Recently I’ve been trying to put to words what I’ve been contemplating with a few works in progress. Here’s what I have so far:

1.The ideology of the gaze functions as the conceptual frame for the logic of the gendered body.

2.The legitimation of desire functions as the conceptual frame for the culture of the public sphere.

and

3.The emergence of post-capitalist hegemony invests itself in the authentication of power/knowledge.

I was hoping to open these topics up to discussion on this site, seeing as you all are some of the smartest folks I know.

Just kidding. I made those up on this site: http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm

Event

524 – Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1949 – Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1967 – First global satellite television programme – Our World
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1983 – India wins the final of the Cricket World Cup against the mighty West Indies at the MCC’s Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space station, Mir.
1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

Birth

1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
1865 – Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
1894 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
1903 – George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1912 – William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1921 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1925 – Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
1932 – Peter Blake, British artist
1939 – Harold Melvin, American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
1939 – Allen Fox, American Tennis Player
1946 – Ian McDonald, English musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
1952 – Tim Finn, Kiwi singer/songwriter
1954 – David Paich, composer (Toto)
1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956 – Anthony Bourdain, Chef and author
1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
1959 – Paris Themmen, American actor
1962 – Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – George Michael, British musician
1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
1964 – Greg Raymer, Professional poker player
1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese (DRC) basketball player
1968 – Oleg Taktarov, Russian martial artist
1969 – Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1972 – Mike Kroeger, Canadian musician (Nickelback)
1974 – Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1978 – Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search winner
1979 – Brandi Burkhardt, American beauty queen
1979 – Katie Doyle, American actress and reality television star
1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 – Maja Latinović, Serbian model
1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1982 – Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
1983 – Todd Cooper, British swimmer
1987 – Joseph John Sledgianowski III, American Artist
1987 – Lil’ Wil, American rapper

Deaths

635 – Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer
1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
2001 – Joseph John Sledgianowski Senior (b. 1916)
2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer (b. 1933)

…if you’re home on the internet now, you’re probably not (those of you in boston) attending this colloquium on performativity at the museum, which looks like it’s going to be killer.

one of the speakers is the last remaining member of canadian power group General Idea, a very early (high school) influence of yours truly.

And if you don’t know who general ideas is, GO LOOK NOW PLZ

EXCUUUUUUSE ME?!

uh what the fuck, why are people saying my girl Trina is “a bit too thick.” Get your heads out of your asses, those thick thighs are real and awesome.

As the Baddest Bitch herself would say, “Fuck a dime, I’m a silver dolla, holla”

MATCH.COM

This morning Taylor and I were discussing the role of Gwen Stefani in 90s music consumerism.

Gwen Stefani was probably one of my biggest influences in my childhood, although in hindsight her fate has become slightly tragic:

ps.

so today via Jezebel, I found out about this documentary called Guest of Cindy Sherman, which was made by her ex-boyfriend Paul H-O, who is apparently A HUGE DICKHEAD.

Basically, the film seems to be about this guy and Cindy Sherman’s romantic relationship, and how it was hard for him as an “outsider” (he hosted a public access show about making fun of the NY art scene) to be so eclipsed by Sherman’s fame and esteem. Call the fucking waaaahhhhmbulance. Sherman is notoriously reclusive and the preview for this documentary shows her ducking away from the camera multiple times. So it seems like Paul H-O’s beef is that he is dating a talented and successful female artist.

this is a clip from the film, of him talking with some hosts of a radio program about “Famous Girlfriend Syndrome” a.k.a. what most wives/girlfriends/lovers of famous men have had to put up with for millennia without having to make documentaries about it.

This seriously pisses me off. God forbid that this guy (WHO KNEW SHE WAS A FAMOUS ARTIST WHEN THEY STARTED DATING) grow a pair and appreciate that he is dating one of the coolest people alive. I almost want to see this movie just to see if he ever actually admits that this is HIS problem, not a circumstantial one.

i’m taking a shit.
i get to eat more carbohydrates now. about 30ish per day.

here we go again on our own.

First off: Tony Schwensen.

Bald: check

Man: check

Number 2:

Justin Lieberman

Bald: check

Man: check

Numero Tres:

Gerry Bergstien

Bald: check

Man: check

Am I doomed? Or will I retain my hair?

Don’t worry, ceiling cat.

The Answer is CLIFF EVANS.

for some reason, this makes me ecstatic to be a girl. found courtesy of fukisushi.

SK8 WITCHES.

A special guy made me a mixtape with the song “Your Woman” by White Town on it.
I’m sure all of you remember this song from the 90’s, and as soon as I heard it, it got stuck in my head and I had to figure it out, because the lyrics are a little gender-bending.

So, I did some research, as I tend to do, and discovered, to my delight:

First
White Town is one british indian guy, Jyoti Mishra, who recorded the song in 97′ when he was about 30.

According to him, the song is about:

” # Being a member of an orthodox Trotskyist / Marxist movement (as I was for three years in the 80s).
# Being a straight guy in love with a lesbian (ditto).
# Being a gay guy in love with a straight man (not tried this one yet).
# Being a straight girl in love with a lying, two-timing, fake-ass Marxist.
# The hypocrisy that results when love and lust get mixed up with highbrow ideals :-) “

and remarks,

“The last time I checked I was male. But as for gender….that’s another kettle of fish :-) “

The song’s samples are from old songs from the 20’s and 30’s.

I always liked this song.

haha where did they pick up the generic girls in this video? PARSONS???? LOL