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What was your favorite ____ Trail Game?
(ex: Oregon Trail, Oregon Trail 2, Amazon Trail, Yukon Trail)
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The Most Well-Written, Important, Relevant, Best Piece of Pop Cultural Criticism You Will Read Today. Maybe Ever.
Welcome, Monday. Welcome, brilliance. Excerpts from “Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos” on Autostraddle as of Feb 8 Monday oh Great and Brilliant Monday.
The author struggles to define why Taylor’s recent deluge of “Important Awards” bothers her so much, and realizes why:
“…if I ever get my life together enough to reproduce other life forms, they will not be joining Taylor Nation – they will be brave, creative, inventive, envelope-pushing little monsters who will find a pretty, skinny blonde girl in a white peasant shirt strolling through nature-themed screensaver-esque fantasylands singing about how “when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them” not only sappy, but also insulting to their inevitable brilliance.
… When Beyoncè was Swift’s age, she was onstage with Destiny’s Child, proclaiming: “The house I live in / I’ve bought it / The car I’m driving / I’ve bought it / All the women who are independent / Throw your hands up at me!”
And that’s not even the best of it. Seriously, read this piece— you won’t regret it, especially if you a) give a fuck about pop culture/the media that most young people in the US imbibe, or b) like women. Independent women. Who think, and are willing to share those thoughts in a hilarious way.
Question of the Day
What was your favorite Sim___ game?
(ex: SimCity, SimTower, SimTown, SimEarth, The Sims)
In Spain, Pepsi Becomes 'Pesi'
After Responding to Local Pronunciation of ‘Pecsi’ in Argentina, Campaign Goes to Europe [via adage.com]
Saw this movie tonight with a few friends. I thought it would be good — I didn’t know it would be perfect. Literally, this might be the most perfect movie I’ve ever seen. The comedy was on point - the perfect combination of random, plot-driven, vulgar, and farcical. There was actually a real plot, with suspense, turns of fate, and hero moments. And beyond objective perfection, it was subjectively perfect: I love the movie Clue, and figured from reading the Brattle’s description that this would be a combination of Clue and Encyclopedia Brown. It was. And some.
If you want a perfect comedy that doesn’t miss a beat, see Mystery Team at the Brattle - playing tomorrow only, Thursday the 4th, at 5, 7:30, and 10.
Yes, the Apple marketing team actually used the word “magical” in this promotion of the iPad on the Apple website.
I feel like I’m a two-year old. Do I want a magical computer? With a magical candy sticker wand? Where is my unicorn? How about my magical dugong, which I will ride away to a magical netherworld filled with poor little triple e’s and mini acers?
Dugong = totz more magical than the iPad.
“ Ultimately, when writers and artists think they’re co-opting pop culture, pop culture is usually co-opting them.
Stephen Elliott. (via dailymeh)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Listen to this if you are bored and want something completely random.
Vancouver, Detroit, and Bears! - Eugene Mirman
I know this kid! The video is Nick Ciarelli discussing the iPad on Bloomberg. Read more of his thoughts on his tumblr — he’s an excellent writer.
And yes, he is buying an iPad.
The Knife's "Darwinian Opera"
It’s an “electro-opera” composed by The Knife, commissioned by a Danish performance group (Hotel Pro Forma) and based on Darwin’s Origin of Species. The result is probably about as weird as evolution sounded to the creationists at the Scopes Trial (and the whole fuss was started to get some publicity for the small town of Dayton, TN, according to Wikipedia).
The entire opera is available, streaming, on NPR until February 2nd.
From NPR:
“It’s one thing to write an opera about Darwin; it’s another entirely to use his theories as a basis of composition. Olaf Dreijer spent time in the Amazon jungle, researching and recording animals and objects. He learned from their timbres, infusing not only the field recordings into the piece (see “Letter to Henslow”), but also mimicking them with synths…”
“… The disparate characters — the synth-pop duo, the Berlin-based avant-electronic artist, the opera singer, the actor, the pop singer, the percussionist — finally coalesce into one sentient, rhythmic being. This is an organic future, built up from The Knife’s keen sense of songcraft and burned with Wahlin’s operatic voice as it intertwines with Karin Dreijer-Andersson like Meredith Monk twiddling a pair of glow sticks.”
Listen & read on: NPR - The Knife’s ‘Tomorrow, In a Year’
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