January 2012
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Azealia Banks battles Lil Kim
rapindustryfanfiction:
Azealia Banks met Lil Kim at the top of Mount Everest, just like they’d planned. It had been a long, hard seven months of training—the workouts, the ten-mile runs every morning, the light arms training… But it had been worth it. She was ready.
As she dismounted her dragon, Lil Kim sneered. “Your tricks don’t amuse me, Banks,” she said, fighting to be heard over the...
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How to Fall In Love →
Start by leaving home. It’s not where the heart is,
but where the hard edge is. When ice begins to ebb from shoreline, freeing mangy marsh grass, leave.
And as you pick up speed, let your life arc out away from you.
Realize that you don’t know where you’re going and that the weather changes often. Steer between the stars like songbirds coming back at night. Listen to the whirring of a thousand,...
“See, that’s my model of friendship; it’s something I crystallized when I was 12...”
– (Since You Asked - Salon.com)
December 2011
14 posts
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The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
One of the...
Untitled from the series "Party Alone", 2010....
dhool:
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Can't sleep won't sleep
katecarraway:
What’s missing in the world is an acknowledgement about the other plagues, the extra-love plagues. I’m in a state and it’s not because of a guy; I haven’t been heartsick in two years (WORD, IS THAT BAD?). This year, I got three new columns (Vice, Elle and the National Post, which I’m starting up again this week after a long break). I love The Grid. I went to Mexico with my mom...
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“She plummets through all her languages: journalese, scholarese, tough girl...”
– Eileen Myles on Tory Dent (1996)
Letting Go
Growing older means learning to let go of certain relationships.
I.
Sometimes, you do whatever you can to save a friendship, but in the end, it too sours. Or, you stop rationalizing why a certain person doesn’t care anymore. It’s not that you’ve done something wrong, but that you are in different places.
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It is the end of the year and the music I love is more exact. Does age mean...
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Playing Favorites: 2011 Songs of the Year
britticisms:
Every year, this list feels like it gets longer. I can’t say for certain if that is the truth, but it feels like I place greater emphasis on strong singles. Only a handful of albums felt like complete, purposeful statements, but the number of singles that were on point were constant. The variety of tracks kept me surprised, with my interests earlier in the year more rock-focused...
November 2011
17 posts
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I’m so bored in this town Take me away from...
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I’m in a crisis I need help - come on mood...
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9. READ. LOOK. THINK.
somethingchanged:
9. READ. LOOK. THINK. I’ve finally worked out what I want these things to be. Like a magazine! To read every Friday (Thursdays for Northern hemisphere friends). Past editions: 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8.
READ.
Rhizome recommends 50+ feeds for your Google Reader. Senior editor Joanne McNeil has great taste in art, writing and technology.
“I think the world that...
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GIRLGANG ZINE x GAGC: Curls 'n Bangs Mixtape
andreainspired:
Love those gals at GIRLGANG ZINE, so when they asked me to create a mixtape for them how could I say no? Here’s a little something I did for them on behalf of GAGC.
I like to think of this playlist as a collection of anthems for my imaginary girl gang Curls ‘n Bangs. We’d have the gnarliest hairdos and the best sleepovers. Wanna join?
including:
01 The What Four - I’m Gonna...
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“Sometimes I think my art really started with the presents I made for my friends,...”
– Miranda July. (via somethingchanged)
How to be a fan of problematic things →
all of this all of this ALL OF THIS
Curating Ourselves: Facebook, Photography, and... →
rina-anxiety:
I dont think this article is particularly good, or interesting, but i am really interested in exploring the idea of social media as a self-curated show.
GIRLS AND GROWING UP →
DOING THINGS LITERALLY EVERY SECOND
I don’t know exactly when it happens, but there’s a switch between girldom and womanhood where your life takes on the qualities of a take-out coffee (overfull; too hot; expensive: BETTER METAPHOR, RIGHT? I JUST MADE IT UP!) and you will be busy or should be busy all of the time. What is, by necessity, not done—which will include friends not seen or even...
the space and the room
THINGS THAT CONFUSE PEOPLE I MEET:
1. my vague ethnicity 2. my whitewashed name
plus, when I’ve been drinking,
3. my north americanish accent (disclosure: I was born in Sydney)
There are reasons behind all three and I don’t like talking about them unless I’m distinctly unsober and strangers are dumb enough to bring it up. Remember the time I bit an acquaintance for...
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October 2011
20 posts
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THE MEDIUM CHILL
The medium chill involves what economists call satisficing: abandoning the quest for the ideal in favor of the good-enough. It means stepping off the aspirational treadmill, foregoing some material opportunities and accepting some material constraints in exchange for more time to spend on relationships and experiences.
It turns out, though, that satisficing doesn’t come easy to us human...
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Spaces, by Arkaye Kierulf →
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In this room I was born. And I knew I was in the wrong place: the world. I knew pain was to come. I knew it by the persistence of the blade that cut me out. I knew it as every baby born to the world knows it: I came here to die.
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Somewhere a beautiful woman in a story I do not understand is crying. If I strain hard enough I will hear a song in the background. She is holding a letter. She...
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