February 2012
bookbat asked: What is the state of your bedroom/personal space? Clean/messy? Decorated haphazardly or with certain principles in mind? Any particularly interesting objects?
girlboymusic asked: Is there a God?
girlboymusic asked: Fuck your beard, talk to me about your suspenders.
isabelthespy asked: favorite overplayed 60s artist/band? do you read poetry? do you have a favorite poet or poem? what would you want your last meal to be? did you at any point in your life derive any enjoyment from a science class?
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katherinestasaph asked: Talk for a paragraph about something. Anything.
I’m not reblogging anything, but sure, I’ll take questions.
isabelthespy replied to your post: It’s nice, after half a year or more of feeling,…
WHAT BOOK THO GOD YOU TEASE
bookbat replied to your post: It’s nice, after half a year or more of feeling,…
what’s the book??
Two, at the moment. Pointed Roofs (1915) by Dorothy Richardson, recommended for anyone who loves L. M. Montgomery and Virginia Woolf, in that order; and Miss Hargreaves (1940)...
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It’s nice, after half a year or more of feeling, vertiginously, that I was no longer a reader, no longer had the attention span to slip between the covers of a book and lose myself in it, that my synapses had been rerouted by years of clicking and tapping and staring at screens and that I was getting to the age where it would make sense to start thinking of myself as an ex-, that I’d...
The earliest image macros of the moment I can find on Tumblr carry the legend “Fuck You America,” and it’s hard to tell whether those reblogging it endorse or are outraged by the sentiment, although given both the youthfulness and the internationality of Tumblr’s user profile, endorsement is the educated guess. Later macros, more polished and engiffed, merely reproduce...
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Wat a joyful news, miss Mattie,
I feel like me heart gwine burs
Jamaica people colonizin
Englan in reverse. By de hundred, by de tousan
From country and from town,
By de ship-load, by de plane load
Jamica is Englan boun.
Dem a pour out a Jamaica,
Everybody future plan
Is fe get a big-time job
An settle in de mother lan.
What an islan! What a people!
Man an woman, old an young
Jus a...
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The worst part about going through multiple drafts when writing blog posts is that once you’ve finally posted the thing, a week later you can’t remember what you’ve actually told people and what you were just going, at one point, to tell them.
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January 2012
Deconstructing Lana Del Rey →
barthel:
For the record, if you only read one Lana Del Rey piece from the current cycle, it should be this one, by Jessica Hopper. By getting into the album’s context within the major label system, and how that ended up accidentally intersecting with the Internet, I think Jessica does the best job of explaining what’s going on here.
Agreed.
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While I appreciate the compliment, I too would much rather read any non-SWM on a big major pop release than me. And preferably someone who got paid for writing about it; not because money makes for better writing, but because it makes for better justice.
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“Ravi drove a BMW in high school;”
– And there went any shred of sympathy I may have had.
Glossary to my previous post:
Natassia Zolot is the birth name of Kreayshawn, a white rapper from Oakland whose viral video for the song “Gucci Gucci” netted her a major-label record deal in 2011.
Lisa Eversman is the name of a character played by Carrie Brownstein, formerly of the indie-rock band Sleater-Kinney, on the television series Portlandia, which mocks Portland hipsters and artists.
Betty Jean Preske is the birth...
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I NATASSIA ZOLOT
The trouble with accusations of trolling isn’t that they’re inaccurate, it’s that they don’t close the case. Of course she’s trying to provoke a reaction; so is anyone who makes a record, writes an article, or makes eye contact when walking down the street. The question is whether she’s any good at it; and judging by the extense and intensity of the reaction, she would...
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What's your favorite comic?
Well, I was going to subscribe to iTunes Match for $25 a year (getting tired of managing three different devices’ sync folders, thought it would be nice to be able to stream anything on demand), but apparently there’s a 25,000 song limit on music you haven’t bought from iTunes.
I’m not going to front like 25,000 songs isn’t a lot of songs — it is! — but...
cureforbedbugs asked: Watch yr back, Bogart, I'm bearding up, slowly but surely.
girlboymusic asked: Something something a question about your beard, obviously. I don't know. I'll try and think of something good.
bwall05 asked: What would your 33 1/3 pitch be? (Also, congrats on EMP!)
softcommunication asked: You've probably answered this already (if so direct me to it) but why Latin music?
It's one of those days. Queries, messages, richly... →
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Posting this to remind myself to go back to it,... →
Woah, woah, woah, Fantagraphics. “The most well-respected cartoonist of all time”? I mean, sure, subculture-galvanizing, barrier-demolishing, graphically and thematically adventurous — I wouldn’t even quibble if you called him the greatest cartoonist of all time, because that’s a ridiculous thing to call anyone, and Barks and Kirby and Tezuka and Hergé and Herriman...
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Shit just got real, yo. →
Okay real quick
novazembla:
I consider myself a depression lifer. I find it very hard to believe that there will ever be a time that depression is not a factor in my life at all, not even as a dormant tendency. Is this just a depression-induced “feeling of hopelessness”? Because I don’t feel particularly down about it. Often it’s just something I have to keep an eye on, like someone with diabetes remembering to...