My next tattoo?

[via: You Can't Get Rid of Me that Easy]

Scamalot

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Scamalot
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Owen - Windows And Doorways

Bad backs and hardwood floors - I'm so sick of waking up sore.

The Anniversary All Things Ordinary

Will you stay near me now? Don't leave this town until we figure out between the two of us we're strong enough: I feel that in your touch.

Someday, somebody's going to ask you

A question that you should say "yes" to, once in your life.
Maybe, tonight I've got a question for you.

Can you still feel the butterflies?

Can you still hear the last goodnight?

Smug Lion

Classy Cat

Disney's Star Wars Weekends

These new Star Wars ads look amazing!

[Via: Blackrainbow-shop]

Wassily Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou

To be in Paris.

Winnie the Pooh

Conversation(s) With Other Women

Yeah, but sometimes I push them together

Dave Davison (Maps & Atlases) - The Ongoing Horrible

We slept arm-in-arm, so soundly ignoring the outside sounds of the ongoing horrible scene.

[Via: Sargent House]

Shelly Duvall's Tall Tales & Legends

Dashboard Confessional

Remember to breathe, and everything will be okay.

Huey Lewis and The News

I've been your fool for so so long.
Girl don't lie, just to save my feelings.
Girl don't cry, and tell me nothing's wrong.
Girl don't try to make up phony reasons.

Taking Back Sunday

I don't think that you know what you've been missing

hellogoodbye

I like where we are when we drive in your car.

The Cat From Outer Space

Cinema.

The Momonga

The Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel embodies the essence of Japan.

The Numbat

FACT: The numbat is a marsupial and is also called the banded anteater. This animal is unique because it belongs to its own family, and unlike many other marsupials it is mainly active in the day instead of night.

FACT: The numbat is adorable.

Exactly

So you're scared, and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore

Show a little faith there's magic in the night...

You can hide beneath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain

Peppermill. Peppermill. Peppermill. Peppermill. PEPPERMILL.

Friends and go-betweens sing like canaries crushed in leaves

She used to whisper your name like a refrain and when she held you, you know, you felt safer...Fifties, Sixties, Seventies now art films burnt into our brow.


I'm the guy who yells the first emphatic "Canaries!"

Buddy Wakefield - The Math

Because of the inventor of the photograph,
I have memorized your image when it's still.

I wish you could see what you look like when you're still here.

Epic

Surgical Precision

"I felt so keen a longing for Mme de Guermantes that I could scarcely breathe; it was as though part of my breast had been cut out by a skilled anatomist and replaced by an equal part of immaterial suffering, by its equivalent in nostalgia and love. And however neatly the wound may have been stitched together, one lives rather uncomfortably when regret for the loss of another person is substituted for one's entrails; it seems to be occupying more room than they; one feels it perpetually; and besides, what a contradiction in terms to be obliged to think a part of one's body."

Marcel Proust - The Guermantes Way

Capybara

Why is he so smug?

Let's-a go!

San Diego and the Origins of Conceptual Art in California

Allan Kaprow, How to Make a Happening, 1966

The Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art Gallery is hosting an art show which shines a light on a blind spot in art history. The west coast often times get placed behind the east coast in the art world hierarchies, and in this Los Angeles is seen as the driving cultural force. 

The artist's located in San Diego found themselves within academia, and this allowed their practice to exist within gallery spaces and classrooms. This engine of artistic progress and processes has yet to be explored thoroughly, and hopefully this show can be a starting point.

Did you notice that I was afraid?

I thought I'd run out of things to say. Two more hours until today burns this away, and it starts all over again.

New Found Glory tonight at HOB.

DOOM BUNKER!

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In this scenario, we have a werewolf Congress. How freaked out would you be?

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

February 3, 2009–May 25, 2009

The Howard Gilman Gallery
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Yet another photography exhibition I'd love to see. Being able to see Evans's personal collection of ~9,000 postcards along side his own experiments into the format would be quite the juxtaposition of artistic aims.

Evans strove for an unabashed realism (that could call into question the veracity of the scenes he captured: too staged to be considered real?) in his work. When placed alongside a postcard, we are struck with two different Americas.

It is odd that the MET refers to the picture postcard as representing "a powerful strain of indigenous American realism."

Unknown Artist, Tennesse Coal, Iron & RR Co.'s Steel Mills, Ensley Ala. 1920

This photograph seems to be a far cry from the idea of realism: a verdant pastoral setting with the industrial reality a mere afterthought in the background, hardly imposing itself on the landscape. To call this American realism is perhaps a social critique on what one would stereotypically call the American attitude.

Walker Evans, View of Ossining, New York 1930-31

This is Evans's realism which contrasts sharply with the supposed realism of the American postcard. The postcard is a tool to sell an idea of a place, to try an encapsulate what we want a location to be. Evans images do try to sell us on place, but to a different end. His images are like Madonna's minus the child. They call to us to help them.

The work of Evans almost always posses that Barthesian punctum for me. I truly am wounded when my gaze fixes upon his work. They create a rupture point in which I pour myself out and the image enters me. This visual violence enacted in the distance between the image and myself opens up pathways into which I can explore the rays of light that are the photograph. The punctum is private, but Evans's work couldn't be any more public. The beauty of these tensions enhances the experience of his work.

The postcards are prime examples of Barthseian studium. We understand the images at once. They are uncomplicated and don't ask much, if anything, from our gaze. Any kind of punctum associated with these images would be less of a punctum, and more of an acute symptom of nostalgic reflection on Americana.

Evans turned the postcard on its head with his photojournalist style. I would really like to see the whole exhibition. 9,000 postcards is a lot and making my judgements based off of the handful on the MET's website is perhaps unfair, but I can only work with the visual information that MET chooses to display to those who are unable to make it to the exhibition.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but you can only fit a fraction of that on a postcard.

Cognitive Dissonance

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Another example of Bill O'Reilly's double speak and the wonders of TV editing: calling the paparazzi "scum of the earth" and then employing the very same tactics for The O'Reilly Factor.

Army of Darkness

I wouldn't bother

but this means everything to me

Father Guido Sarducci gives the straight dope on being an artist

This about sums it up.

[Originally posted on C-MONSTER.net]

Ski Free

Die hard

Superchunk - Leaves in the Gutter

New Superchunk EP!

Exactly

Baruch atah HaShem

I hope this letter finds you well

"The moments that we've shared could last a lifetime, and the faith I have in us will keep you near. Several hundred miles placed in between us means several hundred words be sent by mail."

Dag Design Lab has created a sleek way to track the delivery time between postcard sender and recipient. We can now measure the physical distance between our written words: that space between seconds. We can place ourselves between these numbers, their sums and our memories.

When instant messages are our new reality, correspondence that exist for someone in the future refer back to when our words had to stand the test of elapsed time.

You know sometimes circles run around you

You love to live to hate this town, and I hope and dream just like you do

Italian Facist Headquarters

1934

Randy

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The Only Loveable Hipster...

...and the original party dog.

Paris, City of Photography 1920-1940

Sans titre (1929) - Marianne Breslauer

The Jeu de Paume in Paris is having an amazing photography show. Between this and the fashion photo shows last month, it seems as though the exhibitions of early to mid-20th century photography keep catching my eye. It is too bad that they are all so far away from California.

Stephen Colbert's Congress Boogie

This gets me everytime.

Angry Camels

[Source: BoingBoing]

Classiest Dog

Spuds MacKenzie is back!

[Source: Telegraph]

Smug Pug

Freak the Geek Out

I was going to write something about satire and people without qualifications talking about issues and creating swings in public perception. Instead, I'm just going to say that the latest 30 Rock is too damn funny for its own good.

Larry King playing Larry King is hilarious: who would have guessed?

Werner Reiterer

"The Beginnings of Space Travel"

Reiterer's work engages with the way we consume visual information and the process undoing of our expectations.

This piece just makes me smile.

You know it's true because I wouldn't lie to you

You change your mind like I change the time I said that I would be there, but then I didn't have a thing to wear. Pop-punk genius.

The sound of hearts pumping at the same beat

Can't wait for the show

Oliver Peoples

I like Oliver Peoples line of women's glasses. It takes the ubiqitous wayfayer and ups the ante with small, but stylish touches. The other non-wayfarer frames are similiarly inspired and fresh.

The men's lines doesn't do it for me though. They seem to be comming from a different time than Zooey's. This doesn't feel like creative anachronism: it's disjointed. The stylistic touches on the men's line also feel uninspired when compared the their female counterparts.

Dorgi!

The union of the dachshund and corgi is overwhelmingly cute.

[Originally posted by RabbitMage at the SomethingAwful Forums]

Light Speed

Villareal "Multiverse" at the Nation Gallery of Art, Washington DC from Walter Patrick Smith.

This piece is visually engaging, and I like the fact that the LED function is random to ensure no viewer receives the same show twice. I need to experience this first hand though. Watching this video can't expose the experiential nuances that would separate this from a Las Vegas light show or the beginning of Space Mountain.

Team Work

Crank 2

.Cinema.

Vs. The Red Baron

Socks!

The Former First Cat Socks has died!

This is the best party ever! Thanks Gandhi!

Just like me, they long to be close to you

I need a talkbox.

Internet!

Julius

This is almost as good as the Hello Kitty cell phone. Almost.

[Source: Gizmodo]

Still I look to find a reason to believe

I'm partial to the Rod Stewart version, but the Billy Bragg and Lisa Miller is closer to the Tim Hardin version.

Coming Home

New Found Glory has a live set from their Coming Home tour airing on HD TV. It was at the Avalon in Boston, and the first thing I noticed was Jordan wearing a Drive Like Jehu shirt. That made me pretty damn happy.

These guys may be the kings of pop punk (my personal opinion), but they have great taste in music. Reading Steve's blog (the url is a tribute to Texas is the Reason) is always a treat because you never know who he is going to post music or lyrics from: Copeland, Mineral, Boys Life, etc.

The more I listen to Not Without a Fight the more I cannot wait for their San Diego tour date.

I want to start a pop-punk band: Nothing Gold Can Stay/Self Titled style.

Sheltie Puppy!

[Originally posted by PG-34 on the SomethingAwful forums]

New Leaves

I noticed today that Owen had two new tracks up I hadn't heard. Between this and the new Dashboard Confessional song, I'm stoked on my old favorites.

Listen!

We're #2

Eat that Cleveland!

Even Now

Dashboard Confessional has released a new single for Valentine's Day: "Even Now (Acoustic)". It has the stripped down feel of The Shade of Poison Trees. Where Shade failed for me though, this track succeeds. It manages to capture something of the old Dashboard with his new styling and creates a moment that is perfectly intimate and poignant. The soft vocal harmonies and simple guitar complements his straight forward lyrics of longing and remembrance. The song is one of memory and finding something that was lost or never was.

Get it here!

Another solid Valentine's Day acoustic track is Jonah Matranga's cover of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone." He released this via his website last year and does the track justice. The tape hiss, room resonance, and his voice creates a closeness to the performance that brings this song all together. I have always enjoyed Jonah's covers (especially Billy Bragg's "A New England").

My World Goes Black Before I Feel An Angel Lift Me Up

End of Week 4 of Starting Strength:

Squat: 170
Bench: 165
Deadlift: 235

BB Military Press: 100
BB Bent Over Rows: 105

Dips: 2x10
Chin Ups: 3x1,2x1,1x1

BB Curls: 70 2x8
Skullcrushers: 75 2x8

Incline sit ups: 50 3x5
Hypers: 35 2x8


All my numbers are up, so I'm pleased. My bench has stalled so next week I'll be starting back at 165 instead of going up to 170.

I switched everything over to being done with a barbell this week. I put it off for too long, but now I feel more confident with the barbell and I can fine tune the weight better.

I still need to work on my pullups, but they'll get there in time.

Corgi Corgi Corgi

[Originally posted by londerwost on the SomethingAwful forums]

Owen Buttons

Mike Kinsella knows what I like: fingerpicking and goofy animals. I know for sure that the panda has appeared on a shirt of his, but the others are new to me.

[Source: Polyvinyl Records]

Out for the Count

I'll Take You to the Bahamas

I can't get enough of this track. The cutesy lyrics are just right and endearing. I can't help singing along.

Catvertising!

Specially trained cats will be released around London wearing coats to promote F.E.A.R. 2. Catvertising is genius because it appeals to my demographic: those who like cats in clothes and video games.

[Source: ElectricPig]

Sleeping Kitten