I realize that this question is not exactly topical, but when a scrawny guy with a sideways baseball cap and a huge black jacket with skulls on it boarded my bus yesterday, Offspring’s “Pretty Fly (for a white guy)” couldn’t help but jump into my head. I realize the best person to answer this question [...]
Posts Tagged ‘music’
A Pop Culture Query
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 13, cultural theory, music, Offspring, the '90s on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why American Idol Makes Me Smile
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Lambert, American Idol, Anoop Desai, Clay Aiken, cultural theory, Danny Gokey, fame, ideology, Kara DioGuardi, Kelly Clarkson, Kris Allen, Lil Rounds, Matt Giraud, music, Simon Cowell, Taylor Hicks, Television Without Pity, tv on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This had to be done. It’s no secret that I’ve been waaay too into American Idol this season, and I’m well on my way to not being ashamed of that, on account of there were some seriously talented and original kids this season that are going to end up maybe surpassing the Kelly Clarkson/legitimate star [...]
7 a.m.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged belle & sebastian, blogging, bus ride, emo, Facebook, music on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lyric-spooge, v. The act of blogging song lyrics alongside or instead of original prose in a misguided attempt to better express inner angst by a half-assed attempt at universalization.
Emo shame, n. The particular regret one feels the morning after posting song lyrics all over ones blog / Facebook page.
Ex. Awaking in the wee morning hours, Amy gets misty listening to Belle and Sebastian and has the [...]
La la la la life goes on…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hegel, history, middle class, music, paul bettany, the '90s, the beatles on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t remember much of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’, but I do remember the line: “each individual is a child of his time.” While I fundamentally disagree with this maxim and while this is, in a way, the source of all my subsequent problems with Hegelian thought, I do take a peculiar pleasure in the [...]
