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[Aug. 1st, 2009|07:37 am] |
does anybody have any blood sausage mp3s besides happy little bullshit boy 10"?
happy little bullshit boy is amazing. it includes a devastating cover of have love will travel, which is genius, because that song is so poppy and cute and blood sausage makes it sound terrible.
ooh my god, i just found a zip file!! |
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[Apr. 14th, 2009|07:27 am] |
Jun 5 2009 8:00P
BEST FEST DAY 1: Frogball, Sass Dragons, Be My Doppelganger, Tenement, Axis & Allies, & MORE Indianapolis
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[Mar. 22nd, 2009|09:57 am] |
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"negative dialectics, positive attitudes!" |
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[Jan. 25th, 2009|03:07 pm] |
 i was really interested in reading this book, detour: my bipolar road trip in 4-d by lizzie simon, and i went through it pretty quickly, but more with a desire to get it over with than anything else. lizzie is an enthusiastic, successful 20 something who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her teens. she is on a roadtrip to meet other young bipolar people and find out their stories. she says so many times that she wants to "find her herd."
so from the quotes on the back which say the book is "part love story" and descriptions i read online that talk about her falling in love with the first person she interviews, i was expecting something a little bit different... i was surprised to find that she actually gets involved in an abusive relationship with this rich guy who punches people and does a lot of drugs. it's this weird, too much too fast kind of spiral, and though she does leave him eventually, the whole thing was kind of painful to read. not like she's a terrible person or anything judgmental like that (she's kind of awesome in a lot of ways), just that i was shocked that the descriptions were so misleading and reading about it really made me cringe.
what i did like about the book was the roadtrip/interview theme. it kind of reminded me of blue highways, which i highly recommend if you like roadtrip books. i don't know what it is, but when it's done right, there is something really fun about one person's mission to collect other people's stories.
one thing that kind of frustrates me is when people are trying to explain or understand how the world or just some part of society works, but they have no interest in race, class, or gender, or any other kind of oppression. simon kind of does this in the book, and there are totally these places where saying something about society could really add to it, but she just completely misses how these different factors of race, class, gender, and sexuality are informing the kind of situations she is writing about. it reminds me of this part in another book i'm reading that really interested me... in a chapter on expressionism in art, the author refers to this marxist, georg lukacs, and even though he was mostly referring to expressionism in literature, he said that expressionism could be traced back to "a general estrangement from the concrete problems of the economy, a concealment of the connections between economy, society, and ideology, with the result that these questions are increasingly mystified." i guess i kind of relate to that sentiment, and it's funny to me that it showed up in these two totally separate things i've been thinking about. |
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[Jan. 22nd, 2009|12:28 pm] |
 for the past few months, i've had a hard time getting through any book i've picked up, with the exception of i bought andy warhol by richard polsky. polsky is an art dealer in search of the perfect warhol for his personal collection. the book is a peek into the high end art world-- auctions at christie's & sotheby's, jetsetting between LA and new york, negotiating over works that go for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
the weird thing is, i really enjoyed it!! polsky and a lot of his friends & fellow dealers are real assholes. for example, as his friend's driver takes a shortcut through new york, polsky makes some kind of jerky comment about not being able to imagine living in a neighborhood like this one... and surprise, that's exactly where the driver lives.
but somehow suffering through the stupidity of this bunch is worth it. for being so interested in making art, i know very little about "the art world". polsky introduces some really interesting stuff about art fairs, the market, pricing (some paintings actually get priced by the square inch, which blew my mind and is absurd).
i was sitting at the chicago bulls game last weekend, which is like sports on so many fucking steroids-- costume changing cheerleaders, fireworks, mega-sized tvs, all of it-- and it kind of clicked-- everything in culture at the highest end is entirely about money. art, sports, music, whatever it might be... everything is an investment and the people involved in those worlds know it. it's kind of naive to ever think otherwise. i guess you could say that i like the chicago bulls and andy warhol, but i really don't want to. |
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[Jan. 14th, 2009|01:41 pm] |
i am really excited about cutting this up and sewing it back together. |
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[Jan. 12th, 2009|09:27 pm] |
reverse applique is damn hard! i think i will try a larger design next time so the fabric doesn't seriously unravel. i don't think this will really last if i stick it on anything. |
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