Thursday, April 26, 2007

I have just started reading this fantastic book called PopCo by Scarlett Thomas. It is awesome, definitely a book to which I forsee sacrificing several hours of sleep. There is a lot of mathematics involved in it, especially codebreaking, and I feel sort of odd about that, as math has been taunting me unmercifully ever since second grade, when I had the first of many traumatic breakdowns directly caused by numbers. In this case, there was a test and I believe it involved double-number addition. I was toast and I knew it. Ever since, math has been a sorority that'd I'd like to join because they know how to do some cool things with binary, their alumni list is kicking, and they throw comfortably geeky parties where people earnestly debate the merits of nanotechnology. Plus there's no dress code. But I haven't ever been able to make it past rush week. And not the fun part of rush week, at the end, where you've made it through and there's a party and cake and matching sweatshirts. No, I am firmly stuck in the hazing part of rush week, and the harder I try to do everything right, the more Alegbra II (social chair and head of new recruits) hates it and makes me recite the Pythagorean theorem and the quadratic formula while wearing a diaper and scrubbing her convertible with a toothbrush. It's really painful, actually. That's why I decided to join the bookish writers sorority instead, but they told me I overextend my metaphors and maybe I'd be better off the with the art history people, who mainly watch paint dry and then write manifestos about it. Anyway. PopCo is really fascinating. Read it. And then I will write another post in which I say what I had intended to talk about here, but the sorority metaphor took on a life of its own and inadvertently gave my Math Rage some more fuel and thus I need to end this.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Lil Mama - Lip Gloss Video

I heard this a while and couldn't get into it. This weekend I see this video and now I can't get enough. What I love is that lip gloss is now powerful enough to turn boys into girls, nerds into street dancers, and hallways into dance floors.

I am busy working on stuff, most specifically some sort of mix to post on here in the real near future. In the meanwhile you should check out Chazology for the DJ CASIO mixtape cause that is definitely poppin'.