New Sincerity has been plaguing my ability to think and especially to write as of late.

The thought that our generation has this new way of enjoying things and thinking about ideas, a way finally free from Postmodernism is at first a liberation. But then...then your bullshit detectors go off.

First, I'm no elitist and I love my blogosphere but when an academic idea is transformed and popularized by The Sound of Young America podcasts and blogs as a kind of meme I'm a bit wary. Wary about the amount of idiots hands it's passed through. It still has many of the aspects of the original idea but...something fishy.

But the real problem we have, especially as people who are trying to write to express our generation, is very little of it seems NEW or SINCERE. Many claim it's just pure enjoyment of preformatism (or awesomeness depending on the level of talk) without irony. But isn't that just enjoyment? It's not necessarily beyond post modernism as just returning to a life without irony. Then some say "well, it's sincere enjoyment and irony together" which is a bit of a brain melting statement and where we, as a group, find our biggest problem.

When you are writing something Ironic if you make it more sincere it simply just amps the underlying irony. And if you have something painfully Ironic like, oh lets say, Evel Kinevil, and take him wickedseriously there's still a kind of (barf) meta-irony there.

The fact that this sincerity is being created by a bunch of Dimitri Martin-loving, secretly high-fiving, Believer-reading, wesandersonophiles makes one think that even though they claim this sincerity they are secretly still mocking it, only from some newfound smug inner distance.

The podcast is good though. And Its not like I wouldnt want to live in a world where everyone enjoyed Anderson Cooper for being cute, Dolly Parton for her theme parks and fantasticly large breasts and maybe even my large collection of terrible music for its good beats and chord structures...

Anyway, you're all smarter than me.
ATTACK! ATTACK!

CAM

Unpopular Opinions
Main Street is only fun for Indie Girls and Hungry people.

Of late my problem with Vancouver lies in the fact there is little to do regularily but eat and shop. This doesn't include of course "taking in nature" which I have yet to find that little place in Vancouver which I feel in awe of (except parts of the beach in summer).

Warren and I did laps around Main St. today and I was agog at the lack of any cool non-overpriced vintage stores that carried anything which resembled men's clothes. I even forced him into a few girls shops because I was bored. This happened one calendar week after I went to North Van and rode around on the bus looking for attractions but eventually just ended up looking in shops again. And when they ran out, going to West Van for more.

I think this is symptomatic of not being FROM Vancouver...but still...

Everything on Main was just (mainly girl's) shops and restaurants. We even went to the Comic Convention which was just another shop (40 dollars for a Lois Lane comic my ass!). I'm missing what everyone's talking about.

But then again I'm a fool.

CAM

P.s. I was blaring "Girls it ain't easy" by Dusty Springfeild on the bus the other day and a young rakish hobo gave me a knowing nod and wink as he left the bus. Could this be a Blondie-esque phenomenon?

Or did he think I was a gay hustler

Like you, when I see a Tarsier I think "Tiny Primate...CUUUUUUUUTE"

But you can't tell me that if you woke up with that thing on your chest you wouldnt scream and hit it with a book until it was no longer solid.

The world is a beautiful place. Things can simultaneously look cute and like helldemons.

CAM

I apologize first and foremost for allowing my racially sensitive blog to turn into a "political correctness gone MAD!" blog.

now for something you can't refute

quickest way to a 1950s soul singer's heart: Bring them coffee in they favorite cup

CAM

Best (worst) Thought of the day:
"How many bags of groceries do I have to carry before I'm treated as well as or better than old or handicapped people when I get on the bus? "

CAM

Thing most inexplicably quoted in rap songs : Elliot Ness
Seriously? are you telling me that rappers are that concerned with "The Untouchables"? Or like old crime stuff. I don't think so. Yet he's constantly rapped about. Maybe they're really into old tyme t.v. too...damn...Or Costner

Most racist term : Indian Giver
I always thought "jewed" was pretty bad simply due to obivousness but look at this one. Alright so this means someone who gives something then wants it back. So a) you are implying that native americans GAVE us their land and b) they are jerks for wanting it back. As much as we're all shocked and appalled by Nigger its really not a way of saying Black people whine too much about one of the greatest atrocities ever. I hereby proclaim Indian Giver worse

CAM

Dear Vancouver

A reliable bus service to which i wait less than an hour for a bus OR pissoirs....

you must choose.

And no, I dont mind being asked if i want a blowjob.

CAM

This is my favorite game of all time. You are little animals that move around and eat things and evolve and eventually become big fucked up animals like dragons and crazy monkies that throw things.

This is maybe pretending the other one doesn't exist but will surely be my favorite game of all time.

t.t.f.n.

CAM

Amidst the acceptable rocking , mayana provided libations and alright beats of Animal Collective tonight I was able to muse on something musicish which has been bothering me for a while...well...not bothering but on my mind

It involves this man:
Mr.Sufjan Stevens has more spotlight than ever with Illinoise, and duly, but a lot of the stuff he says sends me spiralling into both questioning my love for him and how i want my artists, music and otherwise to ask (because of course i run a totalitarian artistic regime).

First, he said in an interview that "I don't have the inclination to discover new music. Honestly, I don't really care."

I don't know what to think about that. I personally like to have my musical cabaret/50s pop rut but then again i'm not reponsible for putting out records and making music (not since they took my means away). I'll allow my artists (extra specially musicians and visual artists if they produce stuff as good as stevens) to be a little eccentric but there comes a point when I go ...uhhhhhh... are you just being a pretentious jerk?

I'll let that statement slide though as I'm not really sure what he's saying or how or maybe he means pop music or something. What really is on my mind is on numerous occasions how he's said he's taking time off music to focus on other things like visual art and writing a book.

Now, when it comes to say me or my friends or brother or people i know in real life who arent famous for one thing I'm fine with them wanting to do other things and not be one note but there's something about artists doing it which makes me uneasy. We are in a time now where we allow it and it seems with agents and managers and crossover deals public and funders are more than willing to accept it more than ever. I always am just left to wonder did we really miss something because Chopin didn't get the means to write a novel?

I can't imagine the great classical artists just simply all weren't inspired to branch out but instead they chose/were forced to by circumstance to stick to one thing and craft it to amazingness. Is it unfair if i want artists to do that now? Am I some anachronistic De Medici?

The only way I can stop thinking about this is when I see what else he produces.

Maybe I just secretly hate him because he's talented and pretty.

CAM