Sunday, November 11, 2012

Ke$ha's ?Die Young? Video: Review Revue | Music News, Reviews ...

Good news, animals: The critics who weren?t totally bewildered by the occult imagery in Ke$ha?s ?Die Young? video responded to it enthusiastically! The clip, which dropped yesterday, is a bizarre hodgepodge of influences and ideas ? in particular, wolves in space! ? but reviewers liked it mostly even more than we did, since we found the video a little underwhelming, given all the hype.

But then, even for K$, it?s hard to live up to all those expectations ? so all she can do is give us a taste of her very odd imagination, and ?Die Young? certainly provides that. Head after the jump to see all the reviews.

::?The Los Angeles Times?noted, as did many critics, the occult imagery, calling it an evolution from her earlier image: ?Ke$ha?is calling her upcoming album Warrior,?so we can?t be surprised to find the pop star busting up chairs and kicking down doors in the music video for the disc?s lead single, ?Die Young.? But that hardly means that the clip, posted to?YouTube?on Thursday, fails to raise eyebrows. A fast-moving pastiche of occult imagery, Nat Geo-style wolf footage and lots (and lots!) of black leather, it presents a darker, sexier version of Ke$ha than we saw back in the party-starting ?TiK ToK? days.?

::?Entertainment Weekly?compared the clip to the film?Eyes Wide Shut, for better or for worse:??The clip for her latest?Warrior?single is a messy-good peek into the strange world Ke$ha inhabits ? a scantily clad, animalistic, almost occult club similar to the one from?Eyes Wide Shut, but with Forever 21 employees instead of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.?

::?MTV News?made much hay of the fashions of the video, and how good K$ looked sporting them: ?Whoever thought that cult leaders can only wear long robes and billowy, drapey clothing needs to broaden their horizons by checking out Ke$ha?s sexy outfits in this video. She shows off a very toned body in several skimpy ensembles. One is a black leather swimsuit-like number accessorized by a half-cowboy-chap-type adornment on one leg; another is a lacy set of white lingerie over which Ke$ha wears a furry white caplet/mini shawl on her back.?

::?Vulture, perhaps wisely, considered all of the factors in the video and compiled a list of things to avoid if trying not to die young: ?Herewith, a not-at-all-comprehensive list of situations and dangers that one should probably avoid if one is concerned with early mortality: satanic cults; skull and crossbone signs; creepy warehouses that lack a functioning door; chair-smashing; activities that require one to send a text message reading, ?We made it South of the Border?; eagles (or condors, or whatever that was); dirty mattresses; being lifted up in the air like a sacrificial lamb by a group of people who are clearly distracted; wolves.?

::?NewNowNext?had an altogether different point of reference ? Mad Max ? but also compared it to a high-fashion shoot: ?Serving us all some?Mad Max?South of the Border realness, Ke$ha and her merry, and hunky, band of misfits arrive in town via a hearse, and in no time are kicking down church doors, ransacking furniture and getting their crazy choreography on. It is a beautiful, beautiful sight to behold.?This is intercut with scenes of Ke$ha doing what she does best ? mugging for the cameras. Pouting her lips, tossing her hair and basically looking like a dirty David Yurman model. A dirty and super hot David Yurman model mind you.?

::?Billboard?also thought the Illuminati imagery was fairly explicit, but that wasn?t a problem: ?With tons of blatant Illuminati imagery and some sort of illegal orgy going on, the clip (released on Thursday, Nov. 8) takes the singer?s button-pushing ability to dizzying new heights.?As Ke$ha and her pals head to Mexico, Illuminati symbols ? the all-seeing one eye, the upside-down cross, and so, so many triangle ? pop up amongst the fun. ?We made it? SOUTH OF THE BORDER? they?ll never find us here,? reads a text, sent by Ke$ha to some unknown party apparently interested in some choreographed sexuality.?

::?MTV Buzzworthy?had even more references still, but seemed tickled by the clip?s madcap style:??Tucked away somewhere in an abandoned jungle warehouse, Cult Ke$ha HQ is decorated with a crap-ton of?satanic imagery?and other things you might only see in The Craft?sequel. Or True Blood.?Or a Wiccan documentary. Whichever. Fortunately, all of the?Warrior?singer?s fellow cult members happen to be hot male models (best cult evar!!) who spend their days doting on Ke$ha and making sure all her ?needs? are taken care of.?

What did you think of Ke$ha?s new video? Let us know on?Facebook,?Twitter?or in the comments.

Source: http://idolator.com/7263192/kesha-die-young-video-review-revue

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On Language, Texting, & Being | Thought Catalog

I can speak some French. I took it all through school but learned it mostly when writing my dissertation which involved several French books that were, at the time, not yet translated. And for the books that were translated, I read the French not for accuracy per se but to get a sense for the writing ? its style, its rhythm, its?mode of being.?

Now,?I love translations. I find the act of translation as amazing and erotic (such intimacy with another) as it is impossible (however actual). Nevertheless, the two books side by side ? one in English, the other in French ? are two different characters.

Anyway, at that point, my French wasn?t terrible (this was 15 years ago). But I refused to speak it. Uttering the words contorted my body, and my self, in ways that just never felt right. Even before hearing the words leave my mouth, as my mind and throat and mouth twisted and pleated to mutter, ?Oui, et tu?? everything in me would begin to recoil as if I?d ingested some poison.

We imagine, perhaps, that language is a tool much as, say, a hammer is. I want to express myself so I grab this or that word and,?voil?, I?ve communicated.

But that?s not how language works. Language inhabits us, infiltrating our thoughts and bodies, coercing ideas and movements, choreographing our experiences. This is why?William Burroughs calls language a virus:?it lives in us, it needs us, it feeds on us. No, language is not a tool: it is a miasmatic, hegemonic control force.

And each language is different, asks different things of us ? the French?tu?wants something different from me than the German?du?and, in the process,?makes?something different of me. In college, my friend Matthew took the intro to several languages. In each class, students chose a name in the language of that class and Matt, to get in character, chose a different name for each. Walking through campus with him was strange as random students would address him alternately as Wolfgang, Wang, Esteban, Pierre, Achmed.

When I was in grad school, I had to prove proficiency in two languages so, other than French, I chose classical Greek. Or, rather, I tried to.

Berkeley has these language workshops over the summer. The Greek workshop is, in very small, nerdy circles, legendary.? The class meets six hours a day, five days a week, for 10 weeks. That?s not so bad until you take into consideration the homework ? it takes another 4-6 hours a day. I, of course, didn?t believe them when they told me this. If they say 4-6, they really mean around two hours, maybe. I?ve always been fast like that.

Oh, was I wrong. Classical Greek is a beast of, well, mythological proportions, endlessly inflected with only general rules to guide you. So you simply have to memorize them all (simple, yes; easy, no ? a crucial distinction). And it tore me asunder. In three days. At the end of which, I found myself on a curb, weeping. I?m not kidding. The language wanted all of me. It was literally killing me. So I took German ? four hours a day, five days a week, eight weeks. And about an hour of homework. Really.

Now, after Greek, German was easy. Still, I found it exceedingly difficult to speak ? not because it?s a hard language but because I couldn?t find myself in it. It wanted me to be something else, someone else. As the class involved a lot of conversation, this posed a particular challenge for me.

So I let the German wind through me until it found a voice. And what it found, to this day, surprises me: it found some fey, Weimar, proto-SS gay dude. All semester, I spoke German in this demented drawl verging on falsetto. My classmates, I assume, loathed me ? and rightfully so. I?m not sure where it even came from ? some distant memory of watching?Cabaret?

Which brings me to textese ? that language of abbreviation, icons, and emoticons: LOL, brb, ppl, diff, probly, u. Now, I love much of this language. Or, rather, I love that this language exists, that one language has been distributed by a technology and birthed a new language, a language within the language. But of course that?s all language is: lots of little languages (Deleuze and Guattari might call these ?minor? languages).

There are people who mock and disdain textese as some sort of bastardization or dumbing down. That?s absurd and, well, stupid. There is no such thing as ?real? language. So much of the so-called grammatical rules are arbitrary or, rather, ideological. They try to keep subjects in their place and everything qualified just so with nothing left to dangle. So-called proper English is uptight, antiquated bourgeois English.? It?s meant to be broken, tweaked, distorted for other ends and purposes. Enter textese.

And yet I refrain from ?speaking? this minor language. I type out ?you? and ?people? and ?probably.? I don?t write, LOL. I write, ?That?s hilarious.? At least usually I do. I have found that occasion has demanded something different so I?ve been know to write, ?Ha!? Which is my attempt at finding myself amidst these currents of SMS.

My resistance is neither ideological nor aesthetic. I have no moral problem with textese and I find much of its patois charming. No, I can?t do it for the same reason I can?t speak French: textese wants me to be something, to be someone, I am not. A 23 year old girl? A high school dude from Fremont? I don?t know. But I do know that it has yet to find a place within me.

And so, perhaps foolishly, I am left typing the language of textese?s more formal forefathers. But such is my character: I like to sprawl, to whisper asides, to carry on in would-be purple splendor. And textese, for all its charms, will not have none of that. Alas, then, I speak what I am. And vice versa.?TC Mark

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Source: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/on-language-texting-being/

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Back again?I don?t do FB or Twitter so I can?t make comments on my iphone App (unless I haven?t figured it out.? Just wanted to say?LOVE the videos on the app that name the movements as Lisa does them.? I write everything down while I watch and then do the workout from the paper.?

I can?t say enough about Lisa.? Her movements are always strong, precise, and 100% motivating.? I?m excited when I log on and see her in the pic. (Sean is just as precise, but it?s Lisa I want to look like :-)

Thanks for the workout and like tee_w, where can I get the whole outfit?

Source: http://www.bodyrock.tv/2012/11/09/a-friggin-awesome-real-time-workout/

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Supply Side Economics is a Lie! - Care2 News Network


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Friday November 9, 2012, 9:37 am
Republicans are still holding on to the claim that the richest Americans are the job creators, and how favoring them will make us all better off. You?d think America would know better by now, because wealth keeps gushing up, and the only thing that trickles down on us is elephant crap.

Why is this inappropriate?