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Made with Paper

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:52:48 -0400

Made with Paper

An imaginary conversation with El-P “My special lady and I...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:22:00 -0500

An imaginary conversation with El-P

“My special lady and I enjoy antiquing; what do you like to do with your girlfriend?”

“Well we like to make dirty south grit in your mouth rap albums with Killa fuckin’ Mike. You know, the kind of shit that makes you buy a car just so you can blow the speakers out. That real ‘make it clap while a bunch of dudes holding guns exhale smoke in slow motion in the video’ type music. Maybe you know it as ‘take out a loan at Manhattan Chase to make it rain at the Gold Club because the end of the world is coming and I’m not paranoid, that’s really a drone overhead’ type hip hop. But yeah, antiquing’s cool too.”

El-P and Em. P have the illest life

"Now, if some short-haired, Volvo-driving, apartment-dwelling, cappuccino-drinking, Nancy Pelosi fan..."

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:01:00 -0400

“Now, if some short-haired, Volvo-driving, apartment-dwelling, cappuccino-drinking, Nancy Pelosi fan club chick wants to send hateful email, let the games begin. However, I really don’t think that those women read Gunblast, so hopefully, I am safe.”

- “Here Comes the Judge! Taurus .45/410 Revolver” by Jeff Quinn, 19 February 2007.

Dude I just wanted to see the spread pattern of a Taurus Judge with .410 shells, no need to be a jerk.

dgs3: Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen all day, a genetic...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:56:31 -0400

dgs3:

Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen all day, a genetic algorithm that starts as random brush strokes on a canvas and evolves them to look like a target image. The images leading up to the target image are unbelievably cool.

Source: V. Ciesielski et all. Animated Drawings Rendered by Genetic Programming

Self scanning Table of Contents

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:11:17 -0400

Self scanning Table of Contents:

If you maintain a page by hand and want a table of contents on it, this will help you.

yourpalmal: Grand Street in the wake of Irene August 28th...

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:18:00 -0400

yourpalmal:

Grand Street in the wake of Irene August 28th 2011

…And float down Grand street in daylight

See if you can spot me. Hint: my mom knitted my...

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:58:38 -0400

See if you can spot me. Hint: my mom knitted my sweater.

renilane:

From CMJ 2010. Photo by WET PAINT / Victor Castro.

Photo

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:55:57 -0400

Tiffany factory, now apartments in Newark. Kind of wacky...

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:25:24 -0400

Tiffany factory, now apartments in Newark. Kind of wacky looking.

Newark’s business district: drugs, scales, and burners.

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:38:38 -0400

Newark’s business district: drugs, scales, and burners.

This is not timely, but it’s in my brains. So I made this...

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:45:00 -0400

This is not timely, but it’s in my brains. So I made this yesterday.

Earthquake

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:21:48 -0500

catanddaveinjapan:

Konichiwa,

Dave and I just want to let everyone know we are completely fine. We are at least 14 hours away from all the action. Thank you for your emails wondering if we are okay, but I assure you all, we are alive and well.

Arigato gozaimasu!

That’s pretty fucking good to hear. I’m fucking sick of tectonics. They suck. Nothing cool has ever come of tectonics. There, I said it.

I know amazing people…

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:15:00 -0500

…and this one is the most amazing. And this person is having a tough time doing Teach For America. And it sounds awful.

We used to write one another letters when I was still an idealist, a promising student and athlete (ha) who refused to realize his full potential, before I decided to wear myself down and aim pretty low. And before I retconned for myself a jaded pessimism born of a thousand retroactively perceived slights. My letters were, upon retrospection, complete shit. They were hackneyed and full of contrived witticism because (and remember this now) I only seem smart if you are easily fooled. And this person is nobody’s fool. Her letters had unifying themes, and would return to carefully chosen phrases that would gain meaning upon each subsequent use. Her letters would tell stories with points and mine would ramble on about stupid. fucking. bike. rides.

Our correspondence recommenced recently which occasioned my reviewing previous correspondence. I made the same stupid joke four and a half years ago as I did in my most recent letter. For style I went with my old standby “harried in the manner of Quentin Tarantino explicating the homoerotic undercurrents of Top Gun.” Again, I wrote the same way back then. I’m doing it now too in my head, but I’m editing as many of the asides, expletives, and conversational interjections that I can bear to excise.

I did once write something that was well received by a very many people. Upon further inspection it was a self-serving plea for social clemency. It was awful. It makes my head hurt when I think about it. I have a former acquaintance who styles herself a poet/artist/something or other who is currently actively trying to ruin her life. She fucking loved this one supposedly well written thing I did. That puts to bed any doubt I had that it is terrible and possibly dangerous.

This former correspondent of course continues to astound with her writing. As she should because that is the way the universe had ought to work. And she will continue to teach and bear a the brunt of a remorseless pack of defiantly ignorant jackals. And that will suck and leave scars deep in her brain that some will call character and others a cauliflower ear. That is the way this is going to play out. I am not saying that I have faith in her; I think faith is a pretty stupid word, frankly. But I cannot ken a universe in which this amazing person fails at this sort of thing. And as long as she does that and

Mallory keeps kicking poems like this and
James keeps taking photos like this and
JT keeps writing Hackintosh drivers like this and
Carley keeps teaching people how to make their own underpants (why again is that your main thing, Carley?) like this and
Rahde keeps cooking with pseudopredatory street people and writing about it like this then

I will get out of bed in the morning and I will try to write fewer things better, and make my website nicer, and finally write a big boy application in my spare time because I have yet to do that, and type up my Discrete Math notes. Because I know amazing people and I want to be amazing too.

The bro fest of Aesop Rock, Kimya Dawson, and Rob Sonic has born...

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:48:13 -0500

The bro fest of Aesop Rock, Kimya Dawson, and Rob Sonic has born the maddest fruit. I’m excited.

krecs:

Wonder what Kimya Dawson has been up to lately? She’s one busy lady, but she’s somehow found the time to get into Dub Narcotic studio here and there… and has some seriously awesome music to show for it.

We are proud to present “Miami Advice,” a soaring new track from Kimya’s upcoming full-length, Thunder Thighs (KLP229). This track also features Aesop Rock and the Olympia Free Choir. Thunder Thighs will be released in Summer/Fall 2011 on K.

Be on the lookout for Kimya at K’s showcase at SXSW in March, and more information about Thunder Thighs in the future!

This is why we shake off the awkward things we say and moments...

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:04:32 -0500

This is why we shake off the awkward things we say and moments of ineloquence; we may one day achieve this level of légere de langue.

yourpalmal:

“Cat Calls” aka my first live recording!

performed at the Bowery Poetry Club, December, 2010

*5 minutes long. Ball probably doesn’t get rolling until almost 2 minutes in. My bad!

Happy February

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:16:23 -0500

Happy February

“Bombay” by El Guincho.

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:01:15 -0500

“Bombay” by El Guincho.

Hanni El Khatib has been killing it lately. As has Aesop...

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:52:34 -0500

Hanni El Khatib has been killing it lately. As has Aesop Rock’s 900 bats.

Borna: 2008. Curated myself into the New Museum’s...

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:59:28 -0500

Borna:

2008. Curated myself into the New Museum’s Unmonumental show by navigating from the art onscreen to this post on Double Happiness using only the mouse provided at the kiosk.

Normally I kind of hate to like cross genre covers. But not this...

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:04:06 -0500

Normally I kind of hate to like cross genre covers. But not this one. This one I rather enjoy.