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Boards of Canada - “Happy Cycling”
You know you are thrashed and exhausted when the only music you can bear to listen to is Boards of Canada. And the Eno iPhone apps.
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Your pals the Rich Girls have been living in Brooklyn for FIVE YEARS, as of yesterday.
The Afghan Whigs are returning with performances in 2012 for All Tomorrow’s Parties.
BUT ALSO! GREG DULLI CURATING ATP IN ASBURY PARK. Not that I’m not stoked to daydream about going to London, but seriously, kind of more excited about the local options.
Alexander Calder, Big Red, 1959. Sheet metal and steel wire, 74 × 114 in. (188 x 289.6 cm). (via Whitney Museum of American Art: Alexander Calder: Big Red)
New album Animal Joy out on February 14, 2012. Of course it’s amazing, duh. (via lalitree)
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The Sadies (with Kelly Hogan) - 1,000,002 Songs
From the album, In Concert Vol. 1 (Yep Roc Records)
I am having one of those listen to The Sadies for 5 hours straight kind of Mondays. You?
"Each book by Michael Ondaatje is, thrillingly, a departure, in some way unclassifiable. He is by no means a fantasist, but in the manner of a lyric poet (which he is also), he deploys juxtaposition and silence, as well as language and narrative, to create new worlds and new thoughts out of the real. Books like In the Skin of a Lion, Running in the Family, The English Patient, Anil’s Ghost, and Divisadero are fictions that provoke and unsettle as much as, and even sometimes more than, they delight. In Ondaatje’s work, predictable boundaries are always in question: Is this poetry or prose? Fact or fiction? Real or imaginary? He writes from the space where memory, history, the dreamed, and the imagined converge, even while remaining respectful of the unknowable interstices between character, author, and reader."
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On a Mystery Voyage with Michael Ondaatje by Claire Messud | The New York Review of Books
Usually, I want to tell Claire Messud to STICK A SOCK IN IT with regards to both her own prose and her opinions about other writers, but this nicely said.
fotzepolitic asked: This is a joke, but would Retromania be more tolerable as an audiobook if Stephen Fry narrated it?
Funny you should mention that because I appended (and then deleted) an addendum to that post saying that I would also accept an audio version narrated by Peter Coyote or Benedict Cumberbatch. (SERIOUSLY SOMEONE GET ON THAT.)
Or, you know, just Benedict Cumberbatch for the evening. He likes glitter and fuzzy things, right?
Patti Smith sings to her cat.
There are few things I love more than singing to the cat.
ALL I WANT
Tom’s mention of Retromania reminded me of what I really want for Christmas this year — namely, for someone to read Retromania for me, and give me the executive summary of the things I would most agree with, and the things that would make me the most frothingly angry and leave out all the exceedingly dull bits. Because every time I pick it up in the store and skim it, my eyes just kind of glaze over and the overpowering unpleasant musk of mansplaining and poor editorial choices just makes me want to puke glitter and fuzzy things all over Simon Reynolds.
So, surely one of you out there is up for this!
Cow Skull, O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu House, New Mexico
1960, printed 1979 Todd Webb Smithsonian American Art Museum
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(Source: shadows-taller-than-our-souls, via cargohoo)
