January 2009
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Kill it Kid - Blind Willie McTell
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December 2008
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“It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.”
– Will Oldham. The New Yorker profile
The Pretender: Will Oldham transfigures American... →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
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Grouper (38)
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If No Icelanders Admit to Feeling Blue, Are They? →
”There are nice things to the winter,” said Mr. Gislason, who is 26 and is studying for a master’s degree in civil engineering. ”Yesterday, I was coming home from work and I saw the Northern Lights. I felt like a small creature in a big world, part of a great creation.”
Handling the winter darkness, Mr. Gislason said, requires the same set of skills as negotiating...
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Watchimunderpressure:
50 People One Question: Brooklyn
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Korean dining etiquette...Oops
From the Sasojeol (Elementary Etiquette for Scholar Families) written in 1775 by Yi Toongmu:
when you see a fat cow, goat, pig, or chicken, do not immediately speak of slaughtering, cooking or eating it.
when you are having a meal with others, do not speak of smelly or dirty things, such as boils or diarrhea…
if someone is still eating do not go to the bathroom even if you have the...
Fucked Up - No Epiphanies
Replicas of the Statue of Liberty (wikipedia) →
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Watchsnow in new york today (vimeo)
Grouper - Disengaged
missed her show last night...
“American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually...”
– R.W. Apple, Jr. “The Danish Worth an Ocean Voyage,” New York Times, Nov. 22, 1978
Where Danish Means Lunch: by RW Apple Jr. →
LEAVE it to the Danes, those past masters of form and color, to turn sandwiches into still lifes.
It is hard to imagine anything less like a New Yorker’s jaw-stretching corned beef on rye or a ballpark frank than a meticulously made smorrebrod, or open-faced sandwich, with its components chosen not only for the way their tastes complement one another but also for the picture they present
a soundtrack for the video below.
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WatchA journey with Copenhagens driver-less sci-fi metro. better in HD
“I think you’re making bad life choices.”
– young male guest to Bill Murray at 4am at a Halloween party in Williamsburg (from ahem pagesixmagazine)
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