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This is the best if you just start playing it when someone else...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:14:12 -0800

This is the best if you just start playing it when someone else is in the room and they aren’t expecting the R. Kelly attack.

barthel:

R. Kelly - “Pregnant” (featuring Tyrese, Robin Thicke, and The-Dream)

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:26:00 -0800

7 popular chick flicks that secretly hate women

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:26:29 -0800

I thought it was a truth universally acknowledged that chick flicks hate women most of all.

rachelhills:

He’s Just Not That Into You seems like a glaring omission here, but other than that, a fun article.

Even though I maintain that tights are not pants, I pretty much...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:17:30 -0800

Even though I maintain that tights are not pants, I pretty much want this entire outfit.

sarazucker:

this photo served as a realization that i need more color in my wardrobe. not a lot, that would be frightening, but a splash would be sufficient. (via styleclicker)

Gaga was really good too. I really wish I hadn’t given up...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:13:42 -0800

Gaga was really good too. I really wish I hadn’t given up 3 hours of my life basically to watch those two performances though.

fuckyeahladygaga:

2009 American Music Awards

OMG, that was dirty. I guess Adam Lambert never really had...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:12:04 -0800

OMG, that was dirty. I guess Adam Lambert never really had Kansas anyway.

"The women who have succumbed to “Twilight” have heard all of these arguments before...."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0800

“The women who have succumbed to “Twilight” have heard all of these arguments before. They wrote those arguments. This self-awareness is what makes the experience of loving “Twilight” a conflicting one, as if they had all been taught proper skin-care routines but chose instead to rub their faces with a big pizza every night.”

- Women living in ‘Twilight’ will not apologize for loving Edward, Bella and Jacob - washingtonpost.com

This article really tries to get to the heart of the, like, knowing something is bad but kind of finding utterly engrossing anyway thing of Twilight, but it mostly stays away from the core of what it is about Twilight that changes people’s minds.

NYTimes.com: Parents Are Borrowing From Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:13:57 -0800

NYTimes.com: Parents Are Borrowing From Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer:

Also, wasn’t this an episode of South Park?

justsayjolie:

Oh wow, the Times trend piece on how to train family members as one would an animal is due up for another go already?

So press record, I’ll let you film mea

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:40:47 -0800

So press record, I’ll let you film mea:

I have a post in my head about how amazing Gossip Girl was tonight, and a Glee post I have been trying and failing to write for months now, but I am not in a position to write anything coherent…

"I often hear people defending their “guilty pleasure” habit of subscribing to awful blogs or reading..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:54:38 -0800

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I often hear people defending their “guilty pleasure” habit of subscribing to awful blogs or reading tabloids or watching bad TV with phrases like “It’s good sometimes” or “It’s not that bad” or “I have to follow what’s happening.”

There’s only so much time in the day, and only so many days in our lives. There’s enough great work out there that you don’t need to waste any time with anything that isn’t great.

”

- Marco.org:

Agreed! (Mostly! Obviously Marco isn’t against reading what you have to read for your day job. Or your good job, even. I read, say, TechCrunch and other not-Shakespeare-but-zeitgeisty blogs because I’m writing a story about tech culture and have a legit reason to want to accurately represent that culture. But:) The worst habit, often accidentally encouraged by awesome tools like Tumblr and Twitter, is to add and add and add, and never delete. Even bad TV is more defensible than bad RSS feeds, because you must actually like the show enough to make some effort to watch it. It doesn’t just pile up for you automatically, unless you watch all your TV on Hulu.

So do yourself a favor and unsubscribe from something today. (Even if it’s me. I won’t notice!)

Then go read “Infinite Jest” or watch “The Seventh Seal” or one of those other things that seems awful until you go do it and then it’s very satisfying, moment-to-moment.

(via nickdouglas)

I hate this attitude. It’s this attitude that leads to signifiers of importance grafted onto art in order to make it palatable to people who think that culture should be medicinal; this attitude that leads people to think that importance lies always somewhere outside and not in what you do and what you like; this attitude that lets us dismiss difficult or weird or bad or stupid or cheesy or campy art because it’s not making it easy for you, not throwing its seriousness in your face so you can feel good about spending you precious goddamn time with it. Art or culture or entertainment or whatever you want to call it is about pleasure and connection as much as it is about transcendence, and the mere fact that something you think is “bad” is able to hold your attention is at least as interesting as anything “great.”

Instead of dropping your guilty pleasures, think more about why you like them. Don’t settle for easy answers, and don’t assume it’s because there’s something wrong with you, as this quote does. I would much rather have someone say something intelligent about why they like gossip blogs or Bridezillas (say!), something that admits the validity of pleasure as a prerequisite to analysis, than to hear someone talk about how they read this really important book and how profound it is. It’s the guilty, not the pleasure, that’s the problem here.

(via barthel)

I’m on the all-pleasure, no-guilt front myself. For me, this doesn’t really mean that “high” culture does not offer pleasure — for instance, I found Infinite Jest to be joyous and compelling, not like work at all — but it doesn’t mean that “low” culture is not also just as complex and just as rewarding. I was going to say more, but I’ve gotta go, Gossip Girl is almost on.

Oh. My. God. I feel like I say this a lot about music videos and...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:25:14 -0800

Oh. My. God. I feel like I say this a lot about music videos and commercials and TV shows and songs and whatever, but you could write a dissertation on this. More than that, I want to write my dissertation on it. Beyonce. Lady Gaga. Men with camera heads. Pin-up girls with guns. In day-glo colours. Me, dying of amazing.

via fuckyeahladygaga

This is my 2012 post

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:19:03 -0800

This is my 2012 post:

NB: This will have spoilers.

So 2012 has a metacritic score of 5.1 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 39%, but I would not let that dissuade you if you like things that blow up and…

Twilight may normalize overwrought relationships with vampires, professor says

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:41:29 -0800

Twilight may normalize overwrought relationships with vampires, professor says:

Real Vancouver Sun story:

VICTORIA — With the second instalment of the Twilight vampire movies about to open, a University of Victoria professor is warning parents and young Twilight…

itsjanna: Nerd. Also, Geordi LaForge is Next Generation, not...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:15:45 -0800

itsjanna:

Nerd. Also, Geordi LaForge is Next Generation, not Voyager. Yeah, I know, pot calling kettle black, glass houses, etc.

apaperknife:

Ugg, I was so into Star Trek Voyager.

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via WSJ

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:16:46 -0800

via WSJ

Teardrops on my guitar

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:29:22 -0800

Teardrops on my guitar:

I am just having a…bad day. Nothing actually bad, just like annoying first world problems. A Taylor Swift bad day, not a Bob Dylan bad day. Plans falling through, misunderstandings, going to like…

"We will be, laments Parker in her obligatory chapter on Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, so..."

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:03:16 -0800

“We will be, laments Parker in her obligatory chapter on Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, so “awash in vaginaism,” that we are nothing beyond “vaginas on the plain seeking out other vaginas with which to hold hands and gaze unlongingly into the silky night of a manless moon.””

- Constant Comment | The American Prospect

I don’t really agree with Kathleen Parker at all, but that is a good line.

Reblogging for two reasons: 1. Gaga is my favourite and Gossip...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:40:39 -0800

Reblogging for two reasons:

1. Gaga is my favourite and Gossip Girl is also my favourite, so I really could not be more excited about this. It’s like when Jon Hamm was on 30 Rock.

2. Look at the veil her dancer is wearing! It looks like the net-face-veils the ballerinas are wearing in “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend.”

fuckyeahladygaga:

GaGa on Gossip Girl

This is actually pretty sad news for the weird sex and snowshoes...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:09:00 -0800

This is actually pretty sad news for the weird sex and snowshoes segment of the Canadian film industry, as I think it’s going to make it harder to get the government to fund your Exotica-type project:

Many English-Canadian films in recent years have focuses on fairly dark, disturbing themes but those won’t be the kind of films financed in this joint CBC-Telefilm program.

“The films will be ones that are suitable for our Sunday night slot, so more family fare,” Keay said.

alexbalk:

I’m sorry, I find this headline hysterical. It doesn’t even matter what it’s about. It just is.

Northern Lights! According to Wikipedia, it took 6 people to...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:44:01 -0800

Northern Lights! According to Wikipedia, it took 6 people to write this song.

thatsimportant:

Blindingly important 1985 Canadian superstar charity song featuring Anne Murray, Corey Hart and Joni Mitchell’s hair.

[Thank you Tara!]