January 2009
FEENIX!!!!
FRIEND FAIL: leaving a fatigued kirsten at the bottom-ish o’ camelback mountain to climb my way to the top. last time i attempted it, when i lived in phoenix, i brought my wee dog and he had difficulty pawing his wee claws up the side o’ the mountain (chihuahua mixes don’t = mountain goats). MILEAGE FAIL: when people say “it’s just another mile or so up,” they...
you said i was the road map reader
mad hair. we match for our free howard johnson breakfasz. Kirsten is inordinately obsessed with tumbleweeds. Apparently she has never seen an ACTUAL tumbleweed cross a road before, and so whenever one rolls across our line of vision, she feels some sort of demented compulsion to yell “TUMBLEWEEEEEEEEEEEEED.” Somehow I still love her, even after the 19th tumbleweed. “We had at...
hojo
mornin’, nebraska. 15moreminutes15moreminutes15moreminutes.
i'm so devotchka'd to you
HAY EVERYBODY! kirsten & kira here, live-blogging from a howard johnson in the fair cosmopolitan metropolis of Grand Island, KNEE-BRASKA. we had to reserve this room from the internet, located on the world’s oldest still-functioning computer (INTERNET EXPLORER 3 FAIL) located in the “business room” of the hotel, adjacent to reception, since it was “$9 cheaper...
wind in your hair ribbons on your face
en route to LA, on route 66 … i’ll miss you, chicago, old friends, new friends, familee, new dog, old haunts, new haunts … see you soon, dear ones. onwards and outwards to starting over, yet again… top photo here, bottom 3 by the wonderful sara macel
then & now & back again
why i love maren: she is the cutest thing probably in the entire solar system. tonite, she brought me my favorite things ever: candy corn & white chocolate pretzels for the road trip. in high school, instead of doing drugs & drinking, we would make late-nite Windy City Candy runs, giddy on sugar and each other. 17 years of best friendship, oh i’ll miss having this doe-eyed delight in...
why & why & yes & yes
why i love jill and why the phoenix leg o’ the trip can’t come soon enough: why i love my job — watching this with amy & the hot australian d00d at the useless post-5 pm work hour: kings of convenience, ‘i’d rather dance with you’
his bowtie is really a camera
SHE KNOWS. it’s like choosing between children. the trusty nissan can only hold so much weight. GAH. also, holy motherfuckingshit, the entire fever ray album is off tha chain AMARZINGNAGNNAGNGNGNANGNGNNGG, as expected. here’s the fantastically macabre/outrageously brilliant video for ‘if i had a heart’ from director andreas nilsson:
master of pidginz
speaking of animal collective, chad von nau created an unbelievably trippy aquatic beautiful vimeotic situation of ‘my girls’ here some japanther love, filmed by von nau:von nau via mb! (say that 5 times fast)
who rubs our noses in the night? we do we do
and i don’t make particular plans ‘cause they don’t matterif you keep on fooling in bed with my sleeping patternsand we dance upon the plainsthen i shake your little shouldersyou push me down into the grains(ac, grass) the weather was nice, we slept in the grass painting by groundwork
between the click of the light
Here We Go Magic’s infectious song “Tunnelvision” seriously, i’ve listened to this track like 8 times in a row now. also, some “eccentric austrian” d00d saved the polaroid! huzzah. ok its 2.40 am why am i still up. must…stop…reading…the internets… photo by amanda farah
cool as a
quit playing with yr vegetablez (never)
SHARK ON A WIRE
via fuckyeahsharks tumblr of awesome
nothing but green lights from here
HAY. WE FOUND AN APARTMENT IN LOS ANGELEEZ !!!!1111111 finalleeeeee. Now let’s just hope we win it. In the heart o’ los feliz, too! wheeeeeee. I’m tired of leaving people & places now. I wonder if in the next week, Chicago will appropriate the melancholically lovely, desirous patina in which London shined during my last days there. I suppose it’s different here, since...
press on me: we are restless things
fact: work on wine & whiskey (lost count after shot 5) and 4 hours of sleep is a CHALLENGE. If one were so inclined, one might even refer to it as “brave.” fact: reading sam pink’s dementedly brilliant chapbook yum yum i can’t wait to die on the el is a ridiculous effort in self-control. i’m sure i looked like the biggest asshole sitting and laughing to myself...
cartoon in a cartoon graveyard
tapioca pudding. fffound. in my dad’s fridge. a couple of days years days ago. AUGH!! also, yogurt from 4 months ago. “i never have time to grocery shop.”fffound. in my mailbox. a couple days ago. from my adorrrrrrable niece matilda. this is henceforth how i shall spell love: (also always with a rad 6-legged panda bear(?) next to it)
a sky that is gaping and yawning
This weekend: a romantical Saturday nite date with two 11-year olds at the lovely uncommon ground, a ridiculously delicious birthday dinner at sushi samba (melted mozzarella on my salmon maki? YESPLEASE), and two movies I am completely ashamed of having paid for, one of which I actually enjoyed. (under no circumstances should you cave to some sort of base comic instinct to go see Mall Cop....
i grow old, i shall wear the bottoms of my...
men should probably all dress like this. gohh. love that gay english edwardian thing. if you dress as though you live within the lines of an eliot poem, you are doing things RIGHT. Photography by Anna Wolf
why should i share you
why don’t you get rid of someone else for a change? i am the least difficult of men all i want is boundless love. (top svarta, bottom two dj hanus)
apple isn't resting on its laurels
i thought this was real until about the 1-minute mark. Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard innovative new computer just takes 45 minutes to send an email! screen goes dark after 4 seconds of non-use to conserve energy! yesssss, onion tv, yessss.
champagnyah!
Post homemade veggie burritos and pre-vegan birthday cake, Ben (who studied furniture design at RISD) was discussing different wood-making techniques last nite and referred in passing to the Campana Brothers, Brazilian brothas-from-the-same-mutha-design partners who have been creating innovative sculpture/design installations using found objects since the ’80s. This led to an unbelievable...
tewdaie
THIS FEELS LIKE NORMAL arrived today! Before even opening it or reading any of the poems, I already know it is going to be amazing thanks to the goofy ass forty on the cover — drawn by the magical Tao Lin, no less! Someone should buy me his first poetry collection, ‘you are a little bit happier than i am.’ that would make me a little bit happier than them. and then i would...
wheezy
where the wild things are movie stills!!!! wtf amazing. also why isn’t this my room: all via lolita
beady-eyed wee delights
pantherlike in a dapple of tree shadow
London-based photographer Jeff Bark, via synthetic pubes. That last one is criminally good.
crawl across the salt flats
last nite: The Reader & a late meal served by a dead ringer for eric stoltz at La Creperie. We were split on how we felt about the film, but I loved it — an excellent morality tale, and far superior to Revolutionary Road, although both films showcase Kate Winslet’s damn fine acting skills. She is a serious cinematic force, against whom DiCaprio appears puerile and amateur, but...
loo - loo - loo, submarine
For the past week I have been thoroughly engrossed in Joe Dunthorne’s Submarine. Why haven’t you read this book yet? Why hadn’t I? I saw him give a reading at the London Word Festival last March, was utterly charmed by his boyish, sweet honest Welsh face and longish blonde hair, and made to feel wholly insufficient by the fact that we are the same age and he was up on stage...
exploding from all the awesome
i’m about week late on this news, but ZOOEY DESCHANEL & BEN GIBBARD ARE ENGAGED WTF AMAZING. holy eff is that a divine match. my zeal for zooey hath previously been chronicled on this here blawg, which “the yes man,” playing now in a theater near you, only served to intensify. i am probably way too excited about this match. i loved her with jason schwartzmann too, damn this...