Max Ernst

The new Pynchon book has the words "Prince Vegeta", "Goku" and "Gohan" in it. What a time to be alive.

Love the idea of waiting years for this to come out and seeing a Games for Windows logo and thinking "no, fuck that" and walking out of the store empty handed.

Reminder that The Dum Dum Girls are a neat rock band: Also, new Danny Brown record is looking good. On the songs that have been released, the beats have all been really strange. This is probably the most straight-forward track:

Social media expert is not a job and this is a pretty good case against it.

If you like or hate reality TV you should watch the amazing satire Burning Love. It has a lot of people from The State in it, and may be my favourite comedy in a long time. Here is a good skit for your viewing pleasure: http://youtu.be/NlJTVZ1R97I The show is free on Yahoo.

I think there will be an ARG to release the podcast so keep a look out.

To catch up with an old episode of How Did this Get Made?, I watched The Love Guru. Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. This movie is so bad. It's racist, homophobic, sexist and fails elicit one laugh. Most of the jokes are high-school public domain jokes put to film. He runs several shitty concepts to the ground. It feels like he just mugs to the camera to make up for the lack of actual comedy.There is nothing at stake and it asks you to invest heavily in it. There is so much great talent wasted here. I knew it was bad going in but holy shit.

Wow, thanks for the insight. Translated texts are so weird to read because you aren't sure what liberties the translator had to make and how that overall changes your interpretation of the text. I'll pick up Sputnik Sweetheart next.

Holy shit call 911 we need the burn unit here, stat.

Translation could definitely be part of it, but this is a book that very purposefully meanders, and I think the prose is meant to reflect that. There are a lot of descriptions of meals and beverages. That said, I do like the portrayal of unemployment, which is depicted as this very meditative lifestyle In which society and the environment can be contemplated peacefully. Unlike, say, Hemingway's view of idleness, which suggests spare time is empty and dissatisfing.

Oh cool, hell is a website.

I am reading Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and it is an interesting read. There are a lot of descriptions of meals and shaken up by surreal events. So far, I am digging the use of surrealism as a comment on human relationships, which is in stark contrast to early surrealism which used this lens to alienate and create anxiety. The narrator's voice veers from profound to clumsy, and I am not sure if its a character affectation or clumsy writing.

Cool experiment: go to every twitter conversation about gross/entitled video game drama and check the bio of the loudest cretins. The word "gamer" will appear, by itself, as a one-word sentence. This is the gamer. These people base their entire identity on the least interesting aspect of their personality. These people claim that EA is somehow worse than Monsanto, BP or Nestle. These people claim that reasonable attire for female leads is having an opinion gone mad. These people claim that any game that tries to convey narrative through the abstract is pretentious. Those that trade perspective for the hyper familiar in some sort of misguided attempt at 'expertise'. These are absolutely capital-G gamers. Do not date them.

The first rule of dating "gamers" is don't date anyone that calls themselves a gamer.

Forgot that this was a thing and said without any reflection or irony. The headline/photo is a perfect combo, and shows how feminism is, in most common discourse, a white issue for white middle-upper class.

The cultural and moral shit-soup that is PAX must survive at all costs. Daddy needs game trailers.

I am going to wait until it's out, but Deltron is the nerdiest, corniest rap album ever. I love it, but it is a nerd record for giant nerds. Kid Koala is cool as fuck, and I am glad it is a proper reunion and not just Del digging this up by himself.

I have never seen this before and I am glad that I saw it as an adult and not as a child because holy fuck.

Lets post terrifying moments from childhood movies that permanently damaged us:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus slays every line. Seriously, not one line is wasted, flubbed, or buried in the set-up. No one veers between intensity and exhaustion like her. Considering how affable her Seinfeld persona was, it is great to see her range. And yes, it is nice to see the Draper-McNulty-Soprano trifecta slowly erode away. We have some ways yet, for sure, but this is a nice start.

The whole chicken thing reminds me of something Stephen Colbert said about his time at Second City, where he was taught that sometimes "scenes feel like a joke, act like there is a joke, and suggest that there is a joke being made, but there isn't actually anything funny". I watched a lot of episodes, because the show was compelling and I needed to binge on something, but this was far from the top-tier television that I was hyped for. To balance the negativity, I finally came round to watching VEEP. That is some seriously funny stuff. Matt Walsh is a national treasure. We just need Ian Roberts and Matt Besser to get their due for true UCB domination and the world will be sound place.

Also, Enlightened was good and I miss it terribly.

Couldn't disagree with anyone more about Orange is the New Black. This is a show that feels like a comedy, but doesn't have any laughs. The way the characters interact, with their over the top performances and the confinements of stereotypes, makes it feel like the show is a comedy, but there aren't many jokes. The tone of the show squashes any actual emotional impact, and the show gets very silly very quickly (that dumb chicken episode). The writing can be very silly, even during its most dramatic moments. The show wants you to invest in the horrors of prison and laugh at its little jokes, but these two concepts constantly trip all over themselves. I like that it is a take down of white privilege, and that transgender issues are properly addressed, but I feel the show is so hammy that it fails to hit many of its marks. There will always be the buzz of "the unspoken prison rules that are broken at peril", but once the protagonist settles in this appeal fades away. The lead actor is strong, as is Crazy-eyes-pseudo-ODB, but there are some awful, over-the-top performances here. The character of Red is the biggest offender. Also, what a waste of Lauren Lapkus.

Crazy all this Lou Barlow discussion popped up, because I have been digging his select tracks on all the post-reunion Dinosaur Jr. records. Here is the one I have been jamming the most: http://youtu.be/EVudwsRiWGg?t=20m17s

Three best Pixies songs are Bone Machine, Hey and Brick is Red. Have a good day. (Earl record is solid and I am not an Odd Future guy at all. Slow burn is a good way to put it)