Men who want to be feminists do not need to be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society and make it feminist.
Kelley Temple, National Union of Students UK Women’s Officer
via feminist kitsch
Through her attention to detail and light, Hannah Lee transforms a banal view into something uncanny.
Trent Reznor had recorded the original version of “Hurt” while in the throes of depression and heroin addiction. It was a fragile, personal song — so much so that Reznor wasn’t crazy about letting an American icon like Cash cover it: “I was flattered, but frankly, the idea sounded a bit gimmicky to me.”
But when Reznor saw Mark Romanek’s video for Cash’s “Hurt,” he immediately understood that “Hurt” now belonged to someone else.
It is gimmicky. The whole American Recordings project is gimmicky. But it’s a very good gimmick and Cash made it work.
As some of you may know, I have been going to language school for the last few months in order to learn the world's most widely spoken and useful language: Slovenian. At this point, my Slovenian is about as coherent as, well, a McMansion. In order to feel better about myself, I have sought out a McMansion that is worse than my cases and word-order. This house (in Naperville, IL, of course) does, in fact, make me feel better, but will probably make you feel worse:
This Cheescake Factory house, built in 2005, boasts 5 bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms and can be yours for the entirely reasonable sum of $3.5 million dollars. Also for some reason all the photos look like they are retouched with 2012-era Instagram filters.
First of all, trying to visualize the floor plan of this house is like trying to rotate seven cubes individually in my mind's eye. Second, if you stand right beneath the hole in the ceiling you can get the approximate sensation of being a cartoon character who has just instantaneously fallen in love.
Even if this was a relatively mundane McMansion it still would have made it into the rotation because of the creepy life-sized butler and maid. Would not want to run into them in the middle of the night.
The mural is giving 1986 Laura Ashley or perhaps maybe the background they use for Cabbage Patch Kids packaging but the floor? The floor is giving Runescape texture.
Have you ever seen so many real plants in your life? A veritable Eden.
The overwhelming desire to push one of the chairs into the haunted jacuzzi...but in reality they probably put those chairs there to keep from accidentally falling into the tub at night.
(elevator music starts playing)
This is one of the all time [adjective] rooms of McMansion Hell. I personally am in love with it, though I don't think I understand it. Perhaps it is not meant to be understood.....,
Continuing with the baseball theme, the guy in the painting looks how I feel after it's been raining in Ljubljana for two straight weeks. (Not ideal!!)
And finally:
We love a house that has four unused balconies and also a sporting grounds that is large enough to build a whole second McMansion on top of. Everyone should so value their health.
Thank you for tuning into another edition of McMansion Hell. Be sure to check out the Patreon for the two bonus posts (a McMansion and the Good House) which both also go out today!
I'm not sure why it continues to fall to me to maintain the Faithless music video selection on Youtube, but here's M-I-E Studio's psychedelic, erotic animated trilogy from the band's 2010 release, The Dance.
The official channel only has 360p versions of the first two videos and the third is missing altogether. These are original 720p files. Nothing is upscaled. I wish higher quality versions were available because these are gorgeous! But I suppose doubling the publicly available resolution isn't too shabby.
Negativland - Escape From Noise Cassette
Another random album I have on my Google Drive.
If you like having your own copies of things download it here
ALTAnd why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?
Such passive language.
It’s like how the press bends over backward to not actually say that a cop shot someone or how they call a car mowing down a pedestrian an “accident”.
(click to enlarge and probably for better quality)
Bonuses:
