No Art Looks Cool

KEEPING THIS RETORT FOREVER because sadly I have needed it on...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:26:40 -0500

KEEPING THIS RETORT FOREVER because sadly I have needed it on occasion.

"A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory]..."

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:53:41 -0500

“A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: “There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the ’50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.”

- Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via fuckyeahbeatniks)

"If you put a Cheeto on a big white plate in a formal restaurant and serve it with chopsticks and say..."

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:20:55 -0500

“If you put a Cheeto on a big white plate in a formal restaurant and serve it with chopsticks and say something like “It is a cornmeal quenelle, extruded at a high speed, and so the extrusion heats the cornmeal ‘polenta’ and flash-cooks it, trapping air and giving it a crispy texture with a striking lightness. It is then dusted with an ‘umami powder’ glutamate and evaporated-dairy-solids blend.” People would go just nuts for that.”

- Jeb Boniakowksi (via austinkleon)

whyproject2012: #weneedarevolution

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:18:53 -0500

whyproject2012:

#weneedarevolution

“How about, ‘feminine identified people just want to...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:45:35 -0500

“How about, ‘feminine identified people just want to have fun’ or ‘humans just want to have fun?’ So, what, people who aren’t on the gender binary don’t want to have fun?”

-Actual things said at a party while this song was playing

I have never heard so much stupid outside of Tumblr, but apparently it actually does happen in real life, too.

Rejected OK Computer album art or booster seat instructions?

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:41:35 -0500

Rejected OK Computer album art or booster seat instructions?

https://www.aprweb.org/poem/translations-hafiz

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:03:01 -0500

https://www.aprweb.org/poem/translations-hafiz:

Glad to know going to bars hasn’t really changed much in 650 some odd years.

"Millions of kids are walking the streets who have no vested interest in living."

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:14:00 -0500

“Millions of kids are walking the streets who have no vested interest in living.”

- Waiting for Superman

Really? They have no corporeal form?
Capital ≠ Life

Internet, stop telling me what Slavoz Zizek says about shit because I do not fucking care.

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:10:55 -0500

Internet, stop telling me what Slavoz Zizek says about shit because I do not fucking care.

mystic mayan power cloak

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:54:12 -0500

mystic mayan power cloak:

This + snuggie = set for life.

“But perhaps that’s what it means: the idea can only...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:05:00 -0500

“But perhaps that’s what it means: the idea can only burn for those who cannot see it, who have already gone under. It’s on the other side of the mirror, although all they can see are their own stupid faces.

And what do we see, in the reflective surface of the train windows? Whose faces are behind the glass? —‘My God, look at us’, says W. ‘Look at what we’ve become’.”

— Lars Iyer, Spurious

Can you tell what kind of mood I’m in lately? Actually,...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:06:00 -0500

Can you tell what kind of mood I’m in lately?

Actually, not that bad, really. The reading and the music indulge my gloom, leaving me personable and silly for real life interactions.

I take everything very, very seriously. Until I don’t.

"Alone with the apocalypse! The only thing for it is to drink. Luckily we have a bottle of Plymouth..."

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:08:00 -0500

“Alone with the apocalypse! The only thing for it is to drink. Luckily we have a bottle of Plymouth Gin in our bag. We are sober men, terribly sober, we agree. It’s only those who are the most sober of all who have to drink, and then to the point where they can no longer pronounce the word ‘apocalypse’. It’s only then, drunk as lords, that they will know God’s plan, which they will immediately forget.”

- Lars Iyer, Spurious

The Visible Man

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:06:06 -0500

The Visible Man:

If you haven’t read Chuck Klosterman you probably should. While reading Chuck Klosterman I frequently exclaim, “Goddamn you, Klosterman!” at the top of my lungs, often when he does something simultaneously so brilliant and yet so douchey that I can no longer stand it. His brief Daniel Johnston aside in his newest book is a good example of this phenomenon. Completely predictable, completely douchey — but he’s not wrong and the way in which he delivered this revelation about why such shitty music is so wonderful and profound was almost Daniel Johnston-esque in its anti-Daniel Johnston-ishness. Basically, dude is meta as fuck and smart as balls and still manages to be completely enjoyable reading. So, read it already.

"Modern style dictates the need for imperfection. Take a luxury garment and wreck it in some way...."

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:05:00 -0400

““Modern style dictates the need for imperfection. Take a luxury garment and wreck it in some way. Pair a fancy evening gown with bed head. Being too polished, too perfect, reads as fake. Authentic beauty comes when something precious is treated with nonchalance — even disrespect, perhaps even a bit of abuse. The idea is to show how little you care.””

- Robin Givhan, on the fashion industry’s fascination with Amy Winehouse

"We must read if we want to live, W. says. We may have forgotten how to live, but they – the authors..."

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:06:00 -0400

“We must read if we want to live, W. says. We may have forgotten how to live, but they – the authors of the books on our bookshelves – have not.”

- Lars Iyer, Spurious

"Here was a new generation… a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of..."

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0400

“Here was a new generation… a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths to man shaken.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald,

"Sing them low, or say them soft. Such a little while is left To counterpoint the soundless drift of..."

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:05:00 -0400

“Sing them low,
or say them soft.
Such a little while is left
To counterpoint the soundless drift of Time,
Let rhyming fall and lift.”

- Rolfe Humphries

I have a vague notion that I’m not supposed to love this,...

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:54:00 -0400

I have a vague notion that I’m not supposed to love this, but I do. L.Boogie, I miss you and your perfect summer music.

This needs to be my new favorite coffee mug so bad.

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:41:00 -0400

This needs to be my new favorite coffee mug so bad.