January 2012
28 posts
December 2011
24 posts
Andrea Mantegna’s Lamentation of Christ
…The Mariano of the Marriott…
Shouts to Frank McCourt
And the time me and high school buddy Kevin Lynch randomly drove by a Frank McCourt reading and pulled over, five or ten years ago. We had read Angela’s Ashes in high school English together and ‘Tis or Teacher Man had just come out. McCourt was super charming, obviously!
Shouts to Frank Conroy
My faith in the firmness of time slips away gradually. I begin to believe that chronological time is an illusion and that some other principle organizes existence. My memories flash like clips of film from unrelated movies. I wonder, suddenly, if I am alive. I know I’m not dead, but am I alive? I look into the memories for reassurance, searching for signs of life.
I read this paperback...
Rineke Dijkstra
Productivity Music
I’ve been hanging out at the Dipset Trance Party for >10.4 hrs since downloading it 30 hours ago. Still going strong. Can’t wait for vacation next week, I’m going to ride around in the car with my brother late night listening to this. Shouts to NY.
Haiku
Sophia the Brogrammer / Broet kills it on the regular.
THOUGHTS IS RASKOLNIKOV
“I simply hinted that the extraordinary man has the right… that it is not an official, but an inner right to decide in his own conscience to overstep… certain obstacles, and only in case it is essential for the practical fulfillment of his idea (sometimes, perhaps, of benefit to the whole humanity)… In short, I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to...
Bar fight!
Here it is Mom! Accompanying caption from Ted: “Guess which eye!” Shouts to Ted and his nascent 2nd head.
Waiting for Superman
Now streaming on the Netflix, highly recommended. It features a girl who won the genetic lottery in one sense — she is incredibly smart, motivated, and ambitious. I think these traits correlate with happiness. But she lost the genetic lottery in that she was born into the wrong family and this documentary captures and contextualizes the exact moment at which her progress in life stops. Its...
Money on the Wall
“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up and hang it on the wall.” - Andy Warhol in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Recommended). I remember reading that book in college in the Taco Bell that no longer exists on 125th Street and Broadway.
Fab.com loves Andy Warhol. I want to sell Fab.com sleeves like...
Bill Cunningham
The Bill Cunningham documentary on Netflix is fantastic. Bill Cunningham is the guy who takes the “On The Street” photographs for New York Time’s Sunday Styles. He’s kind of like Scott Schuman of the Sartorialist…except Schuman went on the Conde Nast payroll and has been developing/monetizing his brand. Deals were done! Bill Cunningham, by contrast, makes a point of...
