MIA

ok i'm down with that

i guess you have to be really good at writing in one genre to be allowed to write so flagrantly bad in another

lol Alfred

Ice Cube seemed like he came from a world where the apocalypse had already wiped clean any vestige of hope—an exciting, existentialist posture for a 20-year-old cracker still unsure of how to play the opposite sex.

theres always something corny when white writers self-referentially refer to themselves as crackers -- like, its referencing quoting black dudes talking about white ppl so why is it quoting what maybe a black panther would have said in '68?? just weirdly outdated -- but other than that this sentence is alright

the others i dunno

this gets much better once he stops talking about himself & what he did with MIA during the interview

ha, diplo stole a line directly from gucci mane for this album, apparently -- i wonder if he'll get a songwriting credit

But if there's another "Paper Planes" on this album, it's "Tell Me Why," a Diplo-produced ditty that has probably the most instant catchphrase—Start throwing your hands up like you're mad at the ceiling!—since André 3000 told us to shake it like a Polaroid picture.

i wonder how this guy would feel if he found out that the best line on maya's album is stolen from the current bastion of rap's blinged out downfall

devastated probably

understandably so

oh lord

that shit is hilarious to me -- how perfect

I haven't read the piece yet but I would like to generally recommend modern fiction and literature, which I think is really good, probably better than Drake

haha the rare but pointed nabisco zing

i stick to non fiction

*non phixion

oh, it's not too pointed, most just kidding.

I do understand and share some of the annoyances of when not-music people get assigned big music features. I think ILM also has plenty of conversations that lit people would find every bit as weird or embarrassing in the other direction, although of course I don't know that many ILM posters would be willing to tackle a magazine feature about a novelist, so it's kind of a different standard.

but there are a couple things here about dude's prose that are a bit like ... they might be different coming from someone who was more steeped in fiction/lit/magazine-writing than music writing? I don't mean that in a snotty way, it's just both things have norms and insides.

liked this profile, psyched for his new book

the new book is really sharp and funny, I'd say much better than the first two

modern fiction can blow me

I haven't read one goddamn new book I've liked in forever

i also hate mobile phones and all this crap on tv

I haven't read one goddamn new book I've liked in forever

felt like this for years tbh. modern fiction blows. except for Victor Pelevin.

maybe it's not the books

but it is

name one book, I bet I can type that it sucks in this little box here and believe it

i am sure you could

what's the last piece of fiction you've read

not to derail this thread entirely but my problem with modern lit is that so many authors are content to just stay within these narrow confines of traditional novel narrative structures - here's a narrator, plot goes from A to B to C, the end. *yawn*

okay name a book you hate and i will try to come up with a book you will like by the principle of opposition

k hold on I am thinking

this is an argument for a diff't thread/board tho...

re: Horseshoe. oh let's see, Zadie Smith's "White Teeth"

not to derail this thread entirely but my problem with modern lit is that so many authors are content to just stay within these narrow confines of traditional novel narrative structures - here's a narrator, plot goes from A to B to C, the end. *yawn*

― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 25, 2010 12:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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alternately we could all drive the the nearest pencil up our respective noses.

yeah maybe we shouldn't do this here.

i haven't read white teeth but i will try to think of a book that's v different from on beauty. this might not work, i'm thinking.

honestly I just want ppl to rec. good new books so I can read them and then ignore their posts forever if I don't like them and enjoy good books if I do like the book

what can I say, in this day and age I don't see the point in writing a novel that adheres to a format developed in the 19th century

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g-gonna slowly distance myself from shakey mo here

can i just say that i would be totally happy to only ever read novels that adhere to a nineteenth century format?

having said that, most of the modern fiction i read does not. i mean, it is still stories about people for the most part, but apart from that...

seriously let's take this to another thread

reading people with an avowed disinterest in modern fiction trying to diagnose its supposed problems is much, much more interesting from a rubbernecker's perspective than the latest round of stale zings about m.i.a.'s inconsistent politics and non-music crits tackling band profiles.

do you hate songs too, shakey? such a played-out format.

Shteyngart vs. this: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/kill-me-now/Content?oid=4319529

I only read sexting

or sexts

what can I say, in this day and age I don't see the point in writing a novel that adheres to a format developed in the 19th century

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― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 25, 2010 12:19 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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and sex twitters

i think i do not have a developed enough sense of literary criticism to actually give form to this "principle of opposition" i referred to earlier.

do you hate songs too, shakey? such a played-out format.

haha if you think people are writing songs the same way they were 150 years ago I dunno what to tell you. the formal/technical qualities of producing sound alone have changed so much, a pop song produced in 2010 is almost entirely unrecognizable from a popular ditty performed in 1860.

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a+ trolling?

i don't even