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Orwell's a real funny guy! Poverty and privation are not above satire
Also reading Macbeth with my students and The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson for myself
Feb 13, 2024
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šŖhe wrote ārosencrantz and guildenstern are deadā and ive read his play āArcadiaā more times than I can count
If youāre feeling like a weird trip, Eugene Ionesco. āRhinocerosā is the most famous and one of the longest but the short ones are weirder and more absurd
I legally have to rec Samuel Beckett, subject of my undergrad lit thesis. Obviously thereās āwaiting for godotā but I wrote about (and so am more fond of) āKrappās last tapeā. youāll have existential ennui for weeks.
If youāre feeling like a weird trip, Eugene Ionesco. āRhinocerosā is the most famous and one of the longest but the short ones are weirder and more absurd
I legally have to rec Samuel Beckett, subject of my undergrad lit thesis. Obviously thereās āwaiting for godotā but I wrote about (and so am more fond of) āKrappās last tapeā. youāll have existential ennui for weeks.
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šI read both at a timultuous time in my life, and it showed me how to find humor amidst chaos and uncertainty. I swear they both rewired my brain.
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this was the epitome of the Obama administration
Feb 19, 2024
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ā¤ļøNot a rec but a trend I noticed in music.
In Hayes Code Hollywood (puritanical production mandates against things like sex, violence, swearing in movies), there were musical numbers that took otherwise innocuous songs and added eroti./BDSM undertones. we had āDiamonds Are a Girlās Best Friendā from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The big dance sequence in Minnelliās The Pirate, where a woman is transformed into a donkey/bunny(? I forget) on all fours (I think?) while Gene Kelly gyrates around her in tight, low cut leather (this is crystal clear).
Fast forward (Iām skipping many steps - an amateur at this sort of thing) to the late 2000s/early 2010s. The latent BDSM becomes more explicitly lyrical in songs Like āBad Romanceā and (obviously) āSM.ā However, these songs have erotic purchase - they chart desire ( ā I want your revengeā āChains and whips excite meā) without the context of the body. The instrument and the lyrics let the listener construct titillation/lust.
Then, in the latter 2010s, we get total assaults of the physical experience of pleasure in Songs like āWAPā artists like Cupcakke, etc. so explicit that they undermine eroticism. At the same time, thereās also artists like Carly Rae Jepsen, who wax about yearning in a mystical, spiritual fashion (that im sure Jia Tolentino wrote about somewhere).
still working out why, but I think this change speaks to how rabidly we want sensation (not contemplation) from art but also (bc we get most of our art electronicall) technology and (still Working this one out) religion?
i told my friend about this and he said, āSex Positive Accelerationism.ā
In Hayes Code Hollywood (puritanical production mandates against things like sex, violence, swearing in movies), there were musical numbers that took otherwise innocuous songs and added eroti./BDSM undertones. we had āDiamonds Are a Girlās Best Friendā from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The big dance sequence in Minnelliās The Pirate, where a woman is transformed into a donkey/bunny(? I forget) on all fours (I think?) while Gene Kelly gyrates around her in tight, low cut leather (this is crystal clear).
Fast forward (Iām skipping many steps - an amateur at this sort of thing) to the late 2000s/early 2010s. The latent BDSM becomes more explicitly lyrical in songs Like āBad Romanceā and (obviously) āSM.ā However, these songs have erotic purchase - they chart desire ( ā I want your revengeā āChains and whips excite meā) without the context of the body. The instrument and the lyrics let the listener construct titillation/lust.
Then, in the latter 2010s, we get total assaults of the physical experience of pleasure in Songs like āWAPā artists like Cupcakke, etc. so explicit that they undermine eroticism. At the same time, thereās also artists like Carly Rae Jepsen, who wax about yearning in a mystical, spiritual fashion (that im sure Jia Tolentino wrote about somewhere).
still working out why, but I think this change speaks to how rabidly we want sensation (not contemplation) from art but also (bc we get most of our art electronicall) technology and (still Working this one out) religion?
i told my friend about this and he said, āSex Positive Accelerationism.ā
Feb 26, 2024
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The following photos are examples. another instance which belongs only to memory: I was teaching kindergarten on the UES at a point in my life which seemed to have no point but one morning I was walking from 86th street where they have enormous lavish dogs who look like they have a 401k and the sun was coruscating like entire streets were orange and I strolled past this Platonic piece of dog shit that was sculpted like a soft serve and the shit had this gleaming halo from the sun and stopped and stared at it for like 5 minutes
This song from the legend of Zelda always plays when I see these: https://youtu.be/qtCWgWUhA8s?si=f13382M560HRzX6B
This song from the legend of Zelda always plays when I see these: https://youtu.be/qtCWgWUhA8s?si=f13382M560HRzX6B
Feb 4, 2024