September 1st, 2010 / 7:26 pm
Roundup
Blake Butler
Roundup
Creeps Future Korine
1. Also officially out today, the amazing The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich, which truly lives up to its hype: it’s enormous and insane + magic. Full review forthcoming.
2. @ Not Coming, a 3 part review of the Back to the Future series. (1) (2) (3)
3. @ the Guardian, Harmony Korine has a list of things he knows, including: “When I hear the song “Sippin’ on Some Syrup” by Three 6 Mafia, it’s like listening to the gospels…” & “I didn’t really research anything for my film Trash Humpers, I just did it – just lived like a homeless person and it was great.”
Tags: back to the future, harmony korine, The Orange Eats Creeps
I like Korine’s movies, but he’s such a spoiled little brat. ‘…lived like a homeless person and it was great.’ That’s because you knew it [living like a homeless person] was going to end, you junkie, you spoiled, sponsored junkie.
don’t be silly.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYv0_Gm3Hro
go write some more nine inch nails fan fiction, blake
I can’t wait to read The Orange Eats Creeps.
go use some punctuation ta
More Importantly, Capital Letters are Useful.
The Orange Eats Creeps looks badass.
I like Korine’s movies, but he’s such a spoiled little brat. ‘…lived like a homeless person and it was great.’ That’s because you knew it [living like a homeless person] was going to end, you junkie, you spoiled, sponsored junkie.
don’t be silly.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYv0_Gm3Hro
go write some more nine inch nails fan fiction, blake
harmony korine is not a spoiled brat. just watch interviews with him. research him a little. not spoiled. just an american making movies about america.
walt – i hate to make this into a bully brawl, but who cares right? right – your use of ‘it’ is unnecessary if you’re going to use brackets the way you did there (i see what you did there). but you might want to rethink the brackets altogether as they are typically used either as an editor’s note or a clarification within a quotation, and rarely otherwise, the way you did.
owen – FUCK CAPITALIZATION
I’M JUST KIDDING, Owen, I GUESS YOU’RE RIGHT, IT IS USEFUL, I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT HOW powerful THIS SHIT IS
I can’t wait to read The Orange Eats Creeps.
go use some punctuation ta
More Importantly, Capital Letters are Useful.
The Orange Eats Creeps looks badass.
harmony korine is not a spoiled brat. just watch interviews with him. research him a little. not spoiled. just an american making movies about america.
walt – i hate to make this into a bully brawl, but who cares right? right – your use of ‘it’ is unnecessary if you’re going to use brackets the way you did there (i see what you did there). but you might want to rethink the brackets altogether as they are typically used either as an editor’s note or a clarification within a quotation, and rarely otherwise, the way you did.
owen – FUCK CAPITALIZATION
I’M JUST KIDDING, Owen, I GUESS YOU’RE RIGHT, IT IS USEFUL, I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT HOW powerful THIS SHIT IS
The video for “Sippin’ on Some Syrup” features adults drinking cough syrup from baby bottles. What the fuck. At some point shit like that isn’t funny, it’s just really sad. Then I think about who is marketing it and for whom… and it’s just straight up racist, isn’t it? White consumption of black humiliation and self-destruction. “Look at how stupid and funny they are.” Etcetera.
The documentary ‘Behind Beats and Rhymes’ concluded that the closest thing in film to how black people are portrayed in contemporary hip hop videos is ‘The Birth of a Nation’.
(That said, I’m excited to watch Trash Humpers. I loved Gummo, and being from Ohio made it so much better. My dad has stories about those tornadoes.)
i equally enjoy consuming black and white humiliation and self-destruction
SMASH CAPITALIZATIONALISM
If only DW Griffith had been black!
I often see individuals robotrippin’ on street corners while driving to work. No baby bottles. I would say that at heart this is very sad.
re: “Sippin’ on some Syrup”, I feel conflicted.
Its a great song though. And I think youre missing the humor in the video which is very funny and I’m sure that the band themselves had more than a hand in the look and concept of the video.
And anyway, if you wanna talk about real injustice, its shit that you cant get codeine based cough syrup without a prescription in this country.
PS – trash humpers is really great.
yes, yes, and yes
I understand the humor.
I almost wrote in my above comment that sometimes the robotrippers I see _do look funny_, as in _humorous, I chuckle_. But I didn’t. Maybe this morning it’s just because I have a hangover and I have to get ready for work…..
This (all of the above) is my ‘conflict’.
oh my comment appeared in the wrong place anyway, mimi.
but, now that we’re talking, do you really see people stoned on robotussin on street corners? thats wild, i dont think ive ever seen that. i always figured that was more of a school kid thing. robotussin isnt very good, and anyways a bottle of cisco or wild irish rose is cheaper and will get you there faster. i never understood taking dxm for fun. seems like trying to smoke banana peels to get high or something.
sorry you have a hangover. have a bloody mary… or some syrup…
I do see individuals (it’s almost always a lone person, not a ‘kid’, and ‘homeless-looking’, sorry, this is terrible, I feel bad) drinking from a cough syrup bottle on a street corner and acting crazy. I think there are mental health issues. I don’t suppose they can afford anything. Someone probably gave them the bottle long ago and they get ‘refills’ on the street, I don’t know exactly how it works. I’m talking about pretty rough neighborhoods. (The block where our offices used to be was affectionately known as ‘the no-shoot-zone’ because we were right next to an elementary school.) And I _am_ conflicted. I’ve had my car, and personal belongings stolen from the very people I work with, on occasion, over the years. It’s complex.
The hangover thing is weird, I can usually hold my liquor. I think maybe I’m dehydrated/got too much sodium chloride from last night’s sushi & spring rolls. I’ll feel better in a few. Now I really am going to be late for work. Going to try to get a few people to latch on to a few lines from T.S. Eliot. Am I crazy??
Cheers!
Or maybe someone slipped some MSG into my dipping sauce.
I guess “but it’s funny!” stops working for me at some point.
Of course, the patronizing “critiques” of hip hop are the other side of the same coin, especially all the family values/role of the father conservative shit.
The video for “Sippin’ on Some Syrup” features adults drinking cough syrup from baby bottles. What the fuck. At some point shit like that isn’t funny, it’s just really sad. Then I think about who is marketing it and for whom… and it’s just straight up racist, isn’t it? White consumption of black humiliation and self-destruction. “Look at how stupid and funny they are.” Etcetera.
The documentary ‘Behind Beats and Rhymes’ concluded that the closest thing in film to how black people are portrayed in contemporary hip hop videos is ‘The Birth of a Nation’.
(That said, I’m excited to watch Trash Humpers. I loved Gummo, and being from Ohio made it so much better. My dad has stories about those tornadoes.)
i equally enjoy consuming black and white humiliation and self-destruction
SMASH CAPITALIZATIONALISM
If only DW Griffith had been black!
I often see individuals robotrippin’ on street corners while driving to work. No baby bottles. I would say that at heart this is very sad.
re: “Sippin’ on some Syrup”, I feel conflicted.
werd
Its a great song though. And I think youre missing the humor in the video which is very funny and I’m sure that the band themselves had more than a hand in the look and concept of the video.
And anyway, if you wanna talk about real injustice, its shit that you cant get codeine based cough syrup without a prescription in this country.
PS – trash humpers is really great.
yes, yes, and yes
I understand the humor.
I almost wrote in my above comment that sometimes the robotrippers I see _do look funny_, as in _humorous, I chuckle_. But I didn’t. Maybe this morning it’s just because I have a hangover and I have to get ready for work…..
This (all of the above) is my ‘conflict’.
oh my comment appeared in the wrong place anyway, mimi.
but, now that we’re talking, do you really see people stoned on robotussin on street corners? thats wild, i dont think ive ever seen that. i always figured that was more of a school kid thing. robotussin isnt very good, and anyways a bottle of cisco or wild irish rose is cheaper and will get you there faster. i never understood taking dxm for fun. seems like trying to smoke banana peels to get high or something.
sorry you have a hangover. have a bloody mary… or some syrup…
I do see individuals (it’s almost always a lone person, not a ‘kid’, and ‘homeless-looking’, sorry, this is terrible, I feel bad) drinking from a cough syrup bottle on a street corner and acting crazy. I think there are mental health issues. I don’t suppose they can afford anything. Someone probably gave them the bottle long ago and they get ‘refills’ on the street, I don’t know exactly how it works. I’m talking about pretty rough neighborhoods. (The block where our offices used to be was affectionately known as ‘the no-shoot-zone’ because we were right next to an elementary school.) And I _am_ conflicted. I’ve had my car, and personal belongings stolen from the very people I work with, on occasion, over the years. It’s complex.
The hangover thing is weird, I can usually hold my liquor. I think maybe I’m dehydrated/got too much sodium chloride from last night’s sushi & spring rolls. I’ll feel better in a few. Now I really am going to be late for work. Going to try to get a few people to latch on to a few lines from T.S. Eliot. Am I crazy??
Cheers!
Or maybe someone slipped some MSG into my dipping sauce.
I guess “but it’s funny!” stops working for me at some point.
Of course, the patronizing “critiques” of hip hop are the other side of the same coin, especially all the family values/role of the father conservative shit.
Heh, I know, Reynard. I have nothing against anyone who doesn’t use capital letters, really — I’m fully open to it in writing, as well — I was just sticking it to TA for making a rude, un-called-for insult.
Interestingly, I think it was My Bloody Valentine who first introduced me to the beauty of lowercase.
…just so long as his drug supply lasts… .
(That said, I’ve always had a childlike, punk-ish appreciation for Gummo and Julien Donkey Boy (the latter not just because Werner Herzog was in it). He just doesn’t seem to have much going on in his head.)
werd
Heh, I know, Reynard. I have nothing against anyone who doesn’t use capital letters, really — I’m fully open to it in writing, as well — I was just sticking it to TA for making a rude, un-called-for insult.
Interestingly, I think it was My Bloody Valentine who first introduced me to the beauty of lowercase.
…just so long as his drug supply lasts… .
(That said, I’ve always had a childlike, punk-ish appreciation for Gummo and Julien Donkey Boy (the latter not just because Werner Herzog was in it). He just doesn’t seem to have much going on in his head.)
I mean…
“Wayne has said he’s been hearing about how he needs to cut back on syrup more than ever in the wake of Pimp C’s death in December. The UGK member’s death was ruled accidental and due to a deadly combination of syrup and his sleep-apnea condition. Pimp was the most prominent name in the hip-hop community to have a syrup-related death, although Houston MC Big Moe and the legendary DJ Screw have also had their untimely passings tied to syrup consumption. Pimp’s partner Bun B recently went public and called the popularity of syrup — also known as “lean,” “Texas tea” and “drank” — in the South an “epidemic” and said anyone who uses it may want to take a long look at themselves. “
I mean…
“Wayne has said he’s been hearing about how he needs to cut back on syrup more than ever in the wake of Pimp C’s death in December. The UGK member’s death was ruled accidental and due to a deadly combination of syrup and his sleep-apnea condition. Pimp was the most prominent name in the hip-hop community to have a syrup-related death, although Houston MC Big Moe and the legendary DJ Screw have also had their untimely passings tied to syrup consumption. Pimp’s partner Bun B recently went public and called the popularity of syrup — also known as “lean,” “Texas tea” and “drank” — in the South an “epidemic” and said anyone who uses it may want to take a long look at themselves. “
Thirty years of Ollie-North-ian social engineering paying off in spades
Thirty years of Ollie-North-ian social engineering paying off in spades