January 2010
7 posts
Horrifyingly Ugly "Guitars for Girls"
I think it’s annoying when people use “Other” as a verb, but I gotta admit: the way they “Other” these guitars from the “Standard” list of desirable models is goofy as hell. They come in limited color selections, including easter pastels and metallic purples and pinks.
This is why I praise the heavens for guitars like Teiscos, which are not fancy by...
fake-texting and the hyper-real: we seriously are...
oh man.
Here i am at work, “raising funds for PBS” (which is to say: i’m not), sitting here online formulating an idea or two, when suddenly i hear a coworker in another room talking, and inadvertently providing the missing link—-I have to mention that the anonymity of this job is really strange; I hardly know anyone’s name or what they are interested in or where...
Here’s my ongoing recent fantasy about Alan Watts and Rosalind Krauss hanging out and having a really cool kid, as inspired by striking similarities I’m finding between Watts’ The Wisdom of Insecurity and Krauss’ Notes On the Index, pt. 1.
Watts: “You do not define this real, living ‘something’ by associating it with the noise man. When we say,...
