December 2011
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Best Songs of 2011: Part V
Here’s a smattering of our favorite songs from 2011. We’ve broken up our list into 5 bite-sized posts. There’s no ranking. (We don’t believe in hierarchy.) But we couldn’t imagine this year without them. Enjoy! “You” —Though it doesn’t showcase the median of Tally Hall’s sound, it does show off one band member in particular. Mostly solo vocals by...
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Best Songs of 2011: Part IV
Here’s a smattering of our favorite songs from 2011. We’ve broken up our list into 5 bite-sized posts. There’s no ranking. (We don’t believe in hierarchy.) But we couldn’t imagine this year without them. Enjoy! “Ritual Union” —Little Dragon. What is it with Swedes and dragons? Anyway, this is a funky song from an already established act. Yukimi...
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Did Mona Lisa have high cholesterol?
The medical secret behind Mona Lisa’s smile? Forget the smile - Mona Lisa’s eyes reveal a penchant for fatty foods For centuries, art historians have been troubled by Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile - but, according to one doctor, her cholesterol levels were more worrying. via news.bbc.co.uk Sometimes scientists think that they know everything about...
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Best Songs of 2011: Part III
Here’s a smattering of our favorite songs from 2011. We’ve broken up our list into 5 bite-sized posts. There’s no ranking. (We don’t believe in hierarchy.) But we couldn’t imagine this year without them. Enjoy! “Take Care (Featuring Rihanna and Jamie XX)” —Drake. Damn do Drake and Rihanna sound good together! Can they just hurry up and make a...
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Best Songs of 2011: Part II
Here’s a smattering of our favorite songs from 2011. We’ve broken up our list into 5 bite-sized posts. There’s no ranking. (We don’t believe in hierarchy.) But we couldn’t imagine this year without them. Enjoy! “Someone Like You” —Adele. This song! THIS damn song! I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been driving and crying thinking about romances that...
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Absolutely Fabulous returns, sweetie!
Image via Wikipedia For those die-hard fans with a yearning for more Lacroix, Absolutely Fabulous returned on Christmas day in the UK (and it will come to BBC America on January 8th). Eddie Monsoon and Patsy Stone return as the best friends we know and love. Saffy returns from prison (!) and the great Titicaca comes back as well, albeight hearing voices. Watching The Killing in Danish means...
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Best Songs of 2011: Part I
Here’s a smattering of our favorite songs from 2011. We’ve broken up our list of 25 into 5 bite-sized posts. There’s no ranking. (We don’t believe in hierarchy.) But we couldn’t imagine this year without them. Enjoy! “Man Down” — Rihanna. Rihanna straight up kills me on “Man Down”—the stand out track on 2010’s Loud. The song is an odd pick for...
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How to stream content from your PC to your Kindle...
Get the most out of your Kindle Fire experience by streaming media from your PC to your Fire. You’ll need: a PC a Kindle Fire a wifi connection a Google account money Install Splashtop remote on your Kindle Fire and then install it on your PC. It’s $1 (on sale right now) but it’s worth it if you want to be able to control your PC from your Fire. Create a password. By...
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10 Best Albums of 2011
If you like these artists, support them by buying their music and seeing their shows when they come to your area. Google them to find out more info. Enjoy this list that we, the wonderful people at Rhyme et Reason, have painstakingly put together! Good & Evil - Tally Hall Tally Hall’s second album, sounds more balanced than their first, while they’re coming into their voice and hollowing...
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Friday Night Sounds: Surf punk
What is there to listen to at the end of December other than surf punk? Give The Beach Boys some attitude and move The Ramones from New York to Huntington Beach and you’ll wind up with a lighthearted subgenre of punk that many west coast bands incorporated into their music in the ’80s. Make that a lot of attitude… It’s difficult to define surf punk, even though...
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Deeply depressed Dexter?
Spoiler Alert. The end of the sixth season of Dexter was pretty intense. This season was mostly about the end of the world coming and the crazies who are trying to hasten it. Dexter has many a close call, including the ring of fire that Colin Hanks’ character tries to kill him with and the gas that makes Dexter dizzy. Unfortunately, that dizziness comes in at inopportune times and gets...
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Found: Mexican Jewelry Designers Phoebe & Annette...
(How fun is this screenshot? It looks like the one is pissed at the other attempting to take flight.) Mexico City-born and New York City-based jewlery designers Phoebe and Annette Stephens of the curiously named Anndra Neen are on (constant source of inspiration and sometimes frustration) StyleLikeU! Phoebe is the less talkative of the two—with the less insane brows (an obvious...
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Is Erik Andersson The New Andrej Pejic?
(Images via google and kari estrada’s your mother should know) In the words of imitation (but better than the real) Chloë Sevigny, “it’s recently come to my attention” that model Erik Andersson is totally making moves on Andrej Pejic’s career as the preeminent androgynous male/female model of the moment. No? Check out some shots of Erik from DSection...
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The Falkland Islands or Las Islas Malvinas
Have you heard of the Falkland Islands or Las Islas Malvinas? Sure you have. They are those islands off the coast of Argentina populated by English-speakers and sheep. There was that war between Argentina and the UK over whom they belonged. You know, the Falklands War… But that was way back when Argentina was headed by a ruthless military dictatorship which was actively disappearing...
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¡Lo Mejor De 2011!// The Best of 2011
Este año hemos experimentado con unos posts en español. Gracias por darnos el espacio para expresarnos tal como queremos. A veces inglés no es suficiente. Bueno pues, aquí les dejo 11 de mis favoritas de las canciones mas escuchadas (de pop latino) de 2011—el año de la colaboración inesperada. Hay ritmos bien raros con coros inolvidables. ¡Disfruten! This year we’ve...
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Barbie as Lady Gaga
via theworldofkitsch.com We don’t like that Barbie sets up unrealistic expectations for young girls but pushing her to become more like Lady Gaga and therefore more “out there” is a fun idea. The Kermit dress is something that you wouldn’t dare see Barbie in. God forbid that Barbie wear something without fur. http://rhymeetreason.com Follow us on Twitter!...
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Gaga's stuck on you (unreleased)
Lady Gaga - Stuck On Fuckin’ You by stuckonfuckinyou Lady Gaga has just released a previously unreleased song that was going to be Born This Way via her facebook. http://soundcloud.com/stuckonfuckinyou/lady-gaga-stuck-on-fuckin-you You can tell it’s not the final version of the song, especially with the reference to Minnesota in it. The production quality isn’t the...
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Read .mobi books on your Kindle Fire
I just got a Kindle Fire for Christmas. I am very happy with it because it does what it is supposed to do and I have the Amazon store behind everything I do, which makes it simple to get the things that I want. One problem I had was the fact that there are a few books that I already own which are in Mobi format and Amazon is not as thrilled as I am that I own them. The solution? Email the books...
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Must See: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
(Image from the U.S. film’s website) Last night one of us saw director David Fincher’s take on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo starring Rooney Mara (Lisbeth Salander) and Daniel Craig (Mikael Blomkvist). It is an unflinching film adaptation of Steig Larsson’s book that transcends its Swedish counterpart in leaps in bounds no doubt due to it’s supersized Hollywood...
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Found: Dragon Tattoo Collection by Trish...
Dying to look like Rooney Mara or Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”? Now you can in part, at least, thanks to Trish Summerville’s (the U.S. film’s stylist) clothing line with Swedish über-retailer H&M. Bleached brows, tattoos, and piercings are optional… Items include leather jackets, asymmetrical coats, pleather...
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"You Da One"- Rihanna
Rihanna’s latest single “You Da One” from November’s release Talk That Talk has a video! And It’s not to be missed thanks in large part to her continued partnership with director Melina Matsoukas. The video has an awful lot of black and white for such a colorful song, which is probably the whole point. Per usual Rihanna keeps it interesting, channeling...
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The Adventures of Tintin
Image via Wikipedia The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic books written by Hergé. Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have created a very thrilling animated adventure of their own which spans many different arenas. The movie introduces Tintin as a journalist with a dog, named Snowy, who randomly finds a model ship at an outdoor market. He finds out pretty quickly that the ship is...
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And we get out first troll!
Yesterday we wrote about how Michelle Pfeiffer should have gotten an Oscar® for her performance in 1992’s Batman Returns precisely because she was brilliant in Tim Burton’s adaptation of the comic book, not because she was the most loyal to the comic book’s Selina Kyle.
She was spectacularly good playing (as she said herself) 4 different characters within the same character....
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More "Trapped In The Closet." But Why?
Rhyme et reason loves us some R&B music. We do not love R. “I’ll pee on an underage girl, film it and then deny that I it was me doing that on film” Kelly. So when we heard there would be more volumes (?) of “Trapped in the closet”—Mr. Kelly’s stream of consciousness cum grocery list songs (such a word loosely applies here) we were less than...
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Somebody Quick! Give Michelle Pfeiffer an Oscar®!
Can you believe it’s been nearly TWENTY years since the release of Tim Burton’s Batman Returns? No, of course you can’t because the film was done flawlessly! (Thank god it hasn’t aged as badly as Michael Keaton.) And it is impossible to top Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance as Selina Kyle—the Catwoman. So why does everyone insist on these pathetic reboots?...
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The Dark Knight Rises. I Get Uncomfortable.
Anne Hathaway (Selina Kyle) purring sweet nothings threats of class warfare in Christian Bale’s (Bruce Wayne’s) ear. I’ll admit I never saw Batman Begins because, well, I hate Christian Bale and Katie Holmes. I only saw The Dark Knight because of Heath Ledger—and boy was he good. (Obligatory moment of silence.) I just don’t identify with Batman. I loved Tim...
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Last Minute Gifting: Art by Lulu
If you aren’t going to buy a Frida Kahlo print this Christmas (or other winter holiday—sorry, it’s my cutlural tradition) you might as well buy a print of Frida Kahlo! And why not try Art by Lulu?
I happened upon Lulu’s etsy shop by accident while trolling for Frida stuff hace cuando and I’m sure glad. As it turns out, Lulu specializes in reasonably-priced and...
Our favorite Misfits snatch-cock tease
An exclusive clip caught my eye on Hulu, what I thought to be a new Misfits episode is really just a special featuring what happens to be my absolute favorite character from the UK series. Nathan returns for his own misadventure in Vegas Baby! Now avert your eyes from the spoilers below. Since the end of the second season, our favorite hoodlum teenagers with super powers have given up their...
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Kim Jong Il Is Dead
(Image via News Reel Blog and Team America) So North Korean “dear leader”/dictator Kim Jong Il died yesterday of an apparent heart attack (which is suspiciously vague—although I don’t especially care.) The North Korean media would have you believe his death was due to “overwork” after “dedicating his life to [starving] the people.” ...
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Friday Night Sounds: Happy Holidays, You Hipster!
We at Rhyme et Reason have had a lot of fun throwing around the word “hipster” to slight people—ourselves included. Tonight is no exception. The fun does not have to end just because it’s mid-December! Santa Claus isn’t even real anyway… With that I give you the first in a two part series of Rhyme et Reason-approved holiday music. I have handpicked...
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White Box: is minimalism boring?
The show Absolutely Fabulous pokes fun of the concept of minimalism, mostly because Eddie is very much the opposite and always has a lot of clutter and color in her life. Minimalism has extended to music (think the xx), furniture (think Ikea), advertising campaigns, and a whole host of other areas. Does that mean it’s boring or sophisticated? If you don’t get it, are you missing...
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I don't eat puppies, Denny's!
After a recent adventure to find a Denny’s, I was horrified to see that they have a new marketing campaign trying to have you consume “puppies”. I think they could have come up with a different name that captures the flavor better…something like “fried dough with more sugar on top” or “obesity accelerator”. That would’ve done it more justice...
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WTF Wednesdays: Lowe's pulls ads from "All...
The news that Lowe’s pulled its advertising during TLC’s reality show “All American Muslim” and is not backing down from the decision after the Florida Family Association pressured the home improvement company, deserves a big, hearty “WTF.”
Who’s crazier in this case? Is it the Florida Family Association, a small conservative fringe group who claims...
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Are They "Freak Show" Big?
Image care of (this contributor’s favorite entertainment blog) Dlisted.com. You know what I’m talking about. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks breaking Hollywood’s waif thin mold. It’s about time! There is certainly nothing wrong with being “curvy,” especially when this is defined in opposition to whatever...
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Found: Christopher Covers Robyn's "Call Your...
Don’t you just love it when really attractive people make really unattractive faces? Such is the case when trying to effectively emote while singing in a foreign language, I suppose. Anyway, I was trolling tumblr this weekend and found a really great cover of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend.” Check out Denmark’s impossibly fresh faced Christopher singing...
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Friday Night Sounds: a playlist for the weekend
Happy Friday! This week’s playlist is all about big, lush sounds (hello, new Florence + The Machine!), soulful covers of classics and danceable beats. It’s a little heavy on the theme of love, but what songs aren’t? We have… Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Big Pink Amy Winehouse Temper Trap Rihanna and RetR favorite - V V Brown Click here to listen on Spotify! And...
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Yeasayer drummer's Sinkane into electro
The drummer from Yeasayer, known by his real name of Ahmed Gallab and not a pseudonym (as far as we can tell), makes some pretty excellent headway on his new song Jeeper Creeper, off of his next record Mars. He pulls from Yeasayer, which is pretty noticeable, but goes on to create a sound all his own, layering many sounds that work remarkably well. It’s like being underwater with an...
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Fear the Mighty Mighty Baldwin
Alec Baldwin (Image via RottenTomatoes.com) We all have those moments when we’re on a flight somewhere and people are annoying us. How we handle those challenges is how we set ourselves apart. Alec Baldwin is receiving a lot of flack for playing Words with Friends on a grounded American Airlines airplane. The union wants to ban him from further flights because of his little tantrum. Who...
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Miguel Endara connects the dots in art
Is good art dependent on how much time it takes to make? If so, this might be one of the better pieces out there. Miguel Endara created a portrait of his father and used only a Micron pen to create the pointillism effect. “It’s not exact, but very, very close to the real number,” Flavorwire reports he said of the mind-numbing number of dots placed on paper. “I multiply speed of plotting (how...
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"The Night" - School of Seven Bells
“The Night” is a catchy and solid electro dream pop song by School of Seven Bells from Ghostory, the new album coming out on February 28, 2012. What was once a trio is now a duo and that hasn’t really slowed them down. Download this if you like Beach House sped up, Bat for Lashes-esque vocals or ghosts. school_of_seven_bells_the_night74.mp3 Listen on Posterous ...
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