Screw Rock 'n' Roll
Screw Rock 'n' Roll is the Tumblr version of Screw Rock 'n' Roll. It is another way to follow the brilliant career of Jonathan Bradley.
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4 hours agoI am smart and pretty and I have good boobs and I make amazing food!!!
it makes no sense
This is the best Taylor photo. I totally wanted to scan it from the album sleeve so I’d have a jpg of it, but now, thanks to fuckyeahskinnybitch, I don’t have to.
1 day agoBut then [Steve Walt] draws a straight-line connection to Lynrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” using the verse that responds to Neil Young’s diss track “Southern Man.” Walt writes:
This is what defeat in war and prolonged occupation does to a society: it generates hatred and resentment that can last a century or more.Yes! Yes that’s true. But “Sweet Home Alabama” is an example of something more subtle. The crucial verse in “Sweet Home Alabama” is the third one, where Skynyrd sing, “In Birmingham they love the governor,” a reference to George Wallace, and then chant out, “Boo! Boo! Boo!” before asking if the conscience of Alabama is untroubled by Wallace’s racism. That’s as direct a confrontation of southern white racism as you could expect for a song glorifying the south, and it’s a credit to Skynyrd for taking the subject on. But the reason why they went after Neil Young is simple: “Southern Man” treats all southerners as Wallace. As a result, it risked marginalizing anti-racist white southerners who needed all the authenticity-cred they could get it into Wallace supporters’ heads that they shouldn’t back the demagogue. Lyrnrd Skynyrd, in other words, represented an Alabama Awakening. But Neil, in his zeal, treated reconcilable elements as irreconcilable. Skynyrd took him on as a step of taking back the south for their mutual and admirable goal.
Real talk from my boy Spencer Ackerman.
Also: Alabama Awakening as a Southern Rock band? I think it works.
1 day agoEvery single word of this is so true it hurts. (Except the NaNoWriMo part. I gave up mine -- 600 words in -- a week before November began.)
1 day agoWhat happened to me? In high school I used to pump out fiction by the pound. It wasn’t any good, but at least I got that shit done. Seriously, in four years I believe I wrote five novels, a dozen short stories, and like three volumes’ worth of poetry. (All shit.)
And here it is the 23rd of November and I’m only 7,500 words into my NaNoWriMo piece. Which leaves, uh, 42,500 words to go. If I didn’t have two other papers to write before December, I could probably get it done. I still might; I’m just going to have to live on coffee and Canabalt.
But man, these are muscles I haven’t stretched in a long, long time. I’ve become a nonfiction writer almost by accident (music nerddery will do that) and with every word I’m becoming more vividly aware of just how little fiction published within my lifetime — or even my father’s lifetime — I’ve read. But my fundamentals are still solid, I think; I just need to work on technique.
Okay, pep talk’s over. Time to get back to work.
(h/t John M. Cunningham)
1 day ago![rachelhills is being interesting on Britney:
Britney Spears and why it’s painful to be beautiful
[…]
But five-song lulls mean time for thinking, and I spent most of it thinking about just how much the success of Britney Spears - and even her mental health - is measured and predicated on the way she looks. As I’ve written before: Britney with fat on her body is read as ”off the rails”; skinny, toned Britney means “she’s baaaaack” - as much so as the quality of her albums or songs.
Could a non-lithe Britney have turned Blackout into a success, or would it now be one of the decade’s great underrated records. (Yeah, probably the latter.)
However, this:
And that even if you naturally possess all the qualities that make a woman considered beautiful by the majority of people, it’s still something you can turn up and down, even on and off, at will - through clothing, hairstyle, make up, high heels, etc. So much of what we think of as beautiful is really about performing femininity, regardless of your body shape or bone structure.
Disagree. I must defer to my man Drake on this one.*
Read the full thing here.
*Though reading through it again, Hills seems to be talking about women being beautiful for other women, not women being beautiful as perceived by men. So, whatever.](http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktga3bKL4U1qz6gl2o1_500.jpg)
rachelhills is being interesting on Britney:
Britney Spears and why it’s painful to be beautiful
[…]
But five-song lulls mean time for thinking, and I spent most of it thinking about just how much the success of Britney Spears - and even her mental health - is measured and predicated on the way she looks. As I’ve written before: Britney with fat on her body is read as ”off the rails”; skinny, toned Britney means “she’s baaaaack” - as much so as the quality of her albums or songs.
Could a non-lithe Britney have turned Blackout into a success, or would it now be one of the decade’s great underrated records. (Yeah, probably the latter.)
However, this:
And that even if you naturally possess all the qualities that make a woman considered beautiful by the majority of people, it’s still something you can turn up and down, even on and off, at will - through clothing, hairstyle, make up, high heels, etc. So much of what we think of as beautiful is really about performing femininity, regardless of your body shape or bone structure.
Disagree. I must defer to my man Drake on this one.*
Read the full thing here.
*Though reading through it again, Hills seems to be talking about women being beautiful for other women, not women being beautiful as perceived by men. So, whatever.
2 days ago
This guy wrote the chords for “Idioteque.” (From here, see here for explanation.)
2 days ago