Juxtaposition for Smoooooth Bitchez

[x_los]

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OH GOD I'M SO BORED IN RUSSIAN LIT, AIM ME PLZ, THIS CLASS IS SIX TO NIIIINE */EDIT*

Listening to Jay-Z's Black Album and reading Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor. I feel pimp. Also this outfit wins. It's a good day.

Also, regardless of Kanye West's indisputable dickdom, he is a fine artist. I could wax on forever as to why, but I'll spare you.

Also Also Wik: MIA is an interesting rapper who not enough Americans are aware of. Timbaland DNE the entirety of awesome, y'all, though he DOES rock.

Unintentional Comedy in Brother's Karamazov: not actually on Jesus and polyamory: "Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him forever."

Comments

[heather-macleod.livejournal.com]

I have an MIA cd. It's pretty good.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

The whole bit where she chose her rap name b/c her father "was a founding member of The Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), a militant Tamil group," so like, a general in a Sri Lankan freedom fighter army, earns her like 50 awesome points with me.

[anyhennypenny.livejournal.com]

so i just took this nationally administered survey on the college experience. check out this agree/disagree question.

"Had serious conversations with students of a different race or ethnicity than your own"

"serious conversations"? no, actually, i don't make harold and kumar jokes at asian students, and yes, i think the bill to prohibit "illegal immigrants" from pursuing higher education was made by a total fucking idiot who is more than likely related to david duke? WHAT IS A QUESTION LIKE THAT DOING ON A NATIONAL SURVEY???? I THOUGHT THESE ISSUES WERE MORE OR LESS RESOLVED ACROSS THE COUNTRY???? YOU MEAN I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD THIS PROBLEM?????????? I HAD HOPED THAT I WAS!!!!

*gasps for air*

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahaha. God, it's so sad!

So speaking of race and ethnicity, I was just at the most fucking amazing lecture on constituting a subaltern politics of the untouchables as a class. It was simply amazing. She pulled out Marx in the BEST way re: making these seemingly non-political categories political? Politicizing the embodied state in the shifting terrain of how its hard to constitute a class politics/mobilize based on the negative quality of being underprivileged when the very goal of your politics is usually to attain that privilege/abnegate yourself as a class? I dunno if I can even explain how great it was, but Anupama Rao, the lecturer, is SO on my reading list now.