May 2009
15 posts
“A peculiar claim: how can Roudinesco possibly know whether more psychological...”
– LRB · Elif Batuman: On Complaining
All my love to Elif. Also, her thoughts on Vampire Weekend—lovely.
Watchazizisbored:
Animal Collective KILLING it on Letterman. So good.
(via I Guess I’m Floating and Pitchfork)
“Hey Paul, got anything for the trick-or-treaters?” AH HA.
“While performers like Lil Wayne do indeed send non-musical vocal sounds – gasps,...”
– Frieze Magazine | Archive | Pitch Perfect
For the record, I love Auto-Tune.
Won't recover/don't want to recover
The Amnesty International meeting I attended was supposed to be an ice-cream social, but nobody picked up any ice-cream. So I wrote two letters and listened to the undergraduates talk about their awesome post-grad prospects, and felt an immediate and intense sense of failure! There should have been ice-cream! And socializing! If last year was my great unfeeling epoch of chivalry, bad handjobs and...
Thinly Veiled
How dissatisfying! Not for you, of course—the trip to France will be worth it, obviously; time abroad… what does time abroad do for the soul? —Tempers it, strengthens it through heat and distance and tonguing. (I’m lying, actually; the Old Continent has expensive foods, yes, and crypts to thumb through at every half-stop on the train, but soul? Hadn’t that been bled out in two...
Saw "Wolverine," All Right
Because I don’t follow the X-Men franchise, what appeared before me tonight was more or less exactly what I wanted. Abs of steel, curious hair, explosions. The girl with diamond skin. Cyclops hanging out with his rose-colored glasses. Gambit is a wizard, right? With a staff and purple fire? This origins film was either a very terrible western or a delicious popcorn flick, on par with any...
