June 2009
Besides, it's always other people who die
meganmcisaac:
“The rage and self-loathing associated with hipsters has become more annoying, more naive, and more artificial than hipsters could ever hope to be. After all, in the rubble of this fury, what remains for artists and bohemians who are legitimately trying to be part of a counterculture? You get the sense that if Jimi Hendrix were to show up in Echo Park today, he’d be publicly mocked...
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
Willie Nelson (with Johnny...
Watch“Dance Me to the End of Love (live)” by Leonard Cohen
Watch“All This Useless Beauty” by Elvis Costello
krispayne:
I want a girl that I can get drunk at a baseball game with and she won’t glare at me, she’ll high five and click that goddamn bottle
I married this girl, though you have to substitute Baldur’s Gate and porch drinkin’ for baseball game. Seven years later, life still rocks.
By the way
Dilhole seems a perfect moniker for about 70% of people on the Internet.
How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains →
Here’s the real take-away quote:
‘“The result is that chain restaurants like Chili’s cook up “hyper-palatable food that requires little chewing and goes down easily,” he notes. And Dr. Kessler reports that the Snickers bar, for instance, is “extraordinarily well engineered.” As we chew it, the sugar dissolves, the fat melts and the caramel traps the peanuts so the entire...
Any way to temporarily hide people in your...
I like the people I follow; I really do. But I’m tired of seeing photographs of Michael Jackson.
There’s better art in the world than a dead superstar’s visage. He had his day. Let’s move on.
pete tarslaw's 16 rules of novel writing
csessums:
rule 1: abandon truth.
rule 2: write a popular book. do not waste energy making it a good book.
rule 3: include nothing from [one’s] own life.
rule 4: must include a murder.
rule 5: must include a club, secrets / mysterious missions, shy characters, characters whose lives are changed suddenly, surprising love affairs, women who’ve given up on love but turn out to be...
snapshot: quick questions with CKCK →
C: Actually, I feel that I hadn’t found my photographic “voice” until I moved to New York City, so I actually have no idea how I’ll fare back in Sweden. I think I’ll do just fine, I think the things that interest me as a photographer can be found in any country or culture, but I do also agree that coming from a different background helps you look at things a little differently than someone who...
R.I.P everyone else in this world who died today...
meganmcisaac:
(via reneelilley)
I don't know if you know this, but...
…there are a lot of people still alive.
Does anyone else have to explain Tumblr to other...
vela:
I’ve explained it at least 5 times this past month. I don’t know why I think it’s always going to go over really well. They all stop listening after I say “micro-blogging.”
I’m a pro at explaining Internet things but haven’t had to explain Tumblr yet to anyone. 18 months from now, if it continues to be popular, people will finally start asking me about it.
“Downtown Train” by Tom Waits
topherchris:
Radiohead — Creep
This is one of...
“he can speak french - in russian.
he is the most interesting man in the world.”
– the dos equis commercial i just saw (via scarletautumn)
Perhaps one of my all-time favorite lines.
on notice
Your first sentence should kick my ass.
It takes just a second to look at a shitty photograph. Minutes to wade through a shitty blog post of 250 words.
I’m not reading crap any more. The minutes in my days are too precious. You have to win me at the start and keep it up ‘til the end.
Put This Polaroid of Amanda in Your Pocket, You've... →
(via louobedlam)
Lou’s not lying. It’s amazing what happens when a talented, practiced photographer meets a talented, practiced model.
“Sometimes I think of my blog as my mantlepiece, with a clock and some knick...”
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<3 (via jasonpermenter)
Note to self: totally steal this idea (I also love the idea of blog as mantle)