January 2011
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2010 Lessons Learned
Event: Dog killer Michael Vick is back in professional football. Although this may have happened in 2009.
Lesson Learned: Though it has some serious competition, the National Football League is the most evil corporation in America. State of Incorporation: probably New York or Delaware.
Event: Guru died.
Lesson Learned: The midnight girls really were whispering of escapades out on the D...
December 2010
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Smog/Bill Callahan - I Feel like the Mother of the...
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Kaddish
In mourning for myself, I did nothing for a year that reminded me of my personality. I read religious tracts (I am a non-believer); traveled the world (I am agoraphobic); wrote novels (I am inarticulate); and sang songs (I am tone deaf). At the end of the year, I mended my clothes and resumed my personality. But I was now a public figure, famous for my singing, my novels, my travels, and my...
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Julian Casablancas - I’ll Try Anything Once...
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The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Obviously the...
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Ravens & Chimes - Division Street
(Great...
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“This is real like The Hills was real.”
– Dreadi on emusic re: Kayne West’s new album.
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Rocking the Opera: Renée Fleming comes to Lyric in... →
Curiously, Fleming was amplified during her second encore at Sunday’s “Subscriber Appreciation Concert,” a schmaltzy, orchestral arrangement—complete with back-beat—of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” where Fleming took a microphone and used a chesty, non-operatic low voice as if she were a singer in a club.
A handful of orchestra members and audience members alike were having a hard time knowing...
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“The screenplay is a structure that wants to be another structure.”
– Pasolini. Quoted here.
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Fucking Lesson in the Passive Voice
Evening:
She: (returning home) I parked at a meter. Didn’t want to look for a spot. I’ll move it in the morning.
Him: I’ll move it.
Morning:
Him: (via text) The car was moved.
She: (via text) By you?
Him: By the way, yes. I moved the car.
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2010 Year End Lists: Stuart McLamb, The Love... →
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Local hotel gets rock ’n’ roll reputation →
The child of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love likely was conceived on the fourth floor of the Days Inn [at Clark and Diversey] as Charles R. Cross hints in his biography Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain.
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WatchHigh Highs - Open Season. Some great footage in this video. (via)
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Jukebox the Ghost - Good Day
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The National - City Middle
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Walmart Frightens Lake View →
Walmart had signed a letter of intent to build a new store at Broadway and Surf Street, near the site of the Dominick’s that burned down in 2005.
If you want to talk frightened, what about Crazy Chickens: Organic Food Made Fast!
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Imaginary Wednesday with real toadstools in it
Walk from Magnolia to Berwyn between Broadway and Clark in the memory of my feelings.
Unlimited space on unlimited poster boards. Wisdom in that liminal space between the paper and the presentation.
My grandfather appears as a cop of a ghost and frisks me. His two questions: Are you hiding cocaine in your record player? Otherwise, why would you have one?
A dark club. Older Greenpoint....
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New Strokes LP →
twentyfourbit:
Now that we know the Strokes have finally completed recording sessions for their first LP since 2006’s First Impressions of Earth, details are starting to emerge about their long-awaited follow-up. Earlier this year, they entered NYC’s Avatar Studios (and even posted some fun footage…
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“When Christ began
He had the cross in mind
All along”
– Bukowski
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A Limited Degree
As soon as I understood (even to a limited degree) that this is G-d’s world I began to lose weight immediately At this very moment I am wearing my hockey uniform from the Sixth Grade
Leonard Cohen, from Book of Longing.
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Tenderly Caressed Sucked Licked and Spanked
I don’t think I’ve ever been on better terms with myself or ever written better than when I was fifteen every day I used to commit several pages of pornographic writing before going to bed only, only for personal use.
I don’t know if you can imagine what went on in those little tales but I can tell you that in their every word I was tenderly caressed sucked licked and spanked by...
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Jamoraquai - Virtual Insanity
[For Gawker’s...
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“We understand how important trust is on the internet.”
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Gawker Comment Accounts Compromised — Important Email 12/13/10
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Diplos 50 Hot Girl Tumblrs →
http://purrrr.tumblr.com/ mad cats dunno if its a girl but fuc it.. i think tumblr is only for girls and gays which is all good you know
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How Ludlow Can You Go? Max Fish and Pink Pony,... →
Last time I was in New York I said to my friend: “Max Fish is not going to even be there. Watch. Watch. It’s got to be gone.”
It wasn’t gone. And soon it will be.
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The Neighbor
The neighbor said, “But seriously, who is it you’re writing these for? Surely you have an audience in mind.” I thought about it carefully, I did, but ended up repeating almost word for word what I had already said, which was that the poems were written for me, or for readers who were exactly the same person as I was. I said I couldn’t imagine any other person. I said I...
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“To those people always talking about “surrealism”
can I suggest...”
– Michael Earl Craig
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Benjamin on Newspapers
The newspaper is an instrument of power. It can derive its value only from the character of the power it serves; not only in what it represents, but also in what it does, it is the expression of this power. If, however, high capitalism defiles not only the ends but also the means of journalism, then a new blossoming of paradisiac, cosmic humanity can no more be expected of a power that defeats it...
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At Pretzel Hut
He is fat, shaved bald, kind looking.
He wears a coarse robe and sandals.
He is Buddha.
We’re in line at the mall, at Pretzel Hut.
He’s turned to me to ask for a nickel.
He works next door at Enlightened Lotions.
Buddha gets paid to mill around the mall
and hand out samples. His breath stinks
like an ashtray. Spring jasmine ashtray.
Michael Earl Craig, from...
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2010 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar →
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Elitist revolutionary strutting →
“The Coming Insurrection” was greeted by two of Germany’s leading feuilletons as exhiliarating, important left-wing theory. But it is an anti-modern, right-wing re-import. The only thing that is new about this patchwork nonsense is that the feuilletons are applauding.
This is bad. Although ”Imperialism of Relativism” is a very cool phrase.
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“Art is not a making-oneself-understood but an urgent understanding-of-oneself.”
– Rilke, from Letters on Life collection.
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