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the-midnight-rose:

A Sorta Fairytale, Tori Amos

i love this song, i’ve posted it before, and i said i had feelings about it, and i have even more feelings about it now, or more articulate feelings about it, actually, and it conveniently goes with my temporary fake feelings theme. but i was listening to the second half of it on repeat anyway. it’s something about that tracey emin i just posted, and besidedness, and contracts, and especially how she sings “you lost me.” do you think she’s really sad? maybe a little wistful, or contemplative, and still accusatory. 

"how does one go about creating a “fake” feeling? and to what uses might an artfully created feeling be put?"

sianne ngai, ugly feelings 

giving in to accumulation because what else is there to do there's history

(womenartists)

sheree hovsepian, i’ll be your mirror, 2009

accumulation and narcissism. 

(leatherheather)

yayoi kusama, compulsion furniture accumulation, 1964

remember when i said it wasn’t really about accumulation? it’s still also about accumulation. compulsive accumulation, actually. 

(meteoramusic)

“video games” by lana del rey

“for women modernists, aesthetic and phenomenological boredom provided a homeopathic cure for the banality of the present—a restless self-consciousness (a “desire to desire”) very different from the ideal of disinterestedness that characterizes traditional historiography.” 

—patrice petro in “historical ennui, feminist boredom” in aftershocks of the new: feminism and film history 

(Source: holyvinyl)

amberrhands:

Jenny Holzer

super inspired. 

“why are you here?” i asked my friend nicole, an entertainment editor, last night. “romance!” she said. her boyfriend smirked. 

sade looked perfect in her black sweater thin enough that you could see her black bra underneath and, later, in a white dress that was just a little bit too tight. “slinky,” indeed.