July 2011
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You want what I got?
It’s difficult to write alone.
Thinking alone, living alone, walking alone, talking alone all are tolerable in solitude, even isolation from others. I’m not addressing Solitude. In many ways, less alienation results. I get the longing for retreat and a hermitage. I long for it.
Writing alone is altogether another matter. And I’m not thinking about my imagined readers. I’m...
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I Want You to Want Me
tiring of people who invite others to discourse only to insist the conversation reflect their sense of order, understanding of rhetoric, and knowledge of any given situation.
i crave narrative—but without insistent, vertical sign posts authorizing direction.
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dagSounds: Friday Night HC
76% Uncertain “Shadow of Doubt”
Bad Religion “We’re Only Gonna Die”
Channel 3 “Catholic Boy”
Necros “Take ‘em Up”
Government Issue “Religious Rip Off”
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What is Critical Theory? To criticize every...
“if it works, break it.” i said that.
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…getting around to getting back to posting again…
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Rain Rain Go Away
Just saying: since June 22, Korea has received approximately 87% of the anticipated annual perception. And quite a bit of that has fallen in the last 48 hours.
Floods, sewage, power outages, landslides, crippled public transportions, and drownings are as expected. What’s different in Seoul (than the expected list of tragedies and incidences in the wake of a massive storm,) is that millions...
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Meanwhile, down the street, Dorimcheon swells.
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My Rain
So, this is what the last week of the rainy season looks like this year. Crazy storm hit yesterday and is still raging.
It reportedly rained over 70mm, around 3 inches, during a two-hour storm late yesterday afternoon. We were stuck in Hyehwa waiting for the rain to stop enough for us to ride the scooter home. But yesterday’s sudden downpour is nothing compared to the early morning...
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Michelle Rhee praises Tennessee legislatures... →
It’s only a matter of time before we see this “progressive” run as a Republican for House or Senate. She’s disgraceful.
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Baseball Movies & Goodbye Jejudo
Walked and rode all over the southern half of Jejudo for a week and now playing a Canadian National Baseball team member in the opening scene of a Korean film. Korea had a perfect game against the Canadians in 1981 and the game features as the emotional keystone for the film’s story.
Back to teaching and blogging soon, though I’m already missing the scooter, the coastal roads and...
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In Jejudo for a week: Future Slow Tumblr Action.
자주도 서귀포에 가고싶어: 대포 주상절리, 정방 폭포, 천제연 폭포, 천지연 폭포
우도 하도새에 가고 싶어.
That’s the want-to-see stuff, but we’ll likely wander around peacefully like we always do and see what comes up. It’s the rainy season right now, so we’ll see: maybe we’ll be able to hike in Hallasan National Park. It’s going to be fun and relaxing whatever happens. Just nice to see Korea outside of Seoul. We’ve lived in Korea for...
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The Dude Applies
You must remember this A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply As time goes by.
proto-flake-deactivated20120717 asked: Will you elaborate on why Riot Porn Blows? I'm curious. I got into a discussion with someone about this once so I was hoping you would express your perspective more thoroughly.
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Riot Porn BLOWS.
“Google has begun culling accounts from its Google +. First to the chopping block...”
– Google’s Google+ Account Culling (via ryking)
Circle Jerks.
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Putting this in its own text post so that others...
gravewisdom:
akagoldfish:
atomicsocialist:
Ah fuck, this psycho cunt is at it again
Communismkills has neither the depth nor warmth to be a cunt.
ahahahaha
She must have bought that red dress.
Gonorrhea Superbug: First Antibiotic-Resistant STD... →
Always use a condom. Ask Lil’ Wayne because he sure as shit doesn’t want your gonorrhea.
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dagSounds: Top Hardcore Albums of the 80s, Part...
I uploaded Part One several days ago. Here’s the massive, Part Two. Torrent available on Demonoid.
From the torrent description:
Here’s part two of a three-part series of torrents on some of the best 1980s hardcore albums. The first torrents included albums from the first half of Pushead’s famous top 80s hardcore records list that he published in the March 1990 issue...
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“Religious faith is, precisely because we are still-evolving creatures,...”
– —Christopher Hitchens (via liberationfrequency)
Pseudo-logical barf often comes from Hitchens.
Anything new atheists don’t like, they relate to Others’ Fear. It’s an obvious problem: Hitchens, and others, often like to say that which they don’t like but understand is...
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dagSounds: Top Hardcore Albums of the 1980s
I’ve just uploaded a new torrent on Demonoid with Nos 1-49 of Pushead’s Unofficial Top 100 of the 80s. It’s a great list of 80s hardcore records.
1.Discharge-Fight Back 7” EP, England 1980 2.S.S.Decontrol-Get It Away 12” EP, USA 1983 3.The Subhumans-Demolition War 7” EP, England 1981 4.Minor Threat-Filler 7” EP, USA 1981 5.Bad Brains-Roir Cassette, USA...
The Dictionary is a Graveyard of Ideas →
radmax:
I’m not sure how I could twist anything you said when you are so great at clearly writing out what you think.
You said it was conservatives and liberals bickering over Libya which is false: This is bickering between Democrat and Republican politicians who, again, don’t speak for all liberals and conservatives (or even all Democrat and Republican voters**).
You claim that no one is...
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dagNotes: Who's Read This?
Arthur Kroker and David Cook. The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper Aesthetics. St Martin’s, 1986.
Looking for thoughts about this book. It’s from the 80s, and the intro reads like somebody doing a Cocaine-frenzied Deleuze impersonation having just read Bataille’s Vision of Excess and Nietzsche’s aphoristic trilogy.
I know the 80s were all Baudrillard and...
“Perhaps everything exists only because something else does. Nothing just is,...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, translated by Margaret Jull Costa (posted on the-final-sentence)
I remember finding this book in a used bookstore in the mid90s and thinking I’d found some rare thing. When I got to my doctoral program 5 years or so later, I was, at first, terribly...
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Gwyneth Paltrow stars in HOW WHITE IS SHE?
Very White.
“I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a can.”
surfwaxMax: dagseoul: radmax: dagseoul: Yes. But... →
[sorry for not including this when I first posted.]
Radmax replied:
You’re interchanging the meanings to a lot of words here. Liberalism isn’t defined by partisan lines in the sand. Democrats don’t always speak for real liberal ideals. If they did, the healthcare reform voting would have gone a lot differently.
I’m not interchanging anything. IMO, Liberalism is for chumps. I know...
“Well, I’ve been visiting all the primary states, and I’ve been talking to...”
– If you read the intro to the story, the Salon writer says they are invented. Get it together, folks. Read.
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And then he kissed me...
radmax:
dagseoul:
Yes. But “Liberals” aren’t cool. They’re as much a part of the problem as douchebag American Libertarians.
Care to elaborate?
Sure. It’s very simple: liberals are not capable of changing the status quo. I’d go so far as to say, liberals are not capable of even simple transgressive acts. The status quo is for liberals what it is for conservatives. It is nothing...
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digitalpidgin:
Language is not intrinsically standardizing; standardizing social relations make language standardizing.
