MIA

Tell Me Why, as mentioned in the Hirschberg piece, is pretty wow.

Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a heartache
Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a mistake
Tell me why
I never wanna hear you say
I want it that way

cause I
want
it
that
a-way

is it hard to make arrangements with yourself
when you're old enough to repay
but young enough to eat truffle fries

i usually think its hilarious when writers go into great detail about what a band is eating like it reveals some secret truth.

would be cool if it was revealed that MIA ate BACON wrapped in BACON

www.thisiswhymiaisfat.com

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."

"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.

"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.

"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."

if I wasn't at work, I would do a c/p with M.I.A. and Diplo on "Yuffie's Chocobo"

YARGH

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, 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.

"I haven't had this sub in one week."

hey-yooo

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.

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

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.

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.

Some rhubard might help.

Wonder if any restaurant's tried making truffled rhubarb yet?

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.

"Give war a chance"

Great call.

Yeah, the "give war a chance" quote is by far the "fuck you" deal-sealer in this whole thing.

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, June 2, 2010 1:27 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Gucci Mane tenderly chomps down on a McDonalds hamburger, the quintessential all-American populist meal. Everyone in the restaurant, from old white-haired grandmothers down to infants who can barely walk, hobble up to him and plead for autographs, as he is currently the most famous celebrity on the planet. A small cluster of hipsters in American Apparel hoodies slump over their McRibs, naturally totally oblivious the the superduperstar that's in their midst. I, deej, am worried that my fellow Chicagoans may see me, yet I still reach down and fumble with my erect penis...

ew

that was uncalled for

always good to get some poster-oriented slash fanfic on the board tbh

http://musicthings.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slash1.jpg

nothing lasts forever, even warm, freshly-cooked truffle fries

can we just rename the board to I Love Beating A Joke To Death With My Bare Fucking Hands

http://www.nyshirt.com/product_images/y/091/captain_planet_power_is_yours_t_shirt__47426_zoom.jpg

can we just rename the board to I Love Beating A Joke To Death With My Bare Fucking Hands

I'll sign this petition.

Isn't that the name of the next MIA album? Oh wait she has no sense of humor. Well, maybe the one after this one, assuming she gains some perspective.

Continuing in the tradition of naming her records after people who are important to her -- her father, mother, and herself -- M.I.A. has announced that her fourth record will be titled Lynn Hirschberg.

looooooooooool u guys r funny! :)

According to Pitchfork, this is the album cover:
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/mia-maya-cover.jpg

I actually really like it

http://www.observer.com/2010/media/more-mia-times-and-truffle-gate

"She says the same thing repeatedly," said Ms. Hirschberg. "She didn't just say that once or twice or three times. She repeated things constantly. She said that once and said a variation of it on other occasions. She repeated herself all the time."

LOL

she is being imprisoned by bloggers! i get it.

x-post

or being blocked by YouTube

Wait, is Lynn Hirschberg saying MIA repeated herself? Repeated herself constantly? Constantly all the time?

Also she seems to be for the US returning to the Gold Standard </Ron Paul>

That album cover is almost as stupid as the political "insight" she graced us with in that article.

old skool youtube player

Ms. Hirschberg isn't just saying that once or twice. She's repeating it constantly. Repeatedly. Over and over.

so either these two are the most self-aware satirists on Earth or they should both be locked together in a room so they can make out already

That album cover is almost as stupid as the political "insight" she graced us with in that article.

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, June 2, 2010 2:58 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

"insightful" post

Thanks.