December 2010
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Band Names I Thought Of This Year - 2010
With some help from friends.
Demons Love Distraction
The Skunks On The Beach
Elbow Benders
The Dithering Zitherists
tyrannosaurus sex (yes, i KNOW it was the name of the Discovery Channel show, but c’mon, how fucking good is that?)
Frechdachs
Sine Nomine
Choir of Fists
The New Young Nobodies of Whatever (ok, that one’s by Onstad)
Black Bolt (and The Inhumans)
Jesus And...
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My Fortune Cookie Said I Should Follow My Dreams
I’ll see you suckers later, I’m off to join a professional fight circuit in a universe where apartments fall out of buildings like faulty drawers in dressers so people sleep on the floor of the forest between trees instead, bad guys always wear white suits, and there are endless space gorillas, everything made out of them.
see also.
and.
and maybe.
but definitely.
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“What makes Shepard Fairey’s populist gesture insipid is how self-evidently...”
– Jonathan Lethem on “Graffiti and Text Art” in his dissection of They Live
Just so we’re aware of why I call Fairey a hack and why he offered dim-witted defense of Jeffrey Deitch’s censorship.
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newyorker:
New Political Scene Podcast: Hendrik...
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I Did This to My Vocabulary →
By Michael Robbins
The moon is my alibi. My tenders throw hissy fits. My scalp’s at the foot of the precipice. My lume is spento, there’s a creep in my cellar. You can stand under my umbrella, Ella.
Who put pubic hair on my headphones? Who put the ram in Ramallah? I’m just sitting here spinning my spinning wheels— where are the snow tires of tomorrow?
The llama is burning! My heart is an...
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White Boss - Number Two
While I appreciate...
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"The biggest thing about taking a punch is your... →
Truth. I’m off to have a spiritual experience.
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I had no idea!
thenewephemera:
That testis means both testicle and testifier.
Word, flesh, etc., but importantly: perjury?
Dolan just made a testis tetris.
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Gang of Four - Natural’s Not In It
just...
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“Secret diplomacy is a necessary tool for a propertied minority which is...”
– Leon Trotsky (h/t @GeorgeLazenby)
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dailymeh:
Monotheism is the belief in one god. Polytheism is the belief in several gods. A simple objection to these is: who created god/the gods? Now, at some point, someone must have said, “Fuck it, I’ll believe in an infinite regress of gods. Hah! Take that, atheist!” But I’ve never heard of an infinitheist. Now that would make for some interesting theology. I’ll nominate Borges for chief...
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“This thing, this illness, this virus threatens to become the cause of the moral...”
– Jose Saramago, quoted by Swampland, click through for the putrescence that inspired the reference.
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Support Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in... →
statement from Jonathan D. Katz, co-curator of the National Portrait Gallery’s Hide/Seek:Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
This is a culture war we did not seek out, nor start. But appeasing tyranny has never worked and can never work, for tyranny wants only obedience, and blind obedience is antithetical to what this nation stands for… Over a century and half ago, Walt Whitman...
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Professional Hype
You guys are pretty smart and have probably figured out by now that I am, by trade, an archivist. A colleague of mine and I were trying to figure out what “syncretic, theoretical archival lit that non-archivists *want* to read” would look like. I would offer that some of this happens from time to time (though not on the scale desired in breadth or investigation) on blogs.
Some that I...
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Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush... →
Wikileaks exposes what bipartisanship looks like.
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A friend referred to a River* as “a body of water” and I realized I never think of rivers as “bodies of water”… According to Wikipedia:
Rivers, streams, canals, and other geographical features where water moves from one place to another are not always considered bodies of water.
But what to call them? Our bodies are never fixed, at least. But think, a body of...
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