February 2011
2 posts
secondbalcony:
‘A Letter Never To Be Sent from...
Common Baby Names of 2034
Beyonce Greenspan
Snooki Johnston
Draco Gonzales
January 2011
1 post
I get it, the weather
Arrived back in breathy LA last night, late, strung out on decongestants and streaming Virgin America channels consisting exclusively of Sex in the City (I forgot how ___ it is), and then I remembered about weather. When I moved here in August I left the Eastern Seaboard summer behind and LA seemed temperate-er but otherwise only a move from Earth to Mars rather than purgatory to paradise...
December 2010
2 posts
Intimacy
Compare the experience of seeing a CPF/SigOth cry over something you don’t find upsetting vs. laugh uproariously at something you don’t find funny. The latter situation is a lot more alienating, right?
November 2010
2 posts
Proposed Public Health Campaign
Posters in middle school health classrooms of celebrities (including Michael Cera, Natalie Portman and Justin Bieber) with superimposed text, “Adderall is my Anti-Drug”
Music to Fantasize About Singularity To
Here is a compilation of songs about being in love with your computer. I hope you and your special droid-one enjoy it together.
I was talking about the possibility of staying in love with one person for a long time, because it was Halloween & time to get spooky. It does seem an unlikely enterprise, but fortunately for me I have a strong capacity for seamless self-delusion, and a strong track...
October 2010
3 posts
Meditations for the 110
I know Los Angeles is supposed to be decadent, (sic Ke$ha) but I’ve found it quite a monastic place. There is so much time spent alone, the mind engaged in that median-level consciousness alloted to braking or changing lanes. This sort of boundless singularity is compounded by the relatively empty sidewalks, long stretches of empty industrial space, and of course, by the people. All the...
Those Movies
I don’t have a list of films which I think are the “best movies.” I have a list of movies which will cause me to develop irrational affection and attachment to an individual who shares my enthusiasm for any one of said films. The reasons for this are partially rooted in my classification (in the imdb of Cecilia’s imaginary internet) of the films as undervalued not on the...
This Is Real
Someone should do a sociological survey on the probability that someone will be on a reality show voluntarily, in relation to the degree of bullying they experienced at a formative age. I had my first experience being filmed for a reality show recently and noticed how impossible it is for anyone not to act like a caricature of themselves, or rather, of some idea of what they might be. It was...
September 2010
4 posts
ORNAMENT OF MY MIGHT: STOP DOING THAT WITH YOUR... →
Pinpoints a phenomenon that’s been irritating me on/off for a while now
bluefugate:
In my head, I’ve always called them “scrappy girls,” which, unfortunately, sounds an awful lot like dirty girls. But they are of a different breed entirely. I could understand (sorta) why they existed in college, but I’m continually shocked to meet them still. Scrappy girls: they’re usually…
City Bois
…in all the faces of all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed, I discover no kinship,no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food. -Werner
…men will find a satisfaction in the consideration of the wild greatness of nature...
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Shh My Boss Says
“So imagine there’s a dialogue rooted in the fact that one guy has a gun, and the point of the scene is the other guy trying to get the gun from the first guy. Now, replace the gun with subjectively exclusive epistemological understanding, and you’ve got this scene we’re workin on now.”
August 2010
22 posts
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Sharing a Bed
“I had to plan a party at your family’s house in Connecticut for everyone I’ve ever known but the doorbell didn’t work, but everyone thought that the doorbell worked…so I had to keep checking the door!
Then my friend Keren came and told me how she was really into seances now and believed in ghosts, and how she wasn’t going to worry about intelletcutal things...
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So Wait
which came first, this show or the contents of my unconsious mind?
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A Modest Proposal
Charlotte Rampling
Billy Corgan
Trina
Lars Von Trier
Michael Caine
Dakota Fanning
Get It While It's Hot
“Who knows how many of these stories were thought up and written while Salinger sat on this throne!”
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Don Draper Not Attractive: Why
1. Excessively groomed hair.
2. Zero neurotic affect.
3. All the reasons Gene Wilder is hot as shit.
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How Inception Could Have Been Awesome
Replace DiCaprio with Werner Herzog.
July 2010
4 posts
Misunderstood
3 things people think are about sex, which are actually about money:
Eyes Wide Shut
Lolita
OkCupid
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June 2010
13 posts
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Oh, K.
Leopards In The Temple
Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.
-Kafka
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Re: Thinking
I meant to write about this conference as it happened, directly afterward, or at some other reasonably relevant juncture. But now the internet shelflife of ReThinking Poetics 2010 has passed its prime and I am yet again behind the curve. I took notes during, and thought about crafting some sort of Legitimately Coherent Response, but instead am providing…this.
It’s worth noting that...
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