moving all tumblr activity to @lakemarkham in approx 10min
follow me there. want to cut the cord to my high school shit
Model Speaks Out About the Terrible Meme That Ruined Her Life
memes currently serve as the conclusive realm of discourse: they are the one social space within which contemporary people can comprehend meaning, subvert old meaning, or synthesize new meaning, based upon a common framework of contextual understanding, related–but not limited–to the synthesis of an internet culture of the virtual world, and a political culture of the real world. this claim can be evidenced by the continuous and exponential creation of new memes, memes which build upon old memes, and which refer to objects no more real than previous memes.
memes, as virtually reified objects, are representative of a new and horrible condition, one that is arrived at through a synthesis of 1. the authoritative power of mass media, 2. the democratic power of the network, and 3. the absolute lack of power otherwise controlled by those who deploy the memes. in other words, memes have become the absolute democratization of power for those who have no other voice in the internet age.
this democratic power is clearly manifest in memes’ wholly liquid nature; memes are a currency valuable in any market, at any exchange rate. the meme–and consequently, its voice–is in itself a unique synthesis of politics, aesthetics, and rhetoric. this synthetic union allows for discourse among those who would otherwise occupy no space together in which to engage in discussion, as memes forge a bond between those who recognize the particular nuances (and appreciate the general thematic developments) of internet culture. in this way, memes transcend all political categories found in the real world.
simultaneously, however, the meme is an expression of bias, and shows us why a perfect democracy will never occur in static form: the entirely liquid and irreducibly democratic power of the meme could never allow its community to arrive at consensus, as memes are literally the repetition of a repetition, “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture”. (webster’s) the very nature of memes demands the propagation of new memes.
memes demonstrate that, as long as there is a democratic world–virtual or real–and that democratic world has subcultures, and those subcultures are made of people, we will never be happy.
things i did today before i went to work
i woke up this morning feeling really…weird
i looked up at the ceiling for a little while
i made some peanut butter toast twice
i looked down at the floor for a little while
i noticed the way it came through between my feet
i lay in my bed again for a little while
i just kind of lay there & thought about people in my life
i looked up at the ceiling for a little while
i fell asleep again
Anonymous asked: Have you ever thought of making your own book? I mean, your prose are so good. ^__^
Thanks. That’s the dream. I’m writing a couple of short stories right now. It would be cool to get them published. I just don’t have enough of a following yet though. We’ll see.
parents are like robots that are always disappointed
why are you doing that
you shouldn’t do that you should do this
i’m not going to make you
i’m just going to tell you to do something you’re not doing a lot of times
until you do that thing
then i’m going to say you should really still be doing the other thing too
not like you’re doing it now though so don’t keep doing it
do you know how much i love you
i just want you to be happy
you go to your room a lot
that’s all i’m saying
you don’t do your homework and your gpa is okay
you probably have a blog
it’s okay but you could do better
your blog and your gpa
my friend from work follows your blog with a fake account
i read your twitter once
i don’t remember when
your tweets are pretty funny but they’re not “happy funny”
i just want you to be happy
do you know what the boy on the 30th floor has for a gpa
a “4-0”, but yours is okay
you could do better though
you’re really smart when you want to be
only in those times though
remember that time things were really bad for me
i worked really hard
you don’t have to have a “4-0” to make me happy
you should have whatever you want
i just want you to be happy
why are you doing this to yourself
don’t do things you don’t want to
do you think i don’t like what i do
i’m really happy
just do what makes you happy
you should find things to do
do you remember when you did that other thing you used to do
you don’t do that anymore
you used to be happy
i just want you to be happy
i sent you a message today
saying i wanted to punch that stupid cat from garfield in the face really hard
i was walking down the street and a light rain was touching me on top of me
somebody on the other side of the street was waiting for the light to turn green
they were looking at me and i wanted to tell them stop like the light was doing
in my head i was pointing at them saying i wanted to punch them in the face really hard
when we crossed i didn’t do anything
their shirt had that stupid cat from garfield on it
it said i hate mondays
i sent you a message today that said that too but i was being ironic
mondays are really average
i felt bad because they probably feel worse than me today
jeremy opens his mouth and says “i want to marry you”
and a girl he met once says “no you don’t” across the table
jeremy puts hash-browned potatoes into his open mouth and closes it
they don’t talk anymore for a while
the line cook wants to kill himself a lot less than he did at 6:17am,
when he woke up really hungover
Anonymous asked: do you smoke?
i am driving on a road that is the same color as my dashboard
i am driving on a road that is the same color as my dashboard
recalling how it felt inside my torso
that time we texted each other a lot on the couch
the one in starbucks
we were probably joking about the guy we saw on the other couch
the other one in starbucks
i am thinking that for a second when we were texting a lot on the couch
we were kind of thinking the same thing at once
just by having access to the same information at the same time…
compared to the guy on the other couch
he had no idea
we probably looked really nondescript and dialectical
i am seeing my reflection in the window since the road is the same color as my dashboard
it’s all the same color except for me so i don’t care really
i could die right now and i wouldn’t care
i am probably going to die
i am probably going to die but it’s whatever
i drove on a road that was the same color as my dashboard
high school
what
why are we here
i don’t know why i like you
i guess we are friends
what
why am i reading this book
i don’t care it is really bad
i’m not going to read it anymore
what
why can’t i go home
i don’t think i will use any of this
i probably will
what
why would i want to learn a lot
if i learn a lot it won’t really matter/
if i don’t learn a lot it won’t really matter
remember that thing jesus said in mark
everybody here is going to forget me anyway
what
“you think a lot,” she typed into a chat box
“like are thoughtful,” she typed into a chat box after realizing that she had, in her previous statement, likely subconsciously, used a derivative of the adjective she elected instead for her second statement, with an unsatisfying connotative effect
“or considerate,” she typed into a chat box, which bore no semblance to the root word “thought” but had a similar connotative effect as “thoughtful”