Internship: Days Fifteen + Sixteen
As I’ve told most of you, the big news this week is that casting just began for the MTV/Rolling Stone reality show I’ve been writing about. I had figured that, since it begins taping in June, casting had already been completed – but apparently I was wrong. The lucky contestants will be staff writers for...
Not remotely guilty pleasures.
I don’t particularly believe in “guilty pleasures” when it comes to music. If you like something, you like it. Sure, maybe it’s a little embarassing that you listened to that T.A.T.U., Kelly Clarkson, Lovage, Head Automatica record as much as you did, but should you feel guilt? Not at all. You like what you like,...
Internship: Days Thirteen + Fourteen
Fridays are usually my day off from RS. This week was a closing week (for those of you not in the biz, this means the magazine was getting ready to go to print / all the pages & articles were on deadline / that kind of thing), it was Spring Break for one of the...
Internship: Days Nine – Twelve
As you Gawker.com readers know, the big news around Wenner Media / RS is that Jann & his partner, Matt, will be fathers. It’s kind of sad that I get most of the good Wenner gossip from Gawker… Still, I did hear an interesting item while transcribing the other day – someone brought up a...
My, How Gallant You Are!
Jeez, it’s already been almost a week? Well, this post will make up for it, guaranteed. One day, during my senior year of high school (almost four years ago now – and when I was still in Seattle), my friend Courtney called me up and invited me over. Her friend, RaeAnne, stumbled across two young...
Friday Flim Flam.
[Editor’s Note: this was supposed to go up yesterday, but… well, you know. Life happens.] Since Fridays are always a bit frivolous, fun and flirty (and other fabulous words beginning with f), I figured it would be a good day for some spare parts, so to speak. On Myspace: Cara Beth Cara Beth has a...
Internship: Days Five + Six
This week was ridiculously slow, but here a few interesting tidbits: 1) just like everyone else, RS be lovin’ the Arctic Monkeys. Am I the only one who is not jumping on that bandwagon? I haven’t heard the album in its entirety, but what I have heard has utterly failed to blow me away. 2)...
New music from other music.
Ghost Wars Those of you from Seattle (and possibly from elsewhere) may remember a band named Juno. Juno was filled with talent (Death Cab fans may remember that Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr lent their talents to Juno, and I believe Nate Mendel did, as well?) – but frontman former pro-snowboarder Arlie Carstens was often...
Project Runway At Fashion Week
Not music related, but I just can’t help myself – I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pretty much obsessed with Project Runway. None of the designers from this season have me as excited as I was about Jay McCarroll last year (who I liked since day one, thank you!), but it’s...
Internship: Days Two – Four
Again, not ignoring you – just distracted/busy! The internship has been going pretty well – like most internships, there’s lots of busy work to be done, and most of it isn’t remotely glamorous. I’ve spent most of my time putting together packets of some sort – gossip packets (all the major gossip columns in newspapers)...
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