December 2011
21 posts
Really, @nytimes?
I emailed my parents in a huff as soon as I received the erroneous email from you this morning stating my recent gift subscription had been canceled.
“You could have just told me you wanted something else, DAD!”
Family crisis averted.
“Those are some very black orcs…”
– I haven’t read the books in years, but I’m going to try to give an explanation on where I’m coming from, at least. Apologies in advance for misinformation/representations. The current conversation (about The Hobbit’s casting) stems from a larger issue with the source material (Tolkien’s books) and...
Does this make me a racist?
Look, black women have it hard enough already! WE DO NOT NEED PEOPLE FEEDING STEREOTYPES THAT PERPETUATE THE BLACK WOMAN AS WHORE, BLACK WOMAN AS EXOTIC, FORBIDDEN OTHER, BLACK WOMAN AS NON-HUMAN.
Yes, white critic projecting a feminist agenda on Azealia Banks, I am talking to you. YOU ARE NOT HELPING. Please just say you like 212 because you like the beat and think she’s pretty and the...
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Adrienne Rich Letting Everybody Know
Quotes from her introduction to the 10th anniversary edition of ‘Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience And Institution.’
“Some ideas are not really new but keep having to be affirmed from the ground up, over and over. One of these is the apparently simple idea that women are as intrinsically human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Faust (1926)
10 Great Reads From 2011
New Yorker - A Poverty Clinic
The Atlantic - Why Do So Few Blacks Study The Civil War
Harper’s - From Eden To Eton
London Review Of Books - As Many Pairs Of Shoes As She Likes
The Awl - Sherlock Holmes and the Adventures of the Impudent Scholars
New York Times - Another Thing To Sort Of Pin On David Foster Wallace
The Paris Review - Julian Barnes, The Art Of Fiction (Originally...
Not Ready For Emerson, Lake & Palmer
I like Yes, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Bo Hansson, Ragnarok, Rush, Pink Floyd, Can, Neu!, Faust, Tangerine Dream and Dream Theater, but I cannot, cannot, bring myself to listen to EL&P. I cannot. For if I do, I fear the woman I shall become: a vinyl-hoarding, folklore worshiping, faux-diadem wearing, elder stateswoman from the land of washed-up, why do they even bother, oh-my-god, really?...
i'm bubbling over with delight!
having been raised on jazz, blues and gospel, i have to say it’s sort of blowing my mind right now that i’m working on an album with guitarist/singer Junior Mack and OG Allman Brothers Band drummer Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson. these dudes are the real deal. so good it’s scarytown.
i see. gifs are actually lame
…i should have know after i ran into a tumblr that had a erin brockovich gif followed by one from black narcissus. i love the idea, but, after all, good ideas get washed up pretty quickly. that’s why it’s so hard to determine a good idea from a truly original one. good ideas have a short shelf life. original ideas continue to evolve.
for some reason this post is inspiring me to...
Patricia Highsmith: Most Unjustifiably Ignored...
Read more at Tin House.
Bored with music, Julia Holter is the antidote.
New music on The Fader today. Ekstasis (RVNG, March 8th). This week I discovered Linda Perhacs who is a criminally underrated voice of the late 1960s psych-folk movement. I wasn’t surprised to learn that Ms. Holter is one of the few artists who, after she and her one record (Parallelograms) had lived decades in obscurity, sought Perhacs out and has since collaborated with her. They both have...
That awkward moment when you try to kick in an... →
daily-tumbles:
Following this blog will be the best thing you ever do
this is what i look like when i only leave my...
#shower
Two Female Pioneers In 1970s Electronic Music
Wendy Carlos (Switched-On Bach, Tron and A Clockwork Orange soundtracks) was one of the first to compose music using the Moog synthesizer. Born Walter Carlos, she underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1972. I was very surprised to learn that Carlos is not featured on the Music Of The Spheres’ compilation Women in Electronic Music 1977. That ain’t right.
Laurie Spiegel was a...
I don't know enough of her songs to keep this...
#feministbeyonce
"You look like your head fell in the cheese dip...
“I take these glasses off, she looks like a regular person, doesn’t she? Put ‘em back on, FORMALDEHYDE FACE.”
So, how is your day? Is it amazing?
Mini Screed on Azealia Banks
Quickly, because I’m already over her. Guess who told me about her? A white dude. Does that matter? Typically, no, but the reason it does matter in this instance is because Banks has hinged part of her success on the fact that she covers acts like Interpol and counts bands like Supergrass as one of her favorites. In other words, she is playing into the tastes of white men, which is FINE, I...
