#PACKWATCH
on october 3rd i asked him what day it was. "the president has been taken to walter reed medical center"
this blogpost actually has nothing to do with the president getting coronavirus i just felt like i needed to acknowledge it even tho i already outlined this one before he got it. my blog tho so we not talking about that bullshit.
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
OPEN TABS I’M NOT READING:
Louis Althusar - Ideological State Apparatuses
i’m sure i would be better off if i read this but like
y’all in this bitch reading theory, not even theoretically ready to get bitches so idk about all that
Georges Bataille - Blue of Noon
idk why i thought i was going to read this but if anyone needs a pdf
Amia Srinivasan - The Sucker, The Sucker!
i was offline when that whole queer octopus fucking thread happened but someone blogged about it on substack and rediscovered this article that i know i have read before but for the life of me don’t remember
shoutout toshio saeki
Roland Barthes - Lover’s Discourse
i was gonna read this in the spring cuz i was sprung and writing poems but like
i understand that a crush is about me not about them so i was like “oh bet maybe i’ll read barthes”
did not actually read barthes about it
also i’m no longer sprung or emotionally available and i’m done writing poems for a minute
tho i did see an excerpt of this on instagram and post it to my story as a not-really-thinly-veiled subtweet
THINGS I READ AND REFUSED TO CLOSE THE TAB ON
Harron Walker - Mounting
been a fan of harron walker’s work since before i knew who she was lol
literally link this article about cis media groupthink allllll the time
anyway the writing in this!! is so crazy!!
obsessed with the way it integrates cultural criticism and just fuckin slaps
anyway, literally i can’t even do it justice please just look at this minor excerpt:
“Girl, Katy Perry is done,” Melanie interrupted. “If The Danish Girl is too irrelevant to be mad about, how are you this upset about Katy Perry?”
“Fine. Camila Cabello, then...
Kaitlin Phillips - Lower Middle Class & Loving It
tbh idk if i Like this piece but the writing is so immediate it’s hard not to be really enthralled
like i maybe wouldn’t like Kaitlin Phillips irl but she also probably wouldn’t like me so nbd
second installment was kinda shit next to the first but wow. the first!
that sounds really catty but it’s literally same quality writing just the first is about LIFE UNDER QUARANTINE and the second is about My Housewarming Party so, like many columnists, babe i do not give a fuckkkkk
Megan Reynolds - Whose Feelings Count Most in a Pandemic?
at this point i think every thinkpiece on earth has been written
but i’m a sucker for meta-commentary on how Media functions
also was just a good reminder of like. why Media is so disconnected from The Real World and the ways we play class drag just to get by in, this industry but plenty of others too
Jessa Thurman - Raising Millions of Wasps/Diversity within a single fig
literally just so fucking cool
like… hyperparasitism???? and ecological pest control via wasp breeding?? fuck yeah
MUSIC I’M LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW
kobe world [snippet] - flee
flee and stoopid goin stupid *mind blown emoji*
nah this shit too fuckin crazy
flee be spitting unbelievable bars
“pussy got me on lock- free me / shorty want my green, want my KIWI”
the contacts line wtffff goat
RIP KOBE & GIGI
guapo - angela torres
no idea wtf she saying
this shit so hard tho
evisu fiend - father
technically i been listening to Hitman by Father a lot actually but
this one is youtube only so i wanted to link it in the blog
half-light [instupendo remix] - rostam ft. kelly zutrau
rostam dropped an acoustic of half-light recently which reminded me to revisit the original and then this remix
half-light is such a crystalline perfect song and so achingly sad!!! like damn, channelling lykke li in this bitch rn
this remix really adds a lot of energy and atmosphere without breaking the magic of the original
waverly - samia
i was listening to this album for the first time driving from the east coast back to the midwest and when the piano kicked in i had to turn the volume up so loud i thought the subwoofer would blow out
then i looped it like 30 times in a row
samia’s writing is uniformly excellent across the album but here, just. wow
the world-building! the evocation! narrative verses contrasting with the plaintive, delicate chorus!
could literally listen to just the piano line from this song for hours. some fuckin 30 for 30 shit
and wow the way it kicks into double-time! and the bass solo!! such clever, taut composition
this song makes me so nostalgic for being in a dark crowded restaurant with people you really fuck with
cafeteria - chase b & dontoliver ft. gunna
don toliver voice so perfect. ty dolla $ign type shit. need someone to do the giorgis-ethiopian-weeknd style analysis fr
this beat remind me a lot of jay critch shit with laron/tony seltzer/cashmoneyAP
tbh i’m very sold on cactus jack as a label/branding exercise… kind of the michael bay theory of, if you have enough talented ppl and money in a room, even the trash will be very well-produced
obviously proof is in the music but hard to see a guy bring us don toliver & sh*ck w*s & whatever the hell chase b doing in the studio & thugger X MIA and not be like ok this is working
“need that, need that… let him get that… always need that… fuck it, just bring a whole bunch of shit out, i tell you if i like it or not”
ART I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT
Zhang Huan - 12 Square Meters
everything is performance art
Chris Burden - Shoot
do something intense or shut the fuck up
Tom Otterness - Shot Dog Film
personally, i don’t think he had anything to apologize for
Anicka Yi - Life Is Cheap
sunday scaries smell like star jasmine & bile