February 2012
42 posts
Track: GG King - Joyless Masturbation
letsgetbent:
Joseph Rodriguez
I think I’m gonna pick up a big ol’ bottle of lotion today. Half is gonna go to former Carbonas’ frontman GG King, cause I think he’s doing it all wrong, and the other half is going to be used to help my skin heal after being hit with a shrapnel bomb of punk shards that is GG King’s new single “Joyless Masturbation”. Stream the single below.
The 7” will be out...
Total Control, “The Hammer” from Henge...
Hardcore for Nerds: nevermind the sex pistols,... →
hardcorefornerds:
nevermind the sex pistols, it’s f**ked up
that I liked the opening two seconds of the new Earth track(s) way more than an attempt to listen to at least 15 seconds of the new Fucked Up (even skipping past the tortuously slow opening). just saying (that Fucked Up are such a bland, formulaic - like a clock that chimes punk riffs - rehash of melodic hardcore that I think...
“Organic and fair trade practices are leading us, gradually but inevitably, to a...”
– Is It Time for Fair Trade Porn? | | AlterNet
I’m sorry, you’re a better web-consumer than I if you glimpse this headline in your Google Reader without clicking.
Conclusion? This is a work of neither public health nor one which is informed by a Freudian, let alone Foucaultian take on...
32>33 vector
1 I thought about this blog post all through Aqua Fit class. (I’m a sick guy, and if I can keep my head together through a beginning-middle-end blog post without plunging into self-torture or disassociation, I can tell my shrink and he’ll praise me.) Most of Aqua Fit class is spent jogging around the deep end of the YMCA pool with a flotation belt, so I was happy to have little...
How Democracy Can Save Europe by Timothy Snyder |... →
Half-impressive, this blog post is?
Germans are now behaving a bit in European politics as red staters do in American politics: they profit from the larger union they think they want to undermine. The German boom of the last decade depends precisely on the euro and the market it provides for German exports in countries such as Greece, and on the fact that the euro in international markets ...
“Washington Post columnist Charles Lane has decided that public sector unions are...”
– Lessons on Economics and Politics for the Post: Democracies Have Unions | Dean Baker
Playing the Fool
I actually wasn’t prepared for this latest “War on Religion” hard-on from the Right. Foolishly presuming that we’d all grasped how political modernity, or at least liberal democracy, need arise from a secular base, I had moved past attacking denizens of organized religion and begun assaulting the merely spiritual: these are altogether worthier opponents currently growing at...
Is Madonna Eating Our Young? A Post-Halftime... →
These two could be the Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe of pop culture from which I’m totally, happily aloof. Unleash their brains and their voices on whatever and I’m quickly transfixed. Pretty soon I’ll be watching Beverly Hills Housewives On the Real, or whatever it’s called.
In this case our heroines discuss the lady who inspired that Ciccone Youth lp.
Julie: I...
The Eurozone: Self-Inflicted Depression →
I know Mark Weisbrot mostly for his work on US-Latin American policy, but his interview re: the Eurozone has effectively dissuaded me from a couple of previously-held ideas about what is actually going on across the Atlantic. ‘Goes to show how horrid the reporting has been on this topic in the USA.
For the ECB and their allies in the Troika, part of the motivation is that they see the...
The Rolling Stones, “Dancing With Mr....
hardcorefornerds asked: what's your MBTI? I promise this a more social question than it seems, albeit one asked out of mostly un-scientific curiosity
Girl News - Girls and Work | VICE →
I continue to love this column, and I’m unfortunately not even a girl!
Except for the smartness part, this nails me dead to rights. I’d only add that the next frontier after slackerhood is debilitating mental illness. That’s how I’m trying to spin it today, anyway:
SMARTNESS
If you need an example of how bad it is to be very smart, think about your top-three most...
Music Reviews a la Boatzone3: Bestuv 2011,... →
Every year I spend too much time writing foul-mouthed blurbs about last year’s records, and 2011 was the biggest job yet. If you could spare a minute or sixty for a look-see, well golly it would mean much to me.
Just hop one click over to my wordpress joint, maybe leave a comment, and then this whole thing’ll finally be behind us.
“Only person who have the respect is the barrack obama. He wonderful speaker and...”
– I just want everybody to know that the Iron Sheik, or somebody saying s/he’s l’Iron Sheik, is making a lotta bold moves on twitter.
The @JohnCleese have bigger balls than the @MittRomney
Okay, so maybe it’s not really the Shiek.
A Bloody Mess: boatzone3: “And yes, I know. A lot... →
popsnacking:
boatzone3:
“And yes, I know. A lot of people who loved Midnight in Paris would be the first to say it’s a trifle, so what’s the diff? None, really. But I haven’t felt so estranged by someone else’s interpretation of artists I cherish since Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces put me off the Sex…
I agree, I think it is mostly Woody Allen fans that make him seem that he is elitist.
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“And yes, I know. A lot of people who loved Midnight in Paris would be the first...”
– Woody Allen’s Excellent Adventure
I have a soft spot for Woody, whom I think has made some great shit, although not lately. I really appreciate the shot at Greil Marcus, who deserves every low blow available. I haven’t seen this movie, and now I really don’t wanna. Am I wrong?
Lilly Ledbetter Did Not Alter Pay Equity Gap... →
Ah, well fuck this, also.
Susan G Komen Foundation Pulls Breast Cancer... →
I lack adequate profanity for these….fucking fucks.
January 2012
105 posts
Rank/Xerox, “Drips” from Rank/Xerox
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Two Things | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy →
Maybe I’m a maoist, but I’d really like to have people forced to memorize little facts of life like this, and maybe carry the best blurbs around in a pocket-sized digest called What the Fuck Is and Isn’t Going On:
I was debating WSJ editorial writer Steve Moore on supply-side-trickle-down, and numerous times, he argued that supply-side tax cuts put more money in the hands of...
Ty Segall, “Hey Big Mouth” from...
