ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

hey treeship what's it like to make love to a killer whale

i need some tips/advice, have a potential "thing" this weekend going on

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.

really? that's weird, i heard you make love to killer whales on the reg

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.

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

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.

I wonder, who wrote The Book of Love?

idk but it is long and boring, no one can lift the damn thing.

alright. moody and introspective rap about relationships, and he's from jersey, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9sOcpFsyPg

now, how about this?

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, what are some of your favorite diners?

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.

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.

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: 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.

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."

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That's not a picture of me, ftr

It has your name on it though! You should send in a correction.

I don't know how to interpret your comment.

I'm still accepting questions by the way.

what's your favorite william vollmann novel or novellike non fiction?

have you ever had a homosexual experience?

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.

what's the last good non-fiction book you read?

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/

will instapaper

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.

i'm gonna go read yr review now.

one more question: how many books do you average a week?

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.

two of those books were really, really short. (sam pink's rontel and ben lerner's angel of yaw.)

europe central is aight but

vollmann pox in order

1-- imperial
2-- the atlas
3-- butterfly stories
4-- the ice-shirt
5-- rainbow stories
6-- argall
7-- fathers and crows
8-- the royal family
9-- kissing the mask
10- poor people

Treeship do you like to dance?

And if so what do you think is the best music to dance to

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.

tree, is your email under your name a good way to contact you?

yeah. that is my main email account.

I liked the episode with Joel from BJM in it.

It's hard to go wrong with the gilmore girls.

treesh have you read any david foster wallace and if so what do you think of his sort of 'persona' in his nonfiction material?

Treeship, do you really watch Gilmore Girls or are people having others on?

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.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Author

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.

crimsonhexagon, i have not seen an episode of gilmore girls for many years but i think i have seen most of them that were syndicated as my mom would watch it often when i was younger.

the reason i ask is because i identify some similar species of eartnestness vs anomie and an attempt at synoptic perspective in your posts. i am not sure that dfw does not always synthesize these multiple perspectives, certainly he does in his essays on tennis (very good) and kafka (not quite so good). maybe he does in those essays where he is confronted with something that he does not really cathect in any serious way, but contemplates it with undue seriousness anyway (cuz he is getting paid? idk why the topics were chosen in some instances). i don't think dfw's illness and suicide derived from his 'personality' in the sense of certain intellectual anxieties and consequent unfulfilments and that such ideas are fed by the morbid interest in recreating the dead person golem-like from the tissues of their writing and thirdparty anecdotes.

he also seems very american, not just the midwestern awshucksiness but his work ethic, clarity of purpose and faith in the essential truth-seeking utility of the essay form or novel form. and perhaps you are similar (if internet-discursive rather than essayistic). maybe i am more interested in the phatic nonsense, idiolect, obliquity elements of meta-ilx these days. so it is conceivable that i have mistaken a degree of strategy about the way you post whereas this is really 'just you' and the ardently expressed wish to understand yourself and the world is not some sort of 'treeship project'.

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