July 2009
Replacements - Sixteen Blue Submitted to the...
Art, Love, and Sex - Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch begins her discussion of metaphysics and morals by beginning with art, which begins with Plato, middles with Freud, and ends with sex. It’s generally accepted that art is art because it is the apperception of an object or performance as a work of art; that is, a painting is art because we see it as art—ie, a fully unified, self-contained whole, a transcendental sort of...
A Pet Peeve and Thoughts on The So-Called Pet...
When someone uses an acronym or abbreviation awkwardly with regard to plurality or redundancy.
Eg, “RBIs”, which expands to “runs batted ins—” a double plural!
“VIN number,” which expands to “vehicle identification number number—” truly ridiculous!
It seems like a particularly bourgeoisie phenomenon to have a “pet...
The Maginot Line →
I’m going to be posting reblogged/pithy/quote/photo stuff at Tumblcore and do something slightly different on Bmichael. For what it’s worth.
If you like that sort of stuff, then you know where to find it. Also, you could pretend that Tumblcore is like a later-Markson novel, collage-like, an assemblage. For what it’s worth.
“I want to combine Mothers Against Drunk Driving with the NAACP. It’s...”
– Zach Galifianakis
That's my new character, the guy who gets bored...
Zach Galifianakis: William, what is it you do, again?
William: Uhh, I work on the Sims 2. It's a video game.
Zach Galifianakis: What!? I got bored when you went, 'Uhh.'
“What is it that Noam Chomsky said about eating pussy…?”
– Zach Galifianakis
As if the irony would elude us that none of us...
Tumblr is built on the strong backs of the pirated musi-strocracy.
Yo La Tengo - Avalon Or Someone Similar
Yo, this...
Fromages de Normandie « Croque-Camille →
Neufchâtel, which tastes like a slightly milder Camembert, has a slightly grainy texture and a thin, very edible rind (this coming from someone who often eats around the rind – I know I probably shouldn’t admit that – la honte!).
(thefoodoffrance is fwancy.)
“Fifty bucks and a case of Heineken will get you a lot of things, especially if...”
– Some verbiage trying to get you to click the link to Bill Simmons’ latest article in which he makes the case for Almost Famous being The Movie Of The 00s.
It’s great that he (or some editor) chose that particular moment from the film to lead into his story since it’s the point at...
Hint: it's me.
Guess who just got the new Why? record?
Eskimo Snowing all up in my earholes.
cakebee.
BTWs, the new Yo La Tengo album has also DROPPED.
“Top Party School” lists are kind of like “Who’s Going To Ruin...”
– @bmichael
“Waiting for hipster embrace of white trash chic to implode into genuine Sarah...”
– Synaptic Burble Baubles & Infinite Ammo:
I’m not going to say there isn’t something to this idea.
“The idea that he, him and his should go both ways caught on and was widely...”
– Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman
You know what else Chaucer did? He shat in a fucking bucket. It’s called progress!
Xiu Xiu - Ceremony
(velveteendream)
Xiu Xiu - Under Pressure (feat. Michael Gira)
...
Xiu Xiu - I Luv The Valley, OH
When I’m...
Why the Charges are Civil (and Why That Doesn’t... →
(via katoleary)
In other news, katoleary is on Tumblr?
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
Today...
Errata
I think I need to bump off Kid A and put on Live-Evil because that album defined my college experience and really set the course for the rest of my life in an odd way. Mitch All Together should probably be on there, as well, thereby bumping off Slanted and Enchanted.
So your scorecard should read 1. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea; 2. Live-Evil; 3. Illmatic; 4. Mitch All Together; 5. Heartbreaker.
...
Ryan Adams - Hotel Chelsea Nights
Hey! It’s...
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles (Mama Black Widow)
...
Music Swims Back To Me Anne Sexton
Wait Mister. Which way is home? They turned the light out and the dark is moving in the corner. There are no sign posts in this room, four ladies, over eighty, in diapers every one of them. La la la, Oh music swims back to me and I can feel the tune they played the night they left me in this private institution on a hill. Imagine it. A radio playing and everyone here was crazy. I liked it and...
Modest Mouse - History Sticks To Your Feet
This...
Modest Mouse - Perpetual Motion Machine
Pace...
As if it would elude us for the whole of our lives
Ultimately, any poem worth reading is a poem about love.
In the story of Patroclus
no one survives, not even Achilles
who was nearly a god.
Patroclus resembled him; they wore
the same armor.
Always in these friendships
one serves the other, one is less than the other:
the hierarchy
is always apparant, though the legends
cannot be trusted—
their source is the survivor,
the one who has been abandoned.
What were the Greek ships on fire
compared...
Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations (from A...
Do You Want To Buy Stuff From A Rapist? Do You... →
Written from my iTunes is playing “Perfect Disguise” right now, ambivalently? Sure but even Pound was a not-so-crypto fascist.
XLIII
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have...
“All of them are traffic signals; in the last analysis, traffic signals were...”
– Adorno, Notes To Literature
Nonsense Rhymes #1
My love is pulchritudinous Which probably sounds gross But she renders me libidinous And knows more words than most
