December 2010
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“The problem with Black Swan is not that it “sees everything in quotation...”
– Is Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky’s tawdry thriller, a work of camp? - By Dennis Lim - Slate Magazine
This is relevant to my interests. I haven’t seen Black Swan yet because it isn’t out in the UK yet, so I can’t have an opinion about Lim’s reading yet.
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“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres...”
– The death of universities | Terry Eagleton | Comment is free | The Guardian
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I wrote a post at Pop Culture and Feelings about Kanye West and authenticity. Just in case enough hasn’t been written about that album. There are a lot of square quotes involved.
“My own answer to what the humanities are for is simple: They should help us to...”
– Alain de Botton on Higher Education - WSJ.com
I am pretty conflicted about this. On the one had, I would not trust Tolstoy of all people to teach me about marriage, for so many different reasons. A big part of the reason we read literary works, especially older ones that are now considered...
“Foucault found his theories embodied, sometimes unconvincingly, in writers such...”
– LRB · Eliot Weinberger · ‘Damn right,’ I said
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“Joni Mitchell later spoke to writer Iain Blair about the recording experience:...”
– Tears Are Not Enough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alex and were trying to figure out who the one not-instantly-recognizable person on the first verse was (it was Dan Hill, of “Sometimes When We Touch,” which I surprised Alex by knowing A LOT of words to). Then we read this.
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THERE IS A WHOLE YOUTUBE CHANNEL OF ONLY COVERS OF... →
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lowendtheory:
“It’s pretty much the whitest song to ever have the word “soul” in it, and that includes Death Cab’s “Soul Meets Body.” There is less soul in the entirety of Train than in the palest single member of Collective Soul. “Hey, Soul Sister” is soul for people who refer to peanut butter and jelly as “soul food.” It makes the California Raisins look like the second coming of Sly and the...
“So as to avoid sounding conspiratorial, let me be clear about who is...”
– Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Music Review | Slant Magazine
iamdonald:
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“Rather than an incidental setting, this book argues that the apartment functions...”
– Pamela Robertson Wojcik on her book The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 197
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Watchwarmgun:
Ryan Gosling reading his own meme. The internet is so important.
AOL NEWS: Julian Assange arrested by police in... →
sadydoyle:
Julian Assange was arrested today by British police in connection with a Swedish sex crimes investigation — one of many legal, financial and security challenges faced by the WikiLeaks founder. Scotland Yard said the 39-year-old Australian voluntarily turned up at a London police station at 9:30 a.m. and was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant. Assange is expected to appear at...
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“Black Swan dramatizes that surrender and its overpowering side effects, and it...”
– David Edelstein on ‘Black Swan’ and ‘The Nutcracker in 3D’ — New York Magazine Movie Review
If I didn’t want to see Black Swan already, this would make me.
“The fastest way I can explain it is that there is this brilliant neuroscientist...”
– “The Arts Are Like An External Immune System” | The Awl
Lynda Barry is awesome.
(via champagnecandy)
“Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are...”
– Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto (via zuky)
Ladies and gentleman if you ever EVER want to doub’t what being too asian means when folks say it.
THIS IS TEH MAYOR OF TORONTO
post racial idealistic canada my shiny metal BUTT
I wanna say sorry you have to go through this and I will but sweet merry THE...
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In which I argue that Roman Polanski is both a... →