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Stuff White People Like: Not White People
Daily Intel reported Wednesday on a deadly disease spreading in this country that is as difficult-to-treat as MRSA: White People Fatigue (niveus populus fatigo, or WPF). It was described by performance artist Danny Hoch as:
“…a whole lot of white folks on the left – liberals, Democrats if you will – that have this fatigue about not wanting to do the work necessary to figure out their own place, and their own role in the scheme of things.”
Fortunately, we haven’t come down with WPF, although we have suffered in the past from an offshoot strain, called White People Fatigue-Fatigue (WPFF), which could be described as:
“…having this fatigue about always having to figure out our own place and our own role in the scheme of things while observing white people who don’t and are, on top of that privilege, drippy, listless, bored, feckless, glib, and prone to making middle-of-the-road choices, whether it’s getting all of their political opinions from NPR or embracing subpar music genres like shoegaze and freak folk or mistaking disaffection and earnestness for thinking and feeling.”
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Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: Cry Me a River, Danny Hoch, Diseases, Ennui, Freak Folk, High Class Problems, Malaises, Shoegaze, Stuff White People Like, White People Fatigue
Natalie Portman in Bollywood Drag
Who doesn’t love Natalie Portman? She’s got a face you could stare at for days and that cute mole on her right cheek. As annoying as it is, she even looks great with a shaved head. She’s both the person you want to make out with and the person you want to discuss 700-page novels with over a few bottles of red wine. You wanna hate her, but you just can’t.
That’s why I love this Devendra Banhart video of “Carmensita,” from his latest album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Bollywood send-up? Meh. Racial Drag? Yawn. Freak folk? Get me the fuck outta here. Natalie Portman?! Yippeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Filed under: Actresses, Bollywood, Carmensita, Devendra Banhart, Freak Folk, Indie Rock, Moles, Natalie Portman, Racial Drag, Rad Music Videos
