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Kurt Loder’s iTunes celebrity playlist is Snobworthy enough, with rootsy trax by Willie Dixon and Etta James and a song from L.A. sessioneer extraordinaire David Lindley’s side project El Rayo-X (pronounced, as Snobs know, “El Rye-O ECK-eez”), but he’s also got some refreshingly counter-Snob-tuitive stuff in there: “I Know There’s Something Going On,” the “In the Air Tonight”-like breakup song by Frida from Abba (produced, as it happens, by Phil Collins), and a live version of “Tonight,” a putrid Tina Turner-David Bowie duet from the nadir of Bowie’s “happy” Eighties period. Give the Lodester credit for following his heart and not doing a phony list conjured up just to impress fellow Snobs. April 18, 2006 More Rock Snobbery »
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Robinson, Jancis. Bespectacled, prolific British wine writer, best known for editing the Oxford Companion to Wine, the most scholarly of wine reference books and one often referred to in Snob shorthand as “Jancis” — e.g., Look it up in Jancis. Blessed with an authentic wit and an assuring sensible tone, which she puts to use in several shorter books, a Financial Times column, a Web site, and sundry British “programmes,” Robinson is also the lust object of several Wine Snob admirers, Jay McInerney among them, who harbor Miss Moneypenny fantasies about her.