January 2011
45 posts
King Night
Salem
Salem - King Night
Fables of the Reconstruction
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt - Fables of the Reconstruction (with Michael Stipe)
further ramblings on my least favorite word, courtesy of avclub.com
I think skepticism has a lot in common with white blood cells: The proper amount guards against disease, but too much starts killing healthy tissue. And that’s where “meh” comes in. “Meh” is easy. “Meh” can be applied to anything. “Meh” tells me nothing. It’s dismissive without being insightful. This exchange tells me nothing:
“Hey, what did you think of [last night’s episode of 30 Rock / the new Jonathan Franzen novel / Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs]?”
“Meh.”
Actually, no, it does say something. It says the person on the “meh” end of the exchange hasn’t engaged with the subject at all. “Meh” should be reserved for objects of absolute mediocrity, which are relatively rare in my experience. Why not take a moment to translate “meh” into “I didn’t think it was that great. I thought the main plot with Jack and Liz seemed a bit familiar, and the Tracy subplot felt forced, though I think Elizabeth Banks has been a nice addition.” It isn’t hard.
“…touch things with consideration and they will be yours; you will own them; they will move or stay still or move for you; they will lie back and part their legs and yield up their innermost seams to you.”
—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via throwherinthewater)
Astronaut
Luna
send you a pentagram. feed you diazepam.
(luna - astronaut)
Afromerica
Continent Number Six
Continent Number Six - Afromerica. Sampled by Kanye for his song “Power.” This version? Well, I could just dance to it all the day long.
Surgery
The Chap
The Chap - Surgery.
hello, hello. blood?
“I had understood myself for years as basically vertical, an odd forked stalk of stuff and blood. I felt denser now; I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.”
-DFW / IJ
“You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the army. My tax dollars still go to fund it, though (in fact about 21 cents of each of my tax dollars). My tax dollars also go to keep prisoners on death row even though I think the death penalty is morally wrong. My tax dollars fund Guantanamo and Bagram, extraordinary rendition, and Jim DeMint’s salary, all of which I find disgusting. So why is abortion, a legal medical procedure, so remarkably different that we have to go overboard making sure tax dollars don’t fund it?”
—Sarah Jaffe, via 800 reblogs
Break It Up
Patti Smith
“Break It Up.”
Reading “Just Kids” has made me a little obsessed with Patti Smith.
