April 30th, 2009 / 5:44 pm
Haut or not
Jimmy Chen
Haut or not
Haut or Not: Joan Didion
We’ve been trying to do a special Joan Didion Haut or Not for the past few months, corresponding not only with her agent, but her agent’s numerous assistants. This paper-ridden FedEx-pectation process of contracts ultimately led to her New York apartment (we even hired a professional photographer), where it was precluded, indignantly, by Didion herself. She told us to thank her rheumatism, the only reason we weren’t all punched in the face. We were, however, able to sneak a quick peak at what appeared to be The Year of Magical Thinking, no doubt a signed copy.
Rating: Not (probably).
Tags: Joan Didion
yo fuck that. if you dissin chen den you dissin me. (that’s a paraphrase of a twista lyric. here’s the whoel thing i think:
[from “unsolved mystery”]
“If you can hang up at my town up at K Town*
if you dissin them then you dissin me
Niggas actin like they glad to die so if you had to try,
if they faded you it wouldn’t mean shit to me
just a unsolved mystery”
* K town is an area of chicago where if you pull up at a stop sign, you hear like, bird calls and shit and then a bunch of people start running down the block, through alleys and shit
yo fuck that. if you dissin chen den you dissin me. (that’s a paraphrase of a twista lyric. here’s the whoel thing i think:
[from “unsolved mystery”]
“If you can hang up at my town up at K Town*
if you dissin them then you dissin me
Niggas actin like they glad to die so if you had to try,
if they faded you it wouldn’t mean shit to me
just a unsolved mystery”
* K town is an area of chicago where if you pull up at a stop sign, you hear like, bird calls and shit and then a bunch of people start running down the block, through alleys and shit
yo fuck that. if you dissin chen den you dissin me. (that’s a paraphrase of a twista lyric. here’s the whoel thing i think:
[from “unsolved mystery”]
“If you can hang up at my town up at K Town*
if you dissin them then you dissin me
Niggas actin like they glad to die so if you had to try,
if they faded you it wouldn’t mean shit to me
just a unsolved mystery”
* K town is an area of chicago where if you pull up at a stop sign, you hear like, bird calls and shit and then a bunch of people start running down the block, through alleys and shit
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Not haut? Come on, man, her mind is a rare book collection. Isn’t having indignant Joan Didion telling you to thank her rheumatism even better than actually seeing her books? Take ten deep world-in, world-out breaths and imagine that bookshelf, with or without The Year of Magical Thinking, the broken-spined Sophie’s Choice we know she has, and the copy of City Police you can just make out in another photo.
She had style in 1970, when hardly anyone else did.
You’re kidding, though, right?
Anyway. Here’s William H. Gass, in focus and free of charge.
Not haut? Come on, man, her mind is a rare book collection. Isn’t having indignant Joan Didion telling you to thank her rheumatism even better than actually seeing her books? Take ten deep world-in, world-out breaths and imagine that bookshelf, with or without The Year of Magical Thinking, the broken-spined Sophie’s Choice we know she has, and the copy of City Police you can just make out in another photo.
She had style in 1970, when hardly anyone else did.
You’re kidding, though, right?
Anyway. Here’s William H. Gass, in focus and free of charge.
Not haut? Come on, man, her mind is a rare book collection. Isn’t having indignant Joan Didion telling you to thank her rheumatism even better than actually seeing her books? Take ten deep world-in, world-out breaths and imagine that bookshelf, with or without The Year of Magical Thinking, the broken-spined Sophie’s Choice we know she has, and the copy of City Police you can just make out in another photo.
She had style in 1970, when hardly anyone else did.
You’re kidding, though, right?
Anyway. Here’s William H. Gass, in focus and free of charge.
I’m sorry, but how about: The Hottest. Ever. After every other sentence in Play It As It Lays, I flipped the book over to this picture:
http://core.ecu.edu/engl/whisnantl/4300/didion.htm
Try it. If sentence/photo/sentence/photo doesn’t create the most despairing sexual malaise you’ve ever experienced then you haven’t looked deep enough into your black heart.
I’m sorry, but how about: The Hottest. Ever. After every other sentence in Play It As It Lays, I flipped the book over to this picture:
http://core.ecu.edu/engl/whisnantl/4300/didion.htm
Try it. If sentence/photo/sentence/photo doesn’t create the most despairing sexual malaise you’ve ever experienced then you haven’t looked deep enough into your black heart.
I’m sorry, but how about: The Hottest. Ever. After every other sentence in Play It As It Lays, I flipped the book over to this picture:
http://core.ecu.edu/engl/whisnantl/4300/didion.htm
Try it. If sentence/photo/sentence/photo doesn’t create the most despairing sexual malaise you’ve ever experienced then you haven’t looked deep enough into your black heart.
hi heath and zach, this haut or not series is a joke, designed to poke fun of people. i’ve never even read joan didion, but i’m sure she’s really haut.
hi heath and zach, this haut or not series is a joke, designed to poke fun of people. i’ve never even read joan didion, but i’m sure she’s really haut.
hi heath and zach, this haut or not series is a joke, designed to poke fun of people. i’ve never even read joan didion, but i’m sure she’s really haut.
oh i know you’re joking.
i’m not.
totally haut.
you should read her. play it as it lays or run river.
oh i know you’re joking.
i’m not.
totally haut.
you should read her. play it as it lays or run river.
oh i know you’re joking.
i’m not.
totally haut.
you should read her. play it as it lays or run river.
play it as it lays is indeed hot
and she mega-was
and almost still is even now, in her albino stage
play it as it lays is indeed hot
and she mega-was
and almost still is even now, in her albino stage
play it as it lays is indeed hot
and she mega-was
and almost still is even now, in her albino stage
Jimmy Chen, I’m dying over here.
Rob Reiner says:
May 7, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Hi Frank Black, this Spinal Tap movie is a joke, designed to poke fun at metal bands. I’ve never actually seen a working amp that goes to 11, but I’m sure it would be really cool if there was such a thing.
Jimmy Chen, I’m dying over here.
Rob Reiner says:
May 7, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Hi Frank Black, this Spinal Tap movie is a joke, designed to poke fun at metal bands. I’ve never actually seen a working amp that goes to 11, but I’m sure it would be really cool if there was such a thing.
Jimmy Chen, I’m dying over here.
Rob Reiner says:
May 7, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Hi Frank Black, this Spinal Tap movie is a joke, designed to poke fun at metal bands. I’ve never actually seen a working amp that goes to 11, but I’m sure it would be really cool if there was such a thing.