Wednesday, October 5, 2011

I demand you delight in this but I'm a bossy drunk.

Nothing makes a blogger want to blog more than a sale at Anthro or a visit to a Mexican restaurant with a mucho grande margarita.  Guess which one I just had?!!!!  

Combine a few single ladies, a shitty couple of days and tequila, pour over crushed ice and serve in a giant salt-rimmed plastic cup and you are guaranteed to have gold.  By 'gold' I mean the nastiest, jaw-dropping, next-table-over-family-looking horrified conversation ranging from 401Ks to the Balkans to vaginas.  Mostly vaginas.  Sometimes that just happens when tequila gets involved.  I can't explain why but according to scientists, lady-to-lady talk is the filthiest conversation on the periodic table of saucy. You know what's the inverse of lady flowers?  

Brutalism. 
It's true.  I think it might be a question on the SATs or something so it's probably good to remember.


ModernSauce: grossing out educating America's youth since 2009. 
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Best or worst segue ever?!  It barely made sense that we somehow talked about those things in the span of five minutes but fuck it.  Sometimes things go together and I don't have to explain how it works in my head.  My new obsession is the appropriately titled Fuck Yeah, Brutalism and it needs no backstory!


Delight in it!
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I said DELIGHT!!!  *shakes fist*



Delight even harder.



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So much delight I can hardly stand it.

But after such a lovely and sophisticated evening I come home to find out Steve Jobs died.  Ruined my taco high.  I barely know how to turn on the internet and I'm certainly no Apple fangirl but - and perhaps it was tequila's influence -  I got all emotional watching my Twitter stream.   Ok it was probably the tequila.  Then I cried watching the tv coverage.  Not the 'Michael Jackson dying' cry but still...  

Now Brutalism seems rather appropriate to my mood.
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Way to waste a perfectly good female bonding discussion about vaginas, Universe.   


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I don't know - that is quickly restoring my margarita-induced delight. 


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So no one likes clunky weirdo buildings as much as I do?  Sigh...  more for me then!  I've already proven my great and slightly off-balance love for them in this old post about Yugoslavian war memorials (that I thought were somewhat Soviet at the time) and I think the margarita-fueled lady flower/Balkan travelling story/Brutalism connection has just been made in my head.  Drunk starting to wear off now...


Normalcy returning...


Sadly...

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But still, this is 100% vagina approved.


And no I don't know what that means either but I'm still tipsy enough where that seems appropriate and completely logical.

11 comments:

  1. You are not alone! Husband-cat fucking loves the I-will-crush-you school of architecture. My love for it is more mercurial. Fascist architecture of Italy? Yummy. Unnecessary use of concrete in Texas? Molotov cocktail.

    Your post gave me a high sorely needed after Jobs' death. End of a freakin' era. My iPad is iCrying.

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  2. Great stuff. We have a half decent example in our humble burg : http://christianrushing.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-favorite-building.html?m=0

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  3. That's a whoooooole lotta concrete. Concrete lady-talk.

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  4. Ish - I hear ya. Sometimes I walk past a building and think WTF? Is that a post-apocalyptic bomb shelter or Brutalist delight?? But mostly mad love all around.

    Other than an ipod I don't own any Apple products (although I was pretty stoked about finally getting an iphone this month) but I'm surprised at how upset I was at Jobs' death. Sad day. Virtual hugs all around.

    Christian - Thanks for stopping by! I love seeing half decent examples and will definitely swing by your blog!

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  5. Nick - You got that right! On both counts.

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  6. I know what brutalism is, but for some reason it took this post to make me realize that's the style of the main libraries at both Northwestern University & the University of Chicago. Back when I spent a great deal of time at those 2 places, I had thought the idea was to model them after the Death Star. NOW I KNOW. Or was it?

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  7. Perhaps ALL Brutalism was really modeled after the Death Star??????!!! Dun, dun, duuunnnnn!!!

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  8. I'm diggin' the hard surfaces, and rough edges - but then I've always felt that architecture should be dangerous.

    RIP Steve Jobs - Your ride has clearly been wild. Whatever ride your on now, make it wild too.

    Anyway...

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  9. I delight in danger!! (Only in buildings apparently...) If this post had a theme song it would be "Highway to the Danger Zone" as sung by Steve Jobs.

    Wild ride, indeed. Thanks Izzy.

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  10. Great images. Love Brutalism. And mmm... mex food and margaritas.

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  11. Mmmhhh... I would dip Brutalism in some queso and eat the hell out of it.

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