a congresswoman’s district, and that congresswoman had subsequently been shot, would you not be […]
WEINERGATE: Breitbart Attempts To Slime Rep. Andrew Weiner With Bogus ‘Inappropriate Photo Sent To Young Girl’ Scam; Lamestream Media Takes Bait
NEW YORK TIMES: Representative Anthony D. Weiner, one of the most prolific users of social media among politicians, said his Twitter account was hacked this weekend when someone sent out a lewd photograph under his name to a young woman in Seattle. The episode unfolded Saturday night when it was reported on the Web site biggovernment.com, run by the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart. It played out all day Sunday on the Internet, with Mr. Weiner, a Democrat who represents part of Brooklyn and Queens, addressing the matter on his own Twitter and Facebook accounts, and with bloggers from the left […]
SIDEWALKING: Flags Of Our Fathers
War Veteran Cemetery, Syracuse, New York 10:01 AM by JEFF FUSCO
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
SOUND OPINIONS This week Jim and Greg are joined by Mike Watt of the Minutemen, a band that changed the game of punk rock. The San Pedro hardcore group was founded by Watt, drummer George Hurley, and larger than life lead singer and guitarist D. Boon, who died in 1985. That was shortly after the release of their hugely influential album Double Nickels on the Dime. Before then, punk rock was about breaking the rules, but it actually had many of its own. The Minutemen threw that out and began experimenting with their sound, jamming out and incorporating jazz and […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
Willie Nelson, Mann Music Center, 10:09 PM by JONATHAN VALANIA
RIP: Gil Scott-Heron, Godfather Of Rap, Dead At 62
“THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED”~a CLASSIC from BABA GIL SCOTT-HERON from jabari akhenamen on Vimeo. THE GUARDIAN: The musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron – best known for his pioneering rap The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – has died at the age of 62, having fallen ill after a European trip. Scott-Heron’s spoken word recordings helped shape the emerging hip-hop culture. Generations of rappers cite his work as an influence. He was known as the Godfather of Rap but disapproved of the title, preferring to describe what he did as “bluesology” – a fusion of poetry, soul, blues and […]