May 2009
“Summers”
from Loney Dear —...
“don’t you wish most scenes were so rich with beauty?”
– a comment on a picture from Barcelona. [flickr] (yes, yes I do.)
WatchPhoenix played at the “other” KEXP studios and now there’s some videos. [KEXP] I should really try to make an effort to listen something other than Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix this summer.
Related: An acceptance of meticulous production and news about the band’s North American tour (oh, to be in Toronto to see Phoenix at the Phoenix…), forthcoming EPs, and digital...
$9 flights between nyc and orlando / toledo /... →
maura:
should be a slight boon for michigan tourism, at least
plus, you’ll be flying on the most scarily patriotic looking bird in the sky.
Pods →
The hotel in Leuven where we met had one of those magic espresso podmachines and tiny cups to keep us all awake and jittery. Investigatingfor personal usage.
other temporary flatmate →
Amazing bit of apartment taxidermy.
Catching the bus from Heathrow Tarmac to SeaTac →
Robobama
Animatronic Obama Going to Disney World. [NYT] I have been to Disney World on several occasions but always (tried and) failed to visit the Hall of Presidents.
crazy horse →
yesterday we went to the market in camden.
s.o.s. →
I don’t know how it happened that I became a person that not only watched but also voted for American Idol.
Every episode of Twin Peaks is on CBS.com
spangley:theduty:boggle: Seriously. All of seasons 1 and 2.
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!?
…worth noting.
whaaaaaat?!?
This means that I can finally see the (allegedly not great) final episodes of the series. Did I ever tell you about how I bought the first series DVDs many years ago and then my housemate got so obsessed that he rented the rest of the episodes on VHS and quickly got so far...
“It was the single worst noise we’ve ever heard on a television and he was...”
– Pareene on last week’s tragic American Idol, which, heaven help me, I seem to be watching regularly this season for the first time. [gawker via maura] (see also, the follow-up [gawker]) (this is all a way of feeling validated about thinking that Allison was robbed by America.)
On the way to brunch before the rain. →
On a clear day you can see forever (broadway in... →
“Laughing at clowns for being clowns.” That’s your koan for the...”
– Daily Intel [nymag] uses a quote from Look at this Fucking Hipster’s interview [gawker] as a jumping-off point to compile a list of things to like non-ironically. (At last, someone is standing up against the toxic spread of false attributions of ironic intent!)
Chicago →
Yesterday we took a boat into the river to look at buildings and betold about flying buttresses and postmodernism. Before that we saw ourselves in monochrome and admired other things that were not entirely real (and some that were — like a glorious wall of reindeer moss — and others, like a projection in mist — that split the difference) at the Olafur Eliasson exhibit.
Later...
We walked to the end of Navy Pier and it started... →
Luckily there was a whole lot of stained glass inside to keep us occupied until the weather blew over.
WatchI’m going to go ahead and reblog this even though I can’t watch it on iPhone. jakeandamir:
Settlers of Catan
Rosemount, the town that conventions built →
For Travelers, Insider Information on the Local... →
yes, my last status update was inspired by this NYT article. AND it actually worked.
“Unlike Chief Justice John Roberts (football star) or Antonin Scalia (lead...”
– Dahlia Lithwick on David Souter, Supreme Court heartbreaker. [slate]
“There are no hipsters, only anti-hipsters - or at least the ratio is...”
– from “A Spectre is Haunting Culture -The Spectre of the Hipster” [zoilus, via Fimoculous]
“All the activity stops on stage and in unison they yell, “THE TIME 100!”
– Joshua David Stein’s imagining of in “The 1,001 Handjobs of Time Magazine’s Time 100” [gawker]. Despite having left Gawker forever more than a year ago, he remains one of the site’s best writers.
sigurros.muxtape.com →
(via jstn)
