May 2012
April 2012
Kids
Kids- Two Door Cinema Club
Feel Somebody Good Inc. (cover)
A mash up of Feel Good Inc. and Somebody That I Used To Know, acoustically.
wow.
“I want to make a pact with you; that you and I agree to be forgiving and loyal and honest and filled with compassion for each other and for other people who fall short of being the people we wish they could be. I would love it if you joined us in giving the hatefully ignorant, right wing, conservative bastards who want to take away a woman’s reproductive rights and/or categorize and value people based on the color of their skin… It would be sweet revenge to raise a child who will spend a lifetime attempting to undo all that. But I promise if you choose not to, I will love you still.”
—Staceyann Chin, a half Chinese-Jamaican lesbian, immigrant poet reading a letter she had written to her at-the-time unborn child she conceived, as her infant daughter sleeps on her lap at a recitation at Williams
Minors
Toro Y Moi
Toro Y Moi, Minors
David Brooks, "THE ORGANIZATION KID" →
theatlantic.com
“In short, at the top of the meritocratic ladder we have in America a generation of students who are extraordinarily bright, morally earnest, and incredibly industrious. They like to study and socialize in groups. They create and join organizations with great enthusiasm. They are responsible, safety-conscious, and mature. They feel no compelling need to rebel—not even a hint of one. They not only defer to authority; they admire it. ‘Alienation’ is a word one almost never hears from them. They regard the universe as beneficent, orderly, and meaningful.
They have woven their way through the temptations of adolescence and have benefited from all the nurturing and instruction and opportunities with which the country has provided them. They are responsible. They are generous. They are bright. They are good-natured. But they live in a country that has lost, in its frenetic seeking after happiness and success, the language of sin and character-building through combat with sin. Evil is seen as something that can be cured with better education, or therapy, or Prozac. Instead of virtue we talk about accomplishment.
Maybe the lives of the meritocrats are so crammed because the stakes are so small. All this ambition and aspiration is looking for new tests to ace, new clubs to be president of, new services to perform, but finding that none of these challenges is the ultimate challenge, and none of the rewards is the ultimate reward.”
I want to print this article out and mail it to every. Single. Person. That I know.
“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.’”
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Susan Sontag, quoted by Brendan Berg. She’s right, precisely and exactly.
It’s not the first element of her argument that’s arresting; any idiot knows that intelligence is overrated in all sorts of ways. But the insight that when we are real and human with each other we produce ‘intelligence’ —as an outcome, not as an attribute— is profound, true, and an explanation I’d never encountered for why I prefer the company of the real and dull to erudite performers distracted by their own brilliance. It is not merely a question of taste: the former converse collaboratively, build meanings with you, surprise you; the latter are not so open to discovery because the dialectic process is for them both a pleasure and a competition, and their intelligence is too precious to them to be risked on banal inquiries, dumb guesses, the fatal utterance “I don’t know.”
(via mills)
