Sprezzatura

( note: i wrote this all in one go and then came back and added links/explanation to shit I couldn't remember cause i though it'd be funnier that way ) Okay, so you remember cable? It was like Twitter but with significantly less ability to melt your brain. Anyway, my dad had Telewest - remember Telewest? It was one of the cable providers that became Virgin Media in like 2006 along with ntl: and a third one that I shan't bother looking up. ( edit: hey, turns out telewest was originally called croydon cable big up the ends. Also the third company in the merger was fucking virgin lmao I hate being a moron ) Anyway, my dad had Telewest cable, and the EPG - you know, the guide thingy - was structured in the usual way. Like 100-200 was "General Entertainment" - your BBC1s, your Sky 1s, your DMAX+2s. The big boys. 200-300 was like "weird alternative entertainment" channels. Documentary channels like Nat Geo and Military History; Men and Motors; whatever the fu...

songs that were on the FIFA soundtracks, songs that should have been, songs I mention elsewhere in the post, all in one playlist!   Time for another Sprezzatura Sob Story(TM)! Not as sad as the last one , I promise. I never had a games console when I was a younger. I didn't even have a computer until I was ten, and a proper Internet connection until I was twelve. This means I am noticeably awful at all of the traditional Boy Things like FIFA and COD. I didn't even play Mario until I was maybe thirteen at my dad's girlfriend's house in Friern Barnet. The point of this is I didn't have these key experiences and yet I still think I could quite easily define for you the genre of FIFAcore. This is not a genre that either Wikipedia or Allmusic would recognise, but I think among people roughly my age you could definitely put together a list of "FIFAcore" artists. Though I never actually played the game, save for brief trouncings at mate's houses, I cam...

This isn't a proper post, Google docs wasn't working n I needed to type Questions to consider the whole time: why is this about shame and not guilt? What's the difference? Is there some kinda personality disorder that helps explain all this? Okay so the thesis statement is not JUST "treat people as more than an amalgam of signifiers" though that is important. The point is that you aren't very good at using signals. This is my point from Pete isn't gay - you're looking at "likes cock" when you should be looking at "worked for fucking McKinsey" and coming to retarded conclusions as a result. "When you ask for a display of X, you select for people who are good at displays, not X." There's also a separate argument here about how differences manifest themselves. Remember how school was The White Crew, The Black Crew,  The Lolcru, The Rugby Lads, Us Fuckwits (arguably a lolcru vassal state), and gyal? No one did that on purp...

 "England, mate! Yeah, go fuck yourself!" I - Brief Notes On Why You Shouldn't Cancel Me For The Title Of This Blogpost Let me explain the title before you raise your pitchforks and torches. The greatest documentary that I have ever seen, the one that best encapsulates the absolute state of modern Britain, is called 'Angry, White, and Proud.' Find it here. "A lot of people would class [what you say] as racist thought," whines the journalist behind the camera, in the first interaction we see in the doc. "Yes, I'm incredibly racist against Muslims," Colin replies, immediately destroying the argument. "I 'ate Muslims, hate 'em with a fuckin' passion, more than I hate West Ham Football Club - and I 'ate them bastards." This post is about, and of course, its title comes from, the first half of that sentence. "I've never heard anyone say that before, I'm a little bit lost for words!" replies...