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Dec 31, 201112,531 notes
Me & Mr. Jones Amy Winehouse

amy winehouse, me & mr. jones (live)

you already know this, but in case you get drunk tonight and forget: if someone asks what the best part of this song is the answer is when the backup singers say “don’t mean diiiiick” in the second verse (go ahead and sing it… see?) followed closely by their crooning “big black jeewwww” a little later. that part comes in second because it’s a little too on the nose. but those are the answers, should someone ask. which is likely. 

Dec 31, 201116 notes
#Amy Winehouse #live #live albums #me and mr. jones
Random Intel: Bell Hooks, Postmodern Blackness

couple spot-on excerpts from bell hooks, postmodern blackness:

[8] Writing about blacks and postmodernism, Cornel West describes our collective plight:

There is increasing class division and differentiation, creating on the one hand a significant black middle-class, highly anxiety- ridden, insecure, willing to be co-opted and incorporated into the powers that be, concerned with racism to the degree that it poses constraints on upward social mobility (ed. note: this is me!) ; and, on the other, a vast and growing black underclass, an underclass that embodies a kind of walking nihilism of pervasive drug addiction, pervasive alcoholism, pervasive homicide, and an exponential rise in suicide (ed. note: also me! holla!). Now because of the deindustrialization, we also have a devastated black industrial working class. We are talking here about tremendous hopelessness.

[15]  Postmodern culture with its decentered subject can be the space where ties are severed or it can provide the occasion for new and varied forms of bonding.

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Dec 31, 2011
#bell hooks #postmodern blackness #random intelligence
Dec 31, 20111,533 notes
#word #wu-tang #diversify yo bonds forever
Dec 31, 201110 notes
#gpotan #hi-def #math! #trapezoids #traps #who killed the assimilated negro? #needs more def
Occupy! The OWS Inspired Gazette #3 → shop.nplusonemag.com

on N+1, free

Dec 31, 2011
#n+1 #occupy Wall Street #gazettes #long live gazettes
Dec 31, 201115 notes
#kobe is interesting again #Kobe Bryant #Sports
Dec 31, 201123,304 notes
#word
See-line woman Nina Simone

nina simone, see-line woman

Dec 31, 20111 note
#nina simone #see-line woman #jams
Choate-Broke

true story (essentially)…

INT. VON - LATE AFTERNOON

Sitting at a table in the back of the downtown NYC bar is then managing editor of Gawker Media, now internet entrepreneur extraordinaire Lockhart Steele. That is his real name. He stands upon noticing the arrival of the only black guy in the bar, PATRICE EVANS aka TAN aka THE ASSIMILATED NEGRO:

LS: Hi there, are you Patrice The Assimilated Negro?

TAN: My nigga

LS: well, uh, you’ve been very impressive, shooting up the charts and what not

TAN: yo, your name is Lockhart Steele for real?

LS: yes. wouldyabelieveit?

TAN: nah, son. you playin… your name ain’t Lockhart Steele

LS: it is.

TAN: word. can i use that shit too, then?

LS: uhhh

TAN: ….

LS: so i don’t know, what can i do for you? you reached out to me right, said you had an unbelievable offer to make me?

TAN: word. sorry about all those exclamation points, but i was high and shit and i was just sort of amped to be like getting some shine, knahmean

LS: heh, i think so.

TAN: but yo,

LS: yes?

TAN: yo

LS: yes?

TAN: yo, here’s the deal. I need some paper. I’m broke, y’know. I’m a give it to you straight. Yo. I’m f’ing broke, son. And I ain’t talking Choate-Broke. I’m talking broke-broke.

…annnd scene

So, number one: yes, this is mostly a true story. Now, yes, I am playing up my hood side a little. But I don’t think the truth is that far off. pretty sure i was wearing a big billowing polo shirt and it’s possible when elizabeth spiers showed up after that i was like, “waddup shortie, how YOU doin? can i holla after?”. ok, not really on that. but i def did say the “choate-broke” part, and i think that’s pretty raw for a first time meeting. some jungle animal instincts firing there. 

and as for the term itself, “Choate-broke” is a reference to the name-droppable private boarding school I attended, Choate Rosemary Hall. a school that currently costs over to $47,000 dollar per year to attend. mind you that’s high school cooch, high school D, i.e. a lot of room for improvement, you will experience better. now any kid of high school age will probably talk about being broke countless times, but needless to say if you’re broke and attending a school that will cost minimum $200K to attend/finish, as we used to like to say while throwing in a 50-cent bag of chips on someone’s order at the corner bodega: son, you ain’t really broke. I’m broke-broke. hook me up.

and so there you go. choate-broke. use it in your next interview! 

Dec 31, 201110 notes
#choate broke #choate #lockhart steele #gawker #the way we were #goodbye to all that #assimilation
holiday dump coming

fair warning. i’m in florida, and thought i’d be taking this holiday week to do some sweet sweet intergalactically revolutionary blogging. but then there was no wi-fi. and there was a beach. soooo, y’know. but now there is wi-fi. so i’m gonna probably smush a bunch of it together, now, soon, before the revelry, and leave it at that. i imagine i’ll be out of dodge before anyone realizes….  

Dec 31, 2011
Everlasting Light The Black Keys

everlasting light, the black keys

Dec 31, 20115 notes
#The Black Keys #everlasting light
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#michel gondry #taxi driver #sweded #boyz n the hood should be next #inception too #maybe Batman
Dec 20, 20111,576 notes
#word #books
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Dec 20, 20115 notes
#NY Knicks #iman shumpert
Dec 20, 20116,162 notes
#gratuitous #help #very sexy
a guide to farting in the middle of a blowjob → deadspin.com

i helped drew out w/ his funbag, and saw this headline and was like this is the most clickable headline ever created. i want to share it with everyone! i will always click on this! it can’t just be me, can it? (please say no)

and it would all be worth it for this

“But if this is a Drunken Hookup situation, where even the slightest pause in momentum means your hookup is OVER, then I say you let it fly as quietly as possible.”

WHAAAAAAAATTT?? THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS NEVEREVERFOREVER EVERNENEERVERNEVERVRNEENVENERRNNEVERNEEEEEEEVVVVVVVEEEEERRRRREVERNEVEREVERNEVER

But! (snicker) now i would like to try this RIGHT NOW. anyone?

Dec 20, 20111 note
#how you doing? #you lookin' good tonight #LADIES MY MERCEDES
My career doesn’t look like that. In graphic form, it might resemble a chart of stock exchange numbers, or maybe murder statistics. I’ve experienced inexplicable and sudden professional highs and lows. In between, there have been long, stagnant periods of dull repetition. It’s almost impossible to predict when the graph will rise or plummet. If you want a career that makes sense, don’t work as a writer. → publishingperspectives.com

Neal Pollack, author of six books most recently “Jewball”, charts the spikes of his career as a writer from McSweeneys darling opening rock shows with readings, to his recent self-published experiment and all the sobbing into pillows in-between (and after).

Dec 20, 201113 notes
#neal pollack #writers
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