thought 'happy that kool ad finally accepted my friend request the other day'
thought 'feels like ppl in the western world w/ computers are hiding if they're not on facebook'
thought 'I admire ppl who don't “succumb” to facebook's void'
thought 'I liked kool ad // das racist before I heard kool ad was “tight” w/ sorry house'
thought 'I liked kool ad before I found the interview he did w/ tao lin (2009)'
thought 'kool ad is one of my favorite rappers & I am ambivalent abt his new mixtape'
thought 'I hope I like this ebook better than I did his new mixtape'
thought 'watchin twin peaks b**h look i'm laura palmer - YOU TUBE dot com I don't even read that'
seems like kool ad is 'hella' smart
seems like this ebook is more 'serious' than his raps
seems like every time I see an old das racist (RIP) interview heems is tryna 'steal the show' & kool ad is partially agitated partially aloof abt that
//
this ebook is filled w/ twitterly aphorisms
I feel sure a lot of these lines were once tweets but I don't feel like checking
kool ad laces this ebook w/ politically keen insight
w/ humorous wordplay
w/ cultural unveilings
he seems 'preoccupied' w/ the concepts of 'love'
of 'revolution'
of 'entertainment'
of media's manipulative 'nature'
of challenging our 'inherited' ideologies
abt 'capitalism'
abt 'pleasure'
abt 'convenience'
he seems to wanna 'uncover' truths abt the (western) world :::
'CLASSIC WESTERN PHILOSOPHY IS SLAVEOWNERS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SLEEP AT NIGHT'
:::
'IF I'M ON AN AIRPLANE WITH (X AMOUNT) DOLLARS WORTH OF FUEL IN IT, TRAVELING (Y AMOUNT) MILES, HOW MUCH MONEY DID MY 7TH GRADE MATH TEACHER MAKE IN A YEAR?'
:::
'The TV show C.O.P.S presents us with images of brutality and asks that we perceive them as justice'
:::
'How much of my time should I invest in trying to understand how the world is and how much of my time should I invest in trying to understand how the
world should be?'
:::
'EVERY TIME YOU GO TO MCDONALD'S WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT, A PART OF YOU IS SAYING “F**K IT.”'
he seems to think a lot, & his raps reveal this too, but here he doesn't so quickly shift into irreverence & lackadaisical improvisations (not to say it's 'bad' when he does)
although this ebook doesn't seem necessarily 'neatly' structured, each line is a nugget to be potentially 'reckoned' with
he's like a hip scholar that's been stuck in a library w/ a basket of hash
he's like a politically-savvy wizard
he interweaves statistics into his pulsing questions
statistics like: '34% of the world has internet access'
81% of this book is questions, I calculated 'it'
41% of this book was written under the influence of kool ad's beard
59% was written under the influence of 'punk'
//
thought 'he seems to find “solace” in humor'
thought 'bc of the title I expected this book to be even more joke driven'
thought 'I am (surprisingly) glad it's not entirely joke driven'
thought 'it seems like a “gift & a curse” to be a funny person bc then everyone expects you to be funny & sometimes you don't wanna be funny then yr caught in a dilemma of maintaining yr own integrity or “playing into” yr audience's f**ked up desires'
'WORDSWORTH: ACCEPTABLE WHITE RAPPER?'
kept thinking abt what kool ad said abt tao lin's work :::
'kind of an incredibly accessible operating manual on how not to be a hater'
::: & how that might relate to this ebook
is this ebook an 'incredibly accessible operating manual on how not to be a hater' ? ? ?
//
thought 'postmodern proverbs' ~3 times while reading this ebook
thought 'is this “alt lit”'
thought 'this is definitely “alt lit”'
thought 'I am glad that he's making me think – I am glad that he is challenging me'
thought 'he “strikes” a nice balance btwn being “challenging” & being “entertaining”'
thought 'is this poetry?'
thought 'this book is not abt individual 'pieces' but abt individual inquiries
thought 'does the form of this book reflect our ADD culture?'
thought 'am I ADD for enjoying this?'
thought 'each line doesn't seem ADD at all though – in fact, each line seems emphatic & nourishing'
thought 'I am possibly everything plus everything that is not me'
thought 'I HOPE MORE RAPPERS WRITE MORE EBOOKS'
thxxx VICTOR thxxx a lot