August 2010
5 posts
Aug 11th
French Words With No English Translation
meredithbklyn: joyengel: Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country. La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active. Profiter: To make the most of or take advantage of. Flâneur: As defined in the book Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals, it’s “the deliberately aimless...
Aug 8th
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Lineup Revealed! →
meredithbklyn: excitement for Lincoln Center
Aug 4th
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Aug 4th
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American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity →
Exhibition at the Met, May 5th - August 15th, Audio Guide featuring Sarah Jessica Parker
Aug 1st
July 2010
13 posts
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Jul 31st
Jul 28th
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Sean Lennon at Klub Ikra, Moscow, Russia, March...
3.5/5 The crowd gathered for Sean Lennon’s first show in Moscow’s Klub Ikra (translation: Club Caviar) is an appropriate arrangement of beer-swigging youths in Yoko Ono t-shirts and deliberately blasé old-school Beatles fans in their mid 40s and 50s. Sean is all smiles in his fedora hat and signature large glasses as he makes his way onstage and does the obligatory “Thank you for having us”...
Jul 25th
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Sonic Youth at B1 MAXIMUM, Moscow, Russia, June...
2.5/5 Legendary Sonic Youth’s second visit to Russia’s capital was cause for major excitement among Moscow’s youth, to say the least. To be fair, the 150 foot lineup outside one of the city’s most popular venues, B1 MAXIMUM, was not only made up of hipster youth, but middle-aged musos who, unlike the youngsters surrounding them, remember rocking out to “Bad Moon Rising” during Sonic Youth’s...
Jul 25th
ThisIsFakeDIY.co.uk has deleted my gig reviews...
Jul 25th
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Jul 15th
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I Write Like →
apowerfulbeat: eighties-fan: This told me I write like Kurt Vonnegut. I was told I write like Stephen King. Whatever. A lot of people like Stephen King and Stephen King likes Josh Ritter. For the beginning of my most recent untitled short story it said Edgar Allan Poe. For I Once Loved A Man In Brooklyn it said Chuck Palahniuk. 
Jul 14th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 8th
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Jul 7th
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June 2010
9 posts
Jun 29th
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Jun 19th
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Last Sunday I woke up and made my way to Woking from Knightsbridge via Waterloo Station. Why did I go to Woking when I can look up and see Camden, turn left and see Brick Lane, or hop a few steps and be on Oxford Circus? My friend Anna is in rehab there. She has completed eighteen weeks and will leave the confines of Life Works in three days. She is happy to leave, but devastated about what may...
Jun 14th
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Jun 13th
The Machine Room →
Jun 13th
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ListenSurfacing by Chapel Club
Jun 13th
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Jun 4th
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May 2010
9 posts
“The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being...”
– Curtis Sittenfeld (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book) (via theseviolentdelights)
May 30th
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May 30th
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May 29th
ned hepburn: On being happy.  →
You will never find true happiness in the way other people view you; only, really, yourself.  Wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, parent, boss - mean nothing. You are here on this planet to do what works for you. This is your journey. It’s an amazing thing to have a companion to share in your successes, but those are not by any means a God given right.  The cycle will always continue, and every...
May 25th
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“Quod tu es, ego fui, quod ego sum, tu eris. I was once that which you are, and...”
– Masaccio, 1425-27, The Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors
May 7th
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders. - Goya
May 7th
Best Coast is like a surfer/shoegaze version of The Crystals or Shangri-Las or something - lyrically just as sweetly naive as 60s girl groups.
May 3rd
ListenSo Gone by Best Coast You say that you never want...
May 3rd
May 3rd
May 1st
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April 2010
10 posts
“There will be days when you’ll look at your hands and you’ll want to take...”
– ayn rand  (via lovegeneration)
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 18th
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via dependingonperspectives)
Apr 15th
Apr 14th
Titus Andronicus
Ultimate college rock show. I’ll be seeing YOU again. And maybe joining in the mosh this time.
Apr 14th
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March 2010
2 posts
Mar 17th
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Inexplicable
(Circa 2007) Slowly but deliberately I flicked the mobile of little airplanes hanging inexplicably from Jackson’s low bedroom ceiling. In three hours we had smoked five packs of cigarettes between us, eaten five liquorice sticks, and taken five photos each. I never got anything done with Jackson around, but he gives me something, just one little waste-of-time something to get my mind off my...
Mar 11th
February 2010
7 posts
The Perpetual Self: Girl Buried Alive for Being a... →
… First, let me say this: the brutalization of women and girls cuts across all religious and cultural boundaries, so this isn’t just about dis-‘honor’ killings, though few things are more heinous than a father murdering his daughter (after dispassionately discussing it with other family…
Feb 24th
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