February 2012
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RIP Leslie Carter (1986 - 2012) →
EDIT: Someone has shared the link to her shelved album on Mediafire.
quiffsandredheads asked: I need a download link for Aaron’s Party Rocking. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. IT'S TOO AMAZING FOR WORDS. Cheers! xx
Back to Bedbugs →
Here’s an old-school rant in need of some healthy pushing back (like most of my recent writing it’s all polemic with few concrete or useful examples), but I’m asking people to actually come back to “my house” to fight about it or like it or whatever else. New Echo comments are terrible, but I can’t seem to get rid of them without deleting the most important...
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I’m off for a while. May continue blogging here on occasion
cureforbedbugs:
Aaron Carter vs. LMFAO - Aaron’s...
Aaron Carter vs. LMFAO - Aaron’s Party...
becoming-wave asked: doh, it just occurred to me too that there's totally a gross kind of misogyny in how literally some of the internet is taking those tweets. Like "see, bitches are so stupid they WANT to get hit."
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becoming-wave replied to your post: becoming-wave replied to your post: becoming-wave… No I really don’t think it means that either. That’s way too literal. You’re right to point out it’s at least half joke. But as a joke, I still find it disturbing because the whole victim thing is still such a powerful element of fantasy.
Oh em gee I just realized that those 25 tweeters just...
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becoming-wave replied to your post: becoming-wave replied to your post: I’m not… The point I’m trying to make doesn’t depend on how real the fantasy is for any individual. I’m speculating. But look, the popularity of this sentiment suggests its on ppl’s minds, to say the least.
I am genuinely curious as to what’s on people’s minds when they say something like this. I just...
The problem with "liking" stuff
Frank Kogan, re: the tweet about Chris Brown at the Grammys after Whitney Houston’s death:
Don’t see what this has to do with Whitney’s legacy one way or another, actually. Is her legacy built in any crucial manner around the fact that her husband hit her? I don’t see how we would honor her by making anything of this fact — especially since it’s not at all clear what...
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becoming-wave replied to your post: I’m not against all jokes about violence! You’re point is just fine here. I’m just saying that jokes about wanting to BE the victim freak me out because they speak to common female fantasy content, even if they create a certain distance thru humour. Changing or winning over abusive or neglectful men is a big theme in girl’s fantasies, especially young girls. So...
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becoming-wave replied to your post: becoming-wave replied to your post: becoming-wave… but fantasies are the stuff real lives & relationships are built on. I mean isn’t sexuality and romance basically all fantasy? fantasies are real in that they influence our decisions & ways of reading experiences. even when we’re reflexive about them
I hope fantasies aren’t the stuff...
becoming-wave asked: I'm not against all jokes about violence! You're point is just fine here. I'm just saying that jokes about wanting to BE the victim freak me out because they speak to common female fantasy content, even if they create a certain distance thru humour. Changing or winning over abusive or neglectful men is a big theme in girl's fantasies, especially young girls. So jokes are jokes...
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becoming-wave replied to your post: becoming-wave replied to your post: Is it weirding… i don’t think they necessarily fantasize about getting beaten. you have a point. but that cognitive dissonance ITSELF is something that carries into girl’s fantasies and romantic lives in general. celebrity or no. and THAT is DANGEROUS.
But the cognitive dissonance is part of what celebrity is in...
becoming-wave asked: further, yes there's an element of joke there. but then there's an element of not fucking joking at all. Is it a joke when people say R is a hoe and asked for it? Because that's the other trend. and it's related. The "he can hit me any time" is definitely tongue in cheek, but like i said, it speaks to the content of popular fantasies... and that's... something....
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becoming-wave replied to your post: Is it weirding anyone else out It’s obviously a joke, but IDK, I think jokes are meaningful. Like, yeah lulz and all, but there’s a kernel of something serious. Maybe it shouldn’t be taken literally… but… it still reveals something about the fantasy life of young women.
Does it, though? When Louis C.K. uses rape humor, we aren’t saying it’s...
Is it weirding anyone else out
That online outlets (who themselves become popular by posting strange and outre stuff) seem to be taking a statement like “[male celebrity I am attracted to known for domestic violence] can beat me whenever he wants” at face value? Seems like a pretty obvious attempt to be shocking and “politically incorrect” to me — you know, producing content designed to be noticed...
Cr4Bdbgs: Blargh →
marathonpacks:
cureforbedbugs:
Reading through some semi-recent academic journals today, and I stumbled upon a study that claims that exposure to short-term “highly sexual imagery” in hip-hop videos (and only hip-hop videos) is correlated with male viewers’ “more traditional” values about gender norms and “more tolerance” of rape.
There are countless reasons why this is a flawed study (I’m...
“When I first heard the song, all I heard was “UMP UMP UMP.” But then...”
– My wife Emily recounting her first experiences with “My Humps” c. 2006. (This was written in 2007.) One of the all-time most intense Bedbugs comment threads, probably #2 after the Paris Hilton/Simon Reynolds one. Or the time that Erika totally kicked my ass re: Battlestar Galactica.
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barthel replied to your post: Blargh Academia is HORRIBLE at talking about rap. HORRIBLE.
Yeah, I don’t even mention some of the crypto-racist shit they say about rap fandom. So gross.
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Blargh
Reading through some semi-recent academic journals today, and I stumbled upon a study that claims that exposure to short-term “highly sexual imagery” in hip-hop videos (and only hip-hop videos) is correlated with male viewers’ “more traditional” values about gender norms and “more tolerance” of rape.
There are countless reasons why this is a flawed study...
“Now listen, young people, I understand narcissism — clearly! — but...”
– Janeane Garofolo, on the new(ish?) John Oliver stand-up showcase show.
Nice format — two openers and one headliner in an hour, as opposed to eight shitty comics no one would ever actually want to see openers.
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I wrote about Whitney Houston for the Atlantic. →
jonathanbogart:
And pretty wholesale ripped off Mark Sinker in the process. It was too accurate a vision not to steal.
Jonathan Bogart is the WORST at shameless self-promotion. Congratulations!
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Karmin on SNL
If only Lana Del Rey had done “National Anthem” and “Off to the Races,” no one would have said anything.
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Been so long
I haven’t read “Death of the Author” (found while reading through the comments section of the Sinker Whitney Houston piece) in years, but I was immediately stopped cold on page one by this opening, the awkwardness (and wrongness) of which I clearly overlooked, or didn’t care about, when I read it for the first time, probably five or six years ago or so:
Probably this has...
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The .000000001%
Whitney Houston likely had an impact on my life that I can’t even imagine consciously — her voice was embedded in many childhood memories, but unlike Michael Jackson I never really had much of a handle on her as a figure or celebrity. Her voice is etched in without being tainted by much retroactive reappraisal connected to an uneven later career or tabloid rumors.
Mark Sinker’s...
DCM 2012 →
Ongoing 2012 Spotify Playlist, vetted by moi.
Has anyone looked at this list and tried to figure... →
pgwp:
I’m gonna put my money on Bonnie Raitt and Alicia Keys.
The Civil Wars are likely appearing with Taylor Swift. Chris Brown seems to be in the “douchebag segment” (Chris Brown, Deadmau5, Foo Fighters, David Guetta, and Lil Wayne), which should but probably was not going to include Bon Iver.
Maybe they wanted Diana Krall to play something with him? Maybe it was Nicki and he...
girlboymusic asked: Have you ever ridden a horse? If yes, tell me about it. If no, imagine what it would be like if you did.
i guess as the grade i was proudest of in high school wasn’t any of the straight A’s but the A-minus i got in pre-calc (i know, i’m obnoxious): because it was honestly the first piece of writing i ever worked hard on. i mean, i had papers in high school in college that gave me trouble, but i only ever worked on them as hard as i needed in order to finish the first draft, and i only ever wrote them...
isabelthespy asked: what's the thing you've written that you're proudest of? (is it the friday thing) IF they're different, what are the things you've written you liked the most and worked hardest on? have you ever worked on anything that gave you huge trouble putting together? is it obvious that i'm projecting at this point?
Reblog if you'll answer anything in your ask right...
katherinestasaph:
isabelthespy:
allecto:
I’m incredibly bored, so why the hell not?
do iiiiit
(amazing: my iPhone thought that iiiiit was opioid)
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these.
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The Lana Bottle
I said flippantly the other day that I have fonder memories of the so-called “Paris Wars,” in which a few rock critic types defended the Paris Hilton 2006 album Paris as a pretty awesome dance- and club-pop album. This in turn revealed a lot of strange behavior from detractors — particularly detractors in conversation with the defenders — that has been explored in various...
Too much data
Another thing that I find disconcerting about Tumblr is the false sense of totality I get of the engagement from readers. On the blogspot platform, I had very little sense of who was reading or how. My sitemeter (which I installed probably in 2007 or 2008) is still a hotbed of incredibly fucked up search terms — so many that I honestly can’t even tell how many people read things and...
I think my blogging success ratio is somewhere around 10%, but the 10% hits pretty hard. And great convos can always develop in the other 90%; the worst post can spark the best conversation. This is an aspect of blogging I’m sad to see really dwindling, especially in the blogs I read regularly. I would love to see more comment threads the size of, say, the lefty blogosphere’s average thread, but...
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the x and v from a to z: all 4 u →
theremixbaby:
Of course, my current problem with Lana Del Rey is that I literally can no longer trust any [heterosexual??] man to give a reliable reading of the image she is portraying. (Sorry guys, maybe stick to explaining how “Born to Die” sounds like Lovage; that one seems good). …
She’s criticized for her artifice, that the persona was an idea adopted and funded by her daddy’s...
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reverenddollars:
My mans Tim Finney —
“middle class indie” isn’t a term I’d use myself but I intuitively read it as referring to music that is so ubiquitously held up as a celebrated alternative to the status quo that it becomes a sort of status quo itself.
I like the term “indiestry.” Not sure anyone has coined it already, but if not, #neologism.
all the small things: Taylor Swift Is a... →
salsalsally:
Dear Taylor Swift,
I’m sorry that the boy who is undoubtedly your eternal soul mate is dating Satan and not you. What does this boy see in a girl who wears high heels, short skirts, and is the cheer captain? Doesn’t he know that those are warning signs of a morally depraved…
Hey everyone, an actual slut-shaming song by Taylor Swift exists (it’s catchy!) so please stop...
Persephone’s Bees - Nice Day
TruCounterfax...
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New complaint
Re: Ashlee — seriously, who gives a fuck if a band quits in the middle of the second song on SNL, anyway? If you’re still watching SNL at the second song, whatever you are feeling is your own damn fault.
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minimoonstar replied to your post: theremixbaby replied to your post: Soooo… I think… I have nothing to add to this except that I q. liked Lovage at the time and have no shame about it.
“It’s so easy to Lovage.”