Your first ten thousand pictures are your worst- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Currently listening to: ” Dont u evah” by Spoon
Saw “Up in the Air” the other day and eye thought it was a very deliberate and excellent film. The former description a reference to the zeitgeist capturing motives of George Clooney & Co; the latter being the ensuing results (P.S: very well placed soundtrack)
Truly had a rousing good time and unequivocally my favorite broadway experience on Nov 28th!
Something to look forward to in February.
Disclaimer: Above image is not mine
-Nothing quite paints a more honest picture of NYC like this. The faces, names and places it frames are told here, 1 story @ a time. Love it, especially now I am afar
- Believe it or not: actually for a good cause. Seriously! And on a side note: glad ICR Deth Killers arz bakkk!!
- Weekend Agenda: Fantastic Mr Fox. Also, while I am on the topic of foxes
Last night made for eventful (live) TV, with Letterman taking the cake (easily!!). My opinion on the whole Polanski debacle is clear but on the oft-chance that some ambiguity still persists; the good Chris Rock crystallizes things
Maxwell- Pheonix tise
Had a conversation last night over several rounds of drinks (Ward 8 to be precise) and it tethered itself to the idea of people, specifically friends/lovers, how they, much like everything else ease in and out of our lives. Along an unpredictable rhythm, some stay longer than we would like while others fade far too soon. So while eye have all of you here, in one place: Thanks for everything. Truly!
1) Copenhagen as a city definitely represents a sensibility eye can retire myself to yrs from now. Trip highlights were aplenty but if am forced to play favorites (and in no particular order): birthday meal @ noma ; Giacometti sculptures as seen in the Louisana Museum; grass grazing in Fredriksburg gardens, bottomless coffee @ Laundromat cafe
2) Currently listening to: “A walk across rooftops”- Blue nile.
3) Its here- the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. Autumn as articulated by John Keats.
4) Lastly, the above image being evidence enough. Glad football season is underway. Giants-Colts is my superbowl pick. Going to go out on a limb and predict a Manning will be victorious @ QB
Will be the first to admit that Ted [1932-2009] was never my favorite kennedy (that distinction goes to Bobby). He was unlike his brothers, less steeped in glamour and mythology. He was all the better for it. Because with that, he gave us all the kennedy we deserved- a human, gray-haired one.
Listening to “Air – Casanova 70″
Up next on the Netflix queue.
Leading contender for best ad in 2009. Looks to me like it was all on one single-shot take.
Copenhagen in T- 20 days.
“To live is the rarest thing in this world…”Oscar Wilde
Made for an interesting read in between (multiple) reaches for coffee. Although, to be fair, dining al fresco certainly livens any conversation.
“And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?” —The last line of Jack Kerouac’s introduction to The Americans by Robert Frank, 1958.c. On view @ the Met this fall.
Passion pit- “Manners”, is holding up quite well on multiple listens. Proving to be a strong buy.
Aesthetic pieces I can certainly get behind.
Credit: William Eggleston (Untitled).
“Brief interviews with hideous men”: From a density standpoint, certainly one of the more conquerable of DFW’s output. Above all, a good read.
Currently listening to: “I got lost” c/o Dinosaur Jr
Who had have thunk it but eye just might have found GOD through architecture . Sundays @ 10am.
One of the very best photographers around: Boogie. Served best by the “Brazil series”. Very glad to have told him so during my stint in NYC.
P.S: The name you might be seeking out right about now is Thomas Allen.
“I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here.” – Alice in Wonderland
” I told you to keep quiet”- Don Draper [Mad Men/S2/Episode 6]
“I went to see a psychiatrist. He said “Tell me everything”. I did, and now he is doing my act”- Richard Prince
“Whats the world got in store? whats the world got in store for you? whats the world got in store for you now? ” – Wilco
As a parting gift; tea and strumpets
“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.” – Frank O’ Hara as featured on Mad-Men/Season 2.
Monocle. Get familiar!
The look on S. Carter’s face @ about min 39:27 is priceless. An unconventional (visual) study on the art of an interview; more importantly the role of delivery and preparation. Lesson #1: Always come to work prepared. FYI: On the day before, Charlie interviewed U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan with the exact same elan!!
One of my favorite artists to be borne from the YBA movement, finally comes stateside.
Really love Neil Krug’s latest and no doubt greatest work. View Flickr Set.
Really love deadlines. Specifically the swoooooshing sound they make as they zip by
Purely for the more fetishist inclined among us.
Really looking forward to catching HURT LOCKER on the big screen.
Latest musical discovery is a local band around my way: Passion Pit. And with that I offer up: swimming in a flood.
“No surface shines brighter, than the light that burns beneath it” -Zero 7 – Speed Dial No.2
Quick sojourn to old places and faces this past weekend. Indeed a m0st welcome series of events.
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The above is a rather directional bit of advertising regarding safe sex by the fine folks over @ MTV. Art Direction: Loducca/Brazil, view larger after the jump.
Today’s dose of Saville worship
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” -Henry David Thoreau
Plan on seeing “Duplicity” this weekend, you should do the same!
Latest issue of Laphams has dropped. Do yourself a favor and grab a slice!
Crushing past 3 weeks at the office hospital. Here’s hoping the load comes to lighten.
“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts“- S.G
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