January 2011
15 posts
“Maybe more accurate is to say they look back fondly on their time as friends...”
– Interview with Scott Tennent on Spiderland
“Oedipa resolved to pull in at the next motel she saw, however ugly, stillness...”
– The Crying of Lot 49
thoughts on 2day's alt news
1. Zooey D’s coke eyes are scary.
2. Coachella lineup is so 2k7. Already seen all the good bands anyway.
3. Everyone needs a new scene. Alt culture feels ‘desperate’ 4 a new Jesus/Justice/reason 4 living/style 2 emulate/way to feel sexy and relevant and popular in an alternative and hence rarer/hi-value way. Not sure ‘where the cultural wind is blowing.’
What the f is this Groupon craze about? Doesn’t everyone know that if everyone does something on the same day that thing is going to suck? Are people that bored/desperate to consume that they have to do it on prompt? I don’t get it. There are easier ways to be a rabid consumer on the cheap. For ex, cooking your own food (via memorizing a few fave recipes and keeping the ingredients in...
Like A Rolling Stone →
Today’s featured Wikipedia article… always a good day to revisit this song.
“we don’t have bad taste here, as a rule”
– overheard at breakfast.
Sady Doyle is so, so right.
This point should be obvious to everyone with an iota of feminist consciousness/education/half a semester of WMST101 who’s watched the Assange drama, but I guess we are getting rare these days, sadly.
pyrrhosrepublic:
rosietint:
queenieinmanhattan:
No matter what the actual truth of the Assange case may be, the effect this has on women who are raped is profound, and profoundly...