February 2011
January 2011
“Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without...”
– Robert M. Pirsig (via suzywire)
Cities & Memory 2
When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Fleet Foxes (18)
The Beatles (18)
Big Boi (9)
Bob Dylan (5)
Beck (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I drink too much and I smoke too much, so everyday I google and check if Keith...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via littlesparrow)
first world problem
No matter how lightly I try to pack for breaks, the home front always sends me back to school with way too many souvenirs (75% of which are shoes, 50% of which are heels I’ll never get to wear because—let’s face it—my lifestyle just isn’t that stylin’). I’m gonna have to pull a Sisyphus trying to roll the damn suitcase up the Berkeley hills tomorrow. All...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
The Black Keys (43)
Cat Power (15)
Harlem (14)
Das Racist (3)
Matt & Kim (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior →
Found in today’s Wall Street Journal via my friend Sarah: An excerpt from Yale professor of law Amy Chua’s new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. I feel like if Dr. Chua met my mom, they would instantly become biffles and braid each other’s hair/share rice cookers. (Except for that noise about being in school plays—what is that all about)?
tentativelytitled:
pantherhooves:
psychological trauma: staying wide awake while your dentist extracts three of your wisdom teeth—sawing one of them in half—by pushing and drilling and sucking up with a sinister white tube all the bloody pulp while you listen to strange cracking and ripping sounds and imagine all the carnage. and then all he prescribes for the looming pain is gauze. GAUZE.
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psychological trauma: staying wide awake while your dentist extracts three of your wisdom teeth—sawing one of them in half—by pushing and drilling and sucking up with a sinister white tube all the bloody pulp while you listen to strange cracking and ripping sounds and imagine all the carnage. and then all he prescribes for the looming pain is gauze. GAUZE.
Watchvertebrates:
purplecheetos:
250.000 multicoloured balls bouncing down the streets of San Francisco
MAGIC
“Don’t be alarmed.”
– Janine, one minute into my 21st birthday, as she pulls a surprise bottle of Bacardi out of her bag.
consequence of sound: "blues crunch" →
The Black Keys are going to be remembered as one of the bands in this time that brought rock back to the basics. (That is if Jack White wishes to share that accolade.) Their songs are well written, their instrumentation is spot-on, and it’s music that comes from two dudes who clearly know what they are doing. Brothers stands proudly with Plastic Beach, Contra, and This is Happening as a release...
unicornology:
all my friends (london session) by...