June 2009
18 posts
Um.
“JaQuel Knight, Choreographer of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies,” to Teach One-Day-Only Master Classes at The Ailey Extension.”
Reason’s I wish I could dance, #56789. Thanks press releases.
45 Pictures of Boy Bands →
What were we thinking, guys?
“I keep picturing Carrie Bradshaw on the High Line, and it terrifies me.”
– Nicolai Ouroussoff in the Times, using a great lead from the Big-In-2004 department.
meltzer:
I really loved this part: ”Writers always envy artists, would trade places with them in a moment if they could. The painter’s life seems less ascetic, less monkish, less hunched. Instead of the austere mess of the desk there is the chaos of the studio: dirty coffee cups, paint-smudged cassette decks, drawings of the artist’s girlfriend, naked, on the walls… In the age of the computer...
Mirah-The Garden
“I couldn’t determine what the conflict was, but it was probably something along...”
– Cintra Wilson, on sale shoe shoppin’ at Barneys. (via Renata)
“The thing that transforms something from being an idea to being a physical...”
– Well, the Dirty P. just got a lot more famous. Lots of good quotes in here, and Bjork being as batty/superlative as usual.
Watchpre-durst:
A decade later, pawing through the wistful mists of time, here’s what I’ve decided: I don’t like this band, and I don’t like this song, but I love listening to this song. Which is to say: I dislike it in the abstract, and I dislike its consituent parts, but I love when it’s actually put in my ears. Watching these guys raindance around somebody’s backyard in Arizona and wiggle their...
WatchOracular Spectacular.
Driving gloves, a t-shirt made into a vest, a Victorian ruff cuff and five pieces of neckwear?
How is this even a contest?
