July 2011
“PLEDGE $250 OR MORE
TALK TO ME, IT’LL BE FUN! (on the phone or on skype)...”
– Late to the Pomplamoose on Kickstarter game. (via @nedraggett)
“I have a friend in New York who has a 30-year-old Bentley, aluminum-bodied,...”
– I’m generally a big fan of the #classwar, while secretly enjoying mens fashion blog shit. But I must draw the line at the J Peterman copy for the Swaine Adeney Brigg umbrella. It should not cost $350 (on sale for $208!) to make an extremely durable umbrella. On the other hand, it occurs to me...
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“It felt like Death Valley as stifling heat reached down on Friday and took the...”
– Todd Heisler, NYT, demonstrates his acute ignorance of how Death Valley and/or deserts are.
Further,
With the heat index making it seem like an impossible 112 degrees, this was like the flip side of the two-day blizzard that lashed the East Coast on Christmas weekend, choking the city with...
“The camp has been an important rite of passage for the country’s young budding...”
– As stunned Norwegians grappled with the deadliest attack in the country since World War II…
This is, what, a politically-motivated mass slaughter, right? It doesn’t seem like the shooter just stumbled upon any arbitrary summer camp. I mean, this is like those stupid fucking Harry...
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Wittgenstone
(From Old High Anglo-Austrian, witty and Stein) (1) v. To deny resolutely the existence or importance of something real or significant, on the ground that the grammatical pre-conditions for such a denial do not obtain. “Some think qualia should be quined or fostered – but I think they should be wittgenstoned.” (2) n. Clever but utterly unrelated metaphor used as an argumentative move to silence...
I mean, come on. I’m generally not one to complain about the weather. But god damn. Last week, I think, or the week previous, I ran five miles in 95 degree weather, and that was a poor idea. But simply sitting in my kitchen is making me make Dr Who analogies on Twitter. This is god damn bad.
WatchGPOY: Hot Dog!
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Sonic Screwdriver
|ˈsänik ˈskro͞o drīvər|
(n.) The thing that occurs when Sonic Youth uses a common screwdriver in conjunction with a well-amplified electric guitar to make a third bridge or just flat out noise.
“I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside. My particular combo of...”
– Ladies and gentlemen, Colson Whitehead being all awesome on Grantland. At the same time, he’s describing me.
How’s this for a mondegreen? (Answer: not that great, really.) I always thought the last line of Liz Phair’s “Chopsticks” was “secretly I’m...
Combining two music acts people either love or... →
Ryan Adams on his Facebook covering Vampire Weekend’s “Mansard Roof” all pretty-like.
“A jury in San Francisco acquitted a man accused of possessing magic mushrooms...”
– Harper’s Weekly
This is an awesome illustration of the intersection of Kant and Wittgenstein. The Kantian part is the idealistic constitution of “possession” by means of remembering the magic mushrooms. (In this case, the subjective destruction of the magic mushrooms by means of...
Anonymous asked: Do you have an opinion on Charles Hamilton (the rapper)?
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What Does 'Pop Innovation' Mean? →
Simon Reynolds (blah blah blah) said something about Björk being the last great pop innovator, so ofc. July 4 slow news week, I picked up on that and tried to figure out what that’s supposed to mean.
Pop music, at least pop music now (“now” entailing the consolidation of the channels of distribution and the stranglehold that the Top 40-style singles have on radio airplay,...
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A Writer's Writing By The Numbers: Adam Ross Mr....
3: Times “hair” is described in terms of “shock”: twice as “shock of [______] hair,” and once using “shock” as a transitive verb taking hair as its object.
1: Time a “kissing marathon” is invoked to expand the meaning of the concept of “pointless exertion,” specifically with regard to a husband and wife countenancing each...
Tyler, the Creator reviews Terrence Malick's Tree...
It’s a fucking paradox. No. It’s not. It fucked several things at once like how a triceratops can. With its horns. Nah. I fell asleep during it. It was ok. It was too long.
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“I have friends who read Ayn Rand. I have friends who read Norman Mailer. I have...”
– Young Manhattanite: NEVER GO TO BLOG PARTY: A Guest Post, By Sady Doyle
But why do you have to drag Soulja Boy into this whole New York City Blog Party Scene? He’s basically won at the Internet life already since, in his words, he has “Facebook, 4 million. Twitter, 2 million. Bank...
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“A Baker wears a hat, but this is not our hat. Gentlemen, prepare to wear the...”
– It seems like the very act of self-mythologizing, of maybe even subjectifying, invites or precipitates a decline. A decline from what? It doesn’t have anything to do with the usual po-mo tropes of entropy or plot, but rather because subjectification always already demarcates (limits) that...
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Ding! Hashtag games! Did Noah Baumbach invent...
skybarn:
Hashtag games are a stupid category. D
DING SKIPPY DING
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We're 20% of the way to the goal for "Nights &...
5pmshadowboxers:
I was up till 1:30am last night working on a slick little promo clip for the EP. Trying to make it like the trailer for Buffallo ‘66 if that’s even possible. Finished a couple of mixes for Small Professor’s contribution “Devil’s Pie” aka The D’Angelo Cover as well as the track “Black Cherry” which will be getting the movie mash-up treatment from the homies at 5846 Films.
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Green Ova Underground Produced by Clams Casino,...
Lil B “How I Feel”
And to complete...
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“While it’s certainly clear that Lil B cultivates a bizarro personality, giving...”
– B.Michael on Lil B’s new album click through to read the rest.
Thank you based god.
(via matt-t)
Nice. Thanks for the link Mattt. I’ve been just listening to Lil B a lot, but I feel so ignorant about him since I’ve barely looked into his giant YouTube output and probably most of...
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“Like many restaurants, and particularly those with scenes attached to them that...”
– Mr Sifton reveals himself to know who Lil B is.
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7 Steps to Instant Motivation →
I’ll save you the effort of clicking through:
Step 1: Thank you based god.
Step 2: Thank you based god.
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"Don't Make Me Go Pop The Trunk" by Rainer Maria...
What birds plunge through is not the intimate space
in which you see all forms intensified.
(Out in the Open, you would be denied
your self, would disappear into that vastness.)
Space reaches from us and construes the world:
to know a tree, in its true element,
throw inner space around it, from that pure
abundance in you. Surround it with restraint.
It has no limits....
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Man, screw those analytics philosophers
derrida. A sequence of signs that fails to signify anything beyond itself. From a old French nonsense refrain: “Hey nonny derrida, nonny nonny derrida falala.”
Daniel Dennet et al. think they’re so god damn funny. Talk to me about ‘mental states’ or qualia for a little while so I can fall asleep. Thanks.
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Canada Day is the day that’s supposed to remind me to buy all the fireworks and charcoal and stuff for my Fourth of July party, right?
