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alice bolin reviews red

“But I think I’ve gone beyond the point of finding Swift merely fascinating, an interesting public figure. If my iTunes is to be believed”

“she performs the transgressive acts available to her, and she releases her considerable aggression in controlled ways”

“I hope she realizes, though, that just because she isn’t “alternative,” that doesn’t mean that she has to be a Disney princess. She should take a lesson from her former nemesis Kanye West, whose persona seamlessly encompasses varying types including “sensitive genius” and “annoying egomaniac.” The Swift-versus-Kanye West meme is a chance binary that is incidentally instructive — they have a lot in common as rigorous artists with volatile personalities. West is able to perform a public self that is stylish, nerdy, vulnerable, powerful, smart, sympathetic, and irritating. I wish Swift could do the same and be viewed as complex, not schizophrenic.”

thisrecording:

Sometimes I would take a dress and lay it out and take some socks and lay them out and take some shoes and lay them out below the socks and take some ribbons and lay them out on the floor about a foot above the dress. Then I would take some construction paper and draw a nothing face on it with marker — a very easy, very nothing face, two arches for eyes and a mouth, nothing else, maybe eyebrows though, and nothing else, it’s so easy to make a face like that look like nobody at all — and I wouldn’t even cut the construction paper into a head-shape, but would lay it whole on the floor above the dress, and put the ribbons on top of the paper so it looked like nobody wearing all my clothes.

Whenever I re-read this great thing and get to the end where it’s “an excerpt from a forthcoming longer work” I’m always like BUT WHEN! and HOW WILL I FIND OUT ABOUT IT WHEN!

I like it so much!

(I tried making my coffee as suggested, soaking the grounds, but I didn’t really get the difference. I will try it again)