You don't want to be Todd Martens: Archive

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Transcribing and writing all weekend. Here’s a quote that may or may not make it into this story: “Look, if you’re going to be naked on the internet, at least let there be some financial benefit to it.”

Aug 28th

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Aug 27th

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Dum Dum Girls fight back death on 'Only in Dreams'

One might be better off not knowing the backstory to this album. Yet pop-culture secrets aren’t well kept in 2011, so let’s get it out of the way: Only in Dreams is a record about death, much of it written while the lead singer’s mother was falling prey to terminal brain cancer. Now try and forget that. While lead Dum Dum Girl Dee Dee (real name: Kristen Gundred) isn’t shy about the tragedy...

Aug 26th

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This week's aborted Tumblr post

Are you a vegan? Congrats! Here’s 15 reasons I dislike you.

Aug 25th

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Aug 24th

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New St. Vincent: More open, no less strange

A glimpse into the mind of Annie Clark can be had with relative ease. Scan the titles of her latest effort, Strange Mercy, her third, and the word “Cheerleader” is one that stands out—not for its images of youthful enthusiasm but for the terms that surround it. The song that precedes “Cheerleader”? That one is called “Cruel.” And the one after? That one is labeled “Surgeon.” It doesn’t take much...

Aug 24th

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Aug 24th

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Somebody got murdered (and this is all I remember)

I have been asked if I’m ok so many times over the past three days that I’m beginning to think something should seriously be wrong with me. On the subway ride home Friday night a sudden clamor erupted directly in front of me. I looked up and saw a man wielding a skateboard and another man waving what appeared to be some sort of chain. Moments later the man with the skateboard shoved a knife into...

Aug 22nd

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