January 2011
56 posts
WatchYES. David Brent meets Michael Scott.
NY Mag's 21 Questions with Genesis P-Orridge →
Best part:
What makes someone a New Yorker? Tolerance. A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite, though no longer thriving, alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or in those of the greatest egos, to be “the next Andy Warhol.
Watchminhagalera:
Sappy wedding videos/images are such a guilty pleasure for me.
Awwwwwww, they are both so lovely!
Jeever Madness: On Re-Reading The Namesake →
jeevermadness:
Living with a pet name and a good name, in a place where such distinctions do not exist—surely that was emblematic of the greatest confusion of all. (118)
After re-reading this novel for the umpteenth time, I still feel deeply attached and personally indebted to this book. Even after…
Rajiv, you are so good at writing.
Nadia Myre's Indian Act →
If my incessant tumbling(?) hasn’t clued you in…I had a great time at the American Indian museum this past weekend!
Alan Michelson - Mespat →
I REALLY wish I could find a picture of Alan Michelson’s Mespat at the American Indian museum…it was so beautiful, GO SEE IT! Video projection on a screen of feathers.
Douglas Miles, Apache Artist →
Some friends from high school visited, we went to the American Indian museum to get fry bread, and I discovered that there are some amazing contemporary artists of Native descent…Douglas Miles’ skateboards were really cool but I’m having a hard time finding good pictures of those pieces..
Mark Landis, Prolific Art Forger →
crazy article in the NY Times - this guy was doing it for fun, it seems, not money.
lolz
Christine and Afia are reminiscing about xanga on facebook and I found mine and I have to say:
Maryse, it is SUCH a lovefest to you.
E.g.:
“38. Who was the best new person you met? MARYSE [not really, but I just felt like mentioning her]”
Love you boo.
Also, I REALLY hated chemistry. and SATs, lolz forever.
One Song. One Take. One Cab. →
My cousin posted a video of Beach House performing in a rock on a beach and it sent me onto a mad hunt for all of the “musicians performing in an unusual or interesting situation” videos I’ve seen and I remembered the Black Cab Sessions! The Lykke Li one from a couple of years ago is good, didn’t see it on the main page but it’s definitely still on youtube.
Hello My Friends
officialbeastieboys:
While I’m grateful for all the positive energy people are sending my way, reports of my being totally cancer free are exaggerated.
I’m continuing treatment, staying optimistic and hoping to be cancer free in the near future.
Dammit. Well, spoke too soon :( Although who knew they had a tumblr?!?
Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass,... →
From this article:
“We either live together, or we die together,” was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with first floating the “human shield” idea.
Among those shields were movie stars Adel Imam and Yousra, popular preacher Amr Khaled, the two sons of...
MCA of the Beastie Boys = Cancer Free! →
Woooo my fave Beastie has a clean bill of health. Now, boys, let’s get that album out!!
“I’m a huge Justin Bieber fan. I’m a “Belieber.” Sometimes I’ll drop his track....”
– -DJ Pauly D, in an interview with NY Mag, on surprising music he’s into
My boy Pauly is good people! How can anyone hate?
A closer look at the fabricated "data" that led... →
kellyzen:
“The series of articles launched Wednesday are investigative journalism, not results of a clinical study. The writer, Brian Deer, said Wakefield “chiseled” the data before him, ‘falsifying medical histories of children and essentially concocting a picture, which was the picture he was contracted to find by lawyers hoping to sue vaccine manufacturers and to create a vaccine scare.’”
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“It’s all cut-and-dry identity politics. ‘Is he straight or is he gay?’ Or, ‘This...”
– James Franco.
@walkoutofhermind. (You like Franco, right?)
I LOVE Franco. This is amazing.
“Finally the moment would arrive to tackle the Shakespearean question: should he...”
– Patti Smith, on page 119 of her memoir Just Kids, writing about Robert Mapplethorpe and his getting ready to go out routine
“I don’t wear dainty jewelry. I like to be a little over the top.”
– Nicole Richie, in Lucky magazine’s February 2011 issue. PREACH IT SISTA
