March 2010
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February 2010
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everything she asks of me - Daphne Gottlieb
So, I’m dating Marilyn Monroe. We’re living together, actually. Right now, she’s sitting on the white couch with the black stains, watching me write this. What are you writing? she wants to know. A love letter, I say.
She’s eating grapes. She’s really into them right now. One by one, she sucks them into her mouth with a little pop, crushes them between the whitest of teeth with the gentlest of...
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People fail to see that regional culture is a massive part of a person’s...
– Beth Ditto on Britney Spears
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Beth Ditto’s Fashion Escapade « Fashionista:... →
Above all, the fat woman wants to hide. Paradoxically, her lot in life is to be...
– Susie Orbach, Fat Is a Feminist Issue
Practical Traveler - Excuse Me, Is This Seat... →
Richard Linklater’s Slacker on Hulu | /Film →
Silverlake Babies - Eleni Mandell
We’ll have Silverlake babies Up from the reservoir Hang by our fingers the fence that surrounds it Under the night sky The lavender bright sky Lonely and emptied of stars We’ll saddle around To the clubs when we’re up for it Saddle around to the bars And huddle in close when we’re ready for bed Lullabye Philip K Dick We’ll...
Beginning in the late 1930s with the wild popularity of swing jazz and the...
– Do You Speak American . Words That Shouldn’t Be? . Sez Who? . Slang | PBS
The Internet Guide to Jazz Age Slang →
the elephant’s eyebrows!
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Westwood Condemns Consumerism After London Show -... →
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How to Be Wild at Heart - wikiHow →
A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. - Tenessee Williams
We - still lived in a - world of light and shadow… But the shadow was almost as...
– Violet Venable in Suddenly Last Summer
Historic funeral home to be reborn as a bookstore →
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do — that was one of...
– -Diane Arbus
Researching the technology in the era before infrared flash units, he found that...
– Sex in the Park, and Its Sneaky Spectators - New York Times
Kohei Yoshiyuki, The Park →
tofu-magazine -Kohei Yoshiyuki, The Park
Beck / Record Club →
Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to...
The music is suffused with melancholy, then suddenly it pirouettes on itself and...
– - Jane Birkin
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