There is something mucky about Katy Perry.

I dunno specifically what it is about Katy Perry that seems so dirty (and not in a good way) to me, we live in an age of porno-chic but she bothers me in a way even pornstars don't. Maybe it is the sheer crassness of the commercialisation of her sexuality or maybe it is the hollowness of her faux naivety but since seeing the video of California Girls seeing her has made me uncomfortable. Now the producers of Sesame Street have cut her appearance on the show. With good cause I think, I mean yeah objectification of women is everywhere but if there can be one island safe from it, one place where it is unacceptable for starlets to dress up as whores for their appearances then goddamn Sesame Street should be it.

Maybe I'm turning into a prude but Perry specifically is getting to me.

A dissertation on Ke$ha

This article by Martin Seay looks at one of the most utterly vapid and worthless of songs in recent memory and then in several thousands words uses it to draw some exceptionally interesting conclusions. It gets unexpectedly (but completely justifiably) political towards the end. If you can spare the time its well worth a read.

It also caused me to have a mini-epiphany on IM:

paul: "it is—as we say in the post-Rumsfeld parlance of our time—what it is."
more big lebowski references need to be made in regards to Rumsfeld
In fact my mind is currently being blown by the fact Rumsfeld pretty much is the human form of the Big Lebowski
Lots of minor details and intricate plots that go nowhere and in the end, don't matter.