Luddite for July, Analog for August.

We love internets. However, doesn’t it feel like we’ve swapped out running on a forest trail for running on a treadmill in a gym with the TV stuck on a Project Runway marathon?

So let’s go off-line for July and August. Let’s keep a log on paper (plog) instead of tumblr. Let’s sketch/draw instead of snap photos and upload them to flickr. Let’s send out postcards instead of updating statuses on facebook. And let’s go see live bands, maybe even get there early for the opening acts, instead of pandora.

Most people can manage to do all of these things AND stay online but I am too lazy.

If anything good comes out of my two-month sabbatical, it will be online in September!

If you want a postcard with a random mundane update, email me your mailing address!


If you have any interest in dance (particularly contemporary ballet), music (classical/opera), cabaret theater, solid narrative writing, greek plays, neo-freudian psychology, black and white photography, technicolor cinema, Spanish films with subtitles, or Argentina, go see Tetro.

If you don’t like Vincent Gallo (whose past mysognistic characters I couldn’t disassociate him from) or Francis Ford Copolla (who I thought had retired to make wine) or your father (who, at least in my case, could inspire a sequel to Tetro), go see Tetro.


July needs a theme song.

The sun, even more beautiful.


funemployed: Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity by Yayoi Kusama (via sgoralnick). Managed to see this on Saturday too. There’s a nice timing to the piece where the lights start off very dim and twinkle and sparkle brighter and brighter but then all of sudden it all goes dark. In the aftermath you’re left in a total void. The effect would have been alot more dramatic if it weren’t for the douchebags that forced their way in with me and laughed the whole time and then immediately opened the door ruining the effect of being in total darkness. Moral of the story; bring tasers to art galleries.

funemployed:

Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity by Yayoi Kusama (via sgoralnick).

Managed to see this on Saturday too. There’s a nice timing to the piece where the lights start off very dim and twinkle and sparkle brighter and brighter but then all of sudden it all goes dark. In the aftermath you’re left in a total void. The effect would have been alot more dramatic if it weren’t for the douchebags that forced their way in with me and laughed the whole time and then immediately opened the door ruining the effect of being in total darkness. Moral of the story; bring tasers to art galleries.


YOU BASTARD! YOU LIED TO ME! YOU SAID YOU COULD CHANGE! YOU SAID EVERYTHING WOULD BE DIFFERENT! YOU BASTARD. I think we should see other climates.

YOU BASTARD! YOU LIED TO ME! YOU SAID YOU COULD CHANGE! YOU SAID EVERYTHING WOULD BE DIFFERENT! YOU BASTARD.

I think we should see other climates.


candyallthetime:

Sky Saxon died today. He was in this band called the seeds. You can account all of the garage rock music you listen to today to this band. This takes precedent to any other inconsequential deaths today.

To be honest, I’ve never heard of Sky Saxon until I read this post. It did remind me that the 1st 12” record I ever recieved was Thriller. I got it for Christmas in 1982. I listened to it once and put it on the ground and used it to slide across the tile floor. My guess is that Michael Jackson would have done the same to me if he had gotten me for Christmas in 1982. Either way, boy were my parents pissed.


Gillian Murphy as Odette/Odile. Swan Lake, ABT

Gillian Murphy as Odette/Odile.

Swan Lake, ABT


Oh. Hey. Glad you could make it. Just next time, if you’re gonna be late, could you call or just send a text so I don’t freak out as much. Thanks.
Oh. Hey. Glad you could make it. Just next time, if you’re gonna be late, could you call or just send a text so I don’t freak out as much. Thanks.

3 hours after the ‘nom’ photo was taken.
3 hours after the ‘nom’ photo was taken.

nom.
nom.

“We are speaking a bastard and beaten tongue with a very unusual grammatical history.”
The title of this article irks me for some reason… I guess that’s what you get with a bastard and beaten tongue…

Just saw this amazing documentary about one of the most influential/important/inspiring bands ever. Highly recommend it.

It’s been 20 years since a band called The Go Team hand stamped 7”s and cassette tapes and toured the US. Tobi Vail was the stuff of rock mythology. Between founding The Go Team, Bikini Kill, and guest rocking in one of your favorite bands, Nation of Ulysses. She also penned some influential zines (before there was blogging there were photocopy machines.) Back then it sometimes took years to find out about a record, let alone hear about something that was going on in a town called Olympia, especially when you lived all the way on the opposite side of a continent. But now, now we have the internet. You can google her tour blog from ‘89 when she toured in a band that most of the world never heard of and mistakes for some other band almost named the same thing. I don’t mean to romanticize the past. I just think some awesome things happened 20 years ago and it’s nice to not forget them because for a almost a decade, I had forgotten all about it.

It’s been 20 years since a band called The Go Team hand stamped 7”s and cassette tapes and toured the US.

Tobi Vail was the stuff of rock mythology. Between founding The Go Team, Bikini Kill, and guest rocking in one of your favorite bands, Nation of Ulysses. She also penned some influential zines (before there was blogging there were photocopy machines.)

Back then it sometimes took years to find out about a record, let alone hear about something that was going on in a town called Olympia, especially when you lived all the way on the opposite side of a continent. But now, now we have the internet. You can google her tour blog from ‘89 when she toured in a band that most of the world never heard of and mistakes for some other band almost named the same thing.


I don’t mean to romanticize the past. I just think some awesome things happened 20 years ago and it’s nice to not forget them because for a almost a decade, I had forgotten all about it.


an absolute apocalypse of ineptitude.

“Every drug certified by the FDA must be tested using LAL…” aka the horseshoe crab’s blue blood. Wow.

“Every drug certified by the FDA must be tested using LAL…” aka the horseshoe crab’s blue blood.

Wow.


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