the non break

this is more of a brief exposure from within than a breaking of this hiatus i have going but i just want to reveal that i know where this all is going which is slightly off kilter if you will from where i predicted it would elsewhere throughout this blog but i have some slow burning things started which at this point seem as though they will be capable of being billed as my closing statements and they arent going to be around anytime particularly soon or whatever but i am just letting yall know whats up

paradigmatic alterations

yeah so the title is a bit tongue in cheek but due to obvious events occurring i have been thinking a lot about things surrounding what is normally phrasally realized as a quote unquote paradigm shift and i thought that maybe one way to approach everything from the functional to the abstract slash theoretical realization or comprehension of this idea would be to attempt to apply it through the song lollipop off the album the carter iii now when i first attempted to start considering this application i really didnt know what to do with it there are no obvious or truly insightful lyrical markers of this phenomenon or at least no matter how hard i looked with the express purpose of finding one i couldnt which got me to thinking that there might be something else i should use some other song perhaps but then i started thinking harder about it and i realized that in a very real and important and productive sense the entire song lollipop off the album the carter iii is a musical instantiation and theorization of the paradigm shift not only in the usual historical perspective which common usage had caused a sort of blinder effect on my interpretation of the word which was now lost thanks simply to my new ability to see the idea in a new context but also the song lollipop off the album the carter iii works as a paradigm shift in a number of other ways some explicable and others completely inexplicable i would highly recommend that any readers out there who have taken anything up until now at all seriously would look at the song not simply as a song which is a thing that i have been sort of been saying below the surface of every post here but also and this is new as a functional paradigm shift from a non historical perspective now one way you could do this and im not saying this is the right way or that it is even necessarily the first step i am just providing it as an example in order to facilitate other new thought is to look at the rampant orality of the song as instead of taking part in the dialectics of power as taking part in the dialectics of altering the normative or naturalized functional versus pleasurable reality of the sexual act because oral sex lies in a space that is neither fully functional nor fully pleasurable neither is it fully entrenched in either camp of the natural versus unnatural or perverse camp it is in a sense used as a new paradigm which exists outside of personal binary structures but not in the sense that it subverts or annihilates them since it operates beside them another way to look at this for people who are not interested in reading about oral sex would be to look at the song lollipop off the album the carter iii from the perspective precisely of a historical paradigm shift the most obvious and manageable of these being the history of the career of the artist who produced now not only is the song lollipop off the album the carter iii one of the most highly regarded and loved songs that have come out of this particular artist it signalled the final mainstream introduction of the artist before the song lollipop off the album the carter iii the artist had undeniably had hits and was famous but the song lollipop off the album the carter iii indelibly intertwined the artist within popular culture and then we can use this personal biographical paradigm shift in order to look at a larger paradigm shift within the culture in the apparent cultural ramifications of the popularity of the song lollipop off the album the carter iii but then i will leave off here in order to tell you to listen to the song and to not take what i have to say as gospel truth

theory of lollipop performed aka video of my first performance

theory of lollipop part one aka the text of my first performance

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coming out

yes thats right im going to be performing as the opening act for astronautalis and bleubird on april thirteenth in san luis obispo you will all get to see me for the first time and i hope you will like it

self awareness song

im going to break form a bit here and talk about a song called cant believe it by t pain it is very plainly disguised as a generic radio pop ballad in the vein of what has come to be thought of as the pop version of r and b or hip hop now the song essentially tells of the encounter between a man and woman from the mans perspective and the man then goes on to describe the various places to which he desires to allow her to take vacations ie a beach house in costa rica after t pain goes on for some time in this vein describing essentially the ability of his affluence to transport this young woman he finds desirable into what are essentially idyllic locations the line i can send you down south is rap slash sung and i think this is the perfect example of the kind of self awareness that is so important to hip hop and makes it such an important and useful artefact i mean listening to the song it is pretty apparent that there is underlying the banal love story issues of outsourcing and of deferment but that line both drags this issues explicitly to light with the particularly non idyllic destination provided which casts the others into relief and then on top of that it also introduces a very specific lineage which before hearing this line could only be inferred from the artists and the consideration of genre and the songs place of origin namely that of american slavery and being sent down the river and so on which with this line goes from an unspoken idea haunting it to an idea present within the text in a line which is delivered with a flair which allows for both the comedy of it to be evident and for it to be subsumed as part of the song effectively co opting the idea and making it not only an observation within the song but an integral aspect of the song which point i think is particularly interesting in that it does not succumb to the didactic impulse that would seem to necessarily follow such a crucial movement in ideas of the song instead it is simply presented and used as a jumping off point which i think is incredibly fascinating now the whole song is fascinating obviously but to conceive of it in such an autotheoretical fashion is just a point which i dont imagine most people read it with even though it is quite clearly present i mean it would be hard to argue that the reason that this line is there is completely coincidental and would require a pretty childish or racist presupposition of the ignorance of the artist in order to make this argument

a response to fellow personal blogger maggie may

a little while ago my fellow blogger maggie may whose blog you can find in the comments section of a few of my recent blogs note this is not true anymore but anyway she had deleted her blog not long after i originally created this blog so anyway she asked me a question about some espn thing that is a blog and i told her that i would let her know just why you could be assured that it wasnt me who wrote those and the reason as should be fairly obvious to anyone who knows me is that i am notorious for never writing anything down i do my best not to ever write anything down i dont believe in the immutability of signs in the way that the writing process seems to suggest now the next question you might pose to me after i do precisely what i say i never do is that why are you doing exactly what you just said you dont ever do how is writing about how one doesnt write proof that one did not write something and further is this lack of familiarity with the writing process the quote unquote truth behind the style with which you write to all that i would say it is much more complicated than that and as with all banal truths this one is as misleading and reductive as any other truth one could possibly imagine now as for the other part namely the question of why i am doing this if i am so averse to writing well that is a good one see the problem is that there is a broad aesthetic category which i am unable to access through any mode except for writing which was the impetus behind my creating the user account on last fm which then transmuted into this blog later on which will remain unnamed for the moment but which is an incredibly important thing which more people need to think about and consider the implications of in addition to that there are other more banal or artistically situated phenomena which also are inaccessible except through certain forms of writing and so i decided that the personal blog is the most effective way of producing as many of these ideas as possible and that therefore i had to begin one despite my as i stated before aversion to the medium inherent to the blog that is to say writing and so that is why i did not write the espn blog if you will