Albertinho

Hey Tumblr remember that time in Sherlock when Watson WAS THE...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:44:46 +1100

Hey Tumblr remember that time in Sherlock when Watson WAS THE CREEPIEST FUCKER IN THE HISTORY OF VIDEOGAMING?????

mayoryashy: tryingtobecultured: How I felt at my old job...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +1100

tryingtobecultured:

How I felt at my old job almost EVERY DAY

I hate this because this is my job as of right now.

In my last retail job I used to say ALL these things right to people’s faces, plus several more comebacks, and STILL managed a 100% mystery shopper score.

Moral of the story: TAKE THA POWAH BACK MY RETAIL BRETHREN!

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Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:39:31 +1100

Today I learnt that I can recreate this scene word-for-word at...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:35:31 +1100

Today I learnt that I can recreate this scene word-for-word at my place with the current collection of tea available to me.

This is what happens when you hoard tea because 1) you’re a coffee drinker and 2) when you do drink tea, you like to have a completely different flavour to last time.

ladyatheist: baxtavius: fussyfangs: tumblr i am glad that we can all agree that chris brown’s...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:20:08 +1100

ladyatheist:

baxtavius:

fussyfangs:

tumblr i am glad that we can all agree that chris brown’s actions were inexcusable

now if you could start applying the same critical spirit to your favorite white dudes that would be great

ben roethlisberger

julian assange

woody allen

kelsey grammer

roman polanski

elvis

nicolas cage

charlie sheen

gary oldman

mel gibson

bill murray

eminem

sean penn

the list goes on

women are treated like shit in this world

True story: Earlier today, someone on my dash posted a pic of Julian Assange and the quote beneath it called him an “angel”. They then posted a gif of him helping an old guy during an interview and said he was “such a wonderful man”. WTF?

Katey reminded me today that a lot of what Chris Brown did can be attributed to the current crush of all of Tumblr. Even down to dropping the case to help the guy further his career. So I guess there’s that.

awwesomenezz: are they creepy enough yet?

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:52:44 +1100

awwesomenezz:

~~are they creepy enough yet?~~

clambistro: nedhepburn: I got bored last night and searched...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:16:58 +1100

clambistro:

nedhepburn:

I got bored last night and searched “who is Paul McCartney” on twitter during his performance because a) people are stupid and b) why not. Apparently it was all over Reddit and the post on Tumblr had something like 15,000 notes last time I checked.

Anyway. This just got Buzzfeed 108,000 page views in the last 9 hours (to give you an idea of how much traffic that is, I get around 900-1800 page views a day). Is Buzzfeed the Huffington Post of memes, just aggregating everyone else’s news to make it their own? I’m not knocking the people that work there, or for them featuring the story, just more the overall business model. It’s basically HuffPo all over again.

Basically, Buzzfeed (potentially) made a shit ton of ad revenue off of something I did sort of baked watching a Beatle. They could AT LEAST buy me a sandwich.

You know what? I actually don’t find any of these “who is [boring artist incredibly important to white dudes]??” memes funny.
Is it so impossible to imagine that, to some people (mostly, judging by the screen shots, people who are not White Dudes), didn’t grow up deifying The Beatles, or don’t listen to ultra-bland aural porridge like Bon Iver? (Side note: until I was about 13, I sure as hell didn’t know who Paul McCartney was.)

Fuck laughing at people who aren’t as “good” as you. Fuck laughing at “dumb” people.

I remember last year, after the “Who Are The Suburbs?” deal (Which was funny for a while, I must admit, if only for the name gaffe), Chris Weingarten brought up a sample of tweets by the people who were laughing at that meme during one of his seminars about music market segmentation.

Most of them were asking “Who is Lady Antebellum?” But of course we don’t call them up on that. It’s cool and trendy to not know who a multi-million record selling artist is. But not know your favourite indie artist who is mostly played on niche radio stations worldwide? BLASPHEMY! Ugh.

As a final point, it’s worth repeating that most of the criticisms on Bon Iver at who-is-bon-iver are valid criticisms of a very bland, boring artist. At least if Nicki Minaj won, it’d be going to someone who performs decent music.

andwhenithappens: EVERYBODY NOW.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:39:46 +1100

andwhenithappens:

EVERYBODY NOW.

williams-blood: ear2ear: A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix) //...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:53:49 +1100

williams-blood:

ear2ear:

A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix) // Metronomy

Man, I love this song. Italicized that to prove it.

stiiner: Oh. This video. Afternoons watching TRL. Oh.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:36:15 +1100

stiiner:

Oh. This video. Afternoons watching TRL.

Oh.

Is it odd to say I agree with this guy?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:31:24 +1100

Is it odd to say I agree with this guy?

entirely: I’m not all that fussed about Valentine’s Day. People are so keen to be all like, “I’m so...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:13:23 +1100

entirely:

I’m not all that fussed about Valentine’s Day. People are so keen to be all like, “I’m so happy yay love love love!” or, “Fuck you all! I hate love fuck you!”. Just chill the fuck out.

I’m so impartial to it all.

Then again, I’m impartial to everything these days.

diamondmine: instantjoy: Muscle Leggings by James...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:46:07 +1100

diamondmine:

instantjoy:

Muscle Leggings by James Lillis

Someone convince me not to buy these, please.

The area around the genitals looks plain creepy.

There’s your reason.

andwhenithappens: foudre: every wes anderson slow motion shot...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:54:31 +1100

andwhenithappens:

foudre:

every wes anderson slow motion shot set to ja rule

FLAVIA AND TESSA.

Yep, thanks Internet. You can stay.

reallyreallyreallytrying: — A TUMBLR DEDICATED TO POSTING SCREENCAPS OF TWEETS BY PEOPLE WHO DON’T...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:21:12 +1100

reallyreallyreallytrying:

— A TUMBLR DEDICATED TO POSTING SCREENCAPS OF TWEETS BY PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW WHO BON IVER IS

— A WIKIPEDIA EDITOR WHO WOULD LIKE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION OF WHAT BON IVER IS

— A SMALL COMMUNITY OF 1960S FOLK MUSIC ENTHUSIASTS WHO HAVE NO IDEA HOW MODERN MUSIC GOT ITSELF INTO SUCH A STATE

— A TIME-TRAVELLING SCIENTIST FROM THE YEAR 3030 WHO IS DEMANDING TO BE TOLD WHEN BON IVER IS

— A CONCERNED MRS. VERNON CALLING UP JUSTIN’S SISTER TO ASK WHERE HE IS

dude it's not about liking or pretending to like whitney houston, it's like this fairly important musical figure (well important in terms of musical history + you know, most people know who she is and what her music sounds like) has died and people wanna be respectful, maybe? why should you care if people express grief or whatever over a public figure. as long as they're not being dicks (because there are enough people being dicks over people's death), what's the problem?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:59:20 +1100

I’ve been looking for a way to answer this, especially since it relates to a post I reblogged. Then ABC’s The Drum stepped in and did the hard work for me:

There’s no right or wrong way to do grief, to do concern, to do love, to do angst. Nor is their any imperative to do anything at all in the wake of a tragedy. But pretending that thumbing out a rest-in-peace tweet counts as something, as action, as empathy is self-indulgent and severely deluded.

Read the rest here.

As a last word, Caitlin made a good pointy that legitimacy arguments on the Internet suck, anyway.

mariticide: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:34:25 +1100

mariticide:

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

"The bane of my own existence as a critic/commentator is the fact that the internet saves things..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:06:08 +1100

“

The bane of my own existence as a critic/commentator is the fact that the internet saves things forever, and I can’t possibly be alone on this.

While I try my best to remain above blatant trolling, there really is no more irritating thing than to click into a disagreement post and find A.) “In this you said X but over here you said Y” as the content and B.) that the “Y” example is citing a statement made so long ago even I don’t precisely recall making it.

The fact is, all human beings change their minds (and tastes, and turn-ons) over time about any number of things. We tend to accept that, up to a point, with friends and acquaintances because the passage of time is real to us in those situations. But when your relationship with another party is wholly in the form of digital pieces that can be called up from any era with a keystroke, it’s easy to lose track of the fact that the sliver of white space between Google’d-up hyperlinks can sometimes represent years of opinion-reshaping experiences.

Now, to be fair, the argument can certainly be made that people whose job it is to make public pronouncements of quality have it incumbent upon them to keep said public appraised when they no longer agree with their past selves, but the plain fact of the matter is that most changes of outlook aren’t all at once epiphanies - they occur gradually, over time. And almost no one has the time or inclination to go back over everything they’ve ever written to check for ideological consistency.

”

- How To Talk To A Critic (Assuming You Want To)

altarflame: But really.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:08:54 +1100

altarflame:

But really.

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:24:11 +1100