December 2009
35 posts
Stuff other people seem to like that I do not:
1) Natalie Portman (and Garden State, for that matter. Fuck that movie.)
2) Repo! The Genetic Opera (for teenagers that shop at Hot Topic and don’t know what RHPS is.)
3) Posting pictures of emaciated, pompous hipsters on one’s Tumblr (Perhaps through a strange, sad desire to be like them. Newsflash: they are not original/edgy, neither...
My very talented friend Leia Jospe did a sort of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
The Black Keys (13)
Taylor Swift (5)
Mellow Owl (1)
Dr. Dog (1)
Beirut (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“Many people feel depression is about emptiness, but actually it’s about...”
– Sarah Kane
“I have hills far steeper to climb, valleys much darker to pass through. And I...”
– From Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
“Times are not good here, the city is crumbing into ashes.
It has been buried...”
– Lafcadio Hearn, writing about New Orleans 1877
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Interpol (23)
BB Brunes (16)
The Beatles (16)
Lady GaGa (10)
The Veils (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
WatchA short film made in 1976 by Claude Lelouch, showing a high speed drive through Paris.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
The Virgins (9)
Beirut (7)
David Bowie (2)
Bat for Lashes (1)
The Veils (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dirty Valentine- Richard Siken
There are so many things I’m not allowed to tell you. I touch myself, I dream. Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks. The musicians start the overture while I hide behind the microphone, trying to match the dubbing to the big lips shining down from the screen....
Fifty People One Question: New Orleans, LA →
Before the end of today, what would you wish to happen?