June 2013
64 posts
“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. Proof of that is that there are about three candidates for the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. But what is important is Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, not who wrote them, but that somebody did. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.”
—William Faulkner (via theparisreview)
Shout Out Louds - 14th Of July (Jens Lekman Remix)
Jens Lekman reworks Shout Out Louds’ forthcoming single ‘14th of July’, lifted from their current album Optica - out now.
Shout Out Louds play London’s XOYO on June 13. Tickets available here:
http://billetto.co.uk/shout-out-louds
School Is Rad pt. 231 (AKA I never want to graduate)
Wow. Summer courses end this week and all I can think about are the unreal courses I have lined up for the fall. Look at these reading lists….just look at ‘em
SEN HNR SEM 492 (RS)U.S. Postmodernism
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985)
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
Giorgio Agamben, from Homo Sacer: Sovereignty and Bare Life
Elaine Scarry, from The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations
Jacques Derrida, from Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money
Satire: The History of a Genre
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Voltaire, Candide
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
G.B. Shaw, Major Barbara
Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Berthold Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove (film)
Terry Southern, The Magic Christian
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Christopher Buckley, Thank you for Smoking
chrumblr replied to your photo: So long old friend. Time to face the future I…
Cool. What the hell is BBM? No seriously, what is it?You and Yash will be BBM buddies.
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
—Brian Eno (1995)
Lust For Life - Girls
Here’s another D to Dmaj7 beauty, this time it’s on Girls - “Lust for Life”
What about you, do you have a favorite chord change?
Houseboat
Camera Obscura
If someone makes a song with his and hers vocals that trade off all conversation like, I will love that song and play it at least once a week for the rest of my life.
No Spotify? youtube the source of my problem here.
(In all honesty, this might be the real source of my problem)
The Marquee and the Moon
Sloan
Sloan - “The Marquee and the Moon”
Fly Into Ashes
Guided By Voices
Oh look, another perfect 2:24 from Mr. Pollard. Here’s the youtube if you need it.
bittertwee replied to your photoset: Wait, I’m a farmer now??? How did this happen. Oh…
How do you know I don’t Bittertwee? How do you know I don’t?As someone who thought vegetables appeared spontaneously at farmers markets, I’m impressed! Also, if you were Levin you would have serfs.
cross-my-tea replied to your photoset: Wait, I’m a farmer now??? How did this happen. Oh…
You win funniest comment of the week. Hilarious!You’re safe so long as you avoid white dreadlocks.
“One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.”
—Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (via first-lines) (via thepenguinpress)
I blame Tumblr mail
Not sure who I just sent an email to. All I know is that it never made it to it’s intended recipient…thanks Tumblr mail. My apologies if one of you received a confusing message from me.
If I Stay Too Long
Thee Oh Sees
Thee Oh Sees - If I stay Too Long
Black Gold
Van Dyke Parks
Black Gold - Van Dyke Parks
Another brilliant recent-era VDP track. Get his new album.
