I'll be a temporary Associate Editor at Eater Austin for a few months. Restaurant tips, rumors, and such go here: drew.blackburn
@voxmedia
.com. Now I finally learn how to spell restaurant without the aid of the red squiggly line.
I’m so tired of seeing this. There is no “man vs woman” era.
There are women gaining independence and autonomy with options for their future that include more than just being wives and mothers and there are men that are upset about that. That’s it thats all I promise.
Spike Lee’s school daze never ended. In this week’s cover story, the iconic filmmaker reflects on his three decades teaching at
@nyuniversity
and his Oscar-winning career:
@offbeatorbit
Been to quite a few bars. Worked in a few too. Wild stuff and illegal stuff would happen on a regular basis. Even then, bartenders at cocktail bars devising plans to drug people with patrons is so far outside the prospect of a normal thing. That's a rare Pokemon.
Losing my mind cause this is one of the most popular romantic comedies of all time. Always had reruns on TV in the pre-streaming era. Y'all acting like this is some obscure reference point and not a joke is faking the funk.
To even have this as a reference point says a lot because I don't even know what movie this is.
I immediately thought of DMX when Kendrick was on his hate train. 😂😂😂
Drake thinks Julia Stiles.
It's almost as if there's a cultural disconnect there!
Every tv show is not an Agatha Christie plot twist mystery novel. The simple things always happen in the end. Unless you’re making Black Mirror or some shit, that is great writing. How much Kendall ends up like his father is the basic premise of the show called “Succession”
okay, the kendall becomes logan thing is the flimsiest, most simplistic, most annoying thing ever and if people spend the rest of my lifetime boiling succession down to that i WILL keel myself
At my high school the school officer slammed an 100 something pound 14 year old girl’s head into a locker multiple times. Despite numerous instances of abusing students, complaints, and five figure settlements, the school system did nothing.
We are in an era of lobotomized groupthink rage. Dude said nothing wrong. It’s unserious to act like Taika Waititi’s recent comments or speech are offensive. You people need to get a grip.
Very funny to compare Gayle King (and allude to, but not mention, Dream Hampton) to a courts reporter by trade when we’re talking about reporting on legal affairs.
No shade to Megan Cunniff, but this article is telling.
A white woman reporting on violence against famous Black women is more believed and protected in the Black community than Black women journalists. They aren’t afforded that same credibility, safety, or praise.
#misogynoir
the barbie monologue was targeted at a younger demographic, primarily children and teens. the barry monologue and gone girl monologue are meant for an adult audience. i hope this helps.
one of my darkest barber experiences is when a dude asked me mid-cut “do you believe in feminism?” and i spent the next 10 min hoping he wouldn’t fuck up my hairline as i explained why feminism is something we should all believe in
Not defending Kanye but part of the reason Jack Antonoff sucks so much is his production style is a derivative watered down version of Kanye’s stadium rap pop era. But bland. That’s why it works for… certain people.
Jack Antonoff talks about Kanye West with
@LATimes
:
“It’s been a long time since I would’ve taken Kanye’s call. I’m so incredibly bored when someone doesn’t have the sauce anymore, so they go elsewhere to shock. It’s just a remarkable waste of space.”
it became respected. canonized. put on the pedestal of American classical music. removed from the ongoing conversation of black style and sensibility. made a static thing that no longer belonged to the people. sanitized. placed in glass. left pristine, unchanging, and lifeless.
Beyoncé and her silence on Palestine are worthy of critique, but so is this writer. Just a rotten to their core person who hates themselves. The horseshoe theory Armond White.
In ‘Renaissance: A Film,’ Beyoncé preaches her desire to create a “safe space.” “Renaissance means a new beginning,” she says; it’s a balm “after all we’ve been through in the world.” But what exactly is she referring to?
Today was my last day as Associate Editor at Eater Austin. Much love to
@nadiachaudhury
for having me around. I’ll be looking for full time work. If you have an opening for or know of an opening for a writer of some sort shoot me an email.
Throwback photo of me back in the day when I was scrawny and let the bird chest fly at the Formation tour. Also brought a bottle of Louisiana as a prop.
Last time I did SXSW I was a scrawny kid in my early 20s. Now I’m an out of shape man in my early 30s with flat feet who insists on wearing boots. Feel like I’ve played nine seasons in the NFL after just two days of this shit.
Sometimes I think about when *NSYNC went on 106 & Park. AJ & Free asked them about celebrity crushes. Everyone but Lance had the good sense to say a Black woman (you’re on BET, babes). Lance said a white actress named Monica Potter, and the audience started booing. 💀
The Idol is back today. It's maybe the worst HBO pilot I've ever seen. It's like if Entourage took itself completely serious and was also written by a 17 year old boy going through a weird phase and also starred a rapper who'd never acted.
Diversity in film is about economic opportunity and people’s stories going untold. Most times if you talk about it in a vacuum, as in one film or one show, you are wrong. It is bigger than one work, most often a worthless discussion of you are being granular.
People seem to love
#Oppenheimer
but I'll just say it: I was uncomfy watching yet another movie about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by the script—Japanese people, interned Japanese Americans, and Native Americans—had no voice.
Why? Because she’s brought a ludicrously capacious bag. What’s even in there, huh? Flat shoes for the subway? Her lunch pail? I mean, Jess, it’s monstrous. It’s gargantuan. You could take it camping. You could slide it across the floor after a bank job
After this short clip, Channing, the dude that was laughing says “that’s safe. I’m in the Beyhive too, brother” and daps Bobby Wagner up. We gotta take a deep breath.
Men are so incredibly stupidly misogynistic that their first instinct is to find it incredulous that a man can be inspired to work harder by a woman who is better at her craft than any man or woman alive. This is why men struggle to read female authors or learn from women.
Drake is such an interesting figure. He came into the game a sweetheart who started in a Canadian soap opera for teenagers and slowly turned himself into a gangster and a villain.
To be from New Orleans and believe Beyoncé is purposely lightening her skin you have to be real stupid, like probably shouldn’t hold a driver’s license
@forsorrows
Notice she lightened herself up just in time for Israel. The colorism in our community was reinforced by Hollywood. We grew up to discover even the few brown stars were in a tanning booth.
"Gotta vent, lotta innocent lives lost on the project bench, What you hollerin'? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in." 😱 HE'S SPITTING.
I wasn't outside when this dropped but I suspect the narrative is just built on a Nas bar (also, Ether is not better than Takeover!"
Justin Timberlake has always kind of sucked, at least on a personal level, and his new song, “Selfish,” is just the latest turd to be floated across the surface of his long-stagnant career:
If we're *honest* it's true that nobody cares about how men feel and we don't like sharing in part because of this... except for in the arts. Men's feelings have dominated the arts. That's why this is silly. Many great songs and movies about men being angry, sad, scared, lonely.
🧵i tweeted this a few months ago and got ✨dragged✨but the real question i was asking is: where do we hear about the pain and inner lives of men?
i asked a male friend this question and he replied, "no one wants to hear about men's inner lives." /1
The Cowboy Carter album cover is a reference to Rodeo culture and this Langston Hughes poem. Idk man some people just like to bring negative critique. It’s the Black version of “devils advocate” headass white people. It’s annoying.
58th annual Oscars; March 1986. Spike’s debut feature She’s Gotta Have It; August 1986. This is a lie that smooth brained people who get their facts from tweets and TikToks keep spreading. A Black man and recent film school grad did not take down a Spielberg picture.
And you can directly blame Spike Lee and the NAACP for that.😭 They said this movie was hateful towards black men and did mad campaigns trying to fuck it over
When male nerds are aggressively uninterested in sports, it almost always comes from a place of insecurity. One of our great living directors was a creative writing major, whose work is heavily influenced by French new wave, and was a varsity running back.
what's with this fancy film bro persona i keep seeing on here, like "i watch professional sports at the bar with the boys but i have a bookshelf at home"
Historically, the majority of our films and tv have always leaned into the petit bourgeois, middle class and careerists. These stereotypes he’s talking about have only ever been prevalent with supporting characters in film made by white filmmakers. Cord isn’t living in reality.
insane replies. jodie foster was not 40+ in contact, linda hamilton was not 40+ in terminator 2, holly hunter was not 40+ in broadcast news, jessica chastain was not 40+ in zero dark thirty, sigourney weaver was not 40+ in alien or aliens, none of you know how old any woman is.
it's crazy that PTA, Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson -- three contemporaries of the 90s indie boom who have gone on to experiment with evolving ideas of distinct & personal filmmaking -- still haven't topped their debut films. just magic in a bottle
ok i have to speak my truth, i do think it's kind of awesome that people made slang out of the words 'middling' (mid) and 'charismatic' (rizz). those are great words
*Drake brushes his teeth*
See, Drake is literally proving Kendrick Lamar's points in euphoria of culturally being ambivalent by using Crest—everyone know REAL Black people use Colgate
Drake literally just proved Kendrick Lamar’s points in euphoria of culturally being ambivalent by missing the DMX Breakfast Club reference using an extra corny Julia Stiles reference
lana del rey and david lynch have seen something the truth behind the american curtain and their art is the only cultural product i can think of this century that portrays it accurately
"Reclaiming Black genres" feels so hollow when she had nothing to say about them people using her song as a fight anthem and has had nothing to say since.
There’s no way you can read about whatever that man has done and your takeaway is being shocked a rich man in Hollywood is doing coke with a nouveau riche woman.
What a sick country we live in. You can go literally anywhere and end up murdered by some sicko with military-grade weapons. School children to the elderly. Completely demented.
This isn't really true. Juneteenth spread a bit through the great migration, but its roots as a celebration for Black Americans began in the summer of '68 in D.C. There was a massive festival as a culmination of a live-in for the Poor People's Campaign.
As a Texan...
Juneteenth isn't just a Black thing... its specifically a Black Texan thing.
It's still weird watching everyone celebrate Juneteenth now when it wasn't a thing beyond TX and Louisiana for most of my life.
Anybody who thinks you need to wash chicken in 2023 doesn’t know how to cook. They might make a few really good things, but it’s merely following recipes. They would suffer on Cuttroat Kitchen.
I have not seen the movie yet but it really does rub me the wrong way to see white folks gleefully mock BIPOC who wish the movie made some reference to the victims of the bomb.
Is the sentiment really so hard to understand? To treat with something less than scorn?
Excluding stans, the majority of the criticism I've seen of the piece is folks saying Beyonce is not above criticism but this critic is a mean-spirited person and it's true. Her unhappiness is essential to her work. So now what?
the people that are critiquing beyoncé and her position, or lack thereof, are scholars, organizers, activists, strategists, and people that have put their bodies on the line many times.
the critiques aren’t baseless and aren’t from random people with no skin in the game.
Weird to see Tyler talk like this when he loves people like Roy Ayers and is an obvious music and art enthusiast. People should be interested in the canon and we’re living in a time when kids are actually the least interested in it.
We don't talk enough about being a Gmail person and how much of an out-of-body experience it is to have an email job where they use *shudders* Microsoft.
as a black swiftie this line is weird & if you're getting mad at someone (especially another black person) for feeling some type of way about the lyric you're weird too
I don't like what Drake's been saying about Megan but I hate the narrative that Drake only disses women persists. Categorically untrue. I hate it cause it's another instance of us being stupid in what might be our stupidest era where reality is a mere suggestion.
The part of the convo we still need to get to with all these famous bad actors (meaning behavior, not literal acting) is how people who show great talent in almost any area are taught they're literally exceptional - an exception to norms and standards - from early on.
Nicki Minaj is about to realize what Whitney, Wendy Williams, Mary J. Blidge, & Nina Simone realized far too late; that your choice of who to share your life with could be, and all too often is, your biggest downfall.
We gotta have a serious convo about letting people grow cause Tyler was a rancid little shit back in the day and he’s blossomed in to a magnificent and thoughtful flower boy who can do a rare thing like admit when he’s wrong.
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@kendricklamar
's "Not Like Us" breaks the all-time record for biggest single day streams for a solo hip-hop song in global Spotify history, passing
@Drake
's "Champagne Poetry" (11.85 million).
Throwback photo of me back in the day when I was scrawny and let the bird chest fly at the Formation tour. Also brought a bottle of Louisiana as a prop.
Largely reviled for a handful of great reasons, no longer a draw at the box office or on stage. A fading star. Not sure why she's here. A perfect example of the types of privileges only a white woman has at their disposal.