Chairlift capture the bubbly feeling of sudden infatuation with “I Belong in Your Arms”, our latest Best New Track.
I am saddened by the backlash against Lana Del Rey. I am sick of this kind of horror at a woman laid bare—and sick of the fear and disgust that arises when we discover a woman is less than perfect. This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. There’s a famous poem, “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” written in 1732, in which the satirist Jonathan Swift describes sneaking into a woman’s inner chamber to watch her undress and take off her makeup. He’s shocked by what he finds: Beneath her “Lace, Brocades, and Tissues,” lie “oyl,” “wrinkles,” “sweat,” “ear-wax,” and “hair.” The whole poem reads as strip tease meets a horror story. At the end, the woman takes a shit, and the voyeur nearly passes out. It’s a hilarious—and also very disturbing poem—and in some ways, it’s a metaphor for what everyone wants to do with Lana these days—that is, peel back the layers and pick her apart in order to uncover the fact that she’s pretending.
Really great piece here.
Georgia- Emily King
I’ve listened to this EP non-stop for the past 7 days. Coincidence?
You should probably love the whole thing: http://emilyking.bandcamp.com/album/the-seven-ep
MOBY DICK TYPED ON TOILET PAPER
MY FRIEND AND I ONCE JOKED THAT TOILET PAPER SHOULD HAVE INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED ON THEM FOR CERTAIN PEOPLE
ONE DAY, THE CONVERSATION GREW FROM THERE AND TURNED INTO A WAGER THAT I COULDN’T (OR WOULDN’T) BE ABLE TO TYPE OUT A NOVEL ON TOILET PAPER.
YES, WE DID HAVE SOME TIME ON OUR HANDS BUT, AS YOU CAN SEE BY THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS, I WON THE BET.
THERE ARE FOUR FULL ROLLS, ONE ROLL (EPILOGUE) IS ABOUT 1/5 OF A ROLL AND ONE HALF-ROLL
ALL OF THE ROLLS OF TP CAME OUT OF A BRAND NEW — CLEAN — PACKAGE OF 2-PLY COTTONELLE
THEY’VE BEEN HANDLED VERY GINGERLY AND INFREQUENTLY
AS YOU’LL SEE IN THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS, ONE OR TWO ROLLS HAVE A TEAR AT THE BEGINNING
THIS IS WHERE I WAS TRYING TO PULL THE PAPER THROUGH THE TYPEWRITER
I’VE KEPT THIS MOD ODDITY IN A BOX IN A COOL, DRY PLACE FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS
AND HAVE ONLY BROKEN IT OUT TO PROVE TO DOUBTERS THAT I ACTUALLY DID IT
CONSIDERING WHAT IT’S BEEN THROUGH, IT’S IN AMAZING CONDITION
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THERE IS NO FOLLY OF THE BEASTS OF EARTH WHICH IS NOT INFINITELY OUTDONE BY THE MADNESS OF MEN.
The Cloud Room. Pray for Zither. Photo by Shervin Lainez.
This Is Water
“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.”
-David Foster Wallace
After finishing The Pale King, I felt an emptiness in the place where I held high expectations to DFW. This was obviously unfair since the novel was never finished. This is the price you pay for worshipping any one person or thing. But after re-reading some of his essays and this, from which the above is quoted, I cannot understate the importance of his ideas. You get the sense that, like most important authors, he is writing in attempt to wrestle with the demons of the world, not just his own. To me, this excerpt illustrates the thing many of us have internalized without being able to explain it. We have all tried to justify the worship of both grand and mundane things without acknowledging our hypocrisy.
“Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.”
It all comes down to honesty. How honest are you with yourself? I may struggle miserably in trying to embody a paltry 1% of the advice being offered in hopes that by merely trying I am allowed a greater sense of consciousness. So yes, we all worship something; we all practice some variation of faith. DFW manages to justify the kind of faith many “intelligent” people would likely scoff at. My personal reconciliation? I tend to put more faith in questions, and less in answers. This is how I plan to “Keep Swimming”.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost a son while living in the White House.Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both were shot behind the head.Here is an interesting one…
Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.Both successors were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy was born in 1939.Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are made of fifteen letters.Mr. Booth shot Lincoln in a Theatre called “Ford”.
Lee Harvey Oswald, shot Kennedy in a car called “Ford” Lincoln.Booth ran from a theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And last but not least,
A month before Lincoln was shot he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A month before Kennedy was shot he was with Marilyn Monroe.
(via ohyeahfacts)
Theme from The Legend of Zelda (Symphonic Rendition)
You didn’t even realize how much you needed this in your life until now.
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Spotted over at California Home Design’s blog, this aptly named “Book Table” is a custom creation [by S.F. maker Lisa Finster] that incorporates a client’s favorite books into the piece of furniture, made by cutting precise holding spaces for each book inside of wooden panels. (via Lisa Finster Book Table - Custom-Made Bookshelf Table)
Also from The Hils, my new sous-blogger.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly0wr2ZFYy1qb6ut5o1_500.jpg)
Spotted over at California Home Design’s blog, this aptly named “Book Table” is a custom creation [by S.F. maker Lisa Finster] that incorporates a client’s favorite books into the piece of furniture, made by cutting precise holding spaces for each book inside of wooden panels. (via Lisa Finster Book Table - Custom-Made Bookshelf Table)
Also from The Hils, my new sous-blogger.
marsbattyangel asked: Did not know that you were actually expecting/waiting for people to invade your ask box :P
I mean, c’mon people! Do I have to ask myself all of the questions around here?
