We’ve all been through it. Whether you’re the dumper or the dumpee, breaking up sucks — especially this time of year. After your friends have all gone home and that bottle of bourbon is definitely empty, at least music is there to ease your aching heart. Since we have officially exited the aughts, we figured we’d save you the trouble and compile a list of the top ten break-up songs from the past decade. So, without further ado, a five stages of grief-inspired mix, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Please use in moderation.
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1. Michael Jackson’s first posthumous single, “This Is It,” which he originally recorded back in 1991, was released earlier today. [via Guardian]
2. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are related — 10th cousins, once removed. [via WaPo]
3. The Knife have debuted a creepy seven-minuted trailer for their Charles Darwin-inspired opera. [via Pitchfork]
4. “Why Email No Longer Rules…” [via WSJ]
5. Remember how Matthew Weiner’s babysitter became an Emmy Award-winning Mad Men scribe? Well, he fired her. (On a positive side note: Joan got married.) [via Gawker]
Bonus link: Artists, authors and poets to respond to the climate change crisis
Today we laughed at this piece about a throat clearer in the Onion. We felt intimidated by this 14-year-old guitar hero. We decided that an opera about Charles Darwin penned by the Knife was possibly the coolest/strangest thing ever. We retraced John Updike’s steps on a ’50s walk through the city. We refused to believe that M.I.A. is going to give birth on stage. We tried to determine how Obama’s influence would factor into our upcoming office Oscar pool. We felt bad for the 31 guys who were tricked into sending this dude nudie pics of themselves on Facebook. We streamed some intense new Bat for Lashes. And finally, we said goodbye to all the TV shows that will be leaving New York. You will be missed Chace Crawford.
Americans have always had an inexplicable fascination with Sweden. The name conjures images of pristine landscapes, snow-covered Lingdon berries, and beautiful people gallivanting around in knit reindeer sweaters. But the stereotypes aren’t all social utopia: some people think it’s a strange, bleak landscape haunted by bizarre and occult figures — you can thank Ingmar Bergman for that.
With recent release Let the Right One In (a vampire flick that makes Twilight look like Romper Room) garnering such critical success, film buffs are asking if our fair neighbors to the north are having a second golden age.
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