February 2010
1 post
January 2010
3 posts
Sincerity is the new irony.
http://niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com/ →
Fucking. Amazing.
December 2009
16 posts
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans,...
– Dave Eggers
Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions.
Trailer for Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s new film, Micmacs A Tire-Larigot, about a guy who gets shot in the head, lives, and vows revenge on the bullet manufacturer. Not much information from the trailer or the official (and very French, almost to the point of parody) plot synopsis :
Is it better to live with a bullet lodged in your brain, even if it means you might drop dead any...
November 2009
13 posts
Luna Turns 15 →
Click above for a great article from Nuvo about Luna Music, my favorite record store ever.
I’ve been going to Luna since I could drive myself. When I go through some of the most important albums I ever bought, a large amount of them came from Luna. Sometimes I’d walk in with purpose and leave with what I came for, other times I’d walk in with no purpose and leave damn near...
If
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make...
Orientation to Station
Why are job orientations so painstakingly long? They’re always at least 90 minutes, when they could just hand you a packet and say “Read this and let us know if you have any questions,” and it would take 15 minutes, and everyone would be smiles. But instead, yesterday I got to hear the phrase “you guys” more times than I thought was possible over the course of FOUR...
October 2009
9 posts
Banksy’s Manifesto:
An extract from the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin DSO who was
among the first British soldiers to liberate Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
I can give no adequate description of the Horror Camp in which my men and myself were to spend the next month of our lives. It was just a barren wilderness, as bare as a chicken run. Corpses lay everywhere, some in huge...