January 2010
13 posts
You Are Not A Gadget
“If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of to musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than with truth or beauty. If content is worthless, then people will start to become empty-headed and contentless. The combination of hive mind and advertising has...
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But What About Their Haircuts?
“If an hour as crazily piled with incident, as racked by good/bad choices, and as saturated with geopolitical import were actually to occur, anywhere within the solar system, the approximate effect would be that of a donut dropped into the Large Hadron Collider: the whole operation would just spark out.”
- James Parker on ‘24’ in the Atlantic, via @hhavrilesky
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“Most Sterile Phrase: “cross-cultural musical hybridization has exponentially...”
– Ripfork’s antidote to painfully bad music writing.
When Sartre Talked To Crabs (It Was Mescaline) →
Sartre: ‘Yeah, after I took mescaline, I started seeing crabs around me all the time. They followed me in the streets, into class. I got used to them. I would wake up in the morning and say, “Good morning, my little ones, how did you sleep?” I would talk to them all the time. I would say, “O.K., guys, we’re going into class now, so we have to be still and quiet,” and they would be...
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