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[May. 19th, 2008|11:07 am] |
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
© Henny Youngman |
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| A Softer World: May 14th |
[May. 14th, 2008|04:56 pm] |
http://www.asofterworld.com
we hope you like it. it has a picture of Kate Beaton in it, of all god damn things. |
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| Tämä olla hassunhauska sivusto |
[May. 14th, 2008|01:03 am] |
Things younger than...
Tämän lisäksi elämässäni juuri nyt:
* Uusi työpaikka kulttuurikahvila Hertassa
* Kesäkuusta lähtien uusi kämppä Pikilinnan kommuunissa. Kyllä, the kommuunissa.
* Hölmösti pettynyt sydän
* Ystävät!
* Yllätykset!
* Kassialman elämä kesäkuuhun asti, kun ei jaksa ihan joka päivä elää bussien armoilla.
* täydellinen rahattomuus, mutta entäs sitten
* Berliini, joka järkytti mutta vahvisti
* Telakka, edelleen (: |
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| A Softer World: May 12th |
[May. 12th, 2008|07:43 pm] |
There is a new comic today:
http://www.asofterworld.com
I am watching Buffy the Vampire slayer. I tried to give it a chance, a couple years ago. I had enjoyed Firefly, and thought it would be okay, but I hated the first two seasons. Two seasons seemed like more than enough of a chance to give a show. I couldn't stand the cheesy rubber masks. There were good moments, but it just didn't feel worth watching. But then, recently, with a friend, I started season three. It was dark and funny and sometimes sad and funny and it was good. I couldn't understand it. And now I am watching it all. I used to go on rants about how dumb it was and now I want all seven seasons and I wish there were more than twenty episodes in a season and I want to just hold Seth Green's hand all day, which I wanted to do before I should admit, and I... I have failed myself, and all of you. Anyway, you should buy a shirt so I can afford the box set! |
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| Of life and vermin |
[May. 9th, 2008|06:24 pm] |
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One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. -- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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| I'm half dead and never felt more alive. |
[May. 6th, 2008|08:02 pm] |
The Roots have a new album, called Rising Down and the songs they have up from it are harsh and excellent I think. Listen to Get Busy. That's the one that grabbed me first. And 75 Bars. The beats on these songs are so good. I don't have the language for talking about beats, but the drums are so spare and the synth stuff is so harsh. Stripped down but still full? I love the live feeling instrumentation and the really naturally flow.
I am gonna grab this album, and it will maybe replace the Lupe Fiasco that I've been playing over and over. I don't like all the Lupe songs, but man, some of them just work. Also, I appreciate that he's a big nerd.
I need more new music, it doesn't have to be rap. I like pretty much everything. What have you been listening to this year? What's new and perfect and you couldn't live without it? |
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| A Softer World: May 5 |
[May. 5th, 2008|08:15 pm] |
There's a new comic, about how sometimes the media is not hysterical ENOUGH.
http://www.asofterworld.com
Here are some candy reviews.
Chocolate Mix Skittles: Bullshit. So gross. The skittles consistency was never meant for chocolate flavours. I expected something like the chocolate jelly belly flavour, but it was like finding chunks in your old curdled chocolate milk. Tough, disgusting chunks of god knows what.
Carnival Flavours Skittles: okay, except for their flavour choices. Bubble Gum and Cotton Candy? taste the exact same. Green slushie though is such a brilliant idea for a flavour, and they pull it off okay. Red licorice, though? What does that even taste like? Like an almost flavourless skittle, it turns out. This is a "mixed bag"
Wild Cherry M&Ms: Fucking awesome. So good. A nice flavour that isn't so overwhelming that you can't eat a whole bag. Subtle and tasty and excellent.
POP ROCKS choclate bar: Pop rocks in chocolate! So good. It's kind of cheap chocolate, though. But the pop rocks are great. mucky melty chocolate mouth with weird bubbling panic in it. It's like remembering that life is infinitely weird in candy form.
Have you tried any new candies? It seems like there's an insane new flavour of things every day. I had rocky road Oh Henry today, but it's not worth discussing. |
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[May. 5th, 2008|12:07 pm] |
Here is an article on super villain style by Derek McCormack, who wrote Dark Rides, and the upcoming Show That Smells, and he also happens to be the Post's fashion writer. I linked his articles on Kathy Acker and Sex Perfumes before, I think.
Well, here is his super villain article.
An excerpt:
In Gay New York, George Chauncey claims that a man who wore a green suit in New York in the 1920s would be beaten up for being a fairy. By then, though, purple had supplanted green as the pre-eminent sign of gay sodomy. Mauve, lavender, lilac - the Joker's suit changes colour from story to story, but it stays within a purple palette. It's a provocation, a prank he pulls on the good, God-fearing citizens of Gotham. The Joker plays Schiaparelli to Batman's Chanel: He loves to shock, and he does it with the pinkest possible shades.
For Batman, colour is practical. Besides his basic black batsuit, he has a white one, for catching criminals in snowstorms; an orange one, for catching criminals in burning buildings; and a gold one whose use is never completely clear. For catching criminals in jewellery stores? Colour for colour's sake signals trouble for the Caped Crusader. In The Rainbow Batman, Robin realizes that danger is at hand when Batman slips into a pink batsuit. Robin: "But Batman, last night you wore the green costume - and tonight you're wearing the red. Why?" Batman: "I must, Robin."
At first I thought that the inclusion of the Heath Ledger picture was inappropriate to the article, and was just a grab for attention by the editors, maybe. In print, it was all fashion illustrations of the Joker. But that photograph is so perfect once you've read the very last paragraph of the article.
Honestly, I think Derek McCormack needs to release a book of non fiction.
His Kathy Acker story, which opens with:
Kathy Acker’s ghost. She’s shopping in San Francisco. She stares into a window. A second-storey window. What she sees: garments floating, fluttering. Gaultier, Westwood, Comme des Garçons.
“This,” she says to herself, “is the greatest store I have ever seen.”
Kathy Acker’s ghost moves among garments.
“Everything,” she says, “is so me.”
“Everything,” she says, “fits like a dream.”
As it should. The clothes are hers. Were hers. Kathy Acker died in 1997. Novelist, essayist, librettist—she left behind a beautiful body of work. She was also a shopper. She left behind a lot of labels.
His article on sex perfumes, which opens:
I have never gone to an orgy; I've never been invited. No matter --I don't have to be a libertine to smell like a libertine. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Kilian is an orgy in a perfume bottle, a fragrance steeped in the scents of group sex. Or so claims Kilian Hennessy, the perfumer who concocted it for By Kilian, his upscale, upstart Parisian perfume house. |
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