November 2010
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Helena Bonham Carter makes Vanity Fair's best... →
An inspiration to us all, really.
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catalog of the past few days
pies: pecan, apple
black friday dining experience: prime burger
places i “shopped” on black friday: saks fifth avenue, bergdorf goodman, henri bendel, barney’s, miu miu, norma kamali
places i “shopped” on saturday: habu textiles, project no. 8 and opening ceremony at the ace hotel, abc carpet and home, the conran shop, muji, kyotoya, ricky’s
number of times...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
Kanye West (31)
Robyn (22)
The New Pornographers (13)
Ke$ha (11)
Nicki Minaj (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Please don’t take this as an endorsement of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Thanks. Also, Pink Friday is terrible, which makes me very sad.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →
Neko Case (81)
Interpol (40)
The New Pornographers (40)
Okkervil River (35)
Sloan (30)
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Read as: How to know I was working my ass of that week.
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Critics contend that while Integrated Marketing is perhaps consistent with...
– Northwestern’s Medill School: When journalism isn’t enough - chicagotribune.com (via desnoise)
Oh good lord, this whole dumb analogy in this piece, well-intentioned thought it may be, doesn’t work at all because Hogwarts teaches DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS, not, you know, actually becoming...
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A clumsy analogy.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy:My Taste in Music::Super Sad True Love Story:My Taste in Literature
Look, I get it, I do. It’s brilliant, or something like that. It’s just so hard to be a self-loathing egomaniacal genius, you guys! </tiny violin>
Truth be told, I just want to listen to Nicki Minaj’s contribution on “Monster” on repeat. Now, that’s...
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Am I the only one who finds the new remaster of Pretty Hate Machine disorienting? It’s too clean! My fondest memories of that album were listening to it on a flimsy (cassette) Walkman during sophomore English class. It was all hissy and kind of distorted and I liked it that way. Now it’s all smooth and clean and … it’s just too weird.
But here? Here we have the shiny floors of Amtrak, its waiting room as...
– (via Miracle on 33rd Street - NYTimes.com)
This is some poetical writing, right here.
(via Dazed Digital | Marnie Weber Eternity Forever Exclusive)
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I can’t. I can’t … Every time I look down at my feet I feel so depressed.
– Isabella Blow, trying to wear espadrilles instead of Manolos in Brazil (via Isabel Schwab Reviews Lauren Goldstein Crowe’s “Isabella Blow: A Life In Fashion” | The New Republic)
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At 933 pages, the fourteenth was comparable in size to the heralded...
– Ed Park on The Chicago Manual of Style (via typo analysis - bookforum.com / in print)
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barthel:
therichgirlsareweeping:
Interpol - Untitled
Salve for my short-circuited brain.
It is maybe time to talk about how that first Interpol record is a total classic?
Get out of my head, man. I was just thinking, This is the 33 1/3 book that I could write. And actually might want to.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-14) →
The Jam (39)
Violens (30)
Queen (26)
Orange Juice (24)
Franz Ferdinand (24)
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FUCK YEAH.