January 2012
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-1-1) →
Bowerbirds (6)
Neutral Milk Hotel (6)
The Cave Singers (5)
The National (5)
Deerhunter (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
December 2011
29 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Four Tet (4)
The National (4)
The Field (4)
John Talabot (3)
Destroyer (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Speaking animals are distant animals who try to communicate through the forest...”
– Jacques Ranciere
“The poem, a prolonged hesitation between sound and meaning.”
– Paul Valery
“Postmodern cynicism is rage that can no longer get it up.”
– Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam
“There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and...”
– Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
The National (19)
Best Coast (17)
The Beach Boys (11)
Benoit & Sergio (6)
植松伸夫 (6)
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An Interview with Jeffrey Sachs →
The Occupy movement finds the unlikeliest of allies — one of the sculptors of neo-liberal Shock Therapy of the ‘80’s. As soon as the herald of privatization starts calling for financial regulation and taxes on the rich, I think it becomes clear that something is dreadfully wrong with the current system.
“Don’t forget what your hat and shoes will look like when you are nowhere...”
– Bob Perelman, China
John Cage - 4’33” (Dubstep Remix)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
The Beach Boys (23)
Quit Mumbling (17)
Shit Robot (10)
John Talabot (9)
Glasser (7)
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U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes... →
Musee des Beaux Arts, by W.H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They...
“Everyone should go home, this is ridiculous. You should not be doing this. We...”
– Justin Vernon, months ago on what he would say in an acceptance speech if he won a Grammy.
Cripplingly Self-Aware Self-Promotion...
If you happen to be interested in hearing my guest spot on a weekly university radio show, head to this website. The link to download the stream is in the upper-right. I’m responsible for adding the electronic element to the show, and my spot goes on around 12:30 EST on Thursdays, 9:30 of course on the west coast. If you’re interested, a preview of what I’m offering today is...
“For a while, there was a period where, when people heard someone address me as...”
– Professor Ricardo Ortiz
“The perverse leather bottom, unrecognized as such by the students, is instead...”
– Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages
Fringe benefit of grad school: getting to read biopolitical, queer theory critiques of the Lemmiwinks episode of South Park.
November 2011
29 posts
“Speaking in cliche is like biting on a plumstone which someone else has spat...”
– A.E. Rauter
“What is realized in my history is neither the past definite as what was, since...”
– Jacques Lacan
Time is becoming a funny thing…
“Dubstep is the future; it’s the new hip-hop, it’s the new metal, it’s the new...”
– Jonathan Davis, frontman of Korn
Further reason to hate dubstep.
“Between a children’s progress from a heavenly world to a world that is a...”
– Fanny Howe, Radical Love
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With...”
– Matthew Arnold, from “Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse”
“The future, as Annie’s hymn to the hope of ‘Tomorrow’...”
– Lee Edelman, No Future
“An act itself is a repetition, a sedimentation, and congealment of the past...”
– Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter
I think this is another one of those “I’m not sleeping tonight” moments.
Together As Fun People: DFA, Done Deux →
togetherasfunpeople:
Two fantastic new tracks out of the DFA camp recently. The first [Holy Ghost! - I Wanted To Tell Her (feat. Nancy Whang & the Juan Maclean)] represents everything that I could hope for the post-disco synthy soundscape remade in LCD’s image. Consider it DFA’s Megazord, minus the green ranger (James Murphy, of course).
The second [Factory Floor - Two...
