May 2012
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RE: my mother's memories of the days before...
i was talking to my mother about burgers the other night, and she told this story: she used to have a friend who lived right next to a local burger joint—one of the old independent places, before the chains took over—and when they had money to spare, they used to get burgers then go back to said friend’s house to eat them. apparently this friend had super religious parents; the kind who, not...
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RE: celebration rock
not that celebration rock is very complex, but i miss post-nothing’s minimalism. i loved how they could make so little sound so big—like how they took a line as tossed off and unlyrical as “she had wet hair, say what you will, i don’t care, i couldn’t resist it” and sold it as a big chorus; how they were even unself-conscious enough to litter the album with goofs like...
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RE: 'coffy'
“he’s only part of a chain that reaches all the way back to some poor farmer in turkey, or vietnam,” good cop carter explains early in jack hill’s coffy, and it’s this chain that the film is all about. as the narrative exposits it, hill never forgets to sketch in the kind of little details that flesh it out: coffy’s underworld is bristling with minor...
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RE: yuck
yuck were one of those things where when i’d first hear a single it’d be like “oh man, this is awesome, i’m really excited about this” and but then later i’d never really feel compelled to go back to it. which i guess is kind of just how buzz bands go: once you’re done being excited about it there’s not really all that much to just listen to. for a...
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RE: el-p & 'r.a.p. music'
that thing i was talking about a while ago, about young white guys reading rap as innately/primarily about aggression—i’ve always got a bit of that vibe from el-p’s music, particularly his rapping. in his defense, he seems plenty smarter than that, so i wouldn’t put it forth as a formal criticism, but i almost always feel it and it almost always keeps me at arms’ length. and as a sort of...
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RE: highlights from my 5 hour wait at the hospital...
the tv was turned to much for a long time, which led to, on the downside, a seemingly endless stream of “keep your heads up, weird kids in high school” anthems (although i can only recall 2 in any specificity, one of which was some girl i’d never heard of before, the other a k’naan/nelly furtado track—furtado was wearing fingerless gloves in the video, as a show of...
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RE: jack kerouac
i’ll have to read on the road sometime, even if only for historical importance, but everything i hear about it makes it sound really “isnt it awesome & romantic etc etc to be a straight white man who does whatever the fuck he wants” and i feel kinda the same way about that that i do about kfc w/maple syrup, which is that occasionally i can feel drawn to it and if i gave in...
RE: a crooked finger
sometime last night, i noticed that the ring finger on my left hand hurt when i moved it. i’m not sure what happened to it—earlier i had been lifting a big cedar trunk, but i didn’t notice any trauma during, and it didn’t start hurting until hours afterwards. today, the pain gradually receded and the (mild) swelling went down, but it is discernibly crooked; the top half is bent...
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RE: blessed salt
the other day i was at my grandmother’s house and she asked me to get some salt and refill the shaker. i went and got a box of salt, but then she told me that that wasn’t the right salt, and i noticed that it had “blessed apr 3” sharpied on the front. i asked what that was about and she told me to get the other box and she’d explain after. so i got the other box and...
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RE: a sketch of a theory about the strokes
the strokes sound like the kids who think they’re the coolest because they discovered indie rock a little before everyone else, and when they work (so basically is this it) it’s because they’re just young and dumb enough to pull that off as a swagger and then after that it just makes them sound all the more lame and pseudo.
every time i hear about the strokes doing anything i...
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RE: a pun i wish i came up with
from a french dvd cover for karate dog: “le kung fou version jackie chien!”
even with my pun game on an all time high i don’t know if i could pull off a double-decker that nice
Anonymous asked: please for help , dog cannot be tumblr. too much of social justice and none is for dog
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RE: i just listened to the childish gambino verse...
i was having such a good morning, too… :(
(also, re:glover’s technique; this has probably been said before, but he always sounds like an actor to me—every bit of his flow sounds studied and affected. and not even very well: it’s a grab bag of tricks that never coalesces into a style. one of the first childish gambino tracks i heard was “let me dope you”, and...
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Disney vs. IMAX Theaters: RE: important questions... →
disneyvsimaxtheaters:
murkytimeistimeschool:
is it ever explained why jerrica didn’t just tell rio that she’s jem in the first place? am i missing something? i mean, poor rio is dumb and loyal like a dog, surely if she could trust the other girls in the band she could’ve trusted him.
well i think the reason for this, though i haven’t watched my Jem batch yet, would be that she wants to...
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RE: the new chipotle bbq bacon angus at mcdonald's
tried for the first time yesterday—really good. i don’t know whether it’s a canadian thing or what, but here we have crispy onions as opposed to the sliced red onion shown in any of the pictures i’ve found online (much better, imo). the really cool part, though, is the sauce: it’s a light orangey color, looks like either big mac sauce or spicy mayo, but when you taste it...
RE: important questions (about jem & the...
is it ever explained why jerrica didn’t just tell rio that she’s jem in the first place? am i missing something? i mean, poor rio is dumb and loyal like a dog, surely if she could trust the other girls in the band she could’ve trusted him.
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Anonymous asked: I don't understand how you can read all those Patti Smith quotes and still hate her. I mean you're entitled to, but she's actually making an honest and genuine argument and you're just sitting here like "FUCK PATTI SMITH OMG" like it's going to change something she said in the seventies. Calm down a little.
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RE: seriously, fuck patti smith
Reporter: The other day you said that if anyone was qualified to be a nigger, it was Mick Jagger. How is Mick Jagger qualified to be a nigger?
Smith: On our liner notes I redefined the word nigger as being an artist-mutant that was going beyond gender.
Reporter: I didn’t understand how Mick Jagger has suffered like anyone who grew up in Harlem.
Smith: Suffering don’t make you a...
RE: pat sajak again
today a girl tried for the $10,000 but ended up with bankrupt and pat sajak said “i’m sorry, i’m sorry” and it sounded real, probably the most genuine-sounding “sorry” i’ve ever heard from a gameshow host.
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RE: more reasons i don't like patti smith
highlight reel from here:
Remember when Anne Frank was real big and Life was doing all that stuff on Nazi atrocities? Well, I’d read that stuff and I’d get really cracklin’ down there.
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I got along better with the niggers, but they didn’t wanna fuck me either. They kept saying, “You gotta stay a virgin ‘cause if we find the right colored buy...
RE: oh my god SHUT UP
yes, yes—we get it, when you were a kid everything was simpler (for you) and thus more innocent and nowadays the kids are running amuck, and yes, it’s a dreadful shame that we can’t return to that hayes code utopia…but alas, that’s whe way of it! so in the meantime could you please fuck off with yr half-baked us-vs-them nostalgia? though i’m sure this shit has been...
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RE: p-floyd vs. p-funk
a while back—it was during that whole thing where some people apparently didn’t know who the beatles were, or at least didn’t know that paul mccartney was a beatle, and then some people flipped their shit over that and then it spun into a larger discussion of rockism/elitism/classism/the whole web of etc—somebody (i think maybe oldtobegin?) mentioned, i believe in the context of an...
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RE: bazooka joe comics
bazooka joe comics are the square wheels of humor.
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reallyreallyreallytrying:
Hundreds of fine honeys getting down on the dancefloor. Gettin so low they can’t get back up again. A new generation of honeys climbing on top of the original honeys who have begun to calcify. Getting down on them. They too are unable to escape. A terrifying expanse of dancefloor made up of preserved human remains which bulges out towards the bar area and the fire...
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RE: a massive pet peeve
when people call burgers sandwiches. like when you order a big mac and they say, “the combo or just the sandwich?” yes, i know it is a sandwich, but you do not call houses simply “buildings”, you do not call cars and trucks alike simply “vehicles”, you do not call a pickle a cucumber, etc.
this actually makes me angry
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RE: canadian buzzband snark dump
there’s this little cluster of bands—offhand: wolf parade, handsome furs, final fantasy, frog eyes maybe—who are lumped together in my mind under something like “quirky/dreamy canadian folksyish indie-pop” (no idea how fair/accurate that actually is) who i never had even a tinge of interest in. (re:final fantasy specifically; nothing rubs me the wrong way like cutesy, and if he...
RE: i think i have a sense of what pennies taste...
not sure how it would’ve come about, though.
it just strikes me just now that the children of the future—in this country, anyway—may never experience this.
they’re not missing out on much, really.
