News round-up for the week ending June 16, 2013:
Kanye‘s newest album Yeezus is out, which means there is a whole lot of Kanye required reading to do! His interview with Jon Caramanica of the New York Times is not to be missed.
“Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is.” -Kanye
“I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.” -Kanye
“It was the first, like, black new wave album.” -Kanye
“I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.” -Kanye
Here is the full transcript of “Standing On The Sun” by Mitch Anderson, the speech by Texas’ Belton High School 2013 Salutatorian who took that opportunity to come out to his graduating class. You know he’s gay when he’s peppered references like Madonna, Luna Lovegood, Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, and Zachary Quinto into the mix. So cute! So good!
A feature-length documentary about J.D. Salinger is soon to hit theaters and Slate had some spot-on funny words to say about the flick’s very confusing trailer! Read, watch, and discuss here.
We still love Gilmore Girls to this day which is why anything related to Lauren Graham (aka Lorelai Gilmore) is, of course, relevant. She recently closed a deal with Ellen DeGeneres’ production company who will be adapting Lorelai’s debut novel Someday, Someday, Maybe for Warner Bros TV. (via Deadline)