James Brown Popcorn

hey motherfucker, got low standards? meet them with style.

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:24:05 -0400

hey motherfucker,

got low standards? meet them with style.

In response to an overwhelming demand for television of the...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:26:40 -0400

In response to an overwhelming demand for television of the nineties, this fall nickelodeon will launch a block of nighttime programming called ‘The Nineties Are All That’. This will include old favorites like All That, Clarissa Explains it All, The Adventures of Pete & Pete,Rugrats, Salute Your Shorts and Kenan & Kel. But they’re not trying to save today’s tweens from iCarly here because the shows are going to run in the 12 to 2am time slot. So the intended demographic is clearly, appropriately and graciously targeted as us twenty-somethings.

Nick execs caught wind of the millions of facebook fansites dedicated to their nineties programming and decided to throw us a bone/make money. Senior VP at Nick acknowledged that “[the 9-11 age range programming] was groundbreaking and, for the young viewers, a powerful and pivotal time in their lives. Those kids who are now 22, 23, and 24 want to bring that back.”

And hell yea we want to bring back that pivotal time. We’re up to our eyeballs in irony, fatigued, hung over, bored, and not exactly on the cover of Forbes. Maybe by we I mean me, but I’m not a unique snowflake around here. We’re all growing up and having to constantly negotiate our realities. The worst-case scenario used to be getting grounded, but now we face the overwhelming consequences-of-our-actions buffet and it’s not exactly lobster tail. In fact, it’s dick salad and in fact, it sucks. We get along, but it’s hard and we’re tired.

And if that weren’t enough, we are living in a generation that thrives on irony. So it’s a nice change of pace when we appreciate something with the same sincerity we had when we were nine. And it’s not like these shows weren’t ahead of their time. Clarissa, a born leader in fashion and technology, predated the blog by some fifteen years, and yet had struck her personal brand in the hearts of millions before we even knew enough not care about the douchey futility of personal brands. We let her have it because it feels good.

And it feels good to walk with the virginal Pete who has yet to find himself in a sticky chokehold of post coitus desperation, at the height of summer, feeling cold and complicated with nothing to give [having given too much already]. That’s our lot, and we hate it, need it, and something in between. But we want him to get the girl because it harkens us back to a time when we could fall deeply and happily in love with someone over something like mutual attraction and a common interest in Green Day. The prospect of puppy love for us old dogs— the mean, the tired, the hungry—well, it makes us wanna shit rainbows.

When we watch these shows, the kid inside of us comes out. That little Pete who longs only to rock, bless him, reminds us that it doesn’t matter who doubts us or what comes in our way because, “Hey, Blowhole, wherever you are, in forty-five minutes I’m going to be famous. And you know what you’re going to be? A blowhole!”

So thanks Nickelodeon, I officially forgive you for the George Lopez show.

[First piece I did for Synthesis that I am proud of„,]

Leslie Speakers is gonna be my DJ name. And hell yea I’m...

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:28:00 -0400

Leslie Speakers is gonna be my DJ name. And hell yea I’m gonna get titular with one of the signature sounds of Abby Road. Put some solid gold on that solid gold, sugar puss; I’m here all night.

Every single thing that crosses our senses is a trial and yet,...

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:45:00 -0400

Every single thing that crosses our senses is a trial and yet, experience does not force the concept of causation on us. We have to navigate through infinity to decipher meaning and it’s not fucking easy and we often misunderstand…but let’s try to not be assholes about it, cuz it’s all gonna be okay. Okay? Okay.

Good talk.

Oh Elizabeth Taylor, you reigned so hard.

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:12:00 -0400

Oh Elizabeth Taylor, you reigned so hard.

This video is my spirit animal this week. Maybe for the rest of...

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:49:30 -0400

This video is my spirit animal this week. Maybe for the rest of my life. I don’t know. One can only hope.

An oldschool take on external individuation might go something...

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:20:00 -0400

An oldschool take on external individuation might go something along the lines of: women dream of catching a perfect man while men have already realized the dream of a perfect man in and of themselves.

Freud would further this notion by suggesting that all women suffer from penis envy.

So do I want to have Bruce Springsteen or do I want to be Bruce Springsteen? Or do I want to be Bruce Springsteen while having sex with Bruce Springsteen? Fuuuuck.

klfjgsdk.hjl/asdkfa [‘GLA’[G]

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:44:53 -0400

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[‘GLA’[G]

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Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:44:03 -0400

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ASS NACHOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:12:46 -0400

ASS NACHOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But then they go an do creepy as fuck shit like this.

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:10:14 -0400

But then they go an do creepy as fuck shit like this.

The French can be kinda funny sometimes though.

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:05:14 -0400

The French can be kinda funny sometimes though.

Pierrot Le Fou, Badlands

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:44:00 -0400

These two movies have pretty similar premises. Couple in trouble with law runs away and lives in wild until outside forces deliver consequences of the catalyst transgression. The biggest difference is the country of origin.

For example, Pierrot’s dissatisfaction stems from bourgeois apathy:

which leads to:

Whereas there is no descent with Kit. He was born poor and stupid and stays that way. He portrays a compelling imbalance of being both sure and unsure of himself with never a hint of self-awareness:

Both films present an Anti-Hero, but Badlands does not offer any compromise of depth for the protagonist. Although, it’s probably more tongue in cheek than the current direction of my proposal.

And now that I think about it, Kit is probably an embodiment of tea party Americana. He doesn’t need to do faggoty things like read or talk about love. He acts solely on his weird and stifled emotions, rather than logic— and just like the tea party, he makes the key mistake of confusing the two.

And maybe more so Americana is the ending. It’s pretty cut and dry, like, Justice-comma-Served. Done-comma-Done.

So then maybe it’s exactly as American as it needs to be for as dark a comedy as it is. But now, I wonder if the French were in on the joke. I mean, French New Wave hyper stylization is probably as Patriotic as John Wayne movies are here. But do they know that, while awesome (and I’m thrilled to sit alone and eat my own shit over a Godard or John Wayne movie any day of the week), their movies are a little retarded? Just a little fucking silly sometimes?:

How do you say “SRRRSSLY?” in French?

bohemianshoebox: Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Kerouac’s...

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:59:36 -0400

bohemianshoebox:

Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Kerouac’s grave, Lowell, MA, 1975

In the Beginning there was Popcorn

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:49:00 -0400

The security question to retrieve the password for this account was, “how do you write a security question for a fictional email?”

This is a depiction of how my present self felt about my past self. However, the two versions of myself reconciled their differences and managed to answer the question without missing a beat.

As the answer was, very appropriately, “I DON’T KNOW.”

Ever put Bruce McCulloch and Serge Gainsbourg in a fictional...

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:08:00 -0400

Ever put Bruce McCulloch and Serge Gainsbourg in a fictional iconographic conversation? Well, guess what?