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Archive for January, 2010

That First Song that Made Me Press Rewind

By New Slang ⋅ January 11, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

Thin Girl Can’t Dance

By New Slang ⋅ January 10, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

by MARLA CABANBAN Discussed: Making peace with your rocker past, Pushing the limit on shameless moves, Dragonforce This, I definitely was not. I began having flashbacks of the unfortunate ballroom dancing classes I had in my high school. I survived those classes by memorizing the sequences and the counts. I could never feel music or [...]

“Let me be the first one to break this to you…”

By New Slang ⋅ January 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

“I’m dating someone.” “That’sss great! Do I know her?” “Actually she’s a friend of yours.” And…that’s all we really need to hear before this song starts to play. Guided By Voices – “Love Hurts (w_Kim Deal)“ At least in this case, there’s indie cred brought to you with the help of Bob Pollard.

Living in the Friend Zone

By jaton ⋅ January 10, 2010 ⋅ 9 comments

by JATON ZULUETA Discussed: Growing up Girly, Phone Transcripts, a 1990s Tom Hanks Some important disclaimers: Let there be no confusion: I’m attracted to women, so attracted to women that manly women intrigue me: how is it that some girls wear Mexican moustaches or have muscles for necks, or look exactly like Shrek and not [...]

I Can’t Remember a Worse Time

By New Slang ⋅ January 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Here New Slang, I made you a mixtape. It has the first Gang Gang Dance song that I really liked, and a Dan Deacon song that stuck with me, because it reminded me of how the alarm in the lobby of my first office would go off whenever the metal detectors sensed danger. Now will [...]

Exile in Girlville

By New Slang ⋅ January 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

by ALICE SARMIENTO Discussed: Uniforms, Bathroom fieldtrips, Neck-lumps, Eugenie’s hand, Havaianas Welcome to Girlville. Population: your girlfriend, your sister, and the teenage versions of your mom, her friends, and your aunts. Don’t mind the tables cluttered with packets of oil-control film, open compacts, and pink laptops stacked on top of unopened library books and photocopied [...]

Consider This

By paolo ⋅ January 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(Or How I Lost My Religion to the Alternative Nation) by PAOLO JOSE CRUZ Discussed: urban folk mythology, Catholic metalhead ennui, Michael Stipe as unconventional rock icon, personal salvation Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been well over fifteen years since my last Confession. I realize that’s quite a long time, but please, consider [...]