December 2009
elizabethamy:
We got back to athens last night at 11. After a chaotic run from passport control to customs to baggage claim to the metro, we made the last metro train by secnds at 11:30. We spent the last days in Istanbul loosing ourselves in back stretets, markets and old mosques. We were still sucessfull and visited: the Jewish Museum, the Istanbul Modern, Topkapi grouunds (not the palace),...
Oh, and did I mention that the album art to The Red and the Black is awesome? Check that shit out.
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“Hey, man, let’s dress up like cops, see what we can get away with.”
Watchdalasverdugo:
3D wireframe…virtual..sound..thing. Incredible. Especially the very end. Via Richard Devine who you should really follow on Twitter for a constant stream of cool stuff like this.
I… uh-huh. He’s right.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Young Marble Giants (42)
Bruce Springsteen (28)
Pete Shelley (17)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions (14)
David Bowie (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Fine—have it your way, you old,...
JUDDERING
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On the Street | Standouts - Video Library - The... →
glynnis:
“Bill Cunningham’s overview of men’s style before it disappears under winter coats: Young men are tweaking classic looks with unexpected color.”
Bill Cunningham is a delight.
My. Goodness.
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I think it’s time I make a mixtape with Andrew W.K. right after St. Vincent.
“Not to mention that it provides a man with a reason to wear his purple socks.”
– Will Boehlke, author of my new favorite blog, A Suitable Wardrobe, on his post regarding The Purple Necktie.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Young Marble Giants (134)
St. Vincent (50)
Q65 (29)
David Bowie (17)
The Durutti Column (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Young Marble Giants -...
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Watchvia boingboing, “Prisencolinensinainciusol,” by Adriano Celentano. Says @doctorow, “the video is meant to illustrate which English phonemes and syllables carry into the foreign ear, but I tell you what, it sounded like English to me, too, though like English as sung in such a way as to make it hard to decipher.”
Of course, I’d like to comment that a)I like the drum...
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Lords of the Underground - “Chief...
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No one needs me to tell them that Lou Reed was an...
Lou Reed: “We want to ultimately, uh, work on a tape that would take up every minute of every hour of every day of an entire year. It’d just be one extremely long tape and it would fit into your wall and it would be personalised. What would happen is that you would come to us, the Velvet Underground, and say, ‘I want a tape for me.’ And we’d say, ‘Here.’ Then, you’d take that, and we’d take you by...
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