December 2011
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by something better than current SNL
Waiting for a sketch about the FMK Killer.
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TOP TEN 10'S FROM 2011
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and the best 10 of 2011
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Honorable mention: 10
Objectify Your Vision
Diablo Cody is one of the only writers in Hollywood who actually has a voice and the fact that she’s a woman makes the voice a lot of fun. Young Adult is a caffeine pill that makes your heart hug your brain and this is despite its being shot in a completely forgettable way. Every scene practically screams “don’t remember me” except for the unmistakably Cody bits: Charlize...
if the W. Wing is any good
and I was like well, duh. Probably stop watching around the time Bartlet starts wearing three-piece suits though.
Dirty White Couch →
I hate to say Janebook put me onto something, but I approve of this model.
The Reluctant Writer
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Mina Loy (1916)
Recently published work by modernist Mina Loy from Dalkey Archive
by Mary Borkowski
In a short essay on Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy writes: “You never hear anyone say: ‘I have read such and such a book by Gertrude Stein.’ People say: ‘I have read some Gertrude Stein.’ ” This some bespeaks a lack, a desire to know more, securing her on a tentative, pencilled list of...
This is not the Rumpus, so I can write the occasional Obama thing. I decided I wanted BO to be president whenever it was in 2007 that Michael Chabon told Salon, in effect, “he’s a writer, duh.” Someone else, Ryan Lizza maybe, in the closing days of the election alluded to the same thing: that Obama was a lawyer by trade but a writer by calling. He won a Pulitzer and soon his...
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"jagged with detail, unrepentantly predatory and... →
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You been smoochin' with all of the following:
a) Snuffy
b) Al
c) Leo
d) Little Moe with the gimpy leg
e) Cheeks
f) Bony Bob
g) Cliff
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Ceausescu SNs
The Architect
The Creed-shaper
The Wise Helmsman
The Tallest Mast
The Nimbus of Victory
The Visionary
The Titan
The Son of the Sun
A Danube of Thought
The Genius of the Carpathians
All of these were real. I was too easy on him.
more HBO hagiography
I misspoke, or miswrote as it were, when I said in my last Boardwalk Empire recap that right now, the Boardwalk Empire era, is second-wave HBO. It’s actually fourth. You could argue about overlap and end points and intersubjectivity but it’s actually really clear that the waves are as follows:
first-wave: 1999-2004
Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, Six Feet...
HBO Classic Has A Cold →
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tragedy/statistic
2011 killed three of the worst bad guys, their attendant memes, and a lot of history. Reducing tyrants to derisive doodles is as old as propaganda itself, and the internet obviously didn’t invent propaganda. But the internet is very good at taking extant systems and perfecting them—it’s very Japanese that way. Satisfactorily, both of this year’s dead despots, Quaddafi and...
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earlier tonight the internet readied itself for...
Please, please fall over and break. Now someone freak out.
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Lola
I want to bathe in your tears.
Top 25 Albums
A lonely little music-petunia in the music-onion patch.
1. The Weeknd, House Of Balloons
2. Machinedrum, Room(s)
3. Drake, Take Care
4. Twin Sister, In Heaven
5. Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
6. Rustie, Glass Swords
7. Frank Ocean, Nostalgia/Ultra
8. The Weeknd, Thursday
9. DJ Harvey presents Locussolus, Locussolus
10. Azari & III, s/t
11. Radiohead, The King Of Limbs
12. Kuedo,...
Areas Elaborated
Post-Witchhouse/Gaspar Noé Post-Pop/Hipster House: anything on Not Not Fun/100% Silk or in front of which you insert the modifier “damaged”.
Clay Aiken: The indie version of a nice song being sung by a nice kid.
Left on the Dance Floor: music related to, not defined by, historic dance music—spooky 2-step or avant-garde house. Some overlap w/ 1st area.
The Edge of Bass: from...
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8. Clams Casino, I’m God
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Area: Bedroom/Boardroom
Last one.
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Area: Stay Out Of My Nightmare
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I found myself blurbing my breakfast ingredients.
time to stop reading lists.
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Do Your Worst, Mr. Scorsese
I was under the following impression: The Aviator was minor Scorsese, that despite its estimable prestige it was that worst article of biography, a series of improv-y glances that failed to move the crowd. That impression was wrong. I suspect The Aviator might even be Scorsese’s fifth-best picture.
The recurring crunch of flashbulbs throughout the movie equates to the shotguns fired on the...
