ATTENTION MUSIC BLOGGERS:
Just because Animal Collective is kinda popular now does not mean they suck. They are popular now because their last album was a masterpiece. It's fine that they found a way to make their style of music accessible to a larger audience, and it's fine to be part of that audience without explaining when exactly you started listening to them. There is nothing wrong with liking music.
In conclusion, music is to be enjoyed, not stigmatized. A group's popularity does not diminish their quality. If you believe that it does, then you clearly don't care about music at all... which means you should probably stop blogging about it, you lame, pretentious fucks.
Love, Jocelyn
p.s. If you have to criticize Animal Collective for something, how about this?
To all real-life Rob Gordons...
This is the conversation I had today with my friend Jim, who is a big conservative
Me: Dude, we should do a podcast. We could be like Hannity and Colmes.
Jim: You are not as ugly as Colmes though.
Is it weird to consider that a compliment?
This has nothing to do with anything
But I like it a lot.
I've discovered a lot of exciting music, actually. It's a good time to be my ears.
So I was walking by the Chicago Federal Reserve Building the other day...
...and this is what I saw:
They are "anarchist communists", which apparently is a real thing. To me it seemed a little illogical that two apparently antithetical political and economic ideologies could come together so seamlessly, but I guess it's a little silly of me to expect anything political (or economic) to follow any kind of logic.
But anarchist communists? Seriously?
Sheesh.
The United Nations Conspiracy
While doing some research for a hugenormous paper I have to write on the role of the United Nations in contemporary U.S. politics, I came across a gem of a book called The United Nations Conspiracy by Robert W. Lee. As someone who is very interested in conspiracy theories and the mentally sub-normal minds who concoct them, I felt that I really had to check this book out of the library.
I should note, by the way, that there are two quotes on the back of this book. The first is by the author, and the second is by the publishing company (Western Islands Publishers - the publishing wing of the John Birch Society, a conservative political advocacy group). What that says to me is that not very many people have actually read this book, and even fewer people have good things to say about it.
But that's not really the point of this post. The point of this post is that I tried to find this wonderful website I once visited that I did not, for some stupid reason, save to my favorites. On this website were reviews of various academic and non-academic writers, rating them on things such as their objectivity as sources. In trying to find this website again (for the millionth time. Do any of you know what it is???), I saw this:
And it was pretty funny. I love Google. The end.