Links for 11.29.08: 70s rock homes, 93X’s Pablo, videogame addictions…
by Josh Kimball
*More lists: Each year Largehearted Boy keeps an impressive collection of year-end Best Of music lists. Here’s the aggregated list of music lists for 2008.
*Addiction: The vast majority of people who think they’re addicted to videogames – at least enough to seek treatment for it – aren’t. I had a bad Desktop Tower Defense habit for about 6 days, but I broke it when the new Surly seasonal came out. [neural]
*Piano: The New York Times profiles Chinese piano man Lang Lang. I can’t remember ever having been to a Times Topics page before. Does that make me retarded?
*Dwell: Take a little tour of the homes of 70s rock musicians and their parents.
*Genre: Sasha Frere-Jones in the New Yorker on hip-hop artist Steven Ellison, “Reckoner” remixes and fractal hip-hop.
*Holiday weekend question: What would you name your imaginary band? (A: The Sweatpant Boners.)
*Local: Now seems as good a time as any to tell you this – 93X’s Pablo, famous for his Get Trashed Tuesdays, I understand – lives on my block. He has a nice boat.
Video games rock, but they’re not special. I’d much rather see someone cure the gambling addicts who get in my way at the gas station when I’m trying to buy caffeine.