He was playing a long con.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
m.i.a. went to the same primary school as me!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
like 8 years before me though obvv
she's incredibly successful at selling truffle fries. I looked for some this weekend and couldn't find any :(
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 1, 2010 10:30 AM (1 hour ago)
poll: how many ILXORs spent their weekend looking for truffle fries & were you successful or not?
― ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't but I made a mental note when I read this article that was linked on the NYT q&a thread:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2011906512_pacificpfoodhunt30.html
the author mentions that he was able to buy truffle oil for $3 with food stamps. so it can't be that hoity-toity after all!
― pokám0n (dyao), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe truffle oil and Smirnoff Ice are both running the ultimate in viral campaigns right now.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
BROS TRUFFLING BROS
― pokám0n (dyao), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
u kno what's up
― ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
*sees dog with bottle of truffle oil tied to back* aw man, I totally gotta drizzle truffle oil all over these fries now :/
― pokám0n (dyao), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
A++
― transient truff (history mayne), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
dogs are the new pack mules
― ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
"haha 50 Cent is so canny he actually went so far as to actually grow up in poverty, what a po-mo trickster"
oh so youre saying mia didnt? classist.
― truffle-flavoured french fry (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I know nothing of MIA outside of the Aziz Ansari Tamil joke. Is there more Ansari/MIA material around?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Lex can settle this by telling us what his primary school was like xp. Eton feeder or borderline borstal?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
So much for truffle fries, I'm just worried '/\/\/\Y/\' will the rubbish.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
gah 'the rubbish'....the point is we could all use another great album from her.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
we could all use another great album from anyone
― \/\/G\/\/ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Your monogram seems like it should be a wrestling federation logo.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
or you could add weezer wings to the Ws
― m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not rubbish but it has problems that the first two didn't. Can't really say any more than that on a public forum. Because the CIA are watching me.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Stay in camera view please.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
FREEZE!!! and DROP THE TRUFFLED FRY!!!!!!!!!!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Back away slowly from the truffle. Slowly..............
xpost glad to hear it's not a disaster...even the finest albums can have 'problems'. But is there anything which just makes you go "WOW" like on the first two (see: Galang, BDG, Bird Flu, Paper Planes)?
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
In fact see the vast majority of both LPs IMHO.
Tell Me Why, as mentioned in the Hirschberg piece, is pretty wow.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Tell me whyAin't nothin' but a heartacheTell me whyAin't nothin' but a mistakeTell me whyI never wanna hear you sayI want it that way
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
cause Iwantitthata-way
― i see you windin, grindin up on dat po'boy (crüt), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
is it hard to make arrangements with yourselfwhen you're old enough to repaybut young enough to eat truffle fries
― in my day we had to walk 10 miles in the snow for VU bootleg (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i usually think its hilarious when writers go into great detail about what a band is eating like it reveals some secret truth.
― truffleupagus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
would be cool if it was revealed that MIA ate BACON wrapped in BACON
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
www.thisiswhymiaisfat.com
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
since reading this article, i've been subconsciously writing a profile about myself: "He made a lame joke about 'The Wire' and then took a bite of an apple fritter."
― tylerw, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"M.I.A. quietly filled her tiny paper cup full of ketchup and preceded to dip her thin, flash-frozen fries. 'It's a guilty pleasure," she conceded, adjusting her paper Burger King crown.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"M.I.A. stared at the cherry-red Slurpee, slowly shifting from frozen to liquid in her styrofoam cup. 'This Slurpee reminds me of the blood of the innocent being slaughtered around the world. 7-11? More like 24-7." She takes a big sip. "I suppose that makes me a terrorist," she mutters, before dropping the cup into a fragrant trash bin lined with plastic and walking away, absentmindedly texting on her iPhone.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
"M.I.A. walks down the sidewalk, chewing on a long spear of red rhubarb she had picked up at this morning's farmer's market. "It doesn't really taste that great by itself," she admits. "But it's in season, and it supports the workers. If people see me chewing on rhubarb, then maybe they might take a minute to consider just where that rhubarb came from."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
if I wasn't at work, I would do a c/p with M.I.A. and Diplo on "Yuffie's Chocobo"
― bageled by dementeds (HI DERE), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
YARGH
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
― truffleupagus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, June 1, 2010 1:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
barenaked ladies frontman steven page orders a meatball sub and instructs his sandwich artist to 'hold the cheese'. "I do this to save the 40 calories," he adds.
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"I haven't had this sub in one week."
― ksh, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
hey-yooo
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i once nearly mentioned that estelle was eating nachos b/c she shoved some in her mouth just as she said something ~deep~ to me w/r/t her background and i had to play the tape back 94843944 times to work out exactly what she said. but i edited it out b/c of the word limit.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 07:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm neutral about M.I.A., but as far as I can tell her revolutionary politics are about as advanced as those of Jenni Rivera - who leveraged her own family's connections to revolutionary sloganeering into $$$$$$$.
Anyway, I'm bored and hungry. Follow-ups to this book:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H4HR4MXSL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 08:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i honestly don't think she's all that cynical about it, just sort of blinkered and self-involved. (speaking of m.i.a. here.)
honestly if she were, i dunno, 22 years old, i'd be more charitable-- she's older than me, for chrissakes. she should take a little more responsibility for her words. and stop talking like a teenager. it's almost like the infantile way she talks is a defense mechanism against being held to account for the specific things she says. maybe it's a tone she mostly adopts to the media? let's hope so.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Like I said above, I think she's getting worse, or maybe recent interviewers are bringing out the worst in her, because my experience was that she could be pretty nuanced and articulated and if you called on her on certain things she would respond thoughtfully. Not to say that she could resolve all her contradictions, but she's no dumbo. The way she contrasts, on her website, her full Grammys quote with the chopped-up version that appeared in the NYT suggests that it's quite easy to string together her most inflammatory statements in a way that makes her seem like a gormless slogan machine. But then again, she's not exactly doing a sterling job of proving otherwise.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Some rhubard might help.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonder if any restaurant's tried making truffled rhubarb yet?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I just read the NYT Mag article. Good god did MIA (whose music Ive never knowingly heard) make an utter fool out of herself. complete embarrassment, fun read though.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
"Give war a chance"
Great call.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, the "give war a chance" quote is by far the "fuck you" deal-sealer in this whole thing.
― Becky Facelift, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link