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Thought for the Day

"Is there a maximum number of lyrics for a song to be considered trance?" -Bollo

Discuss.

The Origins of 'So Much Autism'

The Harvard Lampoon is not a particularly funny publication, but it has it's moments of brilliance, despite a strange fondness for feces. In particularly, the following episode wriggles it's way into you brain and lays there, furtively, with the patient opportunism of post-teen acne. Then, in the space between thoughts, or any time someone says "so much", it erupts into your mind with the force of a religious commandment. As you sit on the public toilet, or try to sleep in math class, or converse about autism, you spew forth a random chuckle that convinces the people around you that you are, indeed, as unstable as you look:

America's Next Top Model

Tyra Banks: Two beautiful, beautiful girls stand in front of me. But I only have one picture in my hands. And that picture represents the girl who will continue in the running to become America's Next Top Model.

We have Emily, the girl who doesn't take good pictures and is awkward in person, but has so much heart and so much autism. So Much
And then there's Ashley, the girl with near-professional modeling skills but little-to-no-autism.
[pulls out picture of girl]
Emily, you are still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model.

Ashley: [uncontrollably crying]

Emily: [continues to stack blocks in the corner]

CRS. Harvard Lampoon, Dec 2007

And that is the story of how the zebra got it's stripes, and this blog got it's name.

However, as our readership has grown, we've come to appreciate that others might see this blog title as insensitive, and we have slowly come around to the light (no, not that light. Jesus still hates us.) However, no longer does this merely refer to the particular character of Dusty, Bollo, and me, which can only politely be called 'mildly autistic'-- it is also an indictment of a flawed society in which thousands upon thousands of children must by falsely diagnosed with a serious physiological disorder in order to receive the assistence from the public school system that these learning-disabled children need. It is an bitter call to arms for a gangrenous society in which there need by so much autism.

I'm only half joking.
Okay, three-quarters. But one ventricle of my heart still bleeds like an inbred, autistic British prince with hemophilia.

-FT

Best Trashy Music Videos

The So Much Autism Aesthetic

We here at So Much Autism love gratuitously-trashy women in varying degrees of undress, particularly when those women act out cliched fantasies by gyrating their hips to eurotrash-electropop. We each have slightly different styles: Dusty demands techno and girls that match his particular, selective criteria (cute, attractive, well-dressed or un-dressed, look as if they are STD free). Bollo likes humor, hotties, Portman, and primates-- anything relating to Mali or Andrew Jackson is merely a bonus. And where Bollo prefers restrained kitsch, I (FT) lean toward borderline camp. Gay-aesthetic, Kylie Minogue camp, but with a premium on deft camera-work and shamelessly suggestive women performing synchronized movements to a bangin' back beat. In the interest of cohesion, we've limited this post to videos which fit that description. But enough introduction-- we'll let these eloquent videos speak for us:

Warning: explicit, misogynistic content. Videos marked with a (*) are particularly gratuitous.

Class B
Ernesto vs. Bastian- Dark Side of the Moon
Michael Gray- Borderline*
Fredde le Grand- Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
Benni Benassi- Who's Your Daddy*

Class A
Boogie Pimps- Somebody to Love
Howard and Old Gregg- Love Games
Snoop Dogg- Sensual Seduction

Class Disco Superfly
5. Kalwi and Remi- Explosion*
4. Alex Gaudino- Destination Calabria
3. Eric Prydz- Call on Me*
2. Michael Gray- The Weekend
1. Benni Benassi- Satisfaction*

FT's honorary mentions (for videos outside the stated criteria)
Daft Punk- Around the World
Basement Jaxx- Take me Back to Your House
Murray Head- One Night in Bangkok
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Incubus- Megalomaniac
Gorillaz- D.A.R.E
Muse- Time is Running Out

Watch!

Notes for later

Investment Bankers without Borders
National Geographic
Dusty's absurd tirade against recycling
Dreams of alienation
Being shorn

We were sitting at Punjabi Daba on Saturday night, discussing something relating to global inequality and Doctors Without Borders when some combination of Dusty/ Bollo decided the Bollo should start Investment Bankers without Borders, aka Exploitation without Borders. In other words, he would go into a developing country and "drink their milkshake. Drink it up." The only problem is that he's about a few thousand years behind the curve; economic imperialism is as immortally human as art. Indeed, it is an art, a violent one.

Thoughts for the days
1) "Wrought" is a strange word.