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I was at this supposedly nice bakery and I asked for a rather expensive chicken pie. It took a bite and freezed so dude goes 'what' and I'm like '... This doesn't taste good'. At this point the cashier and some rich old woman who was having coffee while making Important Business Deals On Her Cellphone were staring at me so I repeated the sentence. She says 'Is it the dough or the chicken?' 'I don't know it just doesn't taste good' She takes the pie, smells it and makes facial gesture implying there is nothing wrong with it. 'OK do you want something else?' 'uhm... Do you have something that you actually baked today?' lady gives me a FUCKYOU face. 'We baked everything today' 'OK OK give me that piece of bread' I should have answered but then it probably wasn't her fault and the bread was good so, w/e.

I clicked like four or five times and still no music fffff where do I click where (nevermind)

new direction sounds like something that should be done by Coil or Burzum type guys with links to the occult / evil not this obviously sane and likeable dude but w/e I give up and fuck that for the moment, this is the best music of 2011.

started a subscription to an e-magazine and got a bit too excited downloading issues from years back so the site banned me.

Los Detectives Salvajes (Roberto Bolaño) Bought this because I saw a documentary on the writer that almost made me cry in pure joy. The adventures of a bunch of failed young poets, hope it is as good as that description sounds. The Question Concerning Technology (Martin Heidegger) Good programmers are supposed to keep the entirety of the apps they write in their heads so they can work on it as a imaginary machine. This thing is making me work real hard in a similar fashion, but it's fun in the most complicated way, like listening to a Confield that might be able to kill you.

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The small texts cited in the book are really quite something, Zizek call them oracles. About the popularity, he appeared in my Internet radar like a year ago, I think it's because he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty with current politics / events and the punk-rock style is v attractive. Oh and I'm not a part of academia I just read stuff for fun / to make use of it. The fact that he doesn't try to summarize all Lacan for you is precisely what makes the book so good. He just offers perspectives on certain passages and tries to ignite your interest in the hopes that you will do the research on your own. Like I said before, there is nothing worse than reading second hand account of thinkers / artists by third rate writers who often distort and ruin the originals (it happens to me all the time). In the end he's like, 'OK did I blow your mind with my little jokes and mindgames? Now you need to act like an adult and read the Ecrits / Seminars'. And then (?).

How To Read Lacan (Slavoj Zizek) Super fun and exciting introduction to the ultra obscure Jacques Lacan. Do you want to know why you hate other people? Why repression brings back the same thing it tries to suppress? Lots of other cool stuff involving Alien, Eyes Wide Shut, terrorism, torture, envy, the nature of the self, sexual drives, etc.

I think the laser-targeted spam that gmail inserts (in your brain) next to the content is quite interesting but I can't post that stuff here

Yeah yeah, don't take it too seriously because that Cultural Critic angle is his shtick. He's also shamelessly promoting his new book in the article (!) but sometimes he writes beautiful sentences and I really like the ambition.

from the Simon Reynolds article: Love this guy

no no, the new yorker article is good but I have been reading that kind of stuff for almost a year and coupled with the tendentious / uninformed opinion pieces I was nearly convinced he was a buffoon. He is not.

I do that all the time. It has to be some sort of masochist impulse.

I don't have memories of liking this song but once it started playing I knew most of the lyrics by heart. This Is So Good. And the video!!!

If I had to choose some ten or so random Madonna songs I have liked through the years the comp would probably reach dangerous God Like Autechre quality levels. Same with Depeche Mode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCSmBzfH3WY

it's bad that to take any criticism seriously if you don't know the text yourself.

I meant: How a philosopher from Slovenia became an international star (The New Yorker) http://www.lacan.com/ziny.htm The Deadly Jester http://www.tnr.com/a...e-deadly-jester Zizek and Gaddafi: Living in the old world http://english.aljaz...3418599933.html Hey Smettingham your local library has it, I know exactly where it is!

Violence (Slavoj Zizek) It bothers me that I wasted so much time reading lifestyle articles and opinion pieces by clowns instead of going to the source itself. This man is seriously funny and dangerous. Watch his Pervert's Guide to Cinema, then read this. I think the challops are to entertainingly poke you while bypassing censorship, what's behind is a coded call to arms. But in the end it is all a joke, always just a joke. His article on the London riots summarizes a number of points in the book http://www.lrb.co.uk...the-world-unite

There is a private torrent called karakafkakafka or something, it apparently has every obscure film in existence. I don't know whether to apply or not, first because what if they don't accept me and then I don't really need to start hoarding files, because I have a long queue and there is not enough time in the day to keep track of so much stuff. But I discovered a couple of weeks ago that Hitler and his buddies used to watch three or four films every night so maybe I don't know how to manage my free time?

those would probably give me a heart attack! The Ages of Extremes (Eric Hobsbawm) I can't find the actual quote but something along the lines of how communism's failure was the most soul crushing tragedy of the 20th century made me buy this in minutes. My first history book. I'm starting the last third and so far I'm surprised it's so balanced coming from a Marxist historian because this makes capitalism look real good, maybe he's saving big bucks / twists for a grand finale? Can't wait. Oh yeah this is awesome.

about Thomas Bernhard: that's very cool dese manz hatin, danke. about Celebrity Culture: yes it is, it works like a compendium of research on the subject. If I wanted to annoy myself any further with this bullshit I would have a nice long list of books to read thanks to this. Towards a Minor Literature (Deleuze & Guattari) I was beating myself in the head with a D&G that exposes the oedipal complex as a totalitarian myth and promises a cure for depression / fascism and then the Internet told me to go with this instead. I'm on chapter five of nine and I think this is fucking awesome. Requires familiarity with Kafka as it offers a very exciting interpretation that pulverizes the writer's rep of being hopeless and pathetic. Lots of stuff on deterritorialization, assemblage, desire-machines, lines of escape and other fancy words.

tell us something about it! someone mentioned that name in that thread about austrians being horrible people and I spent like an hour reading about him

My Last Sigh (Luis Buñuel) Lessons on how to be awesome by the Spanish-French-Mexican master. I was very surprised to see how aristocratic and assholish the guy really was but I can't find a single fault in this. Surrealism = Pre-Internet trolling? Plenty of delicious anecdotes on some of the most famous artists / movies of the 20th century.

Celebrity / Culture (Ellis Cashmore) A bit of history and how we learn our values / live vicariously through celebrities. They also function as our virtual friends and disposable products we make use of so in the end we are both victims and victimizers. It was quite aggravating to read in such detail how these people work as living advertisements for consumer society and we all for it (it is inescapable) but I guess that was the point.