January 2010
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Lost: Dig or Ditch
Dig
The women are all really good with guns. I like the gun use on Lost in general. They use guns for everything: hijacking, trading prisoners, mediating time travel-related psychological pressure, dealing with tricky buttons that might control the world. They practically use them to stir their tea.
Desmond. Desmond is my number one “Lost” crush. You can’t say he drinks...
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nicki minaj
sometimes i get painting requests and i actually do them, especially if they’re on a day when i have nothing to do and i’m already painting.
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here’s what i made for the haiti event, plus ted danson.
i thought, they need a blago painted like spot the target dog. i drew this on a wobbly table and josh said the wobbles gave him a real worried look.
then i painted this one real quick because it wasn’t that exciting. the tv-like-thing on the bottom says “simsim” because i got this idea that it would be cool to...
music videos you might care about today
in eight months, all the frat boys who live down 4th street from me will love this band. thanks, pitchfork!
this family’s just like mine:
the music doesn’t start until 6:15. Before that it’s a muppet show about cat allergies and sending mail. Dan Deacon just might be as weird as Eric Wareheim, but Eric does it with old men he finds on Craigslist instead of muppets,...
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mart and usic
here’s a self-portrait, because people tell me it’s ok to draw your own face. in fact, it’s even kind of artsy.
it’s from this picture i took when i gave myself pin curls. i feel like if i looked like my personality, i would have big hair. i never really finished this because it doesn’t look much like me. but maybe it does and i just have no idea what i look like.
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why chelsea handler should give john mayer a...
i was really curious to read the interview w/ john mayer after he had agonized about it on his (really fucking funny) twitter. you can tell the guy interviewing him thinks he’s annoying, but he is so witty that if i had a show, i would hire him as a writer.
here are my favorite excerpts:
About women: “You need to have them be able to go toe-to-toe with you intellectually. But...
green beach sound
i noticed there are a couple haiti relief auctions next weekend and i figured, “hey where do they take art from nobodies like me? charity auctions.” i offered up my art and both accepted. i didn’t want to be shitty and be like “here’s some old painting i’m ashamed of,” so i made some new stuff (although not art that has to do w/ haiti, because i...
playlist
here are some songs on my current playlist:
first of all, i like this band name. it’s spanish and french, but not so spanish and french that you’re like WOW they know spanish and french how europe-y of them. the bull and me - it sounds cute. this video is like a bret easton ellis party without all the rape.
ok so this isn’t SUPER NEW, but you can’t disagree with...
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boy george clooney
i found out that when george clooney was a kid, he looked like a rapist club owner from the swingin’ 70s. doesn’t that make you feel good about yourself? maybe we’ll all blossom into george clooneys. anyway, i drew his picture, but i kinda hate it. i gave him fat cheeks that make him look more like the typical twinkie eating children that we know and love. when i’m less...
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sketchbook chronicles
i bought a cool new sketchbook and some more markers. i like to draw faces that i read about in magazines and that’s all there is to it.
this one’s not finished but i might finish it.
flew the coop!
i’m really inspired by this:
and i’ll probably use elements of it in lots of things.
hustle, grind, etc.
all my college career i’ve been putting off my environment and physics requirements, and now in my last semester they have turned into a class called “astronomy 1001: exploring the universe.”
in a dose of “the gods are conspiring to make my life like a wes anderson movie,” my teacher ended up being this guy:
his name is Chick Woodward, of all things, and he...
oh the mundanity
guess what?
all my pens ran out. so i couldn’t finish this drawing. that means soon i have to visit the coffman union bookstore and buy these things:
pens
a book for my class about exploring the universe
a book for my class called World Englishes
This drawing uses a phrase i read about in Details magazine called lebensmensch. It was in an article formally called “The Fascist Who...
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rihanna
rihanna is on the cover of GQ. This didn’t turn out how I wanted, but it was a bit of a learning experience. I might try it again.
here it is once i messed with it on iphoto:
here’s just with blue:
and … just the drawing
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Top 30 songs of the decade
30. Yo La Tengo - “Our Way to Fall”
Yo La Tengo is the kind of band that no one thinks about often, and no one really wants to see live (did it once, bleh). What they are is the kind of band that can make slow, fumbly love songs that act as sonic Prozac for when the love, inevitably, goes sour.
29. Gnarls Barkley - “Crazy”
No one cared that the beat was stolen...
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sawyer and the shark
i’ve been watching a lot of “lost” and i’m starting to like it more. one moment i liked was when sawyer got glasses. that was a good day in the writing room when someone said, “let’s devote a portion of this plot line to getting sawyer to look even more like a calvin klein model.”
i wrote song lyrics inspired by sawyer during a scene when he was on a...
how to know if she a hoe, courtesy of twitter
i learned some things from twitter’s trending topic called #sheprobablyahoe.
here are some good tips:
was this stolen from an “alice in wonderland” porno with oscar meyer product placement?
this guy could write a memoir called “encounters with deliciously monikered hoes.” i’d listen to him.
oh “iamadancer.” i thought youwereagirl. that...
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manny pacquaio
For my living room. It’s pretty big. It looks cooler in the picture than it really is because of how the glitter caught the light.
I’m interested in violence lately. Not as in “violence is a pity and I hate it,” but more like translating the weird joy people get from violence into something harmless and aesthetic.
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Avatarted? A review, with pictures!
Before I saw “Avatar” yesterday (in IMAX 3D!), I knew there were several criticisms of the film:
-The story is a white person’s fantasy of “going native.” See this article for more.
-The story copies Pocahantas
-The use of the word “Avatar” offended Hindus. See the ten avatars of Vishnu:
These are all social and ethical obstacles, but when we...
why my blog is blocked in turkey
My friend Tom is in Turkey right now and sent me a message saying that he can’t read my blog there. This is the reason that his server gave:
“Engellenmiş ifadelerin limiti aşıldı: 251 : 498 (( teen , fuck)+(animal, fuck, dog)+(finger, slut)+(fuck, slut)+(hot, slut)+(lolita, slut)+(lolita, fuck)+(panty, slut)+(panty, fuck)+ gay + girl + sheer + shit + slut+ slutty...
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Why the decade in TV rocked
I wish I had a better word than “rocked,” but it seems to still be the rivaling antonym for “sucked.”
Yo Gabba Gabba
It makes my tummy a party.
Metalocalypse
Dethklok sends all their concert-goers to “hamburger time [death].” Plus, they tour in real life, somehow.
Dexter
A new frontier in hot serial killer. Plus, the best opening credits I’ve...
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Why the decade in TV sucked
Drop Dead Diva
A woman dies and comes back fat. Does she learn a lesson from her newfound folds? Didn’t stick around to watch.
Next
NEXT - MTV Shows
This show could be considered “awesomely bad.” Totally scripted, with straights playing gays and vice versa. A clusterfuck in a van.
One Tree Hill
I watched one episode of this show. Here’s what happened: All...
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things i don't understand about LOST
I’ve begun to watch “Lost” in this endless prairie of spare time in which I frolic, and I still don’t get why it’s so great. I watched the pilot in high school and hated it, retiring it until this juncture, wherein many people have started insisting I watch it again. I’m up to episode 6 of season 1, which I have to admit was the most exciting of all. (I was...
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my top fifteen songs of 2009
The best I could do.
15. Julian Casablancas - “Out of the Blue”
Sans Strokes, Casablancas’ sound is full of smooth, quirk-inflected production. In this song it works perfectly, while in others it sounds too (gasp) mainstream crossover for fans of the ultra-cool, shaggy-haired New Yorkians.
14. Best Coast - “When I’m With You”
Just discovered this...
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the most hospitable bands i've met
i’m restocking my iTunes library after my hard drive crashed a few months ago, and occasionally i find myself adding songs by a band i’ve had the pleasure of meeting in my career as a college journalist. most bands have been pretty nice, no big horror stories or anything, but these were probably the most hospitable.
Bonde do Role
Date: 2007, winter
Venue: Triple Rock
Substances:...
top ten LPs of 2009
i’m obsessed with top ten lists. they’re my ferry on this endless river of boredom.
here’s mine:
10. Antlers - “Hospice”
For when you want the shit depressed out of you. I actually met these guys at Pitchfork when I didn’t have a clue who they were. Jay was interviewing them and I didn’t realize that the girl this album is about had died, so I almost...
generation (this space to highest bidder)
yesterday me and my roommates decided to clean our house and drink blue moons. we got around to talking about what our generation would be called and no one was sure. like i do whenever there is a lack of an idea, i suggest selling that space to a corporation. here is what we came up with. i like that it’s applebees because applebees doesn’t describe any of our trends, so it is...
sub-blog
i started a new blog about speaking english. my first post is about boobs. i was thinking about how there really are no good words for boobs in the english language, and about how tricky talking about boobs is for native speakers, doubly so for learners. it was also inspired by watching “californication,” which is full of boobs.
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things that were cool in 2009
arty film cameras
hip versions of american food
being drunk and slutty and witty
Helvetica
Distortion/lo-fi
fantasy football - thanks paul rudd!
having an opinion about lady gaga
something called chillwave
hating hipsters
admissions of slight inaccuracy
i will admit that fantasy football may have always been cool and now that i live with three jocky dudes i notice...
