February 2011
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January 2011
On Computers, Profusely | Back to the World →
Just read Chris Randle’s post about Lil B. It’s really good.
Somewhere (2010) – written and directed by Sofia... →
“What separates a human from a light bulb is that a human creates her life. A light bulb is screwed in. If a human is not shown to make her life, but rather, is just this thing that has been screwed into place, there’s nothing to say about that human.
Sofia Coppola’s protagonists are light bulbs.
Charitably, one might consider that Coppola’s simply representing what it looks like when...
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…READING GROUP 1
18. Texts from the Digital Folklore reader. Dennis Knopf – Defriending The Web + Helene Dams – I Think You Got Cats On Your Internet + Olia Lialina – A Vernacular Web + Preface essays by Cory Arcangel, Olia Lialina, Dragan Espenschied 17. R Gerald Nelson – DDDDoomed 16. Jaron Lanier – You Are Not a Gadget 15. Rosalind Krauss – Two Moments From The Post Medium...
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hockeydadrecords asked: is the full destroyer interview you did up anywhere?
Another question from my Destroyer interview
This one is probably my favourite.
I initially found this album really hard to get into just because the instrumentation and production seemed so overwhelmingly cheesy, though after a few listens I was totally hooked and now I think it’s among your best work. On the other hand, almost everyone else I’ve talked to loved it right off the bat, and I’ve seen excitement from people who weren’t already...
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“There have been a growing number of reports of looters/thugs conducting smash...”
– EGYPT: Looting as Counter-Insurgency - Global Guerrillas
severeponyface asked: Saelan,
Butcher Gallery has some pretty complicated and rich programming. I am working on some research for a curatorial project that deals with queer expression and the Internet and they keep coming up. Anyway, how's Toronto? I moved to Detroit a few months ago and I often look south to Canada.
Butcher Gallery has some pretty complicated and rich programming. I am working on some research for a curatorial project that deals with queer expression and the Internet and they keep coming up. Anyway, how's Toronto? I moved to Detroit a few months ago and I often look south to Canada.
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“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera.
(“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl)
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ajohnny asked: I have to say, I'm becoming a fan of Lil B's "multiple personality" series. My favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjQNWhboJ4
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under art, music,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #art, #music, #menswear
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Has anyone else been getting a ton of likes and reblogs from bots lately?
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20yardsoflinen asked: Not a question,
Intrigued by your really negative review and spurred on by cat-like curiosity, I gave Beau's Beer a chance last Saturday. I can't remember exactly how you described it, but for me the beer was nearly undrinkable--far worse than significantly less expensive beers. In fact I tried to send it back, but the bartender declined. Anyway, you were right.
Intrigued by your really negative review and spurred on by cat-like curiosity, I gave Beau's Beer a chance last Saturday. I can't remember exactly how you described it, but for me the beer was nearly undrinkable--far worse than significantly less expensive beers. In fact I tried to send it back, but the bartender declined. Anyway, you were right.
standardgrey asked: Tapered trousers with desert boots: stack or cuff?
The Philosophical Novel →
youmightfindyourself:
By James Ryerson for The NY Times
Can a novelist write philosophically? Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answered with an emphatic no. Iris Murdoch, the longtime Oxford philosopher and author of some two dozen novels treating highbrow themes like consciousness and morality, argued that philosophy and literature were contrary...
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How Artists Must Dress – Paper Monument →
Artists must first of all distinguish themselves from members of the adjacent professional classes typically present at art world events: dealers, critics, curators, and caterers. They must second of all take care not to look like artists. This double negation founds the generative logic of artists’ fashion.
The relationship between an artist’s work and attire should not take the form of a...
“MP: Why did you decide for that song to be the title track?
DB: I wanted there...”
– My interview with Destroyer’s Dan Bejar specifically about the song “Kaputt” is up on NPR’s The Record blog today, the first in a new series of artist interviews called Singled Out. The bit quoted above is an outtake from the interview. Please do read the whole thing! (via perpetua)
I can’t...
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Destroyer's Kaputt named Best New Music on... →
One of my favourite music writers (Mark Richardson) turns in an excellent review of an excellent album. Now I just have to wait for Carl Wilson’s review.