“To be clear, I think McCartney performing major surgery on Lennon’s song makes the result a more authentic Beatles record, rather than less. Lennon and McCartney’s collaboration was often in the form of editing each other’s work, and sometimes extensively rewriting it (as when McCartney turned Lennon’s sad acoustic dirge about being unloved and uncared…
“The Vietnamese gig worker living a double life” – Lam Le (Rest of World)
“Huynh said he had dreamed of becoming a TikTok star since high school. He took on a part-time gig with Be when he was in college; after he graduated with a degree in information technology, he joined the company full-time. Soon, he realized his job as a ride-hailing driver would make for good TikTok content….
“Erewhon’s Secrets” – Kerry Howley (The Cut)
“Erewhon is one of those phenomena that is ever present if you’re tuned in and invisible if you are not. “Isn’t that just a grocery store?” asked a friend who has lived in L.A. all her life. No, it is not, and has never been, just a grocery store. It exists within, and has always…
“273: I’m going to tell my children that this is Elastica’s second album” – Kieron Gillan
“Basically, I’ve started making music for the first time since I was 21. Not regularly, but enough that I bought a tiny mid-keyboard to make it a bit easier. There’s about 6 or so tracks that were finished enough to lob at various friends for their amusement. And I do mean amusement – they’re terrible,…
“January 2, 2024” – Letters from an American
“They are also preparing to impeach Mayorkas on the grounds that he has failed to meet the requirements of the Secure Fence Act, “which defines operational control of the border as a status in which not a single person or piece of contraband improperly enters the country.” As Brooks and Beitsch point out, “not a…
“The Web Renaissance Takes Off” – Anil Dash
“By a few years later, though, I’d largely lost that hope, convinced that the battle had been won by the people who had made the internet a tool for maniupulation and undermining ordinary people’s power. I didn’t count on them being such sore winners, though. And I should never have underestimated the passion and resilience…