June 2011
3 posts
wise words from vyvy →
“What makes you angry?
the usual: missing the previews, winning being valued...”
– angry reader of the week: beau sia | angry asian man
hell yeah, beau!
May 2011
3 posts
ACL 2011 →
from nas to ray lamontagne to mavis staples to stevie wonder to gillian welch to empire of the sun, there are a whole lot of bands i would be thrilled to see.
“Google thinks its new music service is completely legal, but that doesn’t mean...”
– The Record Industry Is “Pissed” About Google Music (GOOG)
April 2011
4 posts
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
March 2011
3 posts
What Jay-Z and Stephen Sondheim Have in Common -... →
both treat the search for external gratification, whether romantic or material, as an aspect of the search for self. Many of Sondheim’s shows, from Company to Passion are clear-eyed assessments of how people use their relationships to complete themselves, and how little love resolves; the hustlers that populate Jay-Z’s songs have only become more voracious, and more angst-plagued, as...
Cat vs Internet - The Oatmeal →
kitty love!
February 2011
2 posts
Watchbruce lee, artist and philosopher. i’m inspired and humbled.
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
4 posts
2 tags
WatchMorning in kaua’i: cockadoodledoo!
The Arcade Fire and indie record labels : The New... →
July 2010
4 posts
six items or less for a month →
Shoppers on a ‘Diet’ Tame the Urge to Buy -... →
June 2010
5 posts
“Reading. Writing. The humanities. It’s the Fallacy of Merely Existing. F.M.E.”
LENNY HEARTS EUNICE
by Gary Shteyngart
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/06/14/100614fi_fiction_shteyngart?currentPage=all#ixzz0qwbalpBn
How does visual delivery of music affect your freedom of interpretation? Eddie Vedder: “Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual...
May 2010
3 posts
2 tags
Dream: I’m having a party at my house and anthony bourdain shows up for a voice lesson. Apparently I forgot. The piano is in the living room, so I try to make all the party guests move to the kitchen. I’m getting anxious because I don’t want to keep AB waiting, but these stoned hipsters and rockers keep wandering in through other doors. I try to make a sign but can’t...
April 2010
7 posts
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moving to the west coast
in june, i will be moving to San Francisco with my sweetheart (a term i prefer to unmarried partner) and my cat. after spending a fair number of years both in the midwest and on the east coast, we’re ready to see if the grass is really greener (i already know that at least the arugula is fresher). my heart is torn about leaving new york, our home for the last three years, source of so much...
March 2010
4 posts
“Once you learn how to think about art, you can teach yourself,”
– How Lady Gaga Became the World’s Biggest Pop Star — New York Magazine
February 2010
5 posts
“Once someone deci des, they almost always suc ceed”
– linchpin: ten questions for seth godin | Gapingvoid
“So I’ve experienced the feedback you get when you draw a map, and it’s nice, but...”
– linchpin: ten questions for seth godin | Gapingvoid
Corner Café: Finger Painting : The New Yorker →
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
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