jackandjo

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[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

Welcome back, freaks

[Raphael Helfand @raphaelhelfand]

so caught up in self-promo this week I haven’t shouted out the amazing work my friend and @laidoffnyc alum @Girmaniumalloy has been doing with @NPREmbedded. 1/2

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

"One simply has to read Smith to understand how her writing persuades us to see otherworldly things in the everyday, things only she can see."

Claire Franken on Patti Smith's Key to NYC and her 2019 memoir, 'Year of the Monkey.'

https://t.co/7WcQEm8yZr

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

Humming is what I hear in the corner of the house when I am
here on a humid night that has cooled into the early morning

John Hunter on drinking alone in a cold house surrounded by mist, or by something much more sinister.

https://t.co/tJKMYgYLs5

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

Revisit Charlotte Foreman’s interview with punk photographer Sal Rispoli, a love letter to South Florida DIY.

https://t.co/GylSN3UBeJ

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

“He strips and slows down the world and makes you feel like a teenager roaming your home town in the summer.”

@cal_hitchcock on Sean Baker’s ‘Red Rocket,’ small-town Texas, anti-heroes, and dirtbags.

https://t.co/nMwPvjjTbV

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

I love everyone so much it hurts. I don't know if they consider me a friend. I consider them all friends, whether they like it or not.

Charlotte Foreman interviews Sal Rispoli, one of South Florida’s most diligent punk rock documentarians.

https://t.co/GylSN3UBeJ

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

“For over a decade, Edwards has enclosed himself within an increasingly distorted catalog of revision, reflection, and re-re-re-release.”

@em_keates reviews ‘Richard Edwards Sings the Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s Songbook in Quarantine (Volume 1)’

https://t.co/KO7YT20lj8

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

Last week, our contributors reflected on 2021 through the cultural fragments that affected them most last year. Read our thoughts on Year 2 below. https://t.co/1HsssGzQEl

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

Hello again! Check out our reflections on year 2, from Enzo Escober, @BarzNearMe, @AnnieLyall_, @Cyrus_Schiller, @epandrews, Guillermo Manning, Rapha Grumser, @melissa_rodman, and @soup_pics

https://t.co/1HsssGzQEl

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

And @David_Kobe wrote the best wide-angle critique there was of the situation while tempers still flared. https://t.co/y8HO7as5Hp

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

We’re reluctant to add to the saturated insurrection discourse today, but we DID publish 2 excellent pieces last January on the events of 1/6/21, takes we stand by a year later (1/3)

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

@Girmaniumalloy captured the cruel irony of Ashli Babbit’s death and condemned the bad takes on it from both sides of the aisle (2/3)
https://t.co/B778sSHYv5

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

Happy New Year, Freaks! It’s good to be back. Today, our music team presents a sonic tour through 2021. Much more to come.

https://t.co/OjlbXyOZsn

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

"Maybe, it’s time for some music?”

Revisit our final piece of 2021, Rapha Grumser's brief but beautiful reflection on family, grief, and "Baby"

https://t.co/KYvt6gxz0H

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

“The first time we were called in to fare my father well, I took care to pack the little black Bose.”

In our final post of 2021, Rapha Grumser writes about “Baby,” a track that transcends memory, time, and death.

https://t.co/asmKEVqy9P

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

Ben Shear (@hipdiplip) wrote up “Tell You the Truth” by Drakeo the ruler, who was stabbed and killed last night at an L.A. music festival, for our first ever “favorite songs” roundup in July 2020.

RIP to a truly singular artist.

https://t.co/31uImGUgFc

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

As winter blockbuster season nears its peak, revisit Quan Zhang's (@ponyohhh1's) interview with film comment editors @devikagirgayi and Clinton Krute, who generally focus on more indie stuff.

https://t.co/cO6ywDyzuo

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

Revisit @tosiello's review of 'Half God,' Wiki's ode to an "aspirational downtown utopia"

https://t.co/cduEzTy6pK

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

"Tony Bennett has been making us smile and sob since...1962...It’s as if he has experienced life with each and every possible emotion and resolved that contentment is the only logical conclusion."

@BarzNearMe on @itstonybennett and @ladygaga's latest

https://t.co/WTsV7ojDLn

[jackandjo @laidoffnyc]

"Despite Lin’s reputation as a stylistic provocateur... 'Leave Society' takes the shape of an auto-fictional bildungsroman: alienation, growth, ultimately finding a way to live in the world."

@soup_pics reviews @tao_lin's latest https://t.co/Xf6joDU90e