November 2011
0 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
October 2011
2 posts
January 2010
1 post
November 2009
2 posts
August 2009
1 post
pitchfork end of decade hullaballoo →
this is the first end-of-decade extravaganza in which i can [indirectly] participate! in ‘89 i was still hooked on raffi and was too obsessed with cultivating my burgeoning self-importance in ‘99. however, here in ‘09, i’ve been eyeballing and obsessin’ ‘bout contemporary music for a good six or seven years and i have a reasonable grasp on quality control and...
May 2009
3 posts
cult film: a critical symposium →
[via cineaste magazine]
this is a collection of varying definitions of “cult film” proposed by prominent film critics and scholars. david church - a PhD student in CMCL - provides the most compelling response. he nearly implies that viral videos display “paracinematic” qualities, bolstering an argument i made in a paper - the phenomenon of viewing “viral...
4chan, trolling, and crazy hyper post-modernity →
this is an old-ish article, but it hints on what i was arguing in an earlier post. “trolling”/4chan stuff is the closest approximation of a counterculture that has manifested in hyper technologized western society and it only exists on the internetz. HOW PO-MO! i’ve always been fascinated by the bizarre, contradictory morality and the near-nihilsitc flippant dismissal of damn...
April 2009
2 posts
The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond →
i dunno, dude, i think what we’re currently experiencing is the progression and intensification of already inherent aspects of post-modernity.
I GET SO EMOTIONAL THESE DAYS
tomorrow the...
January 2009
3 posts
ign's top 100 animated television series →
it’s seemingly written for and by a bunch of acne-ridden, cliche-spewin’, comic book superhero idolizin’ pubescent little boys circle jerking to wonder woman and that black woman from star trek in between rounds of halo and smash brothers. still, in between all the vomit and headache inducing hanna-barbera garbage and innumerable comic book adaptations lay some solid choices....
oscar nominations! →
i’ve seen a whopping zero of the best picture nominees. the only one that genuinely intrigues me is slumdog millionaire, which, of course, has not yet hit bloomington. thank the lawd awmighty that the dark knight didn’t get a best picture nod. i was incredibly annoyed when everybody tried to treat it as more than just a fairly well-produced summer superhero action film. [/end...
my 1000 favorite songs (as of july 2008) →
i guess it’s about time i update this tumblr, eh?
i’ve been perfunctorily working on this music list since the summer. i may or may not complete it by THIS summer. CAN YOU GUESS THE TOP TEN?
February 2008
4 posts
the epitome of hyper post-modernity?
hipsterdom is great and all, but it’s sort of a retrogressive synthesis of a multitude of subcultures that came before. it’s unabashedly classist and disappointingly sterile. the fetishization of “the image” is kind of interesting, but, you know, it’s been done before. i would have hated to admit it a few years ago, but i really think this is the quintessential...
tumblr isn’t the appropriate place for catharsis, so i’ll summarize an entire potential livejournal entry in one sentence: ”i’m irrevocably sick of academia and there’s no way i’m going to grad school.”
top five albums of 2008 thus far
1. made in the dark - hot chip - time delay. time delay. yes, hot chip is dance music for uptight nerdy white kids, i know, but at least we’ve stopped holding up the wall, right? “ready for the floor,” indeed. “i’m only going to heaven if it feels like hell” is the best obvious/dumb indie-dance mantra since, well, “the smell of repetition really is on...
January 2008
3 posts
oscar nominations →
i’ve only seen two of the five best picture nominees. thankfully sweeney todd didn’t get nominated. is it just me or did that movie really blow?
- no country for old men lived up to all of my expectations. seriously. the coens as i love them have returned. tommy two-face should have been nominated for this instead of whatever he was actually nominated for, totally. so goddamn...
“oh my god. drunk off the cheap wine on martin luther king cobra day. new hot...”
– http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/48096-hot-chip-made-in-the-dark-mp3stream