May 2010
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WatchVideo evidence of Hektor’s1 existence.
Hektor’s mostly an Olde Boston Bulle Dogge plus some American Bull Dog; has some sort of championship credentials; and is about four months of age. ↩
I made it.
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“I think the best response is probably to enjoy the music when she makes good...”
– a grammar: M.I.A. and “politics.”
But there seems to be an enormously interesting (to me) way in which her flawed gestures are flawed in a way different than other flawed gestures. Like, you know the popularly espoused not-even-wrong adage? Like that. Like, she cops to inhabiting a...
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Adventures In Depressing Copywrighting
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The Doree Chronicles: On Mythmaking →
So Zach is pointing out that M.I.A. claims that her father was never with the Tamil Tigers in this profile of her in the NY Times: “Either that’s entirely wrong or Hirschberg should’ve gone in way harder on the fact that the foundational myth of her career may be a lie.” Read the rest by Doree.
M.I.A. more than almost any other artist—especially indie cred warriors (do they still exist?...
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A Brief Rundown Of Pop Music Tropes That Lady Gaga... →
Seriously once you accuse Ne-Yo of ripping off Gaga? A LINE HAS BEEN CROSSED. (Via maura)
As a person who values desidemntation and ‘remembering things that happened before yesterday,’ this is some essential list-reading.
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The Best Current Tumblr Theme →
I know that it’s $50 ($50 that I do [did] have, but not necessarily to spend on [shudder] another Tumblr theme), but it’s really, really cool. The ability to nest another Tumblr within a Tumblr makes it, like, incredibly ‘meta’ in a surface-sense, and really extensible/powerful in a practical sense. Plus it actually looks nice and doesn’t seem to fuck up all the time...
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LCD Soundsystem “Jump Into The Fire”
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PEOPLE
You realize that Seinfeld was essentially just 20 minutes of answers, right? It was just a bunch of funny plot twists explained away. They did that over 180 episodes—ALL FUCKING ANSWERS! Good shows can just tell you answers and then you feel satisfied, like you didn’t just waste n hours. LOST IS NOT ONE OF THOSE GOOD SHOWS.
Lost
It seems like most of things people say to support Lost boil down to ‘[This, ie, exposition, answers, relationship, sci-fi] sort of storytelling is inherently kind of empty-calorie so you can’t fault Lost for it.’ To which I respond, those forms of storytelling are only empty-calorie when Lost does it. I’ve seen lots of shows do it. Shows that don’t suck.
East LA Fizz
The east la fizz is the best drink ever construed.
Deleting your Facebook is the new I don't give...
It’s good that you are or are not doing it. I just don’t really care why or how you are or are not doing it. Seriously.
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LCD Soundsystem “Get Innocuous”...
New York City Books
Dear Tumblr,
What is the best book/novel about New York City? Please reply!
LCD Soundsystem Week on iTunes
Murphy sez,
and it was true! If you click-thru, you see this:
ZOMGROFLYCOPTERWTF, right?! Very interesting. Basically, I am not sold on the actual content being improved by digital distribution (eg, picture books [really, tell me the god damn fucking truth—when’s the last time you read a book with pictures in it and was like Ohh hmmm these pictures is fucking great?;...
Mindtroll “Jazz Boyfriend”
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“If I relied on the internet for gaging what’s deplorable to humans I would come...”
– Second Balcony roflwtfbqblmfao!
LCD Soundsystem “All I Want”
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Morning Thought/s
Sometimes I’ll be lazily sweeping the morning’s headlines/tumblr posts/tweets/aggregated links/emails and, you know, there’s this crush of fucking info right? I just skimmed this thing in the CJR written by someone from Jezebel I guess about blogging I guess and it was about being self absorbed I guess and I guess it was pretty good. And this story about the Chinese factory...
“I find it sort of hilarious that everyone is all creaming their pants about The...”
– The Doree Chronicles: Fairweather Friends
This is such a good point! You know, people have always worried that ‘we’ lack a proper understanding of history. Aristotle, the lay inventor of teleology, would have us know a thing’s cause above all else. Cicero, Tacitus, Lucretius, et...
Rolling Stones “Loving Cup” (Alternate...
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Who's, like, ridiculously happy about this place?
I am!
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The National “Apartment Story” (KEXP...
Oh ho; why, yes. I am one of those people who announces his exiles fro and returns to blogging.
"Neither," the libretto to Morty Feldman's...
[Note: This post concludes my May experiment in which I post only poetry. The experiment had several interesting results:
I realized that I don’t actually have to tell you about the new stain on my new jeans that I bought because I went shopping to avoid the gnawing existential/material (really the same thing, though) baggage weighing down my day-to-days at the mall last weekend (in which...
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"Song For The Luddites" by Lord Byron
I.
As the Liberty lads o’er the sea
Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood,
So we, boys, we
Will die fighting, or live free,
And down with all kings but King Ludd!
II.
When the web that we weave is complete,
And the shuttle exchanged for the sword,
We will fling the winding sheet
O’er the despot at our feet,
And dye it deep in the gore he has pour’d.
III....
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"The Best Cigarette" by Billy Collins [gpoyw]
There are many that I miss
having sent my last one out a car window
sparking along the road one night, years ago.
The heralded one, of course:
after sex, the two glowing tips
now the lights of a single ship;
at the end of a long dinner
with more wine to come
and a smoke ring coasting into the chandelier;
or on a white beach,
holding one with fingers still wet from a swim.
How...
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10 Listens Review: Sleigh Bells' Treats →
Guys, I’m sorry. I will totally stop plugging Sleigh Bells from this point right now (right now [right now {right now, shit}]). Point is, I think they’re great. I like to share the things I think are great. And I think you should support the things you think are great.
You can buy the album on iTunes or not—but you should definitely give it a listen. It’s like My Bloody...
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"Sleigh-Bells" by Evelyn Stein
Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle!
Happy winter-time!
Baby’s eyes a-twinkle,
Hear the sleigh-bells chime!
Each one rings a merry
Ting-a-ling-a-ling!
For a sleigh-bell fairy
Hides inside to sing.
See them quake and quiver,
Up and downward tossed,
Seems as if they shiver
In the nipping frost!
Shiver into laughter,
Jolly little elves!
Till we laugh thereafter,
Merry as...
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"To You" by Kenneth Koch
I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut
That will solve a murder case unsolved for years
Because the murderer left it in the snow beside a window
Through which he saw her head, connecting with
Her shoulders by a neck, and laid a red
Roof in her heart. For this we lived a thousand years;
For this we love, and we live because we love, we are not
Inside a bottle, thank goodness! I...
“Kids”
Sleigh Bells
I’m going...
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"The Promotion" by James Tate
I was a dog in my former life, a very good
dog, and, thus, I was promoted to a human being.
I liked being a dog. I worked for a poor farmer
guarding and herding his sheep. Wolves and coyotes
tried to get past me almost every night, and not
once did I lose a sheep. the farmer rewarded me
with good food, food from his table. He may have
been poor, but he ate well. and his children
played...
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"The Material" by Kay Ryan
Whatever is done leaves a hole in the possible, a snip in the gauze, a marble and thimble missing from the immaterial. The laws are cruel on this point. The undone can’t be patched or stretched. The wounds last. The bundles of nothing that are our gift at birth, the lavish trains we trail into our span like vans of seamless promise, like fresh sheets in baskets, are our stock. We must...
