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Apr 6 '11
The Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic

tomewing:

minimoonstar:

Via Chira (@honhonhon): the creepiest online personality quiz ever! O_O I got more and more emotionally upset as I progressed through it, for no logical reason - it does seem designed to tap into the limbic.  Do it and let me know if I’m just being wacky.

My result FTR:

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This was amazing! The actual result (which I forgot to c+p and I don’t really want to repeat the experience) was about one-third perceptive and two-thirds completely offbase though. (I WISH hard work, thrift and responsibility were the way to my heart, or indeed ideas I had more than a nodding relationship to.)

Creepy experience, sure - which is cool, it’s hard to be genuinely unsettling - but my result was 100% wrong in every sentence (like, seriously, as if they were describing the anti-me). So then I looked at the domain the test is hosted on, and the dude’s a designer? And I can’t find any reference to a “Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic” anywhere?

In other words, this is an art project, right?

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Mar 30 '11

Okay, that was awesome. I am glad nobody spoiled me to the fact that there’s a Finnegans Wake reference on the first full song on Missy Elliott’s debut album*, because it was a blast to hear it myself out of the blue.

*(though it was delivered on a Lil’ Kim verse, apparently!)

Mar 30 '11

I am finally listening to a whole bunch of Missy Elliott songs beyond just the hits and they are all pretty cool! But also it’s after midnight now and I should probably go to sleep instead.

Mar 15 '11
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
— Carrey (Jim). (via fernandofrench)

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Mar 8 '11

Mar 3 '11
barthel: screwrocknroll: clembastow: The negative comments in the ‘Your Rating’ section on At The Movies’ review of No Country For Old Men are even better than News.com.au comments. Most of us feel this comment is silly, right? Yet if Devine were talking about music* we would consider her criticism far more reasonable. Right? A non-rhetorical question: Why is music different? —— *Particularly music made by black men. Because music is in the first person and movies are in the third person.  Also, movies are in the past tense and music tends to be in the future tense, implying some coming event one could prevent, if one tried (“I’m gonna get that girl” / “I’m gonna kill that motherfucker”). Also, rap music (which I assume is what you mean by “music made by black men” - people seem, if anything, under-concerned with representations of reality in R. Kelly!) has an ideology of realness which makes it deliberately difficult to tell what’s meant as metaphor and what’s meant as autobiographical detail, at least for non-listeners.  While this is crucial to rap as an artform and works to effectively repel outsiders, when combined with the first-person and future-tense setting of rap tracks it makes taking it literally a lot more understandable, I think.  I mean, “actors” is an insult in the context of rap, but a description of what Tommy Lee Jones was doing in No Country.

barthel:

screwrocknroll:

clembastow:

The negative comments in the ‘Your Rating’ section on At The Movies’ review of No Country For Old Men are even better than News.com.au comments.

Most of us feel this comment is silly, right? Yet if Devine were talking about music* we would consider her criticism far more reasonable. Right?

A non-rhetorical question: Why is music different?

——

*Particularly music made by black men.

Because music is in the first person and movies are in the third person.  Also, movies are in the past tense and music tends to be in the future tense, implying some coming event one could prevent, if one tried (“I’m gonna get that girl” / “I’m gonna kill that motherfucker”).

Also, rap music (which I assume is what you mean by “music made by black men” - people seem, if anything, under-concerned with representations of reality in R. Kelly!) has an ideology of realness which makes it deliberately difficult to tell what’s meant as metaphor and what’s meant as autobiographical detail, at least for non-listeners.  While this is crucial to rap as an artform and works to effectively repel outsiders, when combined with the first-person and future-tense setting of rap tracks it makes taking it literally a lot more understandable, I think.  I mean, “actors” is an insult in the context of rap, but a description of what Tommy Lee Jones was doing in No Country.

(Source: clambistro)

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Mar 3 '11
barthel: emmyblotnick: I was reading the Wikipedia page for rats and learned something new: Infant [rats] are called kittens or pups. A group of rats is either referred to as a pack or a mischief. If someone asked you if you wanted to play with a mischief of kittens, you would probably say “Sure! That sounds adorable. Aw, mischievous little kitties.” And then that someone would be like “HAHAHA IT’S A BAG OF RATS!” (via airgordon)

barthel:

emmyblotnick:

I was reading the Wikipedia page for rats and learned something new:

Infant [rats] are called kittens or pups. A group of rats is either referred to as a pack or a mischief.

If someone asked you if you wanted to play with a mischief of kittens, you would probably say “Sure! That sounds adorable. Aw, mischievous little kitties.”

And then that someone would be like “HAHAHA IT’S A BAG OF RATS!”

(via airgordon)

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Mar 2 '11
Childish Gambino: Sitcom Tested, Hipster Approved

Oh hey, good timing for another interesting take on Donald Glover as Childish Gambino.

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Feb 28 '11

Donald Glover and Childish Gambino

Okay, so if you follow me on any social media platform you know I love the TV show Community. You may or may not know that I’ve been listening to a whole lot of hip-hop, probably more total listening minutes than indie/rock/pop, over the past year or so. I still want to write a big long thing, for my own benefit, figuring out a bit about my relationship to hip-hop; in order to enjoy a lot of the songs I enjoy, I have to just plain old ignore plenty of misogyny, homophobia, and so on, plus become totally inured to the n-word and casual references to women as “bit**es” and occasional other bits of strategic unfeeling. Not all rap requires this, of course, but rather a lot of the mainstream stuff does, because rather a lot of the mainstream stuff has braggadocio as a major component, and a major component of rap braggadocio involves rapping about “getting women” in a way that is completely impersonal and often - it seems to me - demeaning. 

Anyway, this post is about something that’s really interesting to me at the moment, and that’s Donald Glover’s (actor and comedian, Troy on Community) side career rapping as Childish Gambino. 

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Feb 28 '11
thevolcanoplays: Natalie Nourigat art + janelle monae = awesome! (to be fair, anything + janelle monae = awesome)

thevolcanoplays:

Natalie Nourigat

art + janelle monae = awesome!

(to be fair, anything + janelle monae = awesome)

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