do you like joe budden?
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really know enough about joe budden to have an opinion.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUvguNA33ek
i want your thoughts on that
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
hey treeship what's it like to make love to a killer whale
― waterface, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
i need some tips/advice, have a potential "thing" this weekend going on
― waterface, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
that's not a thing i have experienced waterface. sorry i can't be of help to you. i would like, however, to discourage you from having sex with animals in general because it is illegal, exploitative/abusive, and in the case of large animals like killer whales, dangerous to you as well. cheers.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
really? that's weird, i heard you make love to killer whales on the reg
― waterface, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
anyway thanks for the advice, that's very helpful
xpost to dylann, i listened to that joe budden track/series of tracks you posted and like it. my favorite thing about it is the echo effect, where certain words he says are repeated in the background of the recording. i like how these echoes seem like a second voice in the track, like they are commenting on the main course of the lyrics. it's also moody and introspective and about relationships so it's my kind of rap song in that sense. thanks dylann.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
hey treeship this isn't a 'question' but i like how "all i want" is your favorite LCD soundsystem song, because that is also my favorite song of theirs
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
thanks kevin. i like that you like that song too. the lyrics always get to me, and i love that he takes the risk of ratcheting up the volume on that squeaky synth part toward the end, which adds a bit of noisiness and imperfection -- "character" -- to it.
― Treeship, Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder, who wrote The Book of Love?
― Aimless, Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
idk but it is long and boring, no one can lift the damn thing.
― Treeship, Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
alright. moody and introspective rap about relationships, and he's from jersey, too.
― dylannn, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9sOcpFsyPg
now, how about this?
― dylannn, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
right off the bat, i like the repeated tupac line as the refrain. and those cheap sounding synths are strangely bleak, and fit the song well. B+
― Treeship, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Treeship, what are some of your favorite diners?
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.americanadiner.com/
i eat at this place pretty often... more often than makes sense for my budget. they have good craft beers there, or at least a couple, so it's not the most diner-y diner out there, but when i go for lunch i'll have like a turkey sandwich with coffee and then it seems more like a diner.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
also there is pies and thighs, a brunch place in williamsburg that i like a lot. and this place in greenwich village that i can't remember the name of but their coffee is amazing and the vibe is sort of "french." i do not like pj's pancake house in princeton even though that's a local favorite.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh, swanky place. I went there with my dad about 13 years ago. I agree that it's not much of a real trad diner but it is pretty good.
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
Los Blue Jeans: i just remembered the name of a diner/brunch place i wanted to recommend before but forgot the name of. Sullivan street bistro in greenwich village. Amazing coffee and french fries. Really comfortable couchlike seating.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
Much of the criticism leveled at Lin would apply equally to Beckett, Hemingway, Camus, and any minimalist or writer concerned with ennui. So maybe it's the critics who say Tao Lin is "too detached" and "hates language" who need to read more and not the people responding to those critics who say, essentially, "it's not trying to do what you seem to think fiction is supposed to do."
― Treeship, Monday, July 8, 2013 11:42 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
treeshit
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, July 8, 2013 11:44 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
http://localtvwjw.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/treesh.jpg?w=1300
― The pathetic deluded pride that attends ignorance (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
That's not a picture of me, ftr
― Treeship, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
It has your name on it though! You should send in a correction.
― the mod urn dance (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
I don't know how to interpret your comment.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
I'm still accepting questions by the way.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
what's your favorite william vollmann novel or novellike non fiction?
― dylannn, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
have you ever had a homosexual experience?
― dylannn, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
1.) i am ashamed to say i haven't read anything by william vollman. he is "on my list" though. my plan is to start with europe central. do you think this is a good choice?
2.) i have never had a homosexual experience. i believe sexuality is something like a continuum and that categories like "straight" and "gay" are far to rigid to describe most peoples' sexualities. that said, i have never even found myself attracted to a man at all really and so probably believe in the continuum argument not due to my own experience but because a world in which everyone is in some sense "queer" seems preferable to me to a world in which certain sexualities are identified as normal and others as "deviant". so... yeah, i am attracted to women and my sexual history, um, reflects that. gay dudes have given me their phone numbers in the past and things like that though so maybe i seem like i might be gay to some people who knows.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
what's the last good non-fiction book you read?
― markers, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:22 (ten years ago) link
i re-read nabokov's short biography-ish book on gogol recently and that is a great book. also, i read and reviewed curtis white's "the science delusion" and enjoyed it, although not as much as my review probably indicates. http://www.tottenvillereview.com/romanticism-for-the-21st-century-curtis-whites-the-science-delusion/
― Treeship, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link
will instapaper
― markers, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:35 (ten years ago) link
you might be interested in the science delusion because there is a long section at the end devoted to defending the legacy of german idealism to a non-academic audience which is a relatively rare thing to see.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
i'm gonna go read yr review now.
one more question: how many books do you average a week?
― markers, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
one maybe? less some weeks if i am reading the internet a lot. i've read four books in the past three days though so it varies.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:38 (ten years ago) link
two of those books were really, really short. (sam pink's rontel and ben lerner's angel of yaw.)
― Treeship, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:39 (ten years ago) link
europe central is aight but
vollmann pox in order
1-- imperial2-- the atlas3-- butterfly stories4-- the ice-shirt5-- rainbow stories6-- argall7-- fathers and crows8-- the royal family9-- kissing the mask 10- poor people
― dylannn, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 05:47 (ten years ago) link
Treeship do you like to dance?
― ^do not heed if you rate me (wins), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 12:14 (ten years ago) link
And if so what do you think is the best music to dance to
― ^do not heed if you rate me (wins), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 12:15 (ten years ago) link
I don't dance very often because i'm not good at it. I'm very impressed by people who are good at dancing though, and admire them.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
tree, is your email under your name a good way to contact you?
― dylannn, Monday, 15 July 2013 06:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah. that is my main email account.
― Treeship, Monday, 15 July 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
I liked the episode with Joel from BJM in it.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 July 2013 12:10 (ten years ago) link
It's hard to go wrong with the gilmore girls.
― Treeship, Monday, 15 July 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
treesh have you read any david foster wallace and if so what do you think of his sort of 'persona' in his nonfiction material?
― Selena Gomez is very Neotenous for Caucasoids (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
Treeship, do you really watch Gilmore Girls or are people having others on?
― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
i have a complicated relationship with david foster wallace. he is a writer i do not like to read because -- i think i mentioned this before on the tao lin thread -- his reflexive self-doubt, impulse toward intellectualization, and sad awareness of (or obsession with) the difficulty of earnest, direct communication once you reach a certain level of "knowingness," remind me of the way i think and write, but in his case this personality seems to have led him to become severely depressed. So basically, while I admire a lot of what he did I think reading him, especially the footnotes, is a chore. I haven't even made it all the way through Infinite Jest. I think I would like him more if he didn't kill himself and I didn't read (most of) the biography, but now the specter of dfw the suffering guy I relate to lurks too conspicuously behind the texts for me.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Author
― esperantzen (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
stuff like big red son -- how he knows the ins and outs of the discourse surrounding the porn industry so thoroughly that he can't really, or doesn't really, take a stance on it, and winds up being overwhelmed by the sheer number of ways he can think about this issue, this expo, etc -- are really tough for me to read, but i think they are good. he reminds me a little of kierkegaard, who advocated that picking sides -- a clear story -- is just something you have to do at a certain point, even if you can see two, five, seven sides of an issue. dfw doesn't ever really do that in his essays and that is why they are so honest but also why they are suspended in this weird, uncomfortable place of indecision. from what i have read.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link