but intentional vagueness is a sign of immaturity
― maura, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
how so
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
How not?
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
It's what people who don't understand poetry write when they think they're writing poetry.
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
no, it's a tool/technique. it's something that can be used immaturely or maturely, but not something that is itself mature or immature.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
intentional vagueness? Why on earth would you want to be intentionally vague? Who would want a vague tool?
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Who wants to read/listen to intentional vagueness? If you know something you had better tell it to me. Stop being vague intentionally.
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
how do u feel about ambiguity
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Ambiguity is great but it's not vagueness and it's not really a tool or a technique. It's more like trying to say something precisely and recognizing complexity without reducing it to an either/or.
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Willow going down the same path as her mother is a lot more preferable to Willow going down the same path as her brother:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFOBd0TWgws
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/sFkFz.jpg
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― trad goon (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
Not as good as my early teen German army jacket upon the back of which I lovingly transcribed the lyrics to 'Transmission' by Joy Division. Pah!
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Awwww bless her heart.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
i kept expecting them to do something with that radiohead sample but man
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
Did anyone manage to get an mp3 of this? Warner Chappell keeps taking it down.
― Turangalila, Friday, 11 January 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
ya I just tried to go to the Soundcloud page & got 404'd... dang
― fiscal cliff racer (bernard snowy), Friday, 11 January 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
As a francophone I feel I have to point out it's actually a saule *pleureur* not pleurant.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 11 January 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
you really don't get more quintessentially teenage than gothy puns on your own name in bad french
― lex pretend, Saturday, 12 January 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
Came here on lex's recommendation but I can't access the soundcloud link - is there another link?
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 25 January 2013 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TytCZo4VPk
― lex pretend, Friday, 25 January 2013 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
I love how the whole aesthetic is such Lex catnip that he was even able to take a peverse glee in the Radiohead sample.
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 January 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
Holy sh-- well, that's something else. Some pretty complex stuff goin on there, musically and emotionally, especially let alone for a 12 (!) yr old. I thought this was going to be the codex cover I'd heard speak of, but obv this is another track. If this is goth (and yeah, inject me with darkness qualifies it), it's the mopier teenage angst side of goth as opposed to the horrorshow type of goth I was alluding to on the EOY thread, but I'm glad you showed me this Lex.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 25 January 2013 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait, no, it is Codex! Goes to show how many times I've made it all the way through King Of Limbs. Wait, isn't King Of Limbs also a reference to a tree?
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 25 January 2013 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
did we talk about 'kite' yet
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Friday, 25 January 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/458aa02d758422d37d008e9463d5cf98/tumblr_mmib1yC8Er1qc2vjzo1_500.jpg
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
it's a shop
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bet.com/shows/bet-awards/2012/photos/style/ford-presents-bet-awards-2012-red-carpet.html#!070112-shows-beta-willow-jaden-smith
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I realized that like 30 sec after I posted it ;_;
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
people are really out here photoshopping willow smith red carpet shots
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/dhatu/5-feat-jaden
― Greer, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
I love how the original song on this thread is some dire gloomy glop based on Radiohead but lex likes it because it's willow smith
― ilx snitch (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 04:12 (ten years ago) link
― dyl, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 06:36 (ten years ago) link
I was wondering what she was doing recently and apparently she released a free EP two days ago and it's... okay
https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bfw6naziykwxmgq6d7pe5wpwm6y&PAffiliateID=100l3tb
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 2 November 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/?_r=2
Jaden and Willow have given what may be my favorite interview of 2014
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 17 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
You mentioned breathing earlier, and it’s also an idea that recurs in your songs.
WILLOW: Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.
JADEN: When babies are born, their soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy is coming through their body, up and down.
WILLOW: Prana energy.
JADEN: It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.
WILLOW: When they’re in the stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.
JADEN: By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…
WILLOW: As they grow up, they start losing.
JADEN: You know, they become just like us.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 17 November 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
interview should've been conducted via twitter imo
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I can only handle a sentence or two of this at a time
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
pound for pound the best celebrities in america right now
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 November 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
also their sibling bond is inspiring
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 November 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
this is awesome
― example (crüt), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
What are some of the themes that recur in your work?
JADEN: The P.C.H. being one of them; the melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.
WILLOW: And the feeling of being like, this is a fragment of a holographic reality that a higher consciousness made.
JADEN: [bursts into laughter] As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that’s one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest.
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
I don't even know what "honesty" means in this context
pranasty
― example (crüt), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
okay lmfao at Jaden: "I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out."
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
this is awesome― example (crüt), Monday, November 17, 2014 4:52 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― example (crüt), Monday, November 17, 2014 4:52 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they sound like horrible people. alternatively, the level of stupidity that has been pumped into their minds reaches child-abuse levels.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
"the melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else"
this sounds like a Borges line
― anonanon, Monday, 17 November 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
or a bush album title
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
also, holy redundant suffix
Worst celebrity family ever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link