May 2013
37 posts
juliejuicebox:
Skrillex - Summit (ft. Ellie...
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m: it's about possession
kj: that's good
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lookerlooker:
“I look gaudy because I literally feel like I might be Jesus. Versace helps you feel like a baller.”
— - Angel Haze (& Grimes) on Versace at The Fader (via mc1rk)
i’m literally only going to wear versace.
m: i just want to bite the cartilage out of your ear and spit it out and make you look at it
kj: oh!
m: is that okay? is that french feminist?
kj: this takes me on all new theoretical trajectories. i think maybe winnicott
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one time, post-miscarriage, i cried for an entire flight from los angeles to new york. no one seemed to notice, except for the little girl sitting next to me, who offered me a piece of her candy bar.
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lookerlooker:
“The East Bay chapter of the Public Crying Coalition seeks to share and document sites and stories of public crying. An act both intimate and isolating, public crying exists at the axis of public and private, hyper visible and unnoticed, vulnerable and galvanized. We seek to map the East Bay with the psychogeography of tears and share their narratives through our walking tour...
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m: i really want to bite your eyeball out right now
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ourladyofperpetualhelp:
““It’s only in an initial state of privation that you can begin to have thoughts about what it is you might want, to really imagine or picture it. It’s very difficult to know what we’re frustrated by. In making the case for frustration I want to make it more interesting, such that people can talk or think about it in different ways. […] What I would suggest is more...
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notational:
“What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Part of what you enjoy in a documentary technique is the sense of banditry. To loot someone else’s life or sentences and make off with a point of view, which is called “objective” because you can make anything into an object by...
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“if i were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, i should say: the house...”
– gaston bachelard, the poetics of space
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i knew i was going to major in english and women’s studies pretty much from the time i was in grade school, but i think my father was still a little surprised when i told him my freshman year of college that i was taking a class called ”queer alphabets.” he did okay. it was my first important moment with adrienne rich.
i should have known that i would feel a little bit warm and...
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“…the becoming historical of the affective event and the improvisation of...”
– lauren berlant, cruel optimism
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seemstween:
“Of-the-moment, brilliant, and triumphantly sad, Illuminati Girl Gang leader Gabby Bess’s debut Alone with Other People is a post-feminist, hyper self-conscious teen swansong of the Internet age. The line between girl body and Macbook is collapsed in these vignettes that riff from blog posts, text messages, and tumblr memes, and what emerges is a “modern tragic figure who would...
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(ordered dinner at a restaurant)
kj: we did it by ourselves!
as: we did it by ourselves! don't tell marc.
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m: also, you and i are going to see taylor at the meadowlands on july 13. we have amazing seats.
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at a party, a guy who had just gotten his MFA in graphic design from yale said that the school still uses aliza as an illustration: “you can make whatever art you want. you just can’t expect the institution to support it. look at chris burden.” i was telling this story to tina and she said “what about the institutional support that is the patriarchy?”
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as: we understand that we have to compensate and that femininity is that compensation
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FGT: these artists are very dedicated. i really think this is all about survival and life-time dedication to finding some answers in a very narrow niche.
—from that felix gonzalez-torres and ross bleckner interview in bomb
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“…productivist values that i want to problematize.”
– kathi weeks, the problem with work: feminism, marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries
m: do you like how 9 months ago i found you in the feminist wilds and domesticated you?
not really. you domesticated me too.
we turned out to be so much more traditional than either of us were before we met each other.
April 2013
45 posts
neal: so i was the hype man.
as: i would like a hype man.
kj: that's what i am for you. on the internet.
kj: if pop stars can say it then i should be able to, too.
wc: i would get her a cappuccino if she was in a bad mood
m: i get her a cappuccino no matter what mood she's in
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zipupmyknickers asked: Yesterday I told someone "our relationship is a karaj reading group" and it was true.
