November 2008
96 posts
MADE IT: New home edition
And she travels to Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Brick walls. One big, bright red wall. Red cabinets with white little knobs. It’s sort of like a dream dollhouse, except for someone me-sized. Never underestimate the power of a new apartment as a clean slate in life. Unsplattered canvases are ever so rare.
To quote little orphan Annie, I think I’m gonna like it here.
Plus I opened my...
Charlotte Martin - The Dance
She’s sort of...
swell season, covering bob d.
grace and...
Ok so I really love Rachel Maddow
[A few weeks back, MSNBC talk-show host Rachel Maddow appeared on “The Colbert Report” and noted that the governing failures of the Bush administration — its failure to respond to Hurricane Katrina, etc. — were inevitable, because George W. Bush stocked his government with people who were ideologically anti-government. “I mean, I like vegans,” she joked,...
Super down with the new song Springsteen wrote for...
Alone Together / NYM →
I love Jennifer Senior stories like this, and I love living alone. At first, you’re like, ohmygahwhatwasithinking, and then later you can’t really imagine the freedom and the mindspace. It makes you more active to go out and actually see people and things and/or to host them with you.This is a trope as old as sand, but Jen does put it well.
“I’d argue that New York and the...
Luc Sante is...
…a beautiful beautiful writer. His series on old New York/music remembrances is inching towards classic.
[I bought the record at the time it was on the Jamaican charts, from some punk store in downtown Manhattan. I first heard it at Isaiah’s, a dance club that materialized every Thursday night in a fourth-floor loft on Broadway between Bleecker and Bond. This was a few years before...
Have you seen my wig around?
Francis and the Lights - Striking
xox to this...
North Sea Diary
[At that point, we began to capsize. It is surprising how easily you become disoriented. You struggle to remain seated upright as the rolling cabin carries you into the air, and then as you are plunged into the water your head is forced sideways against the wall. You know, intellectually, that you must remain in your seat for a few seconds to give the rotors time to stop spinning, but strapped...
My brain feels like the bassline of a Portishead...
WatchI can start my day now, kthanx.
In other news, this could be the most cavalier performance I’ve ever seen, starting with adding “that’s a lie” after the lyric about not having any money. He’s the tops.
LOLPrince. Srsly.
“Christina Hendricks as Joan on “Mad Men” (left) could singlehandedly bring back...”
– Is Joan on ‘Mad Men’ too plump for primetime? | All The Rage | Los Angeles Times (via littlesparrow)
In the hips business, this is commonly referred to as “wham bam” discrimination.
sun kil moon (as modest m)-tiny cities made of...
themusic:
My Brightest Diamond - Feeling Good
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Andrea Lee
[The gods of antiquity tossed saints and sinners, lovers and chimeras up into the heavens, making sure that there was a thumping good yarn behind each stellar formation. Just so, I’m certain that a kind of logic connects these three characters, and I begin to suspect that I am more implicated in it than I thought. Perhaps I was not just a witness but one of them, a fourth outsider at our villas:...
