April 2011
57 posts
Little Bruce, “Cognac Killer”
If...
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literalshit asked: Totally agree RE: worthless indie wimp fiction. Thank you for writing that. I've hated this schmaltzy fluff with an undying passion since freshman year of college (2004), when I started being exposed to all of this. I disagree about Rushmore though. It's not even a movie I enjoy too much. It's my least favorite Wes Anderson movie, whereas I love all of his others. However, I...
On Unsympathetic, "Indie" Male Leads
Perhaps you’ve seen this webcomic about an unemployed guy who applies for jobs that do not exist until he eventually caves and works at Wendy’s, but not before his girlfriend/wife leaves him. B. Michael Payne tore it to shreds earlier today, and for good reason: it fucking sucks. And not because the Comic Capitalizes Every Word that Is not a Preposition or Article, as if He Were a...
How I Came to Work at the Wendy's. →
bmichael:
I’ve seen this on my dash quite a bit the last few days. I (honestly, really) have to say, I don’t see what the big deal is. More specifically, I don’t find this sad or slightly tragic. I don’t find the protagonist at all sympathetic or appealing. I don’t know why anyone likes this or cares about it. What is wrong with you?
If you don’t feel like looking at the somewhat long webcomic,...
“The right’s nostalgia for small-town America and the emphasis that the...”
– Paul Staley (my dad!) on his latest Perspective for KQED, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate.
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A-Wax f/ Waka Flocka Flame - “Show...
“Evidently Rick Ross saw no reason to check the state of food writing before...”
– B. R. Myers responds to readers’ letters about his diatribe against foodies in The Atlantic. I was so confused and excited, while reading this, until I flipped back to see that this Rick Ross was just some regular-ass guy from Oregon.
The idea of Rick Ross as a dedicated locavore is...
The Awl: Why We Shouldn't Treat Rap as Poetry →
Wrote this thing for The Awl about a USC grad who runs an online ghostwriting business, and how this, and ghostwriting in general may pose some problems for academics who want to treat rap like it’s poetry.
literalshit asked: What would you say the essential (or just your favorite) skate videos are?
2800 STUNNAMAN “Aww Man” (2011)
With...
“Clearly, unboxing videos are gross because they offer too much reverence to...”
– COMBAT! Blog, on Unboxing Videos.
benrenz asked: As a follow up to the recent E-40 talk in your last formspringthingywhateverthefuck, what are three essential projects of his I should own?
jacobogara asked: This is more of a quick reply to a part of your answer to my question/comment on The Pack; since replies to individual posts aren't enabled on your blog, I'm doing it this way.
I don't think I said that I thought E-40 was "no good," I said that I didn't take him seriously, which, I think, is different. Until I downloaded the Revenue Retrievin'...
I don't think I said that I thought E-40 was "no good," I said that I didn't take him seriously, which, I think, is different. Until I downloaded the Revenue Retrievin'...
jacobogara asked: What are your thoughts on The Pack? I must say that I don't like them very much. In fact, I've gone as far as saying that they're the "Nickelback of hip-hop" due to my perception that all of their songs sound the same (never mind my thinking that they're not so good); is that too harsh a verdict? Is my perspective missing something? I am willing to be reformed.
erikcarter asked: Re: Based, the Pack's album was called "Based Boys" and came out in '07
Rappers and Bongs
I just caught Wiz Khalifa’s new video, for “Taylor Gang,” and was stunned to see bongs in the video. I know I’m not on my own in thinking that bongs are inherently funny. If you’ve seen some dumbass from Marin flip out over someone’s ROOR, you know what I mean. I suppose it’s not bongs that are funny, as much as people’s obsession with them. At UCSD,...
WatchNo, Spike Jonze didn’t direct this for a much older rapper named Lil Niqo. This kid, Lil Niqo, is about as old as the terrorist attacks on September 11th. He’s ten. He was likely in diapers on that day. He was learning how to read when Nas released Hip Hop is Dead. He still probably hasn’t learned how to multiply fractions, or states and capitals.
I suppose this is no more...
All I Wanted Was the Most Important Novel of my...
And I got called a thief! I ordered Infinite Jest from a third party Amazon bookseller at the beginning of last month. I had also ordered Andrey Kurkov’s Penguin Lost during the same shopping “trip”, from another seller, and received that book a couple weeks later. Days went by, and I started to get concerned that my Wallace novel hadn’t shipped at all, so I emailed the...
jacobogara asked: Hello. Last night I downloaded all of E-40's Revenue Retrievin' albums, and they are so dope! I never really took Forty Water seriously because I previously knew him only from tracks like "U and Dat" and "Gimme Head." I guess this is a comment, not a question.
