December 2011
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“The thing is, I remember being 19 and 20 and having crushes on these older...”
– Of literary seductresses and confessionalism
I wrote a thing about Adrien Brody. I’m sorry internet, I just needed to get it out of my head.
theremixbaby:
mootpoint answered your question:more like ryan lol’connell amirite?
I don’t blog about it, but I do it and one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to just stop hate reading.
Yeah, to be honest, I don’t really *get* hate reading, but I’m not trying to judge anyone who gets something out of it, whatever that may be (amusement? self-righteous anger? lulz? not sure!). Nor am I trying to...
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"strategic confession"
militantmaudlinist:
Chris Kraus: And that’s why this book is a strategic confession. I’m very drawn to the use of the first person. When I started the Native Agents series of books for Semiotext(e) seven years ago, it was to publish the kind of writing that I liked — and that writing was entirely in the first person. And yet it was not an introspective, psychoanalytic “I.” It was an “I” that...
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Afsun Qureshi: How the Brits stole Christmas —... →
wrenkin:
This is stupid, but the most frustrating thing is that after a decade in the UK the author misused “bob”.
Also in 16 months I have never heard anyone say “Bugger off”.
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Xmas Eve in the City:
- Made my favourite cookies.
- Did fancy eggnog. (We doubled the bourbon and added a bit of vanilla.)
- Have a duck roasting.
- We’ve got red cabbage braising.
- We also have: potted Stilton, venison pate, sausage rolls, little phyllo tarts, toad in the hole, mini mince pies, and an assortment of German ginger cookies.
- Plus champagne, cava, white wine, red wine,...
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“But it’s an impossible role in an impossible movie that has no reason for being...”
– ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ Review - NYTimes.com
‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ : 9/11 :: ‘Life is Beautiful’ : the Holocaust?
(via doree)
This reminds me of David Mamet’s essay about Schindler’s List, “The Jew for Export” (I know Mamet is completely repellant these...
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Notes On "Camp" →
feministfilm:
sl33pcr33p:
saltmarshhag:
sonofapritch:
chikuwaq:
By Susan Sontag, 1964.
I don’t have any particular affinity or strong feeling for Sontag one way or the other, but because it’s a seminal text I feel compelled to reblog this. I think #23 is my favorite.
55. Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation - not judgment. Camp is generous. It wants to...
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“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn’t about Sept. 11. It’s...”
– ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ With Tom Hanks - Review - NYTimes.com
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Film Studies For Free: FSFF's Favourite Online... →
feministfilm:
mootpoint:
So much good stuff here!
This is really useful and interesting. Also, I also would like to recommend the Directory of Open Access Journals, and especially the journals Genders, Outskirts, The Scholar & Feminist Online, Thirdspace, Visual Culture & Gender, n.paradoxa, (for gender studies), Cinema, Excursions, Film-Philosophy, The Irish Journal of Gothic and...
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Unbest: Susannah Young on EMA’s Past Life Martyred... →
unbest:
Susannah Young on EMA’s Past Life Martyred Saints (2011) (iTunes, Rdio, Spotify)
Totally out of step with Unbest’s mission, my thoughts for this piece actually stemmed from writing my year-end album blurb assignments for Prefixmag. This year, I totally won the lottery and got…
This is really great. I don’t think I listened to enough new music to competently write a...
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In the Internet age, the model for literary... →
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“His triumphal miserablism, which many critics find innovative, reads to me as...”
– Best Music 2011: Drake’s just a classic passive-aggressive Canadian. - Slate Magazine
Carl Wilson on Drake. mootpoint.tumblr.com is a pro-Drake blog, but there’s some truth in this. This is a flaw I understand.
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Film Studies For Free: FSFF's Favourite Online... →
So much good stuff here!
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super must-read on feminist archiving at...
karaj:
(lau-fi: dandyprof)
Feministing interviews Kate Eichhorn: ”Women of my generation have always been deeply committed to imagining what might be gained by returning, if only provisionally, to the partially completed social transformations of the 1970s and 1980s, and feminism’s ‘scrap heap’ is one site among many where this work is being carried out. That’s what attracts me to the...
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Wham!'s "Last Christmas" Is the Most Horrible... →
a) I disagree with this, “Last Christmas” is amazing. Last year my partner and I listened to dozens of covers on youtube. You really start to see how good a singer George Michael is when you hear others mangle it.
b) I really feel like I need to talk about the version that is shooting for Christmas number 1 in the UK, by the cast of the Hills-meets-Jersey Shore show The Only Way Is...
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“Woman-hatred may be too active a term here. (Except when you’re talking about...”
– Ann Powers, author of the essay most used to justify uncritically loving Odd Future (via bmichael)
I noticed this too!
“There’s one other aspect to the adulation of Hitchens that’s quite revealing....”
– Greenwald (and, the more interesting thinker, Bady) is spot on about this. (via michelledean)
ayup. the whole thing is really worth a read but i especially appreciated the acknowledgment that certain of his worst views were “not ancillary to his writings but central to them.”
(via isabelthespy)
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Film Comment’s Best Released Films of 2011 →
Normally I try not to stress about “best” lists since I officially don’t really care about these things, but why is Midnight in Paris doing so well on year-end lists? It’s in Ebert’s top 10. Richard Brody put it at 15th best movie of the year for the New Yorker. It got a Golden Globe nomination. (In the comedy category, but still.) It’s 18 here, ahead of Drive,...
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power
sapphelle:
Living in the earth-deposits of our history Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old cure for fever or melancholy a tonic for living on this earth in the winters of this climate Today I was reading about Marie Curie: she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness her body bombarded for...
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“To quote the comment from Amanda above: “Yes, the Ryan Gosling meme has...”
– Creator of Film Studies Ryan Gosling responds to the The Ryan Gosling Meme Has Jumped the Shark post I linked to the other day. SO META.
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“But Feminist Ryan Gosling is doing more than just placing feminist theory next...”
– The Ryan Gosling Meme Has Jumped the Shark | Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style
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Same As It Ever Was →
maura:
marathonpacks:
via Keith Harris
was hoping to see more results like this:
Andy Hutchins: If I ran Pitchfork, I would have put Super Bass #1. maura johnston: ahead of fucking holocene at last maura johnston: oh well maura johnston: can’t complain
AND YET.
Sometimes I forget that everyone doesn’t agree that Nicki Minaj is amazing.
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“I think it makes much more sense that this isn’t about a real relationship at...”
– Is Robyn’s Call Your Girlfriend About An Imaginary Affair?
This is more or less my read on it.
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“The three films show an increasing willingness to express the subjectivity of...”
– Women, Sex and Death — From Vampires to Psychoanalysis | Culture | AlterNet
(via champagnecandy, her wonderful commentary excised, but it’s worth reading)
Very into this! Have been thinking a lot about women and “madness” (which I’m using in a vague literary sense here and...
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Child-free on TV →
feministfilm:
greengrey:
saraissure:
Interesting.
Reblogging for later reading.
When I read the article’s subtitle, “How I Met Your Mother and Whitney demonstrate the culture’s mixed feelings on a babyless life,” I was like, “Wait, could there really be an example of Whitney being okay for feminism?”
But no, there can’t:
Whitney is meant to be an independent woman, one who gets joy...
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more lana del rey -- hey guess what? don draper is...
theremixbaby:
If I see one more goddamn Lana Del Rey review in which a man claims that her music is an expression of modern women wishing that xbox-loving boys would man-up and be more like Don Draper I am seriously going to slap someone. At this point, I have encountered multiple pieces about LDR that reference Don Draper. Have you dumb fucks even watched Mad Men? Don Draper eventually makes...
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“Michael Hardt: To use a limited metaphor, if you think about love as muscles,...”
– No One is Sovereign in Love: A Conversation Between Lauren Berlant and Michael Hardt | no more potlucks
This conversation has been going around my corner of tumblr a lot, but I finally got around to reading through it.
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“I surprised myself by turning to him and shouting. “It’s a SLAVE MENTALITY. IT’S...”
– I can’t stop thinking about this essay at Emily Magazine, written in response to this story about a young woman having sex with an internet writer. I read it this morning and have been turning it around in my mind all day.
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congratulations to all the best music writing... →
maura:
and thanks to matos for finding all the links!
Fun times! So much web writing represented!
But mostly, so, so excited to remember this NYTimes Q&A with Das Racist. “Deborah, chill.”
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“I rent my apartment in Brooklyn, but I don’t have a home. My parents are still...”
– for the record, this is still my favorite thing Jonathan Ames has ever written. (via synecdoche)