February 2011
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Freaks and Geeks
While you bitches masturbate, / I am in that Ariel Pink.
That is all.
Double Burn
“You take the ‘wit’ out of ‘un-fuck-wit-able.’”
In which I bring you only the best in Greek...
Big shout out to eush for bringing some Greek science:
Rhianus I:
The Horai and the Graces pour down sweet olive oil on you,
O Butt, and you don’t allow old men to sleep.
Tell me, whose butt are you, blessed one, and which of the boys
do you adorn? And the butt said “Menekrates’.”
“And the butt said,” is my new jawn.
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Gold Digger - Wikipedia →
“Gold Digger” is a song recorded by American rapper Kanye West featuring guest vocals by Jamie Foxx. Released as the second single from West’s second album, Late Registration, “Gold Digger” peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on September 6, 2005, becoming West’s and Foxx’s second number one single. Co-produced with Jon Brion, the song...
“Natural sounds, other than Stravinsky. Stravinsky was brilliant in all ways. He...”
– Captain Beefheart. Likewise. Some of the sounds Stravinksy made, I think I’m thinking of this one sound in particular toward the end of the Finale in Firebird, are just funny and amazing.
“‘Each newcomer feels obliged to do something else, forgetting that if he...”
– Richard Hugo, “Stray Thoughts On Roethke and Teaching”
I may have posted this before; maybe not. But I’m going through the million text files in my Dropbox this morning, and I figured I’d preserve this quotation (hah hah “preserve” something on Tumblr; sand...
The Awl May Have A Piece of Yeezytology, But Is It... →
I am a licensed Yeezytologist, practicing in the United States and abroad. I read for a full D.Phil at the Ghetto University (2010), and wrote my dissertation on the poetics of rhetoric and repetition in “Runaway,” focusing on the Derridean trace embedded in the teleology of the MPC.
My latest paper is on the role of the vaudevillian villain, ie, the eternal struggle among “The...
“Cooper: You have got to hear this song. It’s my new favorite. I can’t stop...”
– Imaginary Conversation with My Son about Neutral Milk Hotel - Pretty Goes with Pretty (via pgwp)
laugh out loud
This is a 100% pro-Yeezy household.
“Sure, the new iPhone might be able to blow you, but can you buy it for $100?”
– What the fuck is Gizmodo smoking lately? (Er, “lately” may not be the right word.) It’s probably a typo, and there’s an amount of self-aware gadget fetishization on all the blogs, but I do not want to countenance the day when my phone fucking blows me. Thanks, no thanks.
Saturday Morning Lights
Writing about pop music is generally kind of exciting; it’s as exciting as painting a room and not waiting around for it to dry, at least. One of the best things is, either because of how the mind works (a la the transcendental aesthetic, shout out Kant), or because that’s just how reality is, if you’re a Platonist, say, pop tends to present you with these neat little...
Pulled Over By The Cops “Authority”
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If you got the new Radiohead from Mediafire today,... →
rachael-maddux:
You can also donate if you did not get the album! Obvs! It’s what I did!
Good idea!
Rape, Murder and SWAG: What you need to know about... →
Praise be to hamtunes for linking to the (the link to) this Salon piece.
I stand by what I wrote about Odd Future last year, namely,
Odd Future is poised to blow up, and the music community can exploit them for the sake of thrills, or they can help nurture their talents.
How the critical community can “help nurture their talents” is maybe the big question. It’s not really the...
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Born This Way Thing →
Speaking of “Born This Way,” I (of course, because before there was writing about Kanye West, there was writing about Lady Gaga) wrote about it for Fuse.
On the one hand, Gaga’s inclusiveness is certainly broad and really quite progressive. On the other hand, she get’s kind of weirdly specific. She’s down with Lebanese folk, but what about Syrians? She’s fine with the...
My Take on Justin Bieber
YES!! Now my unabashed love for Drake feels a bit more vindicated; I no longer like the most-ridiculed Canadian pop star. (For today, at least.)
Chinese room - Wikipedia →
Pertinent to my interests, and tonight’s Jeopardy!, here is a thought experiment by American philosopher John Searle.
It addresses the question: if a machine can convincingly simulate an intelligent conversation, does it necessarily understand? In the experiment, Searle imagines himself in a room acting as a computer by manually executing a program that convincingly simulates the...
“Pure psychology simply knows nothing other than the subjective; to admit into it...”
– Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, p. 259.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a little passage that, I think, tries to explain how the transcendental subject obtains objectively through the world-structures of intersubjective living, viz. loved...
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themonkeysyouordered:
You’d better go in your room — some shit’s about to go down.
I clicked next 100 times and all I got was this hilarious Tumblog.
Re: The Douche College List
Yeah, I gave GQ twenty-six extra pageviews. Afterward, I’m just like wondering a few things.
This small-minded satire, where does it come from? How’d it slink so cowardly into the world? What minor professional setback or spurned romantic advance did it grow from? Who’s doing this? Who’s writing these things? Robbing us of life and lunch hours? Mocking us with the sight...
Levi's designs new skinny jeans called... →
hipsterrunoff:
Are yall gonna buy these skinny jeans, or are they too skinny?
Would u rather just buy girl jeans?
Are skinny jeans still alt?
So that happened…
“Mother Mountain, don’t kill your unborn child. His day is coming.”
– Brite Eyez
“My status is only going to rise now that the world’s supply of 718 is...”
– Fuck you, Anne Kadet!
I got a new cell phone or whatever and it starts with 347. I guess I should just kill myself, now.
Blake/Blake/Blake/Kill: Blake Griffin, James...
F/M/K: James Blake, Jamie Lidell, Juan MacLean
Corollary. To be F/M/K’d:
James Blake, James Blake, Blake Griffin
“When you think about it further, though, James Blake is not necessarily an album...”
– Like many people, I wrote a review of the James Blake album. I kind of like it a lot, but I don’t like dubstep. So don’t expect there to be much about dubstep.
More Like LSD Wait The Rain Is Making A Spectral...
“It may be weird to say about a band that won five Grammys, sold about 10 million...”
– I decided that no one had properly eulogized the White Stripes, and that that was a damn shame.
jakec asked: Why though? What am I missing about HRO?
phiLOLZophy: Myers-Briggs Dating Field Guide →
The BBs at the PhiLOLZophy Journal made a post-behaviourist reading of the Meyers-Briggs archetypes. That sounds kind of interesting, but does it obtain?
philolzophy:
ENFP-
Why you want one: Passionate, unpredictable, absolutely always interesting.
Spoiler Alert: Not loyal to people or ideologies. One day it’s yoga, the next it’s kickboxing. One day it’s Theravada Buddhism, the next it’s...
morninggloria asked: You're in Queens, right? How do you like living there? What are some drawbacks? Positives?
tomoatmeal asked: Oh no! Was my post part of a Louis CK joke? Ouch. Post removed. I'm sure that looks super lame. Regardless, thanks for letting me know. In other news, we have the same favorite album!
Endnotes: David Foster Wallace →
perpetualprocrastination:
Listen to this before the BBC takes it down (6 5 days).
Yep, I listened to this this morning. It was pretty nice to hear the voices of all these people who write about Wallace, like Mark Costello, Bonnie Nadell, and Michael Pietsch.