A Higher Level

Saying that people “see themselves in the commodities they consume” used to be a witty criticism of consumerist/capitalist culture; now with iPhone selfies its just a completely mundane and factual statement about reality.

There’s probably some deep insight I should be explicating about the “cunning of reason” here, but instead I’m just going to use it as a tenuous excuse for narcissism and post one.

Camera: iPhone 4S
Aperture: f/2.4
Exposure: 1/15th
Focal Length: 4mm

Anonymous Asked

Questionwho are some of your favorite bands/musicians? Answer

aggh I listen to alot of music, and have pretty eclectic tastes, so this’ll just be a rough list, I’ll star my all-time favorites:

De La Soul*
A Tribe Called Quest*
The Dead Kennedys*
Nas
Hadyn
The Doors
Big Pun*
Big L*
Pete Rock & C.L. Smith*
Lowkey
Blue Scholars
Miles Davis*
Dead Prez
Sublime*
Gang Starr*
KRS-One
Jurassic 5
Frank Zappa
The Methodones
The Joy Division*
Sizzla Kalonji
Brahms
Gil Scott-Heron
Burning Spear*
The Germs
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Stetsasonic
Black 47*
The Wolfe Tones
Thesis
Mojo Nixon
The Clash
Del the Funkee Homosapien
Phil Ochs*
Souls of Mischief
Pete Seeger
Simon & Garfunkel
Nina Simone*
The Clash
Ras Kass
The Chieftans
NoFX
Atmosphere
The Grateful Dead
Brand Nubian
The Expendables
Yellowman*
Talib Kweli
Biggie Smalls*
The Sonics
The Velvet Underground
Yusaf Islam / Cat Stevens
The Fugges*
The Sex Pistols
Eazy-E
KRS-One
Mobb Deep*
DJ Format
Schoenberg*
Eric B. and Rakim
Wu-Tang
Geto Boys
Radio Birdman
Immortal Technique
X-Clan
The Ramones
G. Love & Special Sauce
Neil Young
Tom Petty
Nat King Cole
Bing Crosby
Desmond Dekker
Dilated Peoples
EPMD*
…

Anonymous Asked

Questionhave you read anything interesting recently? Answer

I just finished reading History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by Georg Lukacs, which I’d definitively recommend unless you don’t like/get Hegel, cause it’s pretty heavily dependent on it. Currently I’m reading One-Dimensional Man (Marcuse), Four Essays on Liberty (Isaiah Berlin), and The Dialectics of Secularization (Habermas and Ratzinger), all of which are interesting so far, particularly One-Dimensional Man

Does this look like a George Lucas biography to you? Would seeing this book prompt you to spark a conversation on Star Wars with a random Lifegaurd you’ve never met while swimming at a hotel pool like 9 people have done in the past two days.

Not that I don’t absolutely love explaining why a Hungarian Marxist’s essays on dialectical materialism have nothing to do with the life of the author of the Star Wars Series (which I’ve never seen).

Hey there tumblr.
I don’t know if you can see from this picture, but this rainy weather really accentuates my utter lack of melanin.

Hello, Tumblr

I felt like it was weird that their were no pictures of me on my tumblog.