January 2011
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“John Travolta said it best — I don’t know if he’s allowing me to say this — but...”
– Harvey Weinstein (via seanfennessey)
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I Don't Want To Do That Thing...
girlboymusic:
jonathanbogart:
mootpoint:
lazybookreviews:
…where you go for nostalgic common-ground to build a relationship with Internet Strangers, but, I was just remembering watching “Square One” on PBS. Wasn’t “Mathnet” the best?
I fucking loved “Mathnet.” I had a mad-crush on George Frankly.
Oh, Mathnet! Pat Tuesday! She was so cool. I loved anything were ladies solved...
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Watchbarthel:
perpetua:
Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill” At long last, a “Rill Rill” video! They pretty much nailed it. Nice bandolier, Alexis!
I love this video in part because it’s a sort of mashup of two of my most favorite blog posts ever: the one about how the video for Kanye’s “Flashing Lights” dramatically and patiently explores a single image rather than just cutting between a bunch of stuff, and...
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“Pussy Fever” Loves “Locker 29” - The Rumpus.net →
This is a really interesting conversation by feminists with different perspectives on sex work! It is smart and respectful.
Like this:
I’m not surprised you have such a humane and complex perspective on the men who were your customers. That’s the funny thing about human beings: the closer we get to them the harder it is to hate them. I understand—or at least can imagine—why some men pay...
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In Which We Put On A Cool Pair Of Sunglasses
mollylambert:
Author Photos, Facebook, & How To Portray Yourself, ML x TR
Molly Lambert has been killing it lately.
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“The King’s Speech doesn’t dwell on George VI’s limited intellectual capacities,...”
– Martin Filler, Hollywood’s Royal Stammer (via nybooks)
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I am already bored of the Oscar Nominations, so I’m armchair casting for the James Mason role in the Beyoncé Star Is Born. (I’m not letting the fact that Clint Eastwood is attached to direct get me down because this prospect is so exciting to me. He’s done music movies before, and no one in Hollywood really makes musicals anymore - except Adam Shankman and Rob Marshall and they...
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How We Melodrama Now: Blue Valentine as Postmodern... →
New post at Pop Culture and Feelings. I manage to contrast Blue Valentine with both Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Social Network.
At first, I felt the film so keenly, was so moved, so easy in linking the film to my own experience, that I felt sure that Blue Valentine must have “worked” in a way deeper than melodrama, must have been somehow more profound. But when I started to...
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meltzer:
“Teenage girls curl up together like newborn puppies, painting one another’s toes as if they were licking one another’s ears. If you sit long enough in any Starbucks, or loiter outside any high school, you will see girls climbing onto one another’s laps, kissing on the lips. They aren’t hitting on each other, not precisely, though they are in a constant state of arousal that borders on...
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“There are many different ways to cook eggs but most of them are purely of...”
– Gentleman’s Dictionary and Usage: Breakfast
(via)
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Alex, calling from across the room: “Why haven’t we seen this movie?”
Me, looking up from book: “What movie?”
Alex: “Hobo With a Shotgun.”
Me: “What’s it about?”
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“Except that Aronofsky misses one of camp’s most essential qualities: its...”
– Dennis Lim gets to the heart of my problem with Black Swan
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iamdonald:
Rolling in the Deep (Jamie xx Shuffle) ft. Childish Gambino - Jamie xx
You can download it by going HERE.
Donald Glover + Adele = relevant to my interests
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“In some ways, the conversation around dead women in Kanye’s video reminds me of...”
– Black Monsters/White Corpses: Kanye’s Racialized Gender Politics | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
Really, really happy Latoya wrote this.
(via champagnecandy)
When I first watched the video, I was really struck by the divide between the dead women being used as props, in...
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I Don't Want To Do That Thing...
lazybookreviews:
…where you go for nostalgic common-ground to build a relationship with Internet Strangers, but, I was just remembering watching “Square One” on PBS. Wasn’t “Mathnet” the best?
I fucking loved “Mathnet.” I had a mad-crush on George Frankly.
Oh, Mathnet! Pat Tuesday! She was so cool. I loved anything were ladies solved mysteries when I was really young, so I was also big on...
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“I mean, while sure, the film “makes no claim to be a documentary or a...”
– I wrote another post about The King’s Speech.
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bmichael:
Lady Gaga “Animal”
Further...
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“What separates a human from a light bulb is that a human creates her life. A...”
– Sheila Heti on Somewhere
I don’t know if I 100% agree, but it’s interesting and well-written.
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“Taste doesn’t work for reason; reason is a skinny underpaid clerk in the office...”
– Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Conor Oberst!
I missed this last week, but it’s pretty wonderful.
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“The only surprising thing about the WikiLeaks revelations is that they contain...”
– Žižek on WikiLeaks
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“So basically what they have done is taken the Actual King of England – a man...”
– When Pop Culture and Feelings Go Wrong: Ideology and The King’s Speech
New post! I was not a fan of The King’s Speech.
“So what does the ice cream cone mean? According to Gucci’s spokesperson Kali...”
– What Does Gucci Mane’s Ice Cream Cone Tattoo Mean? | Rolling Stone Music (via rollingstone)
This answers a lot of my questions.
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We are having a dinner party for a bunch of international students from by boyfriend’s program at the LSE. We decided that everyone should bring their “national dishes.”
Then we had to look up Canadian food on Wikipedia. We don’t think our guests will like pemmican. Or understand caesars.
(Pemmican is a weird dried meat and animal fat uh, concoction mostly renowned for...
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2011 Life Choices I Am Feeling Good About Right...
1. Leggings as pants.
2. Library card!
3. 750words.com
4. Finally figuring out how to get my Yahoo email to work with POP so I don’t have to deal with their stupid interface anymore.
“Some defenders of drag claim it as a badge of gay pride. But most drag isn’t...”
– Onstage/Backstage: Is drag sexist? | WBEZ
Sigh. Oscar Wilde was straight since when?
Also I feel like this is conflating having men dress up as women because it’s funny (men aren’t ladies! they shouldn’t wear high heels!) and more critical queer practices. If you think, like,...
an easy way to embarrass your American friends →
hyenabutter:
osmium:
idontgetrunnershigh:
If only I had any American friends….
Actually, I think I did pretty well. I learned most of these countries when I learned about Operations Desert Shield/Storm in 7th or 8th grade. The “stans” on the other hand, I don’t think I will ever know, except Pakistan.
I’m American, and I got 4 red X’s while doing this. I’m curious if non-Americans can do...
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“A Conversation Between Reverse Shot Editors Over Lunch While Discussing the Year...”
– Reverse Shot’s Two Cents of 2010 | Reverse Shot
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Running Toward the Gunshots: A Few Words About... →
This is so great. I’m not a lapsed Catholic, but my favourite thing I did in high school drama class ever was a scene from Shaw’s Saint Joan where she refuses to wear a dress.
That’s the worst thing, the thing so terrible that the official position of the Catholic church is that this wasimpossible and therefore never actually happened: Toward the end, it wasn’t that nobody believed...