The meme explained! So now you can be just as pretentious as the rest of us. I was thinking that it would be fun to decide just which words were the most pretentious. Maybe "interiority"? Let's have a vote on it!
Mail me with your suggestions, and I'll post up the winner here.
While on the subject of pretentiousness, I was toying with writing a short piece on musical and lyrical intertextuality in r'n'b for my Text and Context scrapbook, because, you know,
Samuel Beckett is fun and all, but "Bugaboo" is more fun. If I end up doing it, and it doesn't turn out totally banal, I'll post it up. My biggest challenge will be to avoid totally aping
Simon Reynolds.