I am not an "adult"

Pragmatism is the valuation of the body above the soul.

Past 20,000 Views...

... and temporarily in neutral. Maybe this will help:

Your thoughts? Feelings? Especially if you haven't left any before.

It's not navel-gazing. I am looking out and seeing a void. Fill it below.

Love,
:-p

I Love Corporate

I sometimes fixate on chain restaurants. Living in the world capital of boutique utopia, I've come to experience most places I go not as the opposite of "themed" restaurants like Planet Hollywood but rather much more finely-tuned versions of the same. The difference being that the aggressive "theme-ing" of Brooklyn restaurants is based in exclusion, whereas corporate themes are always inclusive.

I dream of West New York... New Jersey.

(I know I repeat myself I know)

There's No Need

High School Poem (ca 1996)

Love like longing,

laughter lost.

Oasis of oblivion;

obtuse obsession.

Vain, valiant valentine.

Voluntarily vexed.

Embark elongated embarrassment -

expected: elation.

one exemption

that the following is buried on a secondary blog instead of the last thing posted at pitchfork before the staff commits ritual suicide is why i agree with myself about music criticism mostly being a waste.

guess who

SR writes that maybe the energy expended on the politics of pop should just go back to politics and that that may be a good thing. on some level i agree but then the same bland pluralism and flattening that he sees in the pop landscape is what was turning me off from OWS. lady gaga:underground music::1%:99%. if totalizing change can't even be conceived of in culture, you know, good luck with global political ontology. also peter green:eric clapton::mikhail bakunin:karl marx?

my 2011 in music

I don't think I can write a long post. I am sick of opinions. Especially mine.

Like:

Jacques Greene

Chelsea Wolfe

Clams Casino

Can't Decide:

Grimes

Hate:

Hipster House (ironic distance and dance music don't go together well but people who should know better seem to become enraptured by the pomo bullshit that some people in this scene use to defend this crap - makes me wonder what a lot of people liked about house in the first place)

Vapid "Ethnic" Influences (black people be dancin', yo! "they burn so bright whilst you can only" buy)

Music Criticism ("a latticework of reference points and sources that span the decades and the oceans but never quite manages to invent a reason for itself to exist")