How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down

Everyone knows I'm already good on the ground.

Jun 26

I've Had Enough

maura:

Wow, this reads exactly like every “wahhh, I quit the Internet because you’re all being so mean” rant that I read back in the heyday of the “teen domain” scene. 20whatever-year-old dudes: the new 15-year-old girls of the Internet?

Yes. A thousand times yes. Which makes sense, right? Don’t girls develop faster or something about science. Anyway in case anyone’s wondering, the next step for a person who quits the Internet is that he or she will wait it out a month and then return with a password-protected journal, but you’ll have to be on the mailing list to find out about that. Eventually that journal will collapse under its own ponderous weight, or under people passing the password around too often. The Quittee will disappear again. A few months later he or she will re-emerge on a new domain with a new pseudonym and a hyper-minimalist design that still manages to incorporate faeries somehow. Am I right, George Santayana?

Posted at 2:38pm

Jun 25
The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year (Mono Mix) (via Kamper66)
Posted at 11:54am

Jun 23

kfan:

I love this meme.

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. One weapon.
2. One song blasting on the speakers.
3. One famous person to fight alongside you.

Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.

1. Acrobatic slayeresque fighting powers
2. “The Rat,” by The Walkmen
3. Jason Bourne (movie version)

Second choice for #3 would be River Tam, but I can’t guarantee she’d focus on the task at hand. Also second choice for #1 is magic, but I don’t have time to define the parameters right now okay. At least with this set-up I am confident we would at least be able to escape via rooftop if necessary.

Posted at 8:38pm

Jun 22

MySpace.com - Miles Kurosky - Los Angeles, CA - Indie - www.myspace.com/mileskurosky

Hey did we all know about how Miles Kurosky posted one of his solo numbers on his MySpace? Well, I didn’t. It’s like 10% less busy than a Beulah song, which is to say it’s still pretty effing busy. I mean there’s a lot going on there. A LOT, MILES. Aw, you know I like it.
Posted at 8:51pm

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

This is a low quality recording of me doing a low quality reading of “Talk Pidgin,” a story that I wrote back in March. I ruin it towards the end, and then I do some cursing, but there’s a good run in the middle. It’s like eight and a half minutes, which is about how long it takes to make some mac and cheese from a box. I did do that on purpose.

If maybe you just want to download it or something, you can do that here. For my groupies. I feel kind of apologetic about this whole thing!
Posted at 12:20am

Jun 21

sayyes:

really nobody needs “lists 2.0” and people have been making lists since Martin fucking Luther so let’s just stop it

Posted at 10:39am

Jun 19
“The first new show of the 2008-09 Broadway season, [title of show] - an original musical about the making of an original musical - will introduce the new $2,501.50 “Extrava[tos] VIP Luxury” premium priced ticket, it has been announced by the show’s producers. The $2,501.50 “Extrava[tos] VIP Luxury” premium ticket will include a tiara and scepter, opera glasses, and the unprecedented option to have an NYU student attend [title of show] in your place and then describe the experience to the ticket-buyer.” [title of show] announces ‘Extrava[tos] VIP Luxury’ Ticket (BroadwayWorld.com)
Posted at 10:18am

Jun 18
The thing I always think about when I think about Cyd Charisse is how in the gangster section (she arrives at 4:19) of the ballet in Singin’ in the Rain, the entire thing is choreographed so she looks shorter than Gene Kelly. She is clearly naturally taller than him + she is costumed in these heels AND YET. So you watch this thing, right, and the whole time her knees are bent and she’s, like, literally bending over backwards to preserve this guy’s masculinity. Which, probably wearing slightly fewer pairs of loafers would have done as well. GENE KELLY. Anyway she was one of my favorites. Just wanted to say.
Posted at 2:28pm

Jun 15

Parabasis: Isherwood Vs. Isherwood

Or: After…you get what you want you don’t…want it. If I gave you the moooooon…you’d grow tie’d of it soon! You’re like…a baby. You want what you want when you want it. But after you are presented. With what you want you’re DisConTented.
Posted at 1:13pm

Jun 14

My Observations of BONNARO 2008 - Day 1 (Friday)

paulscheer:

  • Instead of playing their hits Metallica plays the full cast recording of Les Miserables.
  • Shelly Long Sits in with Rilo Kiley, they cover the theme song from “Troop Beverly Hills.”
  • My Morning Jacket plays a 15 hour show.
  • I realize that a McGriddle is more complex in design than the pyramids.

Bonnaro is so much cooler than I thought.

Posted at 11:53am