kontextmaschine

Misplaced a stick of butter and was tearing the house up for fear of it melting in place. Thematically enough, it was in the freezer.

All these things like “oh, this bike’s in pristine condition, been stored inside and never dropped or ridden in the rain”, and it’s like well, what the fuck were you using it for then?

Tubman on the $20 is the Susan B. Anthony Dollar

‘70s parallels are my thing, how did I not get that?

So KUSC is in its pledge drive which means when they’re doing music channel surfers will recognize. They just did “The Mission”, which you know as the NBC Nightly News theme.

You don’t often hear it at full length but when you do it’s John Williams scoring a pretty great self-own: the only good bit is the short, memorable stinger (which is great) but when you listen to the meat and connective tissue of it without some director’s “epic, sense-of-wonder” visual work propping it up (live or as nostalgia) you realize he just sounds like Danny Elfman’s uptight dad

(i.e. when one theme’s reached exhaustion he’s like “uh… how about a whimsical flight of fancy, then a return to the original theme? But not too whimsical.”)

bustin’ makes me feel good

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davidsevera:

lol if ur sexuality isnt wholly focused on u becoming a perfected posthuman entity for whom pleasure and intellect are one and the same

kramergate:

last night I had an ultra vivid dream that I got in a huge fight with my family at thanksgiving because I wore this cardigan and I was late to work today because instead of getting ready I had to draw it

kramergate:

please fund my serch for nyello by buying a shirt or other item with his handsme visage on it

“information waste”

bearnomadwizard:

commissarchrisman:

psychedelic-communism:

there is no god

god is dead and we have yiffed him

the thing i like about this is how hopeless it makes me feel. its like Kafka learned how to draw and wanted to remind the modern world that there is no escape from our existential conditions. its brilliant really 

2016: the year of fuckable furry Trump meme normies

not wrong

@agoodcartoon?

One of the best things about Tinder is learning that everyone you would see but never talk to is exactly what you’d assume on appearances

for something whose aesthetic is like 1/2 “Christianity is an abuse perpetrated against innocent widdle kids” and ½ dead baby jokes, The Binding of Isaac is a fucking mile better than anything in that flame-shirted mileiu

I think because it deploys it as an aesthetic and trusts that to bear the appropriate amount of weight?

walterwhitemediocrity:

Every time Woody Allen is back in the news, I revisit that 1979 Joan Didion piece in which she demolishes the prevailing perception that his films are made for an intellectual class; that rather they’re the essence of a Fake Deep, referential comedy made for men like Allen to mistake their insecurities for wisdom:

“This notion of oneself as a kind of continuing career—something to work at, work on, “make an effort” for and subject to an hour a day of emotional Nautilus training, all in the interests not of attaining grace but of improving one’s “relationships”—is fairly recent in the world, at least in the world not inhabited entirely by adolescents. In fact the paradigm for the action in these recent Woody Allen movies is high school. The characters in Manhattan and Annie Hall andInteriors are, with one exception, presented as adults, as sentient men and women in the most productive years of their lives, but their concerns and conversations are those of clever children, “class brains,” acting out a yearbook fantasy of adult life.

…These are not possible constructions, but they reflect exactly the false and desperate knowingness of the smartest kid in the class. “When it comes to relationships with women I’m the winner of the August Strindberg Award,” the Woody Allen character tells us in Manhattan; later, in a frequently quoted and admired line, he says, to Diane Keaton, “I’ve never had a relationship with a woman that lasted longer than the one between Hitler and Eva Braun.” These lines are meaningless, and not funny: they are simply “references,” the way Harvey and Jack and Anjelica and A Sentimental Education are references, smart talk meant to convey the message that the speaker knows his way around Lit and History, not to mention Show Biz.”

vicious.

yeah I pass the paper bag test but I got a Hefty sack
you got your momma’s ben-wa balls in a purple whiskey bag

so one thing I’ve noticed in the last decade is that commercials on channels like ESPN and CNNHN - channels used as background in mid-to-upper environments like bars and airports - worked fine if you saw them normally, saw them as pure video (muted or lost in a loud environment) OR heard them as pure audio

that’s great! and I don’t think it gets enough respect.

browser ads. always been behind. do ad guys take them as the junior leagues? there’s so many times I’ve overheard ads from another browser tab, even unaugmented Firefox gives you mute buttons for that now

and I just heard this one and it was almost there, for Toyota cars

audio 70% described the skit, and 60% described the deal, but the voice sounded exactly like Flo from Progressive so the branding was confusing as hell!

radio was better than this even when there was TV

STEP UP YOUR GAME

kontextmaschine:

so one thing I’ve noticed in the last decade is that commercials on channels like ESPN and CNNHN - channels used as background in mid-to-upper environments like bars and airports - worked fine if you saw them normally, saw them as pure video (muted or lost in a loud environment) OR heard them as pure audio

that’s great! and I don’t think it gets enough respect.

browser ads. always been behind. do ad guys take them as the junior leagues? there’s so many times I’ve overheard ads from another browser tab, even unaugmented Firefox gives you mute buttons for that now

and I just heard this one and it was almost there, for Toyota cars

audio 70% described the skit, and 60% described the deal, but the voice sounded exactly like Flo from Progressive so the branding was confusing as hell!

radio was better than this even when there was TV

STEP UP YOUR GAME

like, I know you’re playing darkside tricks, I know you’re waiting until I’ve had that tab open a while and forgotten about it, from when I hear you until I find what tab it is to kill you you have maybe 3-8 seconds

YouTube ads have learned to grab you in 5 seconds for a shot at retaining 15 or 30

STEP UP YOUR GAME

kontextmaschine:

Hixxy - I See The Light

wtfbeatlescartoon:

*John knocks*

John: I wonder if anyone’s home

*dog barks*

Paul: ddijubluhlachberrais

pootee:

Ptyuch: the magazine that gave birth to Russian rave - The Calvert Journal