Bites: The homosexual undertones of Harry Potter, Atlas Sound and Panda Bear destroy indie, Salman Rushdie and Thomas Pynchon eating dinner together

Gawker on “The Homosexual Undertones of Harry Potter“. Worth it just for the picture, and the line “Alan Rickman looks like a New Wave lesbian in a cape.” There should be a law against Atlas Sound and Panda Bear (of Animal Collective) colaborating on this song, it’s really not fair to everybody else (except maybe Woods). The new Atlas Sound album, Logos, in October on Kranky. On the flipside of that, not so sure how I feel about Death Cab […]

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Bites: The Pope embraces dandyism, Gary Indiana, own a piece of Virginia Woolf history, indie supergroups, new bookstores, and more

First the Pope says Potter is alright, now the Vatican is cool with the king of the dandies, Oscar Wilde. Strange things are afoot in Rome. Gary Indiana picks songs that relate to his newest work, The Shanghai Gesture, on Largehearted Boy. The beach that inspired Virginia Woolf to write To The Lighthouse is up for sale (thanks Litkicks) I guess starting an indie supergroup means that you need to sound like an updated version of The Traveling Wilburys, which […]

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Bites: Harry Potter is a self-hating Jew, Dan Sinker, Chuck Palahniuk, Dark Dark Dark, and more

Six-Word Memoirs, meet the Gigantic Quotes Twitter Project. Play nice. If Harry Potter tells that old joke about two Jews rubbing a penny together, and Harry Potter is Jewish, does that make him an anti-Semite? The Millions teaches me that there is a genre called “mom books”. So this is what Dan Sinker – founder of Punk Planet – is up to. Chuck Palahniuk relates to Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, and is afraid of being buried alive according […]

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