Deborah L. Carver

I heard “Magic Man” while driving home from work, and I was reminded how, when I was 14, I learned the very important lesson that when a dude starts talking about his ex girlfriend the first or second or third time you meet him, you run run run away. It was all because of Swingers, in the scene after this one, which I memorized as a teenager, along with Clerks. For a while having those movies for immediate reference was detrimental, but by the time I got to college it left me well-versed in a certain brand of dude bullshit. Unfortunately, there were many other brands of bullshit to wade through, but I came out on top, hey!

Anyway I’m heading to Vegas for the first time in my life on Friday, and everything I know about Las Vegas I know from this movie and Go. Other lessons I’ve learned: don’t search for just “Swingers” on Youtube, and no matter how wordly you are, if you memorized Swingers at 14 all you will always want to say before your first trip to Vegas is “Vegas Baby Vegas.”

colleen-powers:

mplstv:

Raighne Hogan of 2D Cloud is fighting Minnesota’s proposed ban on gay marriage in the way he knows best: with an anthology of comics about equality. This week’s Pumped Up Kicks invites you to give him money on Kickstarter.

This week’s best local Kickstarter (in my opinion, for MPLS.TV) looks like a genuinely great collection of comics! I’d donate just to get a copy of the finished product.

Awwww, heyyyy, some things I like include equal rights, marriage equality and local comics publisher 2D Cloud. Great pic, Colleen and MPLS.TV.

I’m beginning to realize that, if I want it to have any cultural relevance to any contemporary audience at all, I should probably get started writing my Velvet Goldmine-style movie about Britpop (to be directed by Sofia Coppola).

skin stretched tight over high cheekbones and thousands of tiny dryness lines beating a path into the corners of your eyes

 Do you think that the Occupy crowd really likes A Different Class?

How to find a picture of the short haircut you want, 2007: Google image search “short hair.” Come up with a lot of medium-length haircuts. Google “Jean Seberg.” Wish you could have that one again. Flip through for 30 minutes until you find something decent.

How to find a picture of the short haircut you want, 2012: Google image search “Carey Mulligan.” Pick one of those and tell your hairdresser “a variation of this.” She has had all the good ones.

boneluge:

Fertreuse bone luge at Bar & Kitchen in Los Angeles

I can’t pretend that a bone luge isn’t right up my alley. Damn I want to do a bone luge like nobody’s business. Now that I’m back in a food-related job, I have to hit up all the new food trends, right?

Preferably one that is more dining-focused than home-cooking focused, and one that’s not like “look at how great these restaurants used to be” and one that also possibly includes the past 30 years.

Any suggestions?

That essay is better and funnier and less trolly than anything I could say about it, so just read that.

Last fall, I wrote an essay for Creative Ladies Are Powerful (C.L.A.P.) about all of the cover letters I’ve written. Since I graduated from my M.A. program in 2009, I have written probably 200 cover letters. No, that’s not an exaggeration. And although those letters have led me to interviews— most of which met with “sorry, we went with someone with 10+ years of experience who got laid off from this other company”—none of the positions I’ve worked in the past three years required a cover letter for employment. They were serving jobs and temp jobs and, most recently, a position that I was approached about and ultimately accepted. None of them began with a cover letter.

But I have written so goddamn many of those things. I have mastered the form— and it’s a form that almost no one reads. No one looks at the “really well written” cover letter.

But anyway, this is my fun way of telling you that I have a new job, that things are changing, and that all is well. Here here to the cover letter, the completely unnecessary form!

Pretty soon (has it happened yet?), all the contemporary pop artists will be covering 90s modern rock radio hits, and I hope this one gets treated well. Or I hope that it doesn’t. I hope that it gets treated.

theoreticalgirl:

movingsideways:

And on the topic of Joy Division… I laughed at the tl;dr section.

If I can put on my teacher hat for a moment, this is also a great example of how to use Wikipedia as a starting point for research, instead of the final destination.

Maria also linked yesterday to Disney’s appropriation of this image (a mashup that makes absolutely no sense), and I couldn’t stop thinking about it at the gym this morning, so this explanation gave me a small bit of peace, or at least something to chew on.

If I didn’t have to go to law school and probably turn into a jerk to do it, I’d be an IP lawyer.

via marathonpacks

At the local bar with chalkboards in the bathrooms, I’ve started writing “ADS EVERYWHERE” any time someone spams a URL, even if it’s for a cutesy little arts or indie theater organization. Facebook is an amateur ad feed, and I suspect everyone will stop reading it in two years’ time. I currently work in marketing, but constant promotion leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

We will have intercourse in every direction.

dyfl:

Adele’s “Someone Like You” was co-written by the guy from Semisonic.

Not sure how I missed that until now…

How did I miss that? How did I miss all the coverage of the Minnesota connection? (The Strib published a couple of stories… but for some reason the Current never talks about it, which makes no sense, or maybe I just miss it, every time.*)

But, then, we also all more or less ignored the fact that Young Adult not only takes place in Minnesota but also doesn’t even have those accents y’all have complain about in the movies and actually pretty accurately portrays Minnesota in the early millennium!

Anyway, we’re quite centered on having our own Minnesota-centric culture, so when something Minnesotan is huge and national there’s a little bit of cognitive dissonance. That’s a working theory, anyway.

Or maybe I just thought I was paying attention and missed it all.

*Apropos of nothing except my recent annoyance: No one makes me want to troll the way John Munson does.

Love is the meaning of life.

(I think I am a Twolves fan!)

Another disappointment that happened this weekend was when I dreamed I saw the Moonrise Kingdom trailer, and the trailer in my dream was Gwyneth Paltrow in a role that was something like Charlize Theron in Young Adult (a movie I really liked!), but instead she was more likeable, and talking shit a little bit like Courtney Love did in Behind the Music. I dreamed the one way that Gwyneth Paltrow could be endearing again, and it was amazing. In my dream, the trailer for Moonrise Kingdom was a trailer about adults.

So you can imagine how disappointing it was to watch the real Moonrise Kingdom trailer and find out that it’s just a bunch of little kids running around in animal costumes, like Wes Anderson is Max Fischer making the same play over and over again. (I am a huge fan of 4/6 of his films! And this one could be good too, I guess.) Also I was never a huge fan of the Anna Karina archetype, so it will be difficult for me to get past it when it’s pasted on a 13-year-old girl. Gwyneth-Courtney is much cooler is all I’m saying.

liquidchroma:

am-neubs:

Poliça - Lay Your Cards Out

OH SHEEEEEIT.

I was just too lazy to re-embed it.

The Polica record is pretty good (a little slow at times for me but there are some rad songs!), but Channy’s haircut is AWESOME in this video. Oh boy, short hair!

Ryan Olson is only in bands with terrible names (Polica, Gayngs, Marijuana Death Squads), but I like this style of music. It is more triphop than chillwave, non?

liquidchroma:

annicka:

the etsy shop of the artist, Marnie Karger, who is actually from Minneapolis. [Sorry, Annicka, but you used the words “bestie” and “dins,” so you get edited.]

I’m on a roll of reblogging twee Twin Cities art things so DC will probably unfollow me so hard but whatever these are cool.

You’d be surprised at how many twee Twin Cities art things blogs I follow because on occasion I like one or two of those twee art things! I saw Karger’s work in FrameUps a while ago and thought it was super smart and clever and a good way to do twee and marketable without being saccharine. I would totally own one of these, if I had a particular affinity for any body of water that’s not the Atlantic Ocean.

You know when on Monday you feel totally fine and have plans to take over the world and on Tuesday you wake up and have been hit like a brick with Pain Cold and you can’t even get anything done but you have Computer Phone and you hate Computer Phone all of the time for its crippling simplicity but who ever thought that in your lifetime you could be sick and never leave your bed because of a damn phone? I hate the phone but it sure brings an element of interest to the pity party!

Chemical Brothers and Beth Orton - “Where Do I Begin”

This song has been stuck in my head for 15 years.