So many in-the-know email lists, so much room in our spam filter. It seems that just like blogs, these newsletters (don’t let them hear you call them that!) are popping up every day. So which of the top of the crop do we hand our email address over to? Our current email newsletter subscription status is as follows.
DailyCandy: Unsubscribed, sometime last year. Found it less and less the top dog in its space. And cutesy illustrations are so 2006.
Thrillist: Subscribed to New York, Los Angeles, and National editions. Delete all three almost every morning without opening them. Today’s New York edition was about Stickk, a website where you make binding contracts with your friends to fulfill promises. We don’t need this irrelevant stress.
UrbanDaddy: Subscribed to New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Jet Set and “National” editions. Open almost every email and usually find useful food and nightlife options, but a roving capsule hotel above Paris? No spanks.
Very Short List: Unsubscribed. Like we need another reason to think about Barry Diller everyday.
New York City Nonsense: (Very recently) unsubscribed. The latest about bike advocacy, Brooklyn loft parties, and bizarre art shows, this list is sent to discerning Brooklyn hipsters and/or NYU seniors without an established circle. For anyone who hates the L or has a real social life, trekking out to Bushwick for a random forest-themed party becomes more trouble than it???s worth it. Which is why it took us until last week to ditch our subscription.
Haute Look: Unsubscribed. But not by choice. They never accepted our subscription application. They must be VERY exclusive! You know, in the way that A Small World isn’t.
CULTURE WAR AT JOSSIP HQ While we thought Bell X1 was lowest common denominator indy crap, our gay little brother over at Queerty loved it, and made it his morning aural. Queerty’s editor lives in Park Slope and occasionally writes for the Huffington Post. We have bangs and are wearing stripes. Also, we told Andrew about VSL in the first place. Whose taste do you trust?
Looking, staying hip takes more than just living Brooklyn. You???ve got to seek out hip and judge what others deem as hip.
That???s why we subscribe to Very Short List, a daily email that informs us about cultural stuff they think is great. Sometimes they’re right and other times we judge them for being wrong.
Today VSL recommended the Irish band Bell X1, claiming their album, which will be released in the U.S. on February 19, is ???simply one of the best records we???ve heard in a long time.???
We checked out Bell X1, and we say don???t believe the VSL hype. This band will be on the next edition of the Grey???s Anatomy soundtrack.