Orchestral Trailer: “This is definitely pop art, but how it relates to a pop album remains to be seen, and I’m not really interested in finding that connection unless it involves more of whatever this is.”

Last Book I’ve Read: “Of the performance, Byrne writes: “I thought of global warming (again), the melting icecaps, the earthquake in Java, the Mayan ruins in Yucatan, computer viruses, government surveillance eating itself from the inside out, Donald Rumsfeld’s mind, ant colonies, big science, Jesus’ dick, Mary’s cunt, and the McDonald’s meal a suicide bomber ate, minutes before detonation. This is contemporary theater.”

Albini Vs. Kanye: “If we can take one observational certainty from Mad Men: there are no absolutes in mainstream culture.”

Lemon Pulp: “Through the hedge I thought I saw the torso of a woman holding a note card that read TIDEPOOLS.”

SNL Skit: “The sketch calcified many SNL flaws (buffoonery, annoying noises, horrible wigs) into a moment of genius.”

Year In Review: “FUCK THE PAST; I AM THE FUTURE; SEE YOU SOON.”

Seeing Janelle: “When Janelle finally pulled back her hood and confronted the audience with her bionically perfect face, lofty pompadour, and super-shouldered dress-shirt-slacks-and-two-tones, she broke years of tension swollen since her tantalizingly brief precedent EP, and she did what she does better than anyone that isn’t Andre 3000: she annihilated the pretense of anonymity of pop music, remaining pop-as-fuck while refusing generalization.”

Fan Fiction: “Kanye does not rap on the single, but adds 16 bars to a Justice remix released the next day.”