My Culture Roundup of 2011
Films seen in the cinema: 24
Films seen at home (TV/DVD/streaming): 86
Albums bought/downloaded: 91
Books read: 18 (Now that’s just awful! Must read more this year.)
And so alas for America’s intelligentsia, who have Forgotten How To Love. And to such a foolish purpose!– they apparently want everyone to know how hip they are, and how nothing is good enough for them. Well, fine, okay, nothing is good enough for them. So what? The sole result of that is a twisted form of repression that they themselves hate, along with everything else they hate.
Because of nothing is good enough to enjoy freely, then pleasure itself is verbotten. This is a super-no-fun policy, so it’s no surprise that no hipster wants to be called a hipster. Even though one of the great tenets of hipsterism is a studied repudiation of repression (because repression most often means sexual repression, or teetotalling and hipsters want no part of that stuff,) hipsterism turns out to be the most stultifying intellectual position there is; and the most-hip hipsters, like the staff at Gawker, find themselves obliged to forbid themselves to enjoy, appreciate, or believe anything whatsoever.
Source: blog.totalcinema.com
2010, briefly, by the numbers.
Books read = 48
Movies seen = 109
(so that i have this information somewhere, so that when the notebook in which i keep track of things like this inevitably gets lost, all was not in vain.)
(because i am exactly the kind of nerd that keeps track of things like this.)
My numbers…
Books read: 24
Films seen at the cinema: 27
Films seen at home: 94
2010 albums bought: 42
Non-2010 albums bought: 34
Not bad, all in all. Here’s to an even better 2011!
Source: sometimesagreatnotion
But I’ll tell you what: I am so tired of a subculture that is afraid to like anything. That is afraid of praising what anyone else loves instead of getting Detachment and Stoicism points for loathing it, maybe for not needing to love anything. It’s just this: life is too exhausting to hate this much. And ok it’s this - I want to hang a fucking PSA across the country: You’re not allowed a finite amount of enthusiasm! You don’t have to be so greedy with it.
Could someone go ahead and legalize gay marriage already so that I can make Erica my bride?
(via kavalierandclay)
Yelling “YES!” and fist-pumping to this. If there’s one thing that gets me down about modern culture, it’s the pre-ordained orthodoxy of sneering at everything. Why can’t we focus on the awesome?
(via murmurandshout)
Source: beenthinking
