August 2008
23 posts
“This isn’t a flip-flop. It’s a sex-change operation.”
– “Is John McCain Stupid?” 31 July 2008, Wall Street Journal
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth...
July 2008
66 posts
Did Ann believe in God? Obama calls his mother “an agnostic.” “I think she believed in a higher power,” he says. “She believed in the fundamental order and goodness of the universe. She would have been very comfortable with Einstein’s theory that God doesn’t play dice. But I think she was suspicious of the notion that one particular organized religion...
slydial - direct to Voicemail! →
(via ttw) I don’t know why no one else saw this, but hello, the solution to our problem of last week. Dial this number, then dial the number you want, and be connected directly to their voicemail. Hallelujah!
this is the greatest thing to happen to communication since the cell phone.
“Whatever You Like” - T.I. my new...
“When you’re so focused on what you don’t have, you won’t have.”
– Kanye West
nice one, tyfo
tyler: what's brown and rhymes w/ snoop?
me: .......
me: ?
tyler: dr. dre
from The Song of the Lark, 1915
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that it was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which...
Guaranteed to make you smarter... →
samberesford:
….or your ignorance back!
For Hans Carossa
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has shape in the kingdom of transformation When something’s let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us, its marvelous, unbroken curve.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
“To most people, the saying ‘to use someone’ carries a negative...”
– Kanye West via lateboots
whiskey river: truths in bulk
just caught up on my feeds and Whiskey River was so.. Incredible the last few days, that I had to devote an entry to them. read truths:
“We say you cannot divert the river from the river bed. We say that everything is moving, and we are a part of this motion. That the soil is moving. That the water is moving. We say that the earth draws water to her from the clouds. We say the rainfall...
I Hear Dead People
samberesford:
This week’s installment of the The Exchange features nothing but folks that we wish may R.I.P. As usual, it can be listened to on Muxtape, and/or downloaded for eternity at zSHARE.
OJ | You’re Nobody (‘Til Somebody Kills You) - Notorious B.I.G. Cye | 30 - J Dilla Sam | Touch of Grey - The Grateful Dead Marcia | Just in Time - Nina Simone Jen | The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix...
Watchha. - “are you even listening to me?” .. “No.”
+ via vsb.com. arrivederci, baby
m-in-e:
seekandfind:
I Get A Kick Out Of You -...
len: christian bale was arrested
me: WHAT?!?!?!?!
len: for beating his mother and sister?!?
len: fuck man
len: i know it was harvey dent, he's taking the blame
me: gotham needs its white knight
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
– Henry Rollins
“You’ll Find a Way” - Santogold....
letting go..
When I was a kid, I fell from a tree.. but I managed to hold on to a branch..
I was up there for a long time and waited.. the silence, the pain in my arms.. the blood pumping in my ears.. then I fell.
couldn’t remember what happened when I hit the ground. all I could remember was, the agony of holding on and the wonderful feeling of letting go..
+ Unknown
“Deal with the consequences of your actions, ‘cause life ain’t no...”
– Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka & Toshihiro Kawabata
“We are the echo of the future
On the door it says what to do to survive
But we...”
– W.S. Merwin The River of Bees
tuneage:
Velvet Underground - “Sunday Morning”
...
“My last girlfriend used to play Wii. She actually really liked Mario Kart. Then...”
– Etan
“I’m like a nice little juice box…. with vodka.”
– Ami
“… a heart can be broken, but a soul keeps beating just the same.”
– Fannie Flagg
“After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and...”
– Unknown
COVERS. so nice they had to make it twice
Sometimes.. not often but sometimes, you get a cover of a song that is just as good, or even, dare I say it, better than the original. It took me a bit of time, but I put together a small collection of some of my favorite do-overs. Muxtape: COVERS. so nice they had to make it twice
No Ordinary Love - Deftones [Sade | 1992]
Satisfaction - Cat Power [The Rolling Stones | 1965]
Lithium -...
“The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and...”
– Allan Chalmers
happiness
..is listening to The Blow radio station on Pandora, and MIA coming on. It’s like Pandora knows just what I need.
I am feeling this way this morning about the Al Green station. A 1967 live Otis Redding cut of “I Been Loving You Too Long?” STOP IT.
“If you can’t solve it, it isn’t a problem - it’s Reality. And sometimes reality...”
– Unknown
Watchtrust me, watch it. way to love what you do little guy
“I always tell the girls… never take it seriously. If ya never take it seriously...”
– Penny Lane Almost Famous
“Modern Guilt” - Beck. I’m...
“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
– Barbra Streisand
The Exchange.005 | JORGE!
This one is close to my heart.. in honor of our esteemed colleague’s birthday, George, here’s The Exchange.005 | JORGE!
A few tracks picked for a variety of reasons: some for the obvious, some for the memories, and some simply because we thought he’d enjoy.
Get it while it’s hot: Muxtape & Zshare
Jen | Can’t C Me - Tupac feat. George Clinton OJ | King George...
Watch“Spazz” - N.E.R.D. my Boys are Back in a big way.
(I love "N.E.R.D. Pharrell" so much better than "GQ Pharrell") + via Kanye West
Watch“Everybody” - Fonzworth Bentley. so fresh. so clean.
feat. Andre 3000, Kanye West & SA-RA
+ via LateBoots
“Although I’ve seen your wickedness
I still love your effervescence”
– Res
Truman Capote & Marilyn Monroe in a (possibly...
TC: Poor innocent me. And all this time I thought you were a bona fide blonde.
MM: I am. But nobody's that natural. And incidentally, fuck you.
TC: Now do you think we can get the hell out of here? You promised me champagne, remember?
MM: I remember. But I don't have any money.
TC: You're always late and you never have any money. By any chance are you under the delusion that you are Queen Elizabeth?
MM: What's that cunt got to do with it?
TC: Queen Elizabeth never carries money either. She's not allowed to. Filthy lucre must not stain the royal palm. It's a law or something.
MM: I wish they'd pass a law like that for me.
TC: Keep going the way you are and maybe they will.
MM: Remember, I said if anybody ever asked you what I was like, what Marilyn Monroe was really like-well, how would you answer them? I bet you'd tell them I was a slob. A banana split.
TC: Of course. But I'd also say you are a beautiful child.