July 2009
40 posts
Daft Punk, Tron: Legacy theme (Cryda Luv remix)
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A little known fact among those who little know me is that I didn’t attend college until the ripe young age of 25. We won’t talk about the sundry explanations for this statistical outlier of a personal detail, but suffice it to say that given the stifling self-doubt inspired by the confluence of a quarter-life crisis and a charitably “unusual” biography I fully embraced the...
“Our obsession with fraudulence and authenticity has acquired the configuration...”
– Jon Baskin in “Death is Not the End” for The Point
(via britticisms)
Nancy Sinatra, “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me...
Trivia
Somehow we’re still talking about the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s citizenship, and it’s beginning to look like one of those things that some among us will always be talking about (you know, like how Bill Clinton killed Vince Foster, or how George Bush brought down the World Trade Center). So to distract ourselves from the rage blackouts that occur every time one fringe...
Burial, “In McDonalds”
“We all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have microwave...”
– Fake Steve Jobs, via Daring Fireball.
“If you turn the other cheek only when no one is striking you, you’ve done...”
– Mills Baker
There’s a participle in the Italian language that translates loosely as “waking up on a pristine summer morning and wishing you were elsewhere”. I’ve forgotten the word, but I was reminded of it this morning.
Cribbed from today’s edition of...
“Give it time: capitalism will fill your need for an individualized brand. It’s...”
– Meet The New Fetish, Same As The Old Fetish, via the always invaluable dailymeh.
Good question.
Sis: What's "Distant Lights - Burial?"
Me: It's the song I'm listening to.
Sis: Oh - why did you send it to me?
Me: I didn't.
Sis: So it plays when I chat with you if I have my computer set up to do that, or what?
Me: No, it's just my status message.
Sis: But it's not actual music? Just the name of the song?
Me: Right.
Sis: LAME - who cares?
“In 1962 someone thought we should go to the moon. Seven years later we did. All...”
– I wrote this copy last summer for There’s No Moon Without a Rocket, cited here to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11.
“Catcher In The Rye is one of those books where if you still like it once you...”
– Riaz
My neighbor just stopped by to complain that I was...
“It feels weird to ‘grow older’ as a blog. It’s a lot like ‘growing older’ as a...”
– Carles, HRO.
Imagine that you’ve fallen out of an airplane. You’re plummeting to your death. Your first response is panic: you wonder if you left the oven on; you worry about who’s going to pick up the kids from daycare; you pray you didn’t leave any errant porn in your browser history. But to make matters worse, you realize at some point during the fall that the velocity at which...
Hey guys I just heard this new song that I think...
Armageddon
Her: It's so unbelievable the way all the asteroids only hit major cities.
Me: Wrong--the asteroids hit everywhere.
Her: No they don't. You only see them hitting the Eiffel Tower and New York.
Me: Those are just the only ones they show. Nobody cares if asteroids hit Idaho. It's like flyover states in presidential campaigns.
Her: Hollywood blockbusters just don't do realism.
Me: And you came to this conclusion because of the asteroids.
Her: Yeah.
Me: Not the part when they land a top-secret NASA shuttle on the back of an asteroid? Or the part when Ben Affleck bunny hops the Grand Canyon in a space buggy? Or the part when Bruce Willis cries?
“Philosophy is propagated by the very small number of those who, against all...”
– Alain Badiou, Conditions.
When I was growing up my father worked in the...
