September 2008
“I don’t want to be played by the girl-strings anymore. Shaking our heads...”
– The Sarah Palin pity party | Salon Life
I’m from Texas. I’m from old money Texas. This means that I do not talk politics — with anyone. Politics, much like membership to the Masonic Lodge or what goes on at an Order of the Eastern Star meeting, are private. That being said,...
“I’ll be showing The Hustler during my bartending shift to help diffuse my...”
– (via MySpace bulletin land)
And now for a note on tomorrow night since you all need something to do on Tuesdays now that the party is over at Nurse Bettie. Come out to Crooklyn and see Miss Aubrey at the Tip Top on Franklin. It’s near the (sadly defaced) ODB mural. All the beer, soul, and...
“But in Brooklyn, the visitor, whether native son or total stranger, can...”
– 40th Anniversary - Pete Hamill Revisits His Native Brooklyn — New York Magazine
Yesterday, as I stood outside Maggie Brown with Cindy and our friend Aubrey, waiting for a table for brunch, I turned to Aubrey and said something like “Why the hell would anyone want to live in...
Alex Cox - WEBSITE →
There’s something very endearing about Alex Cox’s website. He really loves exclaimation points — like that’s shocking!!!! (via The Quietus Looks Back at Alex Cox’s “Videodrone”)
TedLeo.com - - RAPID RESPONSE EP READY FOR... →
I am always complaning that music is becoming more and more infantalized and bitch that there’s just not enough protest music anywhere. So it would be hypocritical of me not to mention Ted Leo and the Pharmacists’ new Rapid Response EP — four songs, four bucks — and all proceeds will benefit Democracy Now! and Minneapolis Food Not Bombs. Please note that this post does not...
WatchDean & Newman’s film test for East of Eden (via Film clips: Paul Newman | guardian.co.uk)
From Patricia Bosworth’s “The Newman Chronicles” (Vanity Fair, September 2008)
Everybody knew he had auditioned for On the Waterfront—the role went to Marlon Brando—and tested with James Dean to play his brother in East of Eden. During the screen test they had improvised, and...
““Even if the economy’s down, a sale is all the more reason to buy something...”
– Big City - A Sample Sale at Hermès Defies the Wall Street Malaise - NYTimes.com
This reminds me of all those things I used to say “Only in Austin…” about — a list too numerous to even mildly excerpt here.
Only in NYC, people. Only here. Reason #2,456 that I love living...
“If there was one artist of recent times who embraced the largeness, the...”
– Rothko exhibition: art replaces religious faith - Telegraph
Pink Paper Pinafore →
I’m trying to name a new blog that I’m planning as a repository for the New Project’s ideas — sadly, Pink Paper Pinafore is already taken, but since it’s the site for an awesome Kiwi craft maeven, I’m not too bummed.
For you, Lili Marlene...
Hey y’all. If you’ve got a hankerin’ for chanteusery, don’t forget about the Micaela Leon show at the Metropolitan Room tonight. We’ll be there…in work drag.
“9:22am: It’s chaos in here. I’m hiding in the meat section. You now...”
– Racked: Live at the Trader Joe’s Brooklyn Opening: Rainy Day Doesn’t Deter Diehard Shoppers (via Brownstoner)
News Flash: Brooklyn now has a Trader Joe’s.
“You can’t do anything with sound,” Mr. Shields had said, “unless there is...”
– My Bloody Valentine, Reunited, Rediscovers the Love - NYTimes.com (via offnotesnotes)
The previous graf is utterly delightful as well:
The band spent £200,000, about $366,000, on equipment for the tour, and Mr. Shields laughed when asked how many effects pedals he owned. “Hundreds,” he said. He...
The NY Black Sabbath Covers Project « The Supine... →
Just what it says — Daniel Neely, the director of the New York Musicians Index and Archive, has created a Google map pinpointing bands across NY State that have covered Sabbath. Which is brilliantly, adorably obsessive in the best way possible.
Exclusive MP3: Secret Machines, "Atomic Heels" |... →
Sweet, tight & short (for The Secret Machines, that is — a mere 3:40). I’m dying to hear this whole album.
Also, the band is touring with TRGAW faves The Dears — only problem is, none of those dates are in NYC. Fooey!
The Secret Machines Fall Tour Dates
Oct 16 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club Oct 17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero Oct 18 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall Oct 20 -...
“We will celebrate entering our third year with some readings by authors and the...”
– The Diner Journal
Goat? Goat, you say? Diner Journal is hosting a launch party for the fall issue tonight at McNally Jackson. This is kind of awesome.
Of course, in posting this, I’m sort of stealing Cindy’s thunder, as she’s the one who’s obsesso over Diner, the Edible...
“I will kneel at your feet
I will lie at your door
I will rock you to sleep
I...”
– There She Goes, My Beautiful World: nickcaveandthebadseeds.com
Your friend Cindy Hotpoint is so, so obsessed with this song right now. (And I’m apparently talking about myself in the third person, too.) If you see me rocking out on the C train, this is what I’m listening to, constantly,...
“Complete the sentence: New York is…
Tim Gunn: …the most fabulous city in the...”
– Tim Gunn Interview With Time Out New York - Time Out New York
Dear Tim Gunn. We love you too. And may we say how awesome it is to learn that someone else actually enjoys going home and is unapologetic about it?
“Grandmas love Edith Piaf.”
– Stereogum: Download My Brightest Diamond - “Adieu Mon Coeur” (Acoustic) from The ‘Gum Drop
So do we, and we especially love it when Shara Worden does Piaf covers.
“The strange thing about the movie is that it continues to play successfully to...”
– Roger Ebert on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Jack Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern...
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No...
“Gorgeous fragrances often contain notes of something nasty, it turns out. Even...”
– HE HATES PERFUME | More Intelligent Life (via Vonelle)
Here we are, talking about fragrance again. Food, music, and perfume…that’s what Rich Girls are made of. This time the subject is Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume in Williamsburg. Mr. Brosius’ previous gig was...
via frannyandzooey: clockwatching:
Little Red by...
Ryantown →
New crush, via 5500
“Q: What is the song in the McDonald’s (MCD) commercial that shows the...”
– Ad Track: USATODAY.com
But of course he heard it on a mixtape in the 1990s! (If you didn’t see this commercial ad nauseam during the Olympics, it’s a bit startling. I don’t really associate this song with … children.)
Esquire's 75 Books Every Man Should Read →
via maura:justsayjolie:shorterexcerpts
Oh, say what you will about the pretentions and the slideshow pageview-mongering (see the bottom right of the screen for the quick three-at-a-time cover gallery if you don’t want to click through them all, because who would!?!?) — if there was a hot, straight guy out there who’s actually read all these and could converse about each with...
Trance Atlantic
A couple of months ago, we mentioned that Brooklyn’s own Micaela Leon and her fabulous boy band were playing the Metropolitan Room, performing a new show called Trance Atlantic. The final performance of the September residency is this Friday, and Miss Leon herself has kindly extended a discount on cover. The secret password at the box office is “Marlene” (as in Dietrich), and...
Bryan Ferry | Gentleman - TMagazine - New York... →
“Bryan Ferry, the lead singer of the seminal art-pop group Roxy Music, may be the consummate ladies’ man, but he is also the embodiment of gentlemanly restraint. ‘‘As much as I would like to be Jimi Hendrix,’’ he says, ‘‘I keep my flamboyance to my buttons or a cuff.’’ A chart-topping solo artist and sometime model (he appeared in a 2006 men’s-wear campaign for Marks & Spencer), Ferry...
(steve miller band + jamiroquai) taco = robin...
Congrats to Robin Thicke for making it out of the VH1 Soul ghetto and into the rotation on MTV Hits. Yes, we mock him, but damn, this song is … good. And the video is totally ridic.
Context clues:
Steve Miller Band — Abracadabra
Jamiroquai — Canned Heat
Taco — Puttin’ on the Ritz
(These are the things that pop into your head after spending a...
volver, volver
Pinkie just informed me, after buying tickets for the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Bellmer Dolls show at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on October 4, that Vicente Fernandez is playing the main stage. INSANITY. Why can’t they just all play one giant show together? Pretty please? The amount of testosterone-fueled peacockery that’s gonna fill the general area that night is enough...
“We were all young and poor: If your clothes were all black, everything matched...”
– You Just Can’t Kill It - NYTimes.com
I wanted this article to do more, Cintra. I feel like you had a lot to say about your own experience with goth fashion and posturing — which is good, but you couldn’t really tie it all together in the end, which is less good. Perhaps I’m just...