Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The ideal collision of vulgarity and high-mindedness.”
Rob Sheffield • On Bowie
The karaoke principle: if you can’t fix it, flaunt it.
Rob Sheffield • On Bowie
The Stones were Stonesier. The Beatles were merely better.
Rob Sheffield • Dreaming the Beatles
Aging hipsters and corduroy-clad high school sophomores are both primarily concerned with dodging lameness.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Everybody used to assume the Beatle myth was driving the music—it turned out to be the other way around.
Rob Sheffield • Dreaming the Beatles
Source: The A.V. Club
Watch The Avengers re-assemble to record The Avengers in Lakota
Pop stardom, the way he defined it, means you keep feeling fascination for the now sound right up to the moment—you don’t settle for what you did yesterday. You tune in to the pop trash all over the radio dial for any ideas worth scavenging.
Rob Sheffield • On Bowie
After all, not to be corny, haven’t we all become selective autobiographers in the digital age as we curate our lives for our own audiences of any size—cutting away from the raw fabric of our lived experience to reveal the shape of the story we most want to tell, whether it’s on our own feeds or the world’s stage?