Melissa Gira Grant

I'm Melissa, and I write on the internet ([a], [b], [c]). I live in Brooklyn, and before that, San Francisco, LiveJournal, and some zines and such.

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Jul
03
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Angels of Light, “Untitled Love Song”
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2009.07.03 / dsp / Melissa Gira Grant: After Nelson cut my hair. I didn’t go in with a Laura Palmer pic for reference, but.
2009.07.03 / dsp / Melissa Gira Grant:

After Nelson cut my hair. I didn’t go in with a Laura Palmer pic for reference, but.

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“ Isaac’s no monster, though, or at least he isn’t meant to seem like one. His overlay of protective self-awareness — his preemptive acknowledgment of flaws that you haven’t even noticed yet, the sense that he hates himself more than you ever could — has provided a reliable template for future generations of dudes, cinematic and otherwise. It’s this kind of guy who’d think to inoculate himself against charges of misogyny by having Bella Abzug make a cameo in his movie about a forty year old man who’s fucking a high-schooler. These dudes don’t just to get away with being assholes, they want to be loved both for and in spite of it. You have met these dudes. As kids, they were mocked for the same traits that they’ve now transformed into social currency, but this reversal hasn’t fully salved the wounded rage in them. So they are maybe going to take that anger out on some powerless girls, but they’re going to be so super aware the whole time, of what they’re doing and why. To paraphrase the terrible novel whose opening paragraph Isaac is writing at the movie’s outset, New York is their town, and it always will be. And maybe they live here because the city is like them: trapped between the impulse to expiate or to celebrate its sins, and trapped in the misconception that admitting to them somehow accomplishes both things at once. Emily Gould Takes Manhattan, This Recording (via fuckyeahmisogyny)
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“ She had bequeathed me her vibrator, a strange swirling, buzzing thing that when switched to “High” gyrated in the air like someone’s bored thick finger going whoop-de-do. “Childcare,” Lorrie Moore (New Yorker, July 6-13)
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(fuckyeahtwinpeaks)
(fuckyeahtwinpeaks)
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“ Naturally, there is an NSFW variant of Look at This Fucking Hipster called Look at This Hipster Fucking. Slate
Jul
02
Dared to post this (remember when this wasn’t for me)
Dared to post this (remember when this wasn’t for me)
Jul
01
2009.07.01 / dsp / Melissa Gira Grant: Half-broken body. I was told sleeping with my arms over my head was a sign of stress. Improvement: instead of getting good rest, I woke every hour to remind myself, move your arms down. Reading this, on other birdlike bodies bent in on themselves.
2009.07.01 / dsp / Melissa Gira Grant:

Half-broken body.

I was told sleeping with my arms over my head was a sign of stress. Improvement: instead of getting good rest, I woke every hour to remind myself, move your arms down.

Reading this, on other birdlike bodies bent in on themselves.

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Madonna wishing MTV a happy 10th anniversary (“Glycerin, I need more glycerin!”) is still so relevant.