November 2008
“Q: Okay Mark. What’s a popular food writer like you doing in a kitchen like...”
– Mark Bittman’s Bad Kitchen - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Newsflash! Bittman lives in NYC. He has a galley kitchen too. (What were you expecting? A Long Island or Staten Island McMansion with a great room and tile-covered island that are a monument to architectural bastardry?) Bittman is 100%...
“A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to...”
– Questions for David Lynch - The Visionary - Deborah Solomon - Interview - NYTimes.com
You GUYS! Why didn’t anyone tell me about David Lynch’s weather reports?
Pleased, c. hotpoint
“And while Mortier has severed his ties to the mess, he is scrambling to hold on...”
– Is New York City Opera Headed for Bankruptcy? — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine
It’s been a slow, depressing day. Yup.
“In a completely sincere way I can say the best moments at Wierd for me are the...”
– Blacklist’s Josh Strawn, quoted in Vice Magazine: NEW YORK - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WIERD
Oh, come on now — like you didn’t think we’d go to the Wierd Fifth Anniversary Party tomorrow night. (hell must be freezing over — I’m going to Northsix — I MEAN THE...
““All this city wants is a millionaire’s paradise, and they don’t give a fuck...”
– Knit Fit: NY Press
The utterly depressing last days of the Knitting Factory — the entire staff save two people have been laid off preceeding the club’s move to Brooklyn. I wager it’ll last about … 3 months in the space that Luna Lounge (unsuccessfully) attempted to fill.
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“At its best, Wii Music draws you into the conventions of music while...”
– Sleater-Kinney’s guitarist tries out Wii Music. - By Carrie Brownstein - Slate Magazine
A rather smart review of Wii Music — Brownstein walks us through the process of playing the game, pulling away the layers of bizzaro artifice to get to the heart of the matter — this game just...
WatchOh, love this delightfully creepy, trippy video for Secret Machines’ “Atomic Heels,” directed by Brantley Gutierrez
The show last night was really, really fantastic, btw, especially when the bouncers kept kicking people out of the venue for smoking out during the show. Classic!
lurve, c. hotpoint
WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Longhorn Ballroom,... →
Tribute to the ever-loving Longhorn Ballroom from WFMU (via howrad)
“He attends meetings at a local Kingdom Hall, and, like his fellow-witnesses, he...”
– Home Visit: Soup With Prince: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker
Prince Rogers Nelson, just a guy who might stop by your door with the new issue of Watchtower. Somehow his new conservative viewpoints don’t bother me, even though I disagree with them.
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Well, that pretty much cements that I’m too freakin’ busy, or that the internet is too full of tiresome gunk for me to hear about anything that I’m actually interested in any more — this new Mike Jones track surfaced a few weeks ago; his new album is out tomorrow (!!??!!).
That being said, is this good? Is it terrible? Depends on how you feel about Mike Jones’...
Knitting Through the Downturn - City Room Blog -... →
The world’s most expensive hobby just got a little more affordable for NYC thanks to Lion Brand. Sure, Lion’s store will stock the requisite icky acrylics, but you’ll also be able to touch some of the notable new blends which include newer not-so-icky acrylics, wool blends, and some exotic fibers. (BTW, cashmere comes from goats.) Lion offers decent quality craft yarns and a...
liquid liquid play @ santos party house weds.... →
thank goodness, when i saw the announcement, i thought the show was tonight. next wednesday! advance tix under the link.
she who dodged layoffs at work today, c. hotpoint
Franz Ferdinand ‘Ulysses’ remix contest : Remix... →
You know, if I had more free time, I’d probably take a stab at this, because the track might actually be fun to mess with — all the classic FF tropes are present, making it practically a piece of cake to do something charming with it.
The rather overextended, C. Hotpoint
“There is a sort of pact between the machine and ourselves, like the terrible...”
– Paul Valéry, “Remarks on Intelligence” (1925) from History and Politics in The Collected Works of Paul Valery, Vol. 10.
In search of more morning coffee, C. Hotpoint
WatchI admit, it’s rare that I’ll post something that comes in a press release, but one can always make an exception for an email bearing the fantastic stop-motion animation video for Jeffrey Lewis cover of Crass’ “End Result,” directed by Mike Please. From Lewis’ 12 Crass Songs, which is kind of in the vein of The Dirty Projectors’ perfect, glimmering...
Watch1958 (via Jezebel)
This gorgeous piece of American Mid-Century Modern propaganda evidently came from archive.org. I have some of this furniture (but I did lose an Eames / Plycraft chair and ottoman in my divorce), and it’s probably no secret that I long for such sleek post-war simplicity. Men were men, women were women, and the Feminine Mystique wasn’t a recognized problem yet. Was...
“WHEN considering pieces for a serious wardrobe, I find that two choices...”
– Critical Shopper - Hugo Boss - Shopping at Hugo Boss - NYTimes.com
Cintra Wilson, will you be our (other) best friend? Seriously.
Also, in further priase of Hugo Boss, Wilson says “The real party was the men’s shoes: pointy pumps we used to call “roach killers,” all in outrageous,...
“Ms. Hoverson knows firsthand about one problem afflicting many knitters: lack of...”
– Shopping With Joelle Hoverson - Comfy Makes a Comeback for the Home - NYTimes.com
Uh, does it say something about me that I knit, at minimum, two to three hours per day? And that I’ve been known to put in six or eight hours a day on weekends? I realize that not everyone is a garment knitter...
in my brain today
Cacharel Fall 2008 Ready-to-Wear. Totally inspirational.
Young Joni Mitchell (a/k/a Joanie Anderson) — her 65th birthday is this Friday. (subscription req’d, WSJ link). Below, a Canadian tv appearance from 1965 with the Chapin bros.
As well as:
Goethe’s Der Erlkönig
Germaine Greer’s columns for The Observer, especially this one on the poor, derided viola.
The...
“McQ Alexander McQueen for Target will feature lightweight sweaters, skinny...”
– McQueen Kicks Off Target Design Effort - Fashion News - WWD.com
Confirmed, bitches. This is the most awesome thing I’ve heard in the last 12 hours.
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“what are these chaps wearing? Both Ross and Brand are notable not simply for...”
– Practical criticism: when fops go bad - Performance Monkey (via Vonelle)
We suppose you know that we tend to side with Lord Foppington. You’re sort of doomed to this when you first celebrity crushes are Phil Oakey and Nick Rhodes. But seriously, what schlubby guy in J. Crew chinos,...
In Bed-Stuy, horns honking and people jubilant. You can hear joy on the street and in all the houses around us. Amazing and beautiful.
“Legendary soprano Yma Sumac, the “Peruvian songbird,” has died at an...”
– Yma Sumac: RIP (via Jezebel)
Ladies and gentlemen, Yma Sumac, her glass-shattering soprano, and her baritone have left the building.
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from closer to near: Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to... →
Some kind soul typed out the whole list — which of course just leaves me cold. Quantification, commodification, that’s what the history of post-punk has come to in the 21st century. There’s no denying that each and every one of these songs are, indeed, great. But taken out of context, [expounded upon by different authors], shoehorned in next to each other in an interminable list...
“Today’s girls tend to be young. Like, really young. They might look like women...”
– Style Guy Blog: What Else I Learned from the Women
I have to say, reading this whole essay made me feel just a tiny bit better about the fact that I’m really … mammalian and full of (I hope) some kind of je ne sais quois. So, Mr. O’Brien, I’m with you — I’d...
