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Where the light is.
1) O hay, People magazine. Way to be a biter.
2) The cool kids at Fader finally figured out something old people with no fashion sense knew four decades ago--Jerry Garcia is awesome. And also, incredibly underrated by the mainstream media. So, the feature article in the current issue is all about him. They say:
"...we feel Jerry Garcia to be an incredibly relevant force in music right now—for hippies and non-hippies alike. Sonically, you can hear strains of Garcia's influence all over the place, from Cali neo folk to the psych renaissance to straight-ahead rock jams piping out of a Downtown Near You. Fundamentally, Garcia's attitude towards making music—and the attitude adopted by fans of it—really was one of love and acceptance, both of which happen to be timely and wildly underrated ideas for this 21st Century of ours."
Trufax!
3) I've been reading a lot of Chuck Palahniuk lately. I'd never read anything by him, mostly because I'm turned off by his fans. I could do without the legion of "unique snowflake"-quoting icons, kthnx. But overall, I like his work. It's kind of hard to read sometimes--he'll follow up something funny with something heartstoppingly sad. But it's good. I've read Choke, Lullaby, and Haunted so far. I thought the latter was kind of weak overall--I liked the short stories better than the big picture.
4) I've also been reading Jodi Picoult. What? They're near the Palahniuk at the library. When I was reading the last one (The Tenth Circle), it occurred to me that they're women's novels but not in a bad way. What I mean is, the protagonists are usually women and the books deal with so-called women's issues--unwanted pregnancy, rape, etc--but Picoult shows that these things don't just affect one person. And she puts a twist on it, whether it's setting a book in an Amish community or inserting pages from a character's graphic novel into the text.
5) If you haven't seen it, "What the World Eats," Time's excerpt from Hungry Planet, is really fascinating. And okay, it made me cry for some reason. Maybe it's because the Aboubakar family could live for a year on what my boyfriend and I spend on dinner. I bet the Kelloggs never dreamed people in Kuwait would be eating Corn Flakes.
6) And if you haven't heard, BPAL has two Paris-inspired scents that will be available for the duration of her time in jail. A portion of the proceeds does go to charity. Schadenfreude is always free.
7) And if you didn't know, Eli Roth has the biggest dick in Hollywood. [NOT SAFE FOR WORK, SMALL ANIMALS OR GRANDMAS.] Oh, Eli.
( And now, a music meme. )
2) The cool kids at Fader finally figured out something old people with no fashion sense knew four decades ago--Jerry Garcia is awesome. And also, incredibly underrated by the mainstream media. So, the feature article in the current issue is all about him. They say:
"...we feel Jerry Garcia to be an incredibly relevant force in music right now—for hippies and non-hippies alike. Sonically, you can hear strains of Garcia's influence all over the place, from Cali neo folk to the psych renaissance to straight-ahead rock jams piping out of a Downtown Near You. Fundamentally, Garcia's attitude towards making music—and the attitude adopted by fans of it—really was one of love and acceptance, both of which happen to be timely and wildly underrated ideas for this 21st Century of ours."
Trufax!
3) I've been reading a lot of Chuck Palahniuk lately. I'd never read anything by him, mostly because I'm turned off by his fans. I could do without the legion of "unique snowflake"-quoting icons, kthnx. But overall, I like his work. It's kind of hard to read sometimes--he'll follow up something funny with something heartstoppingly sad. But it's good. I've read Choke, Lullaby, and Haunted so far. I thought the latter was kind of weak overall--I liked the short stories better than the big picture.
4) I've also been reading Jodi Picoult. What? They're near the Palahniuk at the library. When I was reading the last one (The Tenth Circle), it occurred to me that they're women's novels but not in a bad way. What I mean is, the protagonists are usually women and the books deal with so-called women's issues--unwanted pregnancy, rape, etc--but Picoult shows that these things don't just affect one person. And she puts a twist on it, whether it's setting a book in an Amish community or inserting pages from a character's graphic novel into the text.
5) If you haven't seen it, "What the World Eats," Time's excerpt from Hungry Planet, is really fascinating. And okay, it made me cry for some reason. Maybe it's because the Aboubakar family could live for a year on what my boyfriend and I spend on dinner. I bet the Kelloggs never dreamed people in Kuwait would be eating Corn Flakes.
6) And if you haven't heard, BPAL has two Paris-inspired scents that will be available for the duration of her time in jail. A portion of the proceeds does go to charity. Schadenfreude is always free.
7) And if you didn't know, Eli Roth has the biggest dick in Hollywood. [NOT SAFE FOR WORK, SMALL ANIMALS OR GRANDMAS.] Oh, Eli.
( And now, a music meme. )