February 2008
56 posts
loved this vice video with kanye west →
i am often jealous of style choices i feel like i can’t pull-off because of my whiteness… kanye speaks to the different advantages of the races - apparently you can’t wear shoes with holes in them if you’re black, we, by contrast, can’t wear red leather jackets or chains. … also love the end, when he’s talking about how you can’t learn if you...
“Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
And, sorry, all those romantic...”
– chuck close
Watchummmm
Watchi’d be so intimidated if i came across one of these monsters on the slopes… FREEKY.
“How’s my hair look, Mike?”
– Snoop, ep. 9 the wire
“When it isn’t going out, getting trashed, and getting laid, the indie crowd is...”
– though cynical, i think that’s a pretty funny quote from this take on radiohead’s influence over the last 10 years. the review is written in the same high-handed & authoritative voice but, despite the strained tone, it has some interesting bits.
this was the euroJAM (tm) from summer...
“While in a van driving to Philadelphia to pick up a new drug shipment, the radio...”
– from jetsetjunta on heaven & here. best scenes from the wire write-up.
“Humility & Design haven’t gone together since the publication of The...”
– William McDonough in this great talk at TED. (I’ve been listening to these like a feigned while working.)
Watchludd… view.
“there should be some sort of institutionalized goodwill or maybe just a cash...”
me: once jay left me at a water park with 10 dollars for 5 hours
me: it took me 20 minutes to run out of money
Joe: haha, are you serious?
me: i am
Joe: was it at Raging Rivers?
me: someplace in colorado
Joe: that is great
me: i was 9
Joe: I figure one of three thought paths:
1) he had no idea how much anything cost & figured 10 bucks would get you by
2) he only had 10 dollars, and didn't feel like getting more
3) he wanted to instill in you a sense of thriftiness....as if to say, you know what, maybe I don't need that third bomb pop from the ice cream stand
Joe: I like to think all three went through his mind
“everyday you should do at least one thing that makes you feel uncomfortable.”
“the essence of democracy is pushing - and - when we talk about the system of...”
– william vollman, paraphrased from this interview(mp3) on kqed - in which vollman talks about jumping on trains and riding them places. i agree with that sentiment completely. (in the interview he also draws a connection between - the expansive frontier of the american west, having been exhausted,...
“Soooooooo happy to hear from you…. And I couldn’t even type any more...”
– peter
“I think contemporary fiction is divided between those who are still writing...”
– this distinction is really important to me. i think that gass & delillo ride the line between formalism & lyric or romantic narrative. pynchon doesn’t at all… even his flirtations with song in his writing aren’t lyrical at all. i’m a very lyrical reader &...
“But the world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it’s—like...”
– William Gass, interviewed in the believer
“If you please to take it in milke, to a quart, three ounces of Chocolate will be...”
– Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke, by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma (1631), the first published recipe for chocolate drinks.
“Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which...”
– e.e. cummings - quoted by steve martin
“In a college psychology class, I had read a treatise on comedy explaining that a...”
– Steve Martin, talking about his approach to comedy in Smithsonian Magazine.
3191 : a year of evenings →
neat project : two friends - one living in portland, oregon & one in portland, maine - post a photo from their evening each night. previously they posted a year worth’s of photos from the morning, which was turned into a book by princeton architectural press. i like it.
“Right now there’s a lot of futuristic kid shit that’s happening on...”
– Jeff Chang, Talking to DJ Shadow in the Believer.
Lupe Fiasco - Hip Hop Saved My Life. A...