May 2007
29 posts
Popsychology
Why they hate family guy: A) It proved they were wasting time and energy on inessentials. B) It proved the effectively of a procedure is unrelated to the difficulty of its realization [yes Family Guy jokes are a dime a dozen. Still they are funnier and more interesting than Simpsons or Southpark jokes]. Paraphrase — It proved great comedy [great art] is easy, too easy to make those who...
Popsychology
Why they hate family guy: A) It proved they were wasting time and energy on inessentials. B) It proved the effectively of a procedure is unrelated to the difficulty of its realization [yes Family Guy jokes are a dime a dozen. Still they are funnier and more interesting than Simpsons or Southpark jokes]. Paraphrase — It proved great comedy [great art] is easy, too easy to make those who...
Intentionally mediocre TV shows. It’s the lack of a conceit that makes them fantastically strange and hypnotic. The Aristotelian Logus\ Network Sales Pitch : “There’s this girl, and she has some friends, and she hangs out with her friends and goes to school”. Mimesis as its own reward.
Intentionally mediocre TV shows. It’s the lack of a conceit that makes them fantastically strange and hypnotic. The Aristotelian Logus\ Network Sales Pitch : “There’s this girl, and she has some friends, and she hangs out with her friends and goes to school”. Mimesis as its own reward.
Flue in a foreign land induces crippling loneliness. Miss my: friends, bed, room, parents, prospects, smugness. This is no country for old men.
Flue in a foreign land induces crippling loneliness. Miss my: friends, bed, room, parents, prospects, smugness. This is no country for old men.
Art & Commerce
Here’s a way to make money out of Oulipo: Compose a coherent, lucid and attractive narrative work using every GRE Word. It will be the best study-aid ever forged, and sell like crazy. [Christian Bök’s future career?]
Art & Commerce
Here’s a way to make money out of Oulipo: Compose a coherent, lucid and attractive narrative work using every GRE Word. It will be the best study-aid ever forged, and sell like crazy. [Christian Bök’s future career?]
Three Shallow Notes
1. I have developed a distaste for final thirds. Orange juice containers proclaimed as garbage with 59 mL still intact, TV episodes dismissed 27 minutes in, final hour of 3-hour reading session aborted. 2. George Oppen’s primary poetic technique being the one-man collage. Collage not of speakers but of speech acts, concentric in originating psyche, theme and even reference but...
Three Shallow Notes
1. I have developed a distaste for final thirds. Orange juice containers proclaimed as garbage with 59 mL still intact, TV episodes dismissed 27 minutes in, final hour of 3-hour reading session aborted. 2. George Oppen’s primary poetic technique being the one-man collage. Collage not of speakers but of speech acts, concentric in originating psyche, theme and even reference but...
[Beware: Worst Pun Ever]
Italo Calvino, though not a direct favorite, has the astounding ability to make all of literature coalesce into one conversation. Pretty great. Calvino’s reach stops at the late-mid 20th though, even in his lectures from the 80’s [still the exotic shape and intricate weave of his canon amaze], so I guess the awesome chat officially went into abeyance on 1966.
[Beware: Worst Pun Ever]
Italo Calvino, though not a direct favorite, has the astounding ability to make all of literature coalesce into one conversation. Pretty great. Calvino’s reach stops at the late-mid 20th though, even in his lectures from the 80’s [still the exotic shape and intricate weave of his canon amaze], so I guess the awesome chat officially went into abeyance on 1966.
Anecdotal
David Avidan invented the expression “Always Already” some twenty years before its official nascency.
Anecdotal
David Avidan invented the expression “Always Already” some twenty years before its official nascency.
Often we saw Magritte… [sec 24 - 50]
Often we saw Magritte… [sec 24 - 50]
Precocity
Apparently when I was 16 I told a friend: “Don’t you know The Lovesong Of J. Alfred Prufrock? It’s great, it’s a poem about walking around at night past Dizingof Square and being too scared to hit on the cute mall-punk girls”.
Precocity
Apparently when I was 16 I told a friend: “Don’t you know The Lovesong Of J. Alfred Prufrock? It’s great, it’s a poem about walking around at night past Dizingof Square and being too scared to hit on the cute mall-punk girls”.
Not new, but now in adage form: China Miéville, Robert Christgau, Charles Bernstein — we are so thankful for them not being intellectual frauds, so impressed with how solid the fact of their being valid, authentic high-brows is, that we (me) confuse the clarity of their stature with the, well, stature of their stature.
Not new, but now in adage form: China Miéville, Robert Christgau, Charles Bernstein — we are so thankful for them not being intellectual frauds, so impressed with how solid the fact of their being valid, authentic high-brows is, that we (me) confuse the clarity of their stature with the, well, stature of their stature.
Implicature
Someone in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania googled my full name. This is a mock-post then, a “psst” obfuscated as an anecdote. Which is pretty much the way narrative literature is defined by my favored scholars, so we’re good.
Implicature
Someone in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania googled my full name. This is a mock-post then, a “psst” obfuscated as an anecdote. Which is pretty much the way narrative literature is defined by my favored scholars, so we’re good.
Comp. Tiv
Simpsons fans are incapable of telling apart rhetoric from mimetic; Family Guy fans are partially capable. Update: {I should probably add context to that note: Krusty is an all-purpose showbiz stand-in for the Simpsons: somtimes a Woody Allen, sometimes a Johnnie Carson, sometimes just a TV Clown; sometimes a star, sometimes a has-been, sometimes an international figure and sometimes a local one;...
Comp. Tiv
Simpsons fans are incapable of telling apart rhetoric from mimetic; Family Guy fans are partially capable. Update: {I should probably add context to that note: Krusty is an all-purpose showbiz stand-in for the Simpsons: somtimes a Woody Allen, sometimes a Johnnie Carson, sometimes just a TV Clown; sometimes a star, sometimes a has-been, sometimes an international figure and sometimes a local one;...
OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD
Jacques Brel’s Les bourgeois follows the exact blueprints for the contemporary notion of a pre-Modernist [pre-Romanticist?] masterpiece: A lean mean teleological machine at the first glance; at the second the explicit teleology fails to account with suitable functions for every twist and turn along the way; at the third it already gets rather more like a playground than a ride.
Jacques Brel’s Les bourgeois follows the exact blueprints for the contemporary notion of a pre-Modernist [pre-Romanticist?] masterpiece: A lean mean teleological machine at the first glance; at the second the explicit teleology fails to account with suitable functions for every twist and turn along the way; at the third it already gets rather more like a playground than a ride.
Kinship Patterns
Je t’appelle mon frere\ma soeur\ potential-love-interest if: A) Introspection affects in you that same range of reactions traditionally attached to mirrors, home videos and your-voice-in-tape. B) This seems to you a natural, pleasing and manageable state of affairs [No Cartesians were meditated in the making of this post. “Introspection” used in the non-philosophically-charged...
