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Re: All You Can Eat

jgordon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:34:36 -0000

I laughed a lot at Funny People. I don't think it was a great movie. But I found it very funny.

Re: Can music be "objectively good"?

jgordon — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:08:08 -0000

I think some of the belief in objective quality comes from the need to be right - more so, to be the first to be right - disregarding the fact that -nothing- is inherently right or wrong. This Ciara album cannot be qualitatively proven to be more worthwhile than this Radiohead album - it's up to the listener's personal sensibilities, influences, preferences, reasons for listening to music, et al but a lot of people don't seem to get this; hence one of my floormates telling me he respects my taste less because I admitted to not liking OK Computer, without an ounce of sarcasm. Tom Ewing wrote a long time ago on his Tumblr that the more reasons you acknowledge music can be made for (critical approval, dance floor jamming, money-making scheme, whatever) the more kinds of music you're able to enjoy...and I think a lot of people who would claim that Radiohead or The Beatles or MGMT or Britney Spears are "objectively good" are people who have a clear idea in their mind of the "right way" to make music. Or, how I felt at 15 when I was just listening to classic rock and emo.

Re: nicholas jackson

jgordon — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:28:34 -0000

I disagree, jerk! Ebert rules.

Re: Ignorance, or why our country sucks

jgordon — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:56:28 -0000

How many Iraqis could spell "Chicago"?

Re: stuff to tell jillian

jgordon — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:55:46 -0000

Totally, man. You know all you can know!

Re: offnotesnotes - First of all, I’m not quite sure you should be...

jgordon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:21:54 -0000

So much scoffing, so little value.

Re: stuff to tell jillian

jgordon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:46:33 -0000

!!!!!!!!!!THAT COMPLETELY MISSES THE POINT!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: CTECS

jgordon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:14:19 -0000

Are you trying to intern in the summer? I'm going to be there as well.

Re: http://branduponthebrain.tumblr.com/post/98341379

jgordon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:55:08 -0000

Not true! They did it at Pitchfork Festival in 2008.

Re: stuff to tell jillian

jgordon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:05:02 -0000

Same thing. It's a coping mechanism. Just learn to accept it.

Re: this is one day that i'm glad to be a journalist.

jgordon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:13:46 -0000

the answer is literally because they're black and the disparity in coverage between white and minority youth issues is huge - witness missing white girl syndrome vs. the thousands of other non-aryan children that go missing every year, the time it took for the jena 6 thing to get picked up, et al

Re: Six hours does not equal six seconds.

jgordon — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:34:08 -0000

i did the exact same thing with the exact same kind of solution. the key is just flushing your eye out with water for like, five minutes. then, feel stupid.

Re: stuff to tell jillian

jgordon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:49:37 -0000

Managing Editor of one of the top college newspapers in the nation. Say it loud and proud!

Re: stuff to tell jillian

jgordon — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:16:37 -0000

this is precisely what i hate about iphones.

Re: offnotesnotes - Why Writers Don't Write Headlines

jgordon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:36:10 -0000

I'm not allowed to write headlines because all I come up with are puns.

Re: Ghosts Do Not Scare Me - Can’t wait for September.

jgordon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:00:18 -0000

we're supposed to be doing a test, GOD

Re: I don't like you so much, Career Services

jgordon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:31:03 -0000

Oh nooooooo. What about your feature!?

Re: Ghosts Do Not Scare Me - Daft Punk to score TR2N

jgordon — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:14:44 -0000

I love charity. I understand that DM is not a professionally-run charity, and as such, should be expected to make mistakes. But a lack of transparency regarding their allocation of funds - full transparency, not broad categories - is a problem for any organization, not just DM.

Re: Blue Lines Revisited - I am in college right now, and this song is the...

jgordon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:28:00 -0000

I hear this at frat parties all the time. At least "I Kissed A Girl" had a simple beat you could drunkenly shuffle to; "I Love College" is like the Reader Rabbit of music complexity or interest.

Re: Slumdog Millionaire stole your brain and then it stole a bunch of Oscars!

jgordon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:13:34 -0000

The movie is really bad for filmic reasons as well. Every theme is reduced to its simplest interpretation. Why are Jamal and Latika in love? Because they're in love. Why is Jamal's brother a bad guy? Because he's bad. Boyle creates characterization out of thin air, justifying nothing but telling the audience what to think, and of course, the audience buys it because they're stupid. Boyle's an effective director with his slambang cuts and frenetic chase sequences, but it's used to push sappy dialogue and trite non-issues. Where's the social commentary? Where's the religious commentary? So much potential to say something, and all we have is a fairytale romance crafted for 8-year olds. Yup, that's the Academy Awards.

Re: offnotesnotes - I’ve a grammatical question. A book I’m editing...

jgordon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:35:32 -0000

I can't fucking wait to get on the alumni listserv and send all-caps e-mails asking if I can borrow a stamp from anyone.

Re: stuff to tell jillian

jgordon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:30:11 -0000

A good book, if not completely self-indulgent. But important the summer before I went to college.

Re: a great day for film, or a terrible one?

jgordon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:25:04 -0000

The Academy Awards as a whole are bad for film.

Re: anna maltby - Entertainment Weekly names top 25 film directors - Feministing

jgordon — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:12:18 -0000

How many talented mainstream female directors are there that would have made the list? Sofia Coppola is the only one I can think of who is famous or critically-acclaimed enough.

Re: More ecstatic modes of writing, music crit edition

jgordon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:56:22 -0000

DiCrescenzo is a good writer, but he is so in love with his word that he gets unbearably pompous half the time (see his epic review of Kid A). This is good, though.