Falling Back on Femme

krecs: Wouldn’t you want this to be your AAA guy when run out...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:54:02 -0400

Why, I happen to have some gas right on hand

Priests/ Calvin DATES! What Studs.

Wouldn’t you want this to be your AAA guy when run out of gas your next road trip. This time Calvin’s already called for and touring with Priests over the summer!!

But hey, who knows….

favorite road cassette so far… tracks of note: Y I came:...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:54:53 -0400

favorite road cassette so far…

tracks of note:
Y I came: http://youtu.be/5T9TKHD3Zrk

and Mars: http://youtu.be/eunx2Eh1mRQ

I finally made it back to Detroit. Richie helped me letterpress...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:13:29 -0400

I finally made it back to Detroit. Richie helped me letterpress these postcards as proof.

City of Bridges #pittsburgh #priests #tour

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:38:59 -0400

City of Bridges #pittsburgh #priests #tour

Autocatalytic, what a word. Thank you Mr. Diamond.

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:32:24 -0400

Autocatalytic, what a word. Thank you Mr. Diamond.

Hellman vs. McCarthy

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:25:57 -0400

Hellman vs. McCarthy:

To the public at large it must have looked like two cranky old ladies bitching at each other.

I never thought I’d say this, but I think I’m on McCarthy’s side on this one…

I really want to be treated like an adult, but I have no desire to act like one.

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:53:00 -0400

I really want to be treated like an adult, but I have no desire to act like one.

neil young - cowgirl in the sand massey hall, 1971

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:07:45 -0400

neil young - cowgirl in the sand

massey hall, 1971

Photo

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:55:46 -0400

this pleases me so much more than it should. you lose this round...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:16:00 -0400

this pleases me so much more than it should. you lose this round Georgetown. sorry mom and dad.

watch the section that begins at 8:25. stravinsky’s face...

Thu, 30 May 2013 13:24:00 -0400

watch the section that begins at 8:25. stravinsky’s face at the end is kind of the feeling i am always chasing in life. it is perfect. stravinsky, you were a true artist. RIP.

also the NGA has an exhibit all about the Ballet Russes if anyone wants to go check it out with me. i want to go tomorrow, so i can also watch the free screenings of the the red shoes and the ballet russes over in the east building auditorium (aka the best and freest place to see original 35mm prints in DC).

oh, DC. why you gotta go a be so dreamy right before i’m going to leave you???

eleanornimbly: top notch journalism.

Thu, 30 May 2013 10:37:10 -0400

eleanornimbly:

top notch journalism.

unitedstatesofamericastreet: Salvador Dali and Francois...

Thu, 30 May 2013 09:29:34 -0400

unitedstatesofamericastreet:

Salvador Dali and Francois Hardy.

dream team.

omg this.

Tue, 28 May 2013 15:54:42 -0400

blank eyes in the back. kills me every time. love it.

found the ‘cry me a river’ manga...

Tue, 28 May 2013 14:01:00 -0400

found the ‘cry me a river’ manga iconography. tumblr, you never fail me.

now, if i can just find the ~~‘tongue out, right-bottom eyelids pulled down face’~~ akanbe, i’ll have the trifecta. also, this little girl is creepy and has a skull in her hair and i like her.

manga iconography

Tue, 28 May 2013 13:53:00 -0400

manga iconography:

Sweat drops are a common visual convention. Characters are drawn with one or more prominent beads of sweat on their brow or forehead (or floating above the hair on characters whose back is turned). This represents a broad spectrum of emotions, including embarrassment, exasperation, confusion, and shock, not all of which are necessarily considered to be sweat-inducing under normal conditions.

it may be time to give dear chris a ~~call~~ skype.

everything's coming up Shklovsky

Tue, 28 May 2013 13:32:00 -0400

his use of visual metaphors to describe the work of artistic prose captures the difference between flatly rendering information in words and making those words serve deep vision. He writes, “And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, to make a stone feel stony, man has been given the tool of art. The purpose of art, then, is to lead us to a knowledge of a thing through the organ of sight instead of recognition.” He goes on to say, “The purpose of the image is not to draw our understanding closer to that which the image stands for, but rather to allow us to perceive the object in a special way, in short to lead us to a “vision” of this object[.]”

-via the New York Times

"Every car pulls in its own way. A good car presses very pleasantly against your back as if pushing..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:06:18 -0400

“Every car pulls in its own way. A good car presses very pleasantly against your back as if pushing with one hand. The main attraction of a good car is the quality of its propulsion, the quality of its acceleration. It has the effect of a singer’s crescendo. The voice-propulsion of the Fiat amplifies very pleasantly. You press the accelerator and the car, wild with enthusiasm, carries you forward. In some cars, acceleration is good but jerky. I especially remember a sixty-horsepower Mitchell of that sort. All your sensations are different in an automobile: you feel PROPULSION and peace of mind, PROPULSION and anxiety. But everything you feel is conditioned by sensation of movement pressing against you.”

- Zoo or Letters Not About Love, Viktor Shklovsky (1923)

Stetson, Age 11

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:10:00 -0400

Stetson, Age 11:

Stetson, age 11: Vanilla and balmy with an undercurrent of musk, probably just like what the Electric Horseman smells like I think as I wrap the last of the Christmas tree lights around my Huffy Pro Thunder bike.

I’ve been walking these streets so long, singing the same old song

Fourteen strands of light run from the handle bars down to the front wheel guard, across the center bar, finishing at the chain guard. Every now and then Sharon glances over from her parent’s porch. I can’t tell if she’s annoyed or curious.

I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
Where hustle’s the name of the game

The extension cords, seven in all, run from the chain guard up to the socket by the back door. My little brother’s standing there waiting for the signal.

There’s been a load of compromising on the road to my horizon.

I put my hat on and give my chest another spray of Stetson. Straddling the Huffy now. From the top of the driveway. Almost ready.

I’m gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

Now!

Like a Rhinestone Cowboy. Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo.

Sing it, Glen. I hope Sharon’s watching this. I steal a glance for her.

Like a Rhinestone Cowboy.
Getting cords caught in spokes and flipping over handlebars,
hat smashed, both wrists probably sprained.

The first thing I do is look for my hat. I sit up and notice my hands are bleeding. Sharon has knelt down near me, she looks concerned. “Are you okay?” she asks. And I am. In fact, I’m perfect.

why do ~~boys~~ people have to grow up? it really ruins them.

Postfeminist Dystopias

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:08:00 -0400

Postfeminist Dystopias:

all ideologies are contradictory, impossible, unlivable, and impossible to replicate in real life. But we still like to consume things that suggest that they are achievable — hell, that’s how aspirational, capitalist-based media culture works.

oh, and this

But she’s a bitch because ideology is fucked: she’s done what her culture, her media, her resultant ideals told her to do — and it SUCKS. She’s so unsatisfied, so angry. We don’t even know what her job is — because it DOESN’T MATTER, because postfeminism could give two shits about your job.

anne helen petersen, how can one human be SO AWESOME ALL THE TIME. i almost can’t take it.