February 2011
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January 2011
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I really hope
that giving myself a massive hangover, driving for five hours, and then watching mid-’90s indie-rock videos while cursing the French language is the best way of assuring that I pass my French test tomorrow.
Why can’t there just be essay questions like “how stoned were the guys in Pavement and Yo La Tengo when they made those music videos?” instead of shit about how to make...
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songtime:
“Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch, Never build a building till you’re 50 what kind of life is that?”
Did you study humanities at an architecture/engineering school too, Stephen Malkmus? Or, also like me, do you regret not studying architecture and harbor secret jealousy toward all the architecture students?
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"Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!"
“Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!”
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so awesome.
incorrigible media pirate that I am, while contemplating the downloading of the 1948 Laurence Olivier film version of Hamlet (and act that, for the record, I have not followed through on, police) I came across the following title: “XXX Hamlet - For the Love of Ophelia (1995).” I can’t find any reason for why someone would have made a pornographic adaptation of Hamlet in the...
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weird shit.
I gave a little presentation on James Joyce today, and I had my notes, right. Three pages. But I started my spiel in the middle of page two (so part 1=page 2), then continued on to page three (part 2=page 3), and then went back to page one (part 3=page 1), which of course then continued itself back onto page two, finishing just before the start of part 1. So my notes actually cycled in an infinite...
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("On") [If I were more pretentious] Recognition.
“When the starry sky, a vista of open seas or a stained glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things that I see, hear, or think. The ‘sublime’ object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless...
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AA
I don’t know if I’ve hit rock bottom yet, but today I experienced an epiphany or a moment of clarity. I realized that I don’t have to keep doing what I’ve been doing. It’s been bad for five years, but it started even before that. I don’t have to keep living this way. I don’t have to wake up every morning and lie to myself that everything’s ok. I...
good to know.
That the type of NyQuil which I’ve technically been “abusing” as a sleep aid (although always within the exact recommended dosage and never in combination with alcohol and not daily) is the most commonly abused variety of NyQuil. Probably means I’m safe.
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buncha savages in this town
somebody stole my fucking ashtray. I bought a succulent plant that came in a really cool elephant shaped planter, and when the plant promptly died, I tossed out the soil and held onto it, and have been using it as an ashtray for the last six months. I just went out for a cigarette [where I must have looked like a massive tool, leaning up against the door under my front light reading fucking Gogol]...
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songtime:
I met Ferdinand de Saussure On a night like this On love he said “I’m not so sure I even know what it is No understanding No closure It is a nemesis You can’t use a bulldozer To study orchids” He said… So we don’t know anything You don’t know anything I don’t know anything about love But we are nothing You are nothing I am nothing ...
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angusticollis asked: Hey, uh. I was looking for Panis et Cincenses in Tumblr and there were only 2 posts. You were one of them. I got really excited because a foreign knew it and tortured myself for a long time thinking if I should message you or not, haha. I decided to do it, uh :)
The translation you got is really lousy. I could explain you anything you like.Starting with "the central liebe shop"...
The translation you got is really lousy. I could explain you anything you like.Starting with "the central liebe shop"...
and I quote:
“one day I’ll find the weird, unpleasant creeper-girl of my dreams, and we’ll hang out together in the magazine aisle of CVS at 1am making people uncomfortable.”
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and I quote:
From what may be my favorite movie.
- So who is to say what is moral? - Morality is subjective. - Subjectivity is objective. - Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality. - Not as an essential extension of ontological existence. - Can we not talk about sex so much? - Well murder’s immoral. - Immorality is subjective. - Yes, but subjectivity is objective....
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“Sure, drinking Shirley Temples and going to AA meetings isn’t as exciting as waking up in a ditch with a splitting headache and no clue how you got there.”
incredibly stupid:
http://i.imgur.com/oUOvT.jpg
This probably only appeals to me because the guy in the photo looks a little like a friend of mine, but I think it’s pretty funny anyway, since many of us probably know someone who is at least a little bit “that guy” (or “this guy” maybe).
I think #s 1, 2, 5, 7, and 10 apply pretty well to an old roommate of mine.
Double Entendre:
Is there any way to make the observation that while the Long Island I had last night may have been a bad idea, the Serbian smoked sausage I ate when I got home was a worse one, since now my mouth tastes like salt, without it being a sexual double entendre? I can’t think of a way.
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forgive me for being so exploitative in so many...
I hung out with an incredibly fucked up person tonight. These are some things that he said [some of these are basically paraphrases, sorry]:
after a rant about how he’s a horrible person:
whispered: “I jack off to fucked up shit.”
in front of an elderly couple walking their dogs, loudly: “I love drugs, I love alcohol. But I know I have something to offer. I know...
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I'm not exactly bored.
But I’m creating another reading blog.
Ten Pages of Ulysses (tenpagesofulysses.tumblr.com) is still going on. I have not quit it. I’m actually technically ahead.
But I’m reading Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva now, too. And I’ve been enjoying the Ulysses thing (it’s a good motivator even if nobody’s reading this. In fact,...
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I mean, yeah it sounds weirder in Portuguese, but...
do you really need to weird these lyrics up any?
“I’d like to sing the music lighted with the heat of the sun. I drew the flags high on the slip of the wind. I sent the lions to my neighbors’ backyard. But all the people having dinner inside are very busy with their food. ‘Til they die. I told the man to make of stainless steel a very sharp sword to kill my girlfriend on...
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and I quote from myself for the first time:
“I’m starting to think that academia is like a comic book shop. The employees are all nerds who showed up as customers and wound up hanging around for years. Then they pestered the owner for a job until a few of them got one, and then they spend their careers making minimum wage and lording arcane knowledge over teenagers.”
Lisa: May I have that seat? Comic Book Guy: Yes. If you...
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and I quote:
“men were more open about their comely daughters’ shapely hauches back then.” - on why Leopold Bloom refers to his daughter as a “pert little piece” in Ulysses
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I'm, like, so totally reconsidering the whole...
“Victorious rebels, in fact, seem best at using their tough, cynical rebel-skills to avoid being rebelled against themselves - in other words, they just become better tyrants.”
[actually I seriously am, but ironically I don’t think I can discuss it honestly without hiding behind irony and cynicism.]
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television
reading this thing about tv from twenty (+) years ago. And it’s scary as shit. And I’m really glad I don’t have cable anymore [that’s not a self-righteous (oh-so-Santa-Cruz) “I don’t even have a tv” jibes, just a statement of fact and admission of addiction, since I know that when I have tv, I do watch it even if I don’t want to be watching it....
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and I quote:
“She knows about cubits, she’s not comfortable in her own skin. She’s one of me!”
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I destroy great art:
I’m formulating plans on how to do low-brow American remakes of the major Ealing Comedies and some Billy Wilder films. I will most certainly go to hell for this.
Kind Hearts and Coronets - starring Adam Sandler. With Will Ferrell playing all of the roles that Alec Guinness played in the original. Not sure who should play the love interests. I was thinking Natalie Portman for the priggish...
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Katherine Mansfield
is hot. She can come to my garden party any time.
Sorry, pardon my lewd introduction to my apology to short fiction.
I have always hated short stories. Now I don’t. Short stories were what they made you read in high school, and all due respect to “A&P” I just wasn’t into them for some reason. The only short story collection that I can think of having read was...
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and I quote:
“So he wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it’s compulsory instead of a free-choice option).”
- Salman Rushdie on Thomas Pynchon’s reclusive tendencies in the NY Times review of Vineland.
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pseudo(social)science.
I think that the weird combination of cynicism (my vote doesn’t matter, let’s just watch tv, etc.) and idealism (everything will work itself out, voting for Obama made a difference, etc.) has crippled our/my generation. The people four years younger than us (the ones entering universities right now) are going to eat us alive. They adapted to the totally immersive new technologies from...
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As much as I talked shit
On that Katy Pery song, there is so much that can be said about it, and considering that I recently admitted that that’s my main criteria for enjoying something, I suppose I should give her her due. I used to feel a similar way about hip hop (I really liked what I would now call Jay-Z’s “poetics” when I was sixteen) and I know some people who really enjoy Kanye West as a...
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I'm so sorry
for all these jokes and posts about intellectual stuff that I’ve never even read, but this is seriously fucking hilarious. Go to Amazon. Search for “Epistemology of the Closet” (it’s a book by Eve Sedgwick (who I actually have read some of for once) that someone recommended to me). Then look at the images. Notice how the main one is the actual book cover, and the other two...
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and I quote:
“It’s funny to me how many people in grad school have asked if I took classes with Judith Butler, or whatever, and it’s like, ‘Um, no, I was nineteen and never heard of this person and I was writing a thesis on Japanese modernist poetics, and anyway I probably *still* wouldn’t take a class with them because I don’t work on gender, etc.’”
I...
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Trauma and recovery
Even worse than the multi day bout of depression that Friday night threw me into has been the fact that that Katy Perry song has been stuck in my head continuously. At least it’s better than the Ke$ha song. Yes. I have opinions on these things now. Where can I get some cyanide?
Also, seriously curious if you’re up on this kind of thing, please respond: what is the hip music right now,...
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Ok, Sad-lonely-people...
Would creating a fake Ok-Cupid account for a more overtly fucked up fictional version of myself to see what happens/who responds go beyond “funning with Internet anonymity”/social experiment and into creepy psychopath behavior/fucking with desperate and lonely people? Is this an acceptable kind of postmodern performance art, or just cruel/weird? I’m thinking it would just be...
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and I quote:
“I sleep so well when I’m alone. And I can’t sleep when you’re there. You do something to me, you put a pressure on my head.”
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All of my pretentious things go on this blog:
I had a dream where the cover came off of my copy of the Ecrits and it somehow convinced me to actually read them. What does it mean?
I’m totally entertaining an emperor has no clothes situation.
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and I quote:
“You ok, anything broken?”
“Just my career and my life, so I abuse painkillers and drink too much. Defeatism, I know. Ah, I’m a liberal it’s not your problem.”
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New blog:
I’ve decided to stop pussyfooting and finally read James Joyce’s Ulysses for reals. I’m currently at page 378, which I got to a year and a half ago, and which took me over three years to reach. That’s embarrassing, so I’m starting over at the beginning, using an annotated guide. It could be entertaining, maybe. For example, right now, it’s 9:30 p.m. and...