CRITICAL MASS 2010
I am almost positive tonight is going to disappoint me.
But everyone gets my costume. Except the disaffected, post-adolescent part. I also look like Hard Candy, apparently. The movie, assholes.
October 2010
40 posts
Ghosts
Ladytron
Ghosts - Ladytron
BOO. Dear work Halloween, let’s take it easy.
Halloween Horoscope Thursday. BOO.
TAURUS
April 20-May 20
Your ego will lead you down one-way streets going the wrong direction this week. Replace egoism with boundaries whenever you can. Be honest and direct about what you can and can’t handle without defensiveness. (SFBG)
In an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, performance artist Marina Abramovic stared into the eyes of a succession of different strangers for 700 hours. Actresses Marisa Tomei and Isabella Rossellini were among those who received her visual probes, as well as 1,400 less famous folks. I think it would be fun for you to do a variation on her ritual, Taurus. In your case, you wouldn’t do it to show off or to prove an artistic point, but rather to get closer to the allies with whom you’d like to develop a deeper bond. Are you up for some deep eye gazing? Halloween costume suggestion: a mystic seer; a god or goddess with a third eye; a superhero whose power is X-ray vision. (Free Will Astrology)
It’s easy to forget that relationship patterns originate in family of origin dynamics, especially and most importantly the pattern of self-care. Treat yourself with care and all your relations will benefit. (Aquarium Age)
See: Glarkware T-Shirt
God, today is not going to be nice to me. I am already listening to Alanis and wanting to go rip my roommate’s sinuses out if he sniffles or horks up October one more goddamn time.
And good morning to you too.
Lifehacker's Evil Week →
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I mean, not that I need any of this or anything.
“Still, totality is a phenomenon that can flip one’s ratios inside out. … Sudden feeling of oldness. Black upland wind. Bring a coat, they had been told, and a piece of smoked glass. It will get cold. It will hurt your eyes. Totality is lightless, and should be colourless, yet may intensify certain questions that hang at the back of the mind. What is a spouse after all? Will this one stay, can this one keep me alive?”
—Anne Carson, “Decreation”
I'm No Good
Amy Winehouse
Told you I was troubled. Someday in my Roth-middle-aged-pervy novel, I’ll make allusions to visitors on Sunday.
I’m No Good - Amy Winehouse
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Drunk girls like a night of simplicity
They need a lover who is smarter than me
Drunk boys, we walk like pedestrians
Drunk girls wait an hour to pee
Drunk girls know that love is an astronaut
It comes back, but it’s never the same
Drunk boys, drunk boys, drunk boys,
Drunk girls can be just as insane.
Oh, oh, oh, I believe in waking up together
that means making eyes across the room.
Just cause I’m shallow doesn’t mean that I’m heartless
Just cause I’m heartless doesn’t mean that I’m mean
Sometimes love gives us too many options
Just cause you’re hungry doesn’t mean that you’re lean.
I’ve heard lies that will curdle your heartstrings
A couple truths maybe burn out your eyes
Drunk boys leave their arms in the fireplace
Because drunk girls give them too many tries.
Oh, oh, oh, I believe in waking up together
oh, oh, oh, I believe in waking up (but no promises)
oh, oh, oh, I believe in waiting out the weather.
oh, oh, oh, I believe in making eyes across the room
LCD Soundsystem, (James Murphy)
GOING TO MILWAUKEE SOON KTHX.
OH HEY I GET TO SEE LCD SOUNDSYSTEM IN 12 HOURS
I am so excited I want to dance my pajamas off. Oh wait, work.
Heeding some advice, Horoscope Wednesday
TAURUS
April 20-May 20
Enjoy your riches without feeling entitled to them. The Universe wants you to be happy, but not to attach yourself to the things or situations that inspire those feelings. Blocks to joy can be used as tools to creating more of it. (SFBG)
When the tide is coming in, the creek I live next to flows vigorously toward the south. When the tide’s going out, the water reverses its course and heads swiftly north. Every day, there’s an in-between time when the creek seems confused. Some currents creep south and others slink north, while here and there eddies whirl in circles. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, Taurus, you are temporarily in a phase that resembles my creek’s time of contrary flows. It’s a perfectly natural place to be. (Free Will Astrology)
Step into the leadership role by making “cooperation” your personal mantra. This spirit of collaboration will not only keep you on track, but will inspire others to stay positive about their individual choices and contributions. (Aquarium Age)
“And—sorry—but you are partly responsible for the bullying and physical violence being visited on vulnerable LGBT children. The kids of people who see gay people as sinful or damaged or disordered and unworthy of full civil equality—even if those people strive to express their bigotry in the politest possible way (at least when they happen to be addressing a gay person)—learn to see gay people as sinful, damaged, disordered, and unworthy. And while there may not be any gay adults or couples where you live, or at your church, or in your workplace, I promise you that there are gay and lesbian children in your schools. And while you can only attack gays and lesbians at the ballot box, nice and impersonally, your children have the option of attacking actual gays and lesbians, in person, in real time. Real gay and lesbian children. Not political abstractions, not “sinners.” Gay and lesbian children. Try to keep up: The dehumanizing bigotries that fall from the lips of “faithful Christians,” and the lies about us that vomit out from the pulpits of churches that “faithful Christians” drag their kids to on Sundays, give your children license to verbally abuse, humiliate, and condemn the gay children they encounter at school. And many of your children—having listened to Mom and Dad talk about how gay marriage is a threat to family and how gay sex makes their magic sky friend Jesus cry—feel justified in physically abusing the LGBT children they encounter in their schools. You don’t have to explicitly “encourage [your] children to mock, hurt, or intimidate” queer kids. Your encouragement—along with your hatred and fear—is implicit. It’s here, it’s clear, and we’re seeing the fruits of it: dead children. Oh, and those same dehumanizing bigotries that fill your straight children with hate? They fill your gay children with suicidal despair. And you have the nerve to ask me to be more careful with my words?”
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Dan Savage, October 13, 2010 : Savage Love | The A.V. Club
(There’s obviously lots of problematic things about the It Gets Better project, and also Savage Love, but I read this while puttin’ on my purple plaid this morning and you know what? THIS, Dan Savage, THIS.)
I'm A Broken Heart
The Bird And The Bee
Broken Heart - The Bird and the Bee
Can we go back to Sunday already? Also, starting tomorrow it will be all LCD references ALL THE TIME.
“The only sex that is unfeminist is sex that any of the people involved don’t want to be having.”
—I believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure (I do, I do, I do)
Fucking while feminist. This, Jezebel, THIS. →
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Thank God Gawker Media has my back for the next six or so hours. Also, way to be pertinent, amiriiite?!
Sunday nights I just give up.
It’s all merlot, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and DH Lawrence from here on out. I did do a thirty miler today, though. And cut my hair. And make lentil salad. So it goes.
(I hate that the next deadline I have to look towards is work.)
This is happening.
I was all set to make a list of things on the docket for today—
(bank, DVD’s at Harold Washington, TJ’s to get some of that mad good/cheap rioja, Astronauts CONSTANTLY, getting dressed, going to work, I mean what)—
and then I realized in a WEEK I get to see LCD Soundsystem at the Eagles Ballroom AND HOHMYGOD I am so excited that my Caps Lock just jams up. No, seriously, I’ve been listening to “This Is Happening” a lot and sort of secretly doing a close read of “Drunk Girls” as a poem.
Oh, and if you’re in Chicago, come check out Open Studios in Pilsen. I’ll be gophering about there. No more GPOYF’s for a while. Stupid phone.
