February 2008
120 posts
Lost: The Time-Loop Theory →
Not sure if this is true but… Reading this blew my mind a little. Don’t read it if you don’t want your brain to get all tossed around like flight 815.
Apes and Androids - We Don’t Understand You ...
“The solution is not to swing entirely toward the hive mind, nor to abandon the...”
– Andrew Taylor, The Artful Manager.
party at the natural history museum! there is no... →
(via vincentpeone) This is always quite a blast. Nothing like getting a little knackered and exploring the North American taxidermy section.
Thanks guys, flattered. →
Francis and the Lights - Striking Elz introduced...
“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State...”
– F. Scott. F. Perhaps some of my favorite lines ever written about the city.
NewsClipper →
A really simple, easy-to-use interface aggregating TV news clips from major sources. I stopped watching live news because really, the internet will tell me everything I need to know, and my TV is now a clunky box I use to watch PBS docs (ok, and Bret Michaels on a really bad day). But this is a good way to get back into broadcast, if you feel so inclined.
Argh.
Accidentally deleted my Apes and Androids audio post because I thought I was rehosting a song that originally appeared on my friend’s site. Turns out those boys have a different A&A song, “Creepy Girls” up and the whole thing was a wires-crossing deal and I can’t give you the song again for today (how do you retrieve deleted posts…anyone?) In any case, Apes and...
OH MY GOD THIS IS THE CUTEST VIDEO EVER MADE IN...
(via doree): It involves a lion. A real lion! If you don’t think this is the cutest video ever made in the history of the world then you have no heart. i’d have to agree. i don’t usually fall for animals-in-online-videos, but this is just…
Juliana Hatfield - Spin the Bottle Because I felt...
“The city we have now is the one we deserve, the coagulation of money. I’m very...”
– Speaking of Luc Sante…
luc sante has a great blog →
(via antiocharonow) Seriously, Luc Sante’s blog gives you hope that people sometimes hit the internet ready to rumble, writing chops wise.
The National - Karen. Tonight I went to see one...
the best possible situation to come home drunk to.
you turn on the tv to the exact scene in friends where ross cannot get his leather pants back on and the lotion and powder have combined to make a paste. really doesn’t get better.
Be Good Tanyas - Broken Telephone It’s easy...
What my mother thinks of my life in NYC (or a...
Me: It wasn't the BEST day.
Mom: You know there aren't any bad days..it is always good to wake up each morning and see the sun....WORK SUCKS!!!!!!
Me: yeah i mean everything is so up in the air right now.
Mom: It is just your microcosm..look beyond. Be the eagle that soars over your life. Namaste. (ed note: I have to assume sarcasm here)
Me: Well right now i feel a little hedged in by my own microcosm
Mom: Well it is fiction or illusion..I live in NM and I see your world totally differently. Do what makes you excited to get up in the morning.
Me: so how do you see my world?
Mom: I see that people in NYC believe that they are in the epicenter. But I think that all of the US is deluded. The energy in the world lies in Asia. (ed note: mom just went to china and is obsessed with asia now).
Me: youre probably right about that
Me: were all just little rats running on our own wheels
Mom: It is odd that you use that analogy...I wrote that I see New Yorkers somewhat like hamsters on a wheel but I decided it was harsh and I deleted it.
Me: its not harsh unfortunately
Mom: Life is short. You need to breath and enjoy the world . You need to value the positive contributions of man (arts and letters) and help the suffering. You need to be able to live and support yourself but that is about it. Deadlines and stress and etc are unimportant unless they work toward something of value.
AND SCENE. (and btw...arts and letters? i love my mother.)
Why are all my friends acting elderly?
adam: i don't keep those verkakte hours!
adam: by 8:15 i will be in bed with eustice tilly
“But sometimes they just think too deeply about stuff. Sometimes your fans are...”
– Andre 3000 to Complex (link) (via davidcho) Was just talking to my friend Greg the other day about how the kiddos ask him about the deeper meaning behind his band’s lyrics, and the real answer is, “sometimes there is none.”
You can love your house. Just don't LOVE your...
Apparently, people are hiring professional photographers (along the lines of Todd Eberle) to shoot their homes (ala high end shelter magazines) for hanging on the walls or binding in self-indulgent coffee table books. I smell a trend piece! My faves is Ms. Julia Butler who says, “Much in the way you might have portraits of your children taken, we wanted the same quality in a photograph of our...
Ghosthustler-Only Me to Trust. Ok, so Texas’...
jacksonpollock.org →
jstn:via Josh so fun.
Cristina, full of grace
Cristina: don't talk about your job on dates
that is lame.
think about what "stuffwhitepeoplelike" might recommend, you know
talk about hiking and shit
and how beautiful the sky is
and how the lunar eclipse moved you to tears
i think i'm gonna try to talk about my latina studies on this next date
and see how he deals
The 1900s - Two Ways Not to be confused with the...
Beat the Devil →
Ok, so here’s a band that you ought to be listening to in 2008. Their frontwoman, Shilpa Ray, is intense and scary and rad and pretty much a spirituals singer. You know, in the church sense. Start with Plea Bargain.
Cotillion Blues →
Our boys recorded their new (old) song for rcrdlbl and it is available here. This was the song that made me really fall in love with White Rabbits. It sounds like being whiskey drunk in a saloon with all your friends. They are one of the only modern bands I know that play with such precise abandon.
Stuff White People Like
There are a few websites that friends direct me to and I wonder how I lived without them for so long. This is one such site.
Sort of want one of these today. →
