Irreconcilable Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kanye and Taylor at the Same Time

I love Venn diagrams. I’m serious. Ever since I was a little girl, I have been fascinated by extremes, poles, definitives, bests/worsts, and blacks/whites. Never mind the emotional and personal challenges this all/nothing paradigm has created in my life—what is this “gray area” you speak of, pray tell?—focus instead on… [Read More]

What I Learned about Kim Kardashian from Playing Her New iPhone Game

Have you always dreamed of riding silk chiffon (more likely wax leather) coattails down Rodeo Drive rubbing shoulders with the Kardashian Klan all aflutter over your Twitter follower count and the latest homewrecker bomb to be lobbed at you? Now you can continue not doing those things, but ease the… [Read More]

The Scale of Celebrity Disgust

What’s a guy gotta do around here to disgust the general public so much that he’s no longer welcomed on the radio? Apparently, a lot.  Currently, Chris Brown is part of two songs charting on the Billboard Hot 100. The former woman-abuser is sitting in jail collecting royalty checks for… [Read More]

Finding Yeezus

If you’re anything like me, it’s downright comical to listen to anything but Yeezus this week. Though just ten songs long, totaling about 40 minutes, the album has a high replay value, because, well, it’s incredible.  But I’m not here to talk about that.  There are numerous Yeezus think-pieces out there written… [Read More]

Capital Cities and the 2013 Summer Jam

We’re all really going to hate “Safe and Sound” by Capital Cities come August. The single from this LA-based duo is actually two years old, but you know how these things happen — the song is quickly gaining momentum and has become a staple on alt-rock radio stations across the… [Read More]