The cherry trees are in bloom here in Portland. I hope senpai notices me this year.

aight, the “Tumblr Pro” video was subtle and clever (if a little pointless)

which is i guess maybe tumblr’s strength

(i mean as a company, not a userbase, dear god)

i approve

pizzaforpresident:

Behold the American education system

sclez:

Art college

Not in particular order:

Garbage - Garbage
Garbage - Version 2.0
Taylor Swift - Red
Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Daft Punk - Discovery

samples and pedal effects, steel strings, and wistful vocals, I guess that’s my thing

“longing pop”, in short

back a year or two in the “gimmick url” era of the tumblr left

(you know, before the schism between sparklesad anime transmarxists and cranky neofogey sexhaters)

I’m surprised no one took “neon-genesis-hegelian”

Are You A Slave To The Capitalist Patriarchy Or Are You An Enlightened Empowered Free Thinker?

Take the goat test.

well.

reading-thoughts:

edwardspoonhands:

Not Iambic….Do Not Accept…

These tags I’ll pop, and boast in rhyming verse
that what I wear puts swagger in my gait;
though twenty shillings have I in my purse,
my self-esteem and manhood both inflate
when lofty furs I purchase for a cent.
Thy grandpa’s clothes are worthy salvage, though
they smell a trifle musty. Still, I spent
much less to dress myself from head to toe.

To save or not to save? The question’s moot.
I’ll never give my coin to high-street crooks.
These dusty shelves will yield their hidden loot
to those, like me, more frugal in their looks.
Like ancient coins washed up on distant shores,
I’ll find my treasures in these thrifty stores.
     - Macklemore, “Thrift Shoppe”

meme-mage:

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I read Brave New World a long time ago, off the shelf of my mother’s books, and you know, I never ever got why it was supposed to be a “negative” utopia, there’s not a thing wrong with it.

People will say “Oh, but there’s no Art” (and oh boy, can you hear that capital A) and as someone who still considers himself a screenwriter, I’ve got to object - the hell do you call the feelie with the acrobatic triplets?

Now John the Savage sniffs that it’s not Shakespeare, because John the Savage is a pretentious twit (and Huxley a modernist snob), but that is after all mass market stuff, I’m sure there’s an Alpha Plus Plus somewhere making arthouse fare for the Alphas, with more complex plotting and avant-garde technique and still a good deal of sex. Probably in French, let’s be honest.

Plus, any culture that accords so much respect to pneumaticity and the athleticism of Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy clearly has a cult of physical beauty strong enough to imply a figurative sculpture tradition.

Religion? Well, for one, Fordism. For two, I’d argue that the use of soma, especially as part of the death-transition, constitutes shamanic practice. I guess John the Savage did introduce the ecstasies of flagellant dervishism, good for him.

The one point I’ll yield is that the utopia lacks war and violence, the frisson of suffering. (Assuming there aren’t, say, snuff feelies.) But, as above, once exposed to the power of suffering they’re pretty quick to co-opt it into the orgy porgy as BDSM so things are set right by the end.

I guess the only thing that’s really missing is a tragic sense. Well Mustapha Mond is cynical, which is like a tragic sense minus the po-facedness. But anyway, to frame that as a complaint would be “this can’t be a utopia, things never go wrong”. Which is really just the dumbest modernist shitpiety, right there.

Wankers.

shinykaito:

Okay but Never Gonna Give You Up (better known as Rickroll) is actually a really really horrible song for many reasons, which I will better explain under the cut. 

Brace yourselves, this is pretty long.

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I really want to like Speak Now, but

Okay when I did a Taylor Swift-themed pinball tournament, this album was Bride of Pinbot, because “an album called ‘Speak Now’ about becoming a woman”, obviously. Which is true as far as it goes but more importantly clever; if without that pressure I were to describe it, it’s very much a breakup album as composed by a 19-year-old. And is impressive as such, I’d say its imagined audience is maybe 15-year-olds and Swift’s always been very good at putting songs together in a way that draw on her specific personal experience, play to her specific audience, but still manage to be fairly universal.

“Speak Now”, the song itself, is a girl romance-of-love daydream the same as all the boy romance-of-violence daydreams, where you save them from some crazy threat and they realize you had that in you all the time just keeping it in reserve and finally realize and fall to their knees in indebted awe, and is very well-done as such.

(“Better than Revenge” is a girl romance-of-(social)-violence daydream same way.)

“Innocent” is, like “The Best Day” before it, Swift showing off that she’s brilliant enough to reverse engineer pop culture tropes to speak to the experience of adult vulnerability just as well as actual grown-up Nashville songwriters can. (In part because so many of them draw on a longing for a childhood, um, innocence she still had direct access to?)

For all of the competence, aaaaaaaaaaahhh teenagers, I get it but the me it resonates with is a me I’m not comfortable copping to anymore (without, say, the use/mention distinction I’m invoking here); as far as breakup albums go at least Rilo Kiley’s More Adventurous foregrounds your own personal failings in that “take ownership before they can wield it against you” way of manipulativeness that plays to my self-image of mature mastery.

bobbycaputo:

The Backyard Punk Scene in East L.A. Photographed by Angela Boatwright

In East Los, part of the Living Off the Wall documentary series by Vans, documentarian Angela Boatwright takes a candid, in-depth look into the punk-rock scene in East Lost Angeles. In addition to five short documentary pieces, East Los includes a satisfying collection of still images by the bi-coastal photographer.

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That’s what I always liked about East LA, that between the classic cars, the classic doo-wop, punk, Morrissey, whatever, they stayed dedicated to awesome stuff decades after it stopped being novel.

The Mozilla shit… straight to triumphalist overreach, without even triumphing. Fucking incompetent.

artofalbumcovers:

Real Estate - Days (2011)

From Dan Graham’s 1966 photo essay called Homes For America which counterpoints the monotonous and alienating effect of 1960’s housing developments with their supposed desirability and the physical-geometry of a printed article.

Sample

etall:

I learned how to do pseudo-layering in Hexels thanks to this tutorial!

thisisabust:

today i opened my fridge and really looked at my grape juice for the first time

Ooooooh, I get it, Henry McCoy was super-smart yet hairy and athletic because he was “actually” black, in the ’60s assimilationist Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner dream. And then in the ’90s he was super-smart yet “blue”, the new jack assimilationist preppie. And now he’s maybe the Nice Guy? (Like even more than Logan as vs. Scott in re Jean which was always clever all around)

Well done

don’t much care for melisma, but I appreciate a well-trained throat

biritim:

Faig Ahmed / Carpets

Faig Ahmed (1982, Azerbaijan) is an Baku based, mixed media artist. He distorts and rearranges the traditional eastern carpet patterns; and creates contemporary art pieces; hand-made carpets, paintings, installations and sculptural forms.

Bakü’de yaşayan Faig Ahmed (1982, Azerbaijan) karışık medya sanatçısıdır. Geleneksel doğu halı desenlerini bozan ve yeniden düzenleyen sanatçı, bu desenleri kullanarak el yapımı halılar, resimler ve yerleştirmeler gibi çağdaş sanat eserleri yaratıyor.

http://www.faigahmed.com/

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