January 2011
I don’t care what the proper definition of a word is. That doesn’t matter. Let me break down why using logic.
Words are used to communicate ideas between humans (provided they speak the same language)
In order to correctly use a word, the word must convey the intended idea.
In order to correctly convey the idea of a word, all parties involved in the communication must leave the...
December 2010
Best of Lists for the Year
(Note, I ordered these as if I were counting down to 1, so ignore the tumblr formatted numbers and pretend that they are in reverse order. i.e. Light Chasers is actually 1 while Plastic Beach is 3, savvy?)
CDs (Sorry, don’t Listen to much new music)
Plastic Beach - The Gorillaz
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Light Chasers - Cloud Cult
Movies
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Machete
...
The Things I Read This Year
January
Badass - Ben Thompson 12/31-1/5
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace - 1/5-1/8
Battle Royale - Kousun Takami - 1/8-1/11
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - 1/11-1/20
Nazi Literature in the Americas - Roberto Bolaño - 1/20-2/7
February
Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger - 2/7-2/27
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff - 2/27-3/1
March
The Te of Piglet - 3/1-3/8
...
On The Bro'd: 50 - Who Do You Play For? →
onthebrod:
The drivers had switched up front; the less-drunk brother was gunning the RV to the limit. The road changed too: humpy in the middle, with soft shoulders and a ditch on both sides about four feet deep, so that the RV bounced from once side of the road to other—miraculously only when there were no…
The time of the night when everyone is sleeping...
jessr:
except when it is too late for mac and cheese.
Which bright Capulet's idea was it to give the...
Seriously. With a name that rhymes, it’s no wonder she killed herself.
Tessellation: Ladfr replied to your post: I AM ON... →
ladfr:
tessellation29:
Ha, would you rather partake in the festivities than bust people drunk off Guinness and whiskey?
What do you think, genius?
They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it’s an insult? ‘You don’t…
[Pithy retort in which I post the definition of “ditto” (or perhaps “also.” Truth...
Ladfr replied to your post: I AM ON DUTY FOR SAINT...
tessellation29:
Ha, would you rather partake in the festivities than bust people drunk off Guinness and whiskey?
What do you think, genius?
They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it’s an insult? ‘You don’t know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.’ I don’t think we’re honoring that man properly by using his name in...
Been watching that Bob Dylan show on the tele.
Suddenly I turned around and she was standin’ there With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair. She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns. “Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm.”
Day 30 - Your favorite book of all time
Well, shit.
I’d say Infinite Jest, but I’ve already talked about that. Savage Detectives and 2666 are up there too. I’m indebted to Stephen King, specifically IT. I like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. I adore Fyodor Dostoevsky, though I’ve only read Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. There’s a place in my heart for Poe, and I think that The Count...
GAH. I really want to subscribe to McSweeney's!
but it is 50 bucks that I don’t need to spend…
So tell me something: This isn’t really a transcript of the interview, is it?
No.
It’s not much like the actual interview at all, is it?
Not that much, no.
This is a device, this interview style. Manufactured and fake.
It is.
Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Do people actually read this shit?
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So I'm reading this A Heartbreaking Work of... →
And in it Dave Eggers imparts an anecdote about how he wanted to get on the Real World San Francisco. He didn’t get on, but one of the guys who did was a cartoonist who applied to work for Eggers’s lit mag. He got on the episode, for all of 3 seconds, so he writes. This morning, I looked up that clip (it seems like all of the real world is online now) and it was not in episode 2 like...
Day 29 - A book everyone hated but you liked
Well, I guess it’s Harry Potter time.
It seems like general consensus is that this book is bad, and that this is primarily attributed to the epilogue. Even mention the word epilogue among a group of people of a certain age and you’ll be met with groans and such responses as, “ugh, ruined the whole series for me,” or, “My friend told me it was bad, so I didn’t...
OH MY GOD, FRY'S DOG
heroics:
rabbithugs:
closetocryingaboutfuturama.tumblr.com
There’s no shame in crying over that episode, bb. It makes me cry every single time. The one about his brother makes me tear up as well. NO SHAME.
weeping just hearing about it
thenoobyorker:
“I just wanna do hoodrat stuff with my friends.”
WatchO, what magical realms as this do the great ship Stumble drive us hence
I thought of this idea last night
So, it was this quasi postmodern story about this disfigured kid who had to wear masks to cover his features. Like, his whole life, or just about. People become used to these masks, and become to know him for these masks. He too, even, begins to self-identify with his masked appearance, the disfigurement diminishing to a whisper in the back of his head.
Now, this is the kind of disfigurement...
Why do you want to be on The Real World?Because I want everyone to witness my youth. Why?Isn’t it gorgeous. Who’s gorgeous?Not like that. No, I just mean, that it’s in bloom. That’s what you’re all about, right? the showing of raw fruit, correct? Wheter that’s in videos or on spring break, whatever, the amplifying of youth, the editing and volume magnifying...
Day 28 - Favorite title
Let me peruse my shelves a craft a list of my favorite titles, ay?
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
I like this one because it says everything right in the title, but It’s not obvious. Not everyone knows what a requiem is, but it is a death mass in catholicism. This book is about the failure of the American Dream, and the title conveys that in, what I feel, is a poetic manner
A...
Viktor Frankl TED: Reason for Believing in Others →
I really need to pick up a copy of Man’s Search for Meaning. It will be in good reading company for my second summer in the factory
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Day 27 - The most surprising plot twist or ending
I won’t tell you what the twist is, but left me all “whaaaaaaaat?”
I came to you 'cause they say you have grit.
kaylamayla:
This remake is mind blowing.
Saw this tonight and Black Swan two days ago. Will probably see this again this week, and, hopefully, I’ll find someone (and someplace) to see the Tempest with me, all before I go back to school.
Day 26 - A book that changed your opinion about...
I was never one for short writing and poetry. It jsut wasn’t my thing. I always preferred prose, and long prose at that. Short pieces, fiction or nonfiction, mostly bore me. Reading a 300 page and up novel or extended essay hold my attention, and, generally, anything shorter just doesn’t have enough substance. Then I read two books:
These two books gave me a great appreciation for...
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My phone is a lot quieter without twitter texting...
It’s kinda sad really
Things that get me through christmas mass
Making faces at the maybe year and a half old toe headed girl two rows in front of me.
Listening to the priest trying to pronounce the names of the generations before jesus. The greatest hits include jehosephat, amminadab, boaz, rehoboam, shealtiel, azor, zerubbabel, eleazar, and, my personal favorite, zadok, which always reminds me of a mix between zardoz and MODOK, whatever that unholy...
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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
– Franz Kafka (via libraryland)
Day 25 - A character who you can relate to the...
There’s two characters, and I’ve already talked about both ad nauseum.
Zooey from Franny and Zooey
And the Main CHaracter from It’s Kind of a Funny Story.
I’m kind of drawn to depressives.
In other news, Merry Axe-Mas!