I've apparently had this song since 2005 if my Last Modified date is to be believed.
#corrections Please link to joe's website.
The shape and size of their proprietary micro sd card, makes a converter difficult.
I am going to second/third/fourth okc's matching is awesome.
As too Okc not revealing the inner crazy. Booo urns. Read the answers and read the profile... the inner crazy is there.
Now, maybe it/i can't account for how inner crazy will mesh with my inner crazy.
But it's there in the profile.
I've never been surprised... "Oh wow, she wasn't what I thought at all."
I love those stories, when people when they have them, but if you can corner those people and get them to pop up the profile of this seemingly normal girl turned crazy, you'll get a good laugh 100% of the time.
"Yeah, you had no clue!"
*rolls eyes
I think the shopping thing is an issue for some people, but it's one we will ultimately adapt to.
That last thing I want to say is that location matters a lot. Okc isn't going to be as awesome in small town ohio as it is in NYC. Different regional demographics are going to use it differently or not use it at all. But in big cities where the scene is good, where there are a lot of well thought out profiles with tons of questions answered. Go in with the right mindset and you're set to have a good adventure.
Yes, she wrote them. She's been quoted as saying she's a writer first, studio musician second, and performer third. I guess she has 70+ songs ready to go? I am looking forward to album 2 (3?)
Bilboard has a long article about her where they talk to her first producer and he says that after listening to this album he knows this is the sound she was looking for.
Another quirky (a little starstruck glowy) interview is here:
I totally buy the whole story. She's sooo uncharismatic in every clip, it's awesome!
I think the lyrics she's spouting are ... a kind of lonely love sort of thing that other's aren't talking about.
Unrequieted but ignorant of the unrequite and truely uncarring.
There are so many, Why don't you love me songs? Her Born to Die, Blue Jeans, Video Games, trilogy are the only songs that I can think of that speak to the kind of love I've seen. A pure love that wants nothing and gets so little.
Maybe I'm projecting. But the explainer, Dark Paradise seems to acknowledge it. Where friends of her's come and say, "wtf? He's just not that into you," and she's all, "That's not what this is about."
I've seen that. I fear, girls have felt that with me. But I've never heard a song that speaks to that.
Other songs delve into unrequited love, but they are written from a different place. One more that winks at, "I know how dumb I'm being chasing this guy." Lana Del Rey, in these songs, not only does she not wink, she doesn't even blink.
I find it compelling. And I think the wall of sound created in the production is incredible. listen carefully to the background noises/pops/clips of national anthem. So many little surprises.
I want links to this producer's other work.
I could probably talk about how interesting National Anthem is all day. Pitchfork (I think) talked about how it didn't make sense, that song in this american moment, given OWS. As though the song was really about money.
But the chorus is, Make me your National Anthem.
Red White
Summer in the sky
Heaven in your eyes
A national anthem.
This is the wink song, the one that understands the precarious position the girl is in. "hand on my kneck" And people are reviewing it, as though it's about how great money is.
It just doesn't square with the lyrics, the other songs, or the interviews she gives.
Specifically I want the story of "I burned through several in-game girlfriends before finally determining that anyone playing EverQuest as much as I was wasn't likely a balanced individual." The everquest story you aready wrote was pretty invigorating too. But I want girl drama!
I want your story Mike!
I love this, however, why not photoshop her in? Her being a cut out it wouldn't look different, and it would be way easier.
I wish I was as funny/artistic as this guy. I need more whacky antics in my life.
The worst part of these responses is that no one argues that these pat downs stop crime, help save lives; no one contends that these are in anyway helpful. Just that people should shut up and take them because, "Hey, it's not that bad."
They don't take 2 min. And they waist everyone's time. So even if it was 2 minutes. It's 2 minutes of an entire line of people's lives for nothing.
For those saying they get patted down at their local foot ball games. I don't think that's right either, I think you should be upset. Out of the million sports events happening every year, when is the last time a pat down stopped anything except someone bringing in unauthorized food?
I agree with you @needsmorekanye. [gawker.com]
Max Read says, "If the worst way your civil rights have ever been violated is by having your body touched by a government employee while you wait to board a plane, you are pretty lucky."
You might be lucky, but if your civil rights were violated you get to mention it. As Max states at the beginning no one is pro TSA.
I say thank goodness someone is putting an issue on it. The TSA supposedly lost Chicago the Olympics. It would take me longer to fly to detroit than it would to drive, due to lines, pat downs and show up early rules.
Yeah getting patted down might not be that big of a deal but we are waiting millions of lives 3hrs at a time due to forcing people to que up!
And just as NMK said, these practices haven't shown to be effective at saving any life. All the people who have been stopped would have been stopped the old way. And locked cabin doors have made the whole fiasco impossible.
That's all we needed. Doors with locks. But instead we get that an extra 3hr wait time.
Uhh, your scenarios are depressing.
Also, I don't quite understand, you're saying you've never been up for makeoutclub when your boyfriend was super tired?
Yes they are likely to find him guilty of illegal activity.
But MU counting for a significant percentage of total internet traffic means, it was being used for legit purposes. Lots of people lost important data.
This attack could happen to your drop box. Amazon. Apple. Google.
You don't think those companies know that they are harboring "illegal" files on their cloud servers?
It's also an issue of Government overstepping it's bounds.
We gunned down an unarmed Osama and hid his body.
We droned an American citizen in a foreign country over allegations that he harbored terrorist feelings. These allegations were given by a convicted criminal.
We are trying to extradite a student who had a link share.
Now we get New Zealand to arrest a German for crimes his Chinese company committed?
Fine, he might be a shmuck, I don't really know, an indictment isn't a verdict. And the things it says aren't that bad. Wire transfers aren't money laundering. And calling it Mega Conspiracy makes the whole paper read like a joke--but shmuck or not it's overstepping bounds.
And there is little we can do about this horrible precedent being set besides rage.
I think her album is going to be awesome.
This round is particularly hilarious. Like every single one of these is a different wtf moment.
"Ours is not to decide whether someone shouldn't be offended by something but to acknowledge that they are, and then decide whether or not we want to exercise a little compassion."
I agree for the most part. And a lot of what you've said above has got me thinking about language and how I might use it. (or abuse it as the case may be)
One thing I might add is that, I do think it matters whether someone should or shouldn't be offended. I just think it matters less than first appeasing the hurt. If someone's feelings are hurt, tend to that first.
But it is good to look and, and think about why one is offended and question whether they should be. In this case, I think you've made a good argument for the use of the term "fag" being offensive.
But let's say we had another example. One more extreme in the opposite direction. Say my mother is brutally offended by the term Mom. She self identifies as Mary. I respect this and call her Mary. However, to other people I will call her mom. If she finds out about this, she'll be offended. Now, I don't want to hurt her feelings, but at the same time, after looking at culture, the meaning of mom, and all that... mom just isn't an offensive word. Being offended is an emotional response, and it's scaled sort of arbitrarily.
Furthermore, Mary would vastly prefer if the word mom wasn't used for anyone. She gets offended on your mom's behalf.
Should we stop hurting Mary's feelings?
Mary can't be educated, she can't/won't change her mind on the subject.
So what do you do in that situation? Do you exercise compassion? How much?
The thing I think, that is really important about what you've wrote. Is that we first acknowldege that the hurt someone's feeling is real. If someone tells you they've been offended. Believe them. Don't say, "Well shit, that's not offensive at all."
You have to tend to the wound first.
Lastly, an acquaintance of mine, a gay male. Loves the term cocksucker. And he uses it almost exclusively as a verb when upset.
"Those mother fuckers cocksuckerd me all over the place last night. Just brutal!"
"Don't cocksucker me now, Squanderdalfast!"
"This girl was dancing last night, and I tell you what, she was just cocksuckering all over the room. It was tragic."
Dennis, if you aren't giveing up on the word cocksucker altogether, try using it as a verb. It's funny.
When approached as to cocksucker being offensive my compatriot said, "First I'm gay, so I get a pass, and second, girls, self respecting ones, cocksucker too!"
Touche?
"The word ‘brother’, in the way that O'Reilly is using it, is an expression that carries heavy social implications."
I think you underestimate how saturated/diluted the term brother is in 2012. (But I seem to be the minority here on Gawker today so... maybe not!) Even if I give you the heavy social weight of the term brother, where is O'Reily's intent? Can we be racist without intent? I think we can only be ignorant. It's not good, but it's not racism to be unwitting.
As to the gamer thing. I don't think it's asinine. But I was trying to get a sense of where you draw the line. Or if you do. Because you don't you're implying that there is an arbitrary amount of social/contextual weight that some inner cultural self naming words can be used by the outside but not by others. An outsider using a term for self identification, one that has been co-opted by a minority, isn't inherently wrong.
It also highlights how difficult it is for an outsider to see racism or be offended. When we aren't part of the offended minority it is very difficult to understand the upset. Clearly that's happening to me here, and I don't deny it.
I was being rudely pedantic about semantics in regards to the Hispanic thing, and should have worded it more tactfully. Looking at it, you were clearly making an opinion statement and not a statement of objective fact. Thank you for clarifying candidly.
"I’m not really in the mood to convince you of anything,"
Ahh, not unreasonable. This McFly accepts. Thanks for responding and super thanks for the +1.
*big smile & a hug to you too
But this article isn't "I hung out." It's I wrote her a lot of emails.
That's the story I'm looking for. I actually have a slew of them from friends/acquaintances, both women and men. So I'm surprised no one else does.
Despite knowing a lot of people who've been beaten down by persistence, and wound up in healthy long term relationships. I don't suggest anyone do it.
One of the things about this particular article that strikes me, is that she is creeped out by the email, but she seems to imply that he could recover, but he just said the wrong thing and too often. And his flailing doesn't seem dangerous to me, just lonely and lacking of self respect.
Dating is such a complex thing, attraction. How one has to strike when the iron is hot and dodge it when it's cold.
One of the other commenters said he wished girls got a class on how to say no directly and boys got a class on how to accept no. I think Highschool should have classes on dating. What it means to be a good boyfriend, suitor, girlfriend and all that. Because people are confused, I think rightfully because as you're saying Vaulyrea, there are some strange self perpetuating ideas out there on how to get a SO.
Yeah, sometimes people are controlling, but I bet there are a lot of controlling people who think, "This is what love should look like."
Sure.
But my question is, does that cultural meme exist because it works sometimes? In the comments there are lots of, failed attempts.
You say, "Maybe some women are fine with this," but I wonder, do you know, or does anyone know of women who would be fine with that sort of thing? And probably not that specific instance, but anything even remotely similar?
ALSO: "it's not romantic when a guy you've said two words to at the local takeout place takes your phone number and mailing address from your check and uses them to not only call you, but to follow you home and show up at your door."
*shudder*
Creepy.
Creepy. So block, if you don't really feel threatened, and spam filter to a special folder if you do. Lame that we don't see any of the author's replies. Also that she doesn't definitively say that she didn't respond after she cancelled the date on July 27th.
But here is my question. Has anyone here gotten a positive result from this sort of tactic: Writing forever? Being persistent?
I don't condone or endorse this behavior/tactic. But I have some tangential anecdotes to share if other people go first.
Also, boy gets girl.
Is real. Never respond. If you feel threatened, contact the police. If you feel creeped out, don't write gawker, block and call the police. If you send an email clearly stating, "Do not contact me ever again, I will notify the authorities if you email again." Then any further contact is harassment, as long as you don't contact him again. Each one should be documented so that a case can be built. It is fairly rare that these turn bad, but prevention is easy and worth it.
Dating can be hard, awkward, weird. It shouldn't be dangerous. Boys get stalked too, and should follow the same advice: 0 response after a clear, don't talk to me which explains the consequence of police action.
What? Read that email again. She asked if she should wear a dress. He said, he'd like that. Then he wrote back to tell her he didn't care what she wore. That wasn't him being gracious or self entitled, that was him being insecure and overcompensating for being called creepy.
She initiated the dress conversation.
Also she intros that with, "A flurry of emails begin." A flurry in her mind is two? Can't wait to see you, and an after thought oh, forget about the dress if you aren't into dresses.
I am firmly in the, he shouldn't email this girl camp. However, she hasn't posted any of her own responses. And that lacks some integrity, don't you think?
I am also firmly in the block camp.
I know a number of girls who write a monthly email to phantom guys. And they assume it goes to a spam filter. But it soothes that rejection ache. I ain't saying it's cool, I'm just saying... it's sort of human. And it's no real waste. Ten seconds of his day, 0 seconds of hers if she filters it. I guess I follow Hart88 but add that I don't understand how no woman is a tiny bit sympathetic. Because I know women who do this.
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Did you play X-2?
I didn't, so I'm guessing I can hold off of 13-2.
