August 2008
18 Nights of Inspiration: John Vanderslice, Live... →
The 92nd St. Y is opening a Tribeca branch; JV plays as part of the grand opening celebration on October 18.
“Fans whirr, bringing relief from the cloying heat, blades are slicing through...”
– The jewel in Mulberry’s crown… - Telegraph
John Boutté — I’ll Fly Away (to go...
Tomorrow is the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. If you’re around Cindy and me often, you may have heard us mumble about “Yankees” having absolutely no comprehension of what happened in the wake of Katrina. Austin alone absorbed 10,000 of the estimated 250,000 Katrina survivors who came to Texas. Houston became the new home to over 20,000 people displaced by the...
“I don’t know if there’s going to be a second record. If anything,...”
– Exclaim News: Are Black Kids Done Making Music? (via Idolator)
Mr. Youngblood, have you by any chance had an opportunity to speak with Mr. Srivastava about this subject? Perhaps you should.
“The milk — oh man, the milk! — was creamy and full of flavors, not white like...”
– The Quest for Raw Milk - Bitten - Dining & Wine - New York Times Blog
You can’t see me, but I’m swooning.
“At the time when music happens to you and grabs you and jumps on top of you, you...”
– Thus Spake Morrissey
(Source: The Quietus | News | Hang The DJ? Moz To Self-Slaughter On Air?)
“Right off Nassau Avenue, at the end of McCarren Park—the point where...”
– Notes on Brooklyn Recording Studio the Rare Book Room - Village Voice (via Brownstoner)
“Steve Earle: I’m extremely proud of Gentlemen. But if I am going to listen to a...”
– Gentlemen Outtakes, Part 3 : Summer’s Kiss | The Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, Gutter Twins, Greg Dulli + More
(n.b. the entry behind the link above contains a mixwit of the soundboard recording that mr. earle mentions above)
The Jane →
The (legendary) Hotel Riverview (formerly American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute, formerly the YMCA, formerly home to the off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch) revived as a hipster hotel with a ship’s cabins theme; NYC visitors, don’t crash at Castle Rich Girls — stay here instead, just like the survivors of the Titanic! (Not for...
Redefining the Gossip Girl party genre
via doree: Every so often an article comes along that completely changes the paradigm. Jonathan Liu’s piece about the Gossip Girl party at Henri Bendel on Sunday night is one of those stories.
Ok, so you kind of have to slog through some very workmanlike prose-by-committee (for good reason, natch) to get to the punch line, but it’s kind of totally worth it. Even if (especially if?) you, as...
“I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to...”
– Joan Didion — “Goodbye To All That”
(via Maura, as mentioned in that terribly tiresome “let’s move to Buffalo!” article in the NY Mag. Why doesn’t anyone mention that Buffalo may be the coldest place in the known universe, and that no matter of enticements...
WatchAnother vid from Austin friends, even though it seems to have been filmed in LA. This is spanking new from the Platforms. Shake it, Laurie! Seriously, these fine ladies look fabulous, and it makes me shed a little tear for women who settle for “comfort” over their god-given right to be bombshells.
“The independent director Michael Almereyda, who shot his 2002 film “Happy Here...”
– Hurricane Katrina Films - The Angry Flood, the City - NYTimes.com
I’m almost ashamed to say I didn’t know about Almereyda’s film; I guess that’s what I get for not keeping up with these things as closely as I used to. Trailer below; the film seems, to a certain extent, to be...
“Jacobs didn’t really want to be fashionable—in the sense of...”
– Annals of Style: JACOBS’ LADDER: The New Yorker
From a 1997 article on Marc Jacobs’ ascent to LVMH. I stumbled across this while looking for an abstract (or the entire article) from Ariel Levy’s profile of Jacobs in this week’s New Yorker. Says Sadie Stein of Jezebel,...
Fleshmap: Listen: Music →
Quantifies mentions of body parts in various musical genres; possibly nsfw due to the big booty picture at the top of the hip-hop list and the slightly smaller images of male and female genitalia below that.
Text summary: Eyes are the universal near-constant in most genres; for the religious, it’s about hands. And obviously, hip-hop is all ass, ass, ass.
“[NEWSPAPER CUTTING]
Sloe Gin
The origin of this recipe is buried deep in the...”
– The Orwell Diaries: Aug. 22, 1938
The Mutated Skeleton Cave →
(via The Mountain Goats) Aeron Alfrey is doing the art for a new tMG double 7” that will be available on the upcoming tour. I would like to see a few other bands I know use Mr. Alfrey’s services. Oh yes, yes, yes indeedy.
“There are 24 stops on the New York City subway system past which you can ride no...”
– The Curious World of the Last Stop - NYTimes.com
Oh, I should check MySpace over the weekend more often! New York Night Train hosts long-time TRGAW faves …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead (the freakin’ original lineup, no less!) tonight at Santos Party House. Be there or be square, etc.
I always hope that …Trail of Dead shows are be a good place to cruise dudes, but they almost absolutely never are.
in which we liveblog new now next
It’s our favorite Sunday night pastime — gently mocking loudly critiquing New Now Next on Logo. Join us, it’s our first liveblog!
11:59 On some other channel…
Cindy: OMG! It’s time for the Gay Video Show!!!!!
12:00 Northern State intro
Cindy: Northern State, I’d wondered what happened to them. Oh, and they’re recording with Kaki King, that’s...
FROM THE MIND OF ADI (#3) - A Look Back: Fugazi... →
Rich Girls pal Adi Anand is blogging for Austin’s Transmission Entertainment. Remember when Fugazi and Blonde Redhead played Liberty Lunch in 1995? Adi was so there — and in this post he also pays tribute to one of the most beloved profs in the history of the University of Texas, ethnomusicologist Ron Emoff, who taught The History of Rock’n’Roll — everyone’s...
“To gather intelligence about the Claiborne consumer, Mr. Gunn toured 16 U.S....”
– Claiborne Seeks a New Look - WSJ.com
In response to Pinkie’s question below. Is there nothing that can set a fashionable woman of a certain age a-twitter than the idea of Tim Gunn and Issac Mizrahi revamping a tired old label and making it fresh and modern? The Claiborne people have the right...
HIPSTER OR GAY →
We can so totally win this game! (via aja)
Products at Target Capture John Derian’s Decoupage... →
John Derian diffusion line at Target. Awesome. (Like we need an excuse to go to Target. Like I need another quirky melamine tray to put stuff on.)
More on Target: Manhattan Pop-Up Stores (via NYMag). I’m not sure how I feel about this, being that I depend on Target to provide me with little black dresses, purchased on the cheap, that no one realizes are discount. Then again —...
“Without Nobu’s miso black cod, the Cheesecake Factory would never have its miso...”
– Adjusting Applebee’s Menu Is Easy to Order and Harder to Do - NYTimes.com
As evidenced in other posts, this article about IHOP CEO Julia “We Own Riblets” Stewart, is full of amazing bon mots, but this statement was my favorite part. For some reason the Nobu -> Cheesecake Factory...
www.myspace.com/artistene →
We don’t generally advocate ballot box stuffing, but pls. vote for Mark Steiner at the ArtistNE GramArt MySpace page (click on the image that says ‘stem pa mandens finalister’ — and make sure you’re logged in) Mark’s up for a grant so he can tour of Australia this winter. We totally want to help make that happen!
Edit from Pinkie: We posted this in February,...
