May 2010
1 post
I'm God or No One At All
I am so bitter toward my generation, but I am also aware that I would rather be Lermontov than Pechorin.
Prophet
Since that time when the highest court Had given me the prophet's vision, In eyes of men I always caught The images of sin and treason. Then I began to promulgate The clear love's and truth's commandment: At me all humans threw for that Hard sticks and stones, like the madmen. I put...
April 2010
1 post
Contemplating the internet blogs hipsters etc.
I have to admit that occasionally my internet-induced boredom and insecurity lead me to sites such as lookbook.nu or lookatthisfuckinghipster or whatever. Sometimes I feel really awful about being a twenty-something college student that didn’t receive financial aid - that’s a coded reference to class by the way - reads blogs, and talks about differance (not a spelling error, you close...
December 2009
4 posts
WatchMan, the irony of having Gucci, Soulja Boy, and Waka Flocka on a Scott Storch track. The super-producer of yesteryear (2000?) with the teenager who got rich off FruityLoopz, the dude who made Zaytoven a sought-after producer, and Waka Flocka, whose major single, “O Let’s Do It” consists of drums and keyboard trumpet (the discrepancy of between Waka and Storch is so tremendous...
WatchThis is a two part post: first, Juelz’s new video for “Mixin’ Up the Medicine”; second, Bob Dylan’s video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (above post).
November 2009
11 posts
Taboo...
is a great board game! On the other hand, the designers lose points for not calling it “Metonymy: The Game.” Idiots.
“I wish these [shoe horns] came with the shoes. I’ve got a couple pairs of Alden’s at home and they all need shoe trees. I can be a little silly when it comes to brand cohesion and things working together, so I’m afraid a shoe tree by Alden would be the only kind that would work, and leave my mind at ease. It’s unfortunate as there is nowhere to buy them around here and they cost between...
Interested In: Bergson
I might compile quotes from time to time of people whom I might like to read. Darrel Abel, in his article “Frozen Movement in Light in August” quotes Bergson extensively, as his argument is derived from the application of Bergson to Faulkner’s novel.
It goes without saying that I intend this collage of quotes to be a mirror of my personality, interests, and most importantly, my...
WatchST 2 Lettaz - This is Life / Tryna Get Rich ft. PT Prime Time
WatchAttitude - Stress
Oh shit I am too stoked for this Purgatory tape.
October 2009
16 posts
My friend David is sooooooo funny.
Tonight at dinner, he told me that he had been reading the newspaper earlier today, and found something Obama said particularly disturbing. The quote he referred to is this:
“You have to learn lessons from history. On the other hand, each historical moment is different. You never step into the same river twice. And so Afghanistan is not Vietnam.”
It took me a while to find this quote,...
Mary Magdalene - Ana Karen’a
ana karen’a
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O Bloggers!
“The main problem with a boot like this is fitting it into their daily attire. While these can work with a pair of straight leg jeans, we’d steer clear of the Cheap Monday cuts. You don’t want to look like a hipster who just found workwear through Opening Ceremony…”
- Selectism
Puhleez. Better to be a wealthy yuppie wearing 1500 dollar outfits in order to look like he hung out...
First the pamphlette, now this ballon family. Doesn’t anyone understand parody? The Heene family-particularly Mr. and Mrs., but perhaps also Falcon-clearly intended to call attention to the gross over-saturation of sensationalism in both news outlets and the news-watching public. We’re all the target of the joke! Plus, it’s not really done, because this elaborate parody will...
WatchBoosie video
The Construction of Myth and the Social Imaginary...
Christa Wolf’s Medea offers a cogent critique of monolithic historiography by refiguring and revealing it as a complex mythology underlying the dominant ideological structures of society. The construction of this historical edifice demands the extirpation of heteroglossia through the silencing and marginalization of the Other. Against this, through the fragmenting of the story across multiple...
Soharas Reise und die Vorgänge der Übersetzung
Wenn ich lese auf Deutsch, ich fühle mich etwas isoliert von der Lektüre. Obwohl ich das Wort zwanglos benütze, es scheint mir, dass die Phänomenology von die zwei andere Lesungen, Änglische und Deutsche, verändert ist. Wenn ich eine Deutsche Lektüre lese, begegne ich die Fremde. Die Bedeuting der Wörter sich verwandelt und sie, die dunkel oder düster war, erschrecklich und beängstigend werden....
“In the appreciation of a work of art or an art form, consideration of the...”
– Walter Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator: An Introduction to the Translation of Baudelaire’s Tableux Parisiens.” Illuminations, p. 69.
You Stole
Last night they said the fire had spread
and we said our prayers.
Now the flames are burning me in my bed,
but I just don’t care.
We all go to sleep in the same place,
and in the morning hope that we’re all the same.
We just sit around like broke down cars in the lot,
waiting for repairs.
There it goes.
There you go.
Well, I wish that I was as good as you,
caring and...
BURRR!
I know this is probably inappropriate,...
Stichomythia
“‘O but’ (quoth she) ‘great griefe will not be toulde,
And can more easily be thought, then said.’
‘Right so’ (quoth he) ‘but he, that never would,
Could never: will to might gives greatest aid.’
‘But griefe’ (quoth she) ‘does greater grow displaid,
If then it find not helpe, and breeds despaire.’
‘Despaire...
September 2009
10 posts
The Boy Who Disappeared: Identity and the Exilic...
The original German text of Die Verschollene leaps out, the gaping condition of exile swallowing up the reader into its abyss: Die Ratlosigkeit, Ich habe mich verirrt, unsicher, unbekannt, ausdauer, herauskommen, Weggehen, fahren mussen. For the English reader, these unfamiliar words are shackles, binding his wrists to Karl Rossman’s own, forcing him off the ship into the unsicher and unbekannt:...
“Here I am, before the sea; it is true that it bears no message. But on the...”
– Roland Barthes, Mythologies, “Myth Today”
What beautiful meter! It is poetry! “But on the beach what material/for semiology/flags slogans signals signboards/clothes suntan even/ which are so many messages to me/”
“And so life is reckoned as nothing. Habitualization devours works, clothes,...”
– Viktor Shklovsky, “Art as Technique,” in Russian Formalist Criticism, ed. Lemon and Reis, p. 12
Clothes
Paying exorbitant sums in order to obtain an American worker’s aesthetic is essentially the same as being an actual American worker.
Right?
August 2009
8 posts
WatchPill and Donnis Ballers’ Eve freestyles.
Look, I’m not saying that Cam is in love...
Upcoming projects
Needed to organize them in a particular place…
1. Listen to conservative talk radio (one host? any? if one host, someone popular and iconic or local?) for about two weeks, an hour a day.
2. Watch all of the films, or one film, by a director everyday for a week or two.
3. Work on grandfather story.
4. Revise Ephraim story.
5. Voice recordings for company.
6. Radio show: rap and...
