or-iental
by jebni on September 19, 2003
In a strangely self-orientalising turn, last night I bought my mum some Chinese journal-writing books for her birthday. You know, with intricate gold patterns stamped on the cover. How “Chinese-y”. Where will this self-fetishisation of culture end? God, next I (…)
got lost in the game
by jebni on September 18, 2003
Now that I’m kinda on a roll with the whole t-shirt thing, I thought I’d make available the one the kickstarted my whole pop-politics trip… Buy! Buy now! (Bwa-ha-ha…)
join the international
by jebni on September 17, 2003
My latest t-shirt. I’ve always wanted to rebrand Cosmopolitan as an ironically crazy-radical fantasy mag called Cosmopol. Imagine!
man of the year
by jebni on September 14, 2003
New at the Antipopper store. Until Marvel’s lawyers start knocking. + + + Record hits! Slavering fanboys R us, it would seem. I felt naughty at the prospect of making some cash from Grant and Frank’s work, so there’s no markup on (…)
let’s rock
by jebni on September 14, 2003
Watching the Twin Peaks first season box set. Yes, I know Lynch is a reactionary fetishist, but it plays out very nicely, don’t you think? The nostalgia in Twin Peaks for an imaginary age of National Innocence — implied by (…)
death by stereo
by jebni on September 12, 2003
Wow, I totally forgot that the video store doofus in The Lost Boys was the Big Bad! Lena didn’t remember either, but felt it almost immediately anyway — sometimes I’m so utterly naive in my entertainment spectatorship… What, X is (…)
whatever canon
by jebni on September 8, 2003
Whenever I visit people’s homes, I always go for the bookshelves, noting the books we have in common. It’d be interesting to imagine what people make of mine. This morning I was reading an essay by John Fowles, in which (…)
overcome
by jebni on September 7, 2003
Dream #1: He has discovered us disposing of the body. So he has to die, too. She begins bashing him with a lead pipe. Blood and brains spraying everywhere, all over us, all over the walls. I’m hysterical: “How are (…)
file under “WTF”
by jebni on September 5, 2003
Joss Whedon to write and direct Firefly: The Motion Picture.
debris
by jebni on September 3, 2003
Reading Susan Buck-Morss’ The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, which Laleen Jayamanne recommended to me about a billion years ago. + + + Silly fanboy moment: the Cuban Sentinels in this arc of Mystique (which I actually haven’t (…)