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Posted on June 24 2009

A liquor/wine store is literally opening underneath my apartment. ie. the end of me.

UPDATE: opens this Friday, June 26th

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Posted: on June 24 2009

“ Readers bring their intellect to the page just as the author does and each reader brings different knowledge and experience and history and bias. Each reader understands the book a bit differently. Each reader asks the novel different questions, and as a result each reader gets different answers, which explains why you are crazy for Confederacy of Dunces and your otherwise extremely intelligent attorney wife thinks you’re an idiot for laughing at it.

— Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Fiction’s Dirty Little Secret

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Posted: on June 24 2009

“ Michael Mann’s PUBLIC ENEMIES, which premiered last night in Westwood, is glorious and levitational — the most captivating, beautifully composed and freshly conceived gangster movie since BONNIE AND CLYDE. It’s an art film first, a Mann head-and-heart trip second, a classic machine-gun action pulverizer third, and a conventional popcorn movie fourth.

— Jeffrey Wells

(via petersheik)

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Posted: on June 24 2009

LupusNY.org - Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Foundation

I know there’s quite a few things going on tomorrow, but I’m pretty sure your event doesn’t get me unlimited beer + hot dogs with a view of the sunset over Manhattan for only $10 that goes towards Lupus research. My decision has been made and I’m hitting up the WTB in LIC for the first time this summer, in tomorrow’s 80 degree heat.

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Posted: on June 24 2009

madeinthedark:

Roman Ondák Measuring the Universe opens today at MoMA on the second floor.

Viewers play a vital role in the creation of Measuring the Universe (2007), by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák (b. 1966). Over the course of the exhibition, attendants mark Museum visitors’ heights, first names, and date of the measurement on the gallery walls. Beginning as an empty white space, over time the gallery gradually accumulates the traces of thousands of people.

(via hydeordie)

Neat.

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Posted: on June 24 2009

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

grapefruite:

beautifulordinaire:

(via caryrandolph)

I read this line just before I fell asleep last night.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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Posted: on June 24 2009

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The Postal Service – Grow Old With Me (John Lennon cover) (shared by soow)

lindsayneedscoffee:via musicforyourcoffee

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Posted: on June 24 2009

“ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

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Say what you will about his inconsistent movie ratings, but Roger Ebert is one of the funniest writers out there when he’s irked at having sat through a bad film. Most of the time, his one-star reviews end up being more hilarious than the actual films being reviewed. (via gregbrown)

I did not like the first one (gasp!) and certainly won’t be seeing the second. God save us all from a third.

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Posted: on June 24 2009

“ Readers fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the [Meatpacking District] should imagine the third circle of Dante’s hell, but with tightly dressed Jersey chicks vomiting sucrose and grain alcohol on unpaved streets.

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- Slate (via fullcredit)

I admit to visiting for the first (and hopefully final) time last Saturday (I was tricked). These type of establishments are only slightly above “clubs” and “prison” as far as places I never ever enjoy in New York.

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Posted: on June 24 2009

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joelaz:

Phoenix - Napolean Says

Photo by Kmeron

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Posted: on June 24 2009

“Press Hop” featuring A. Iverson (Steve Porter remix) featuring Mora, Green, Namath, Gundy & T O (via djsteveporter)

Found via BS. Better than autotune the news is autotune the sports spot.

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Posted: on June 24 2009

“ Sometimes, products or people become well known because they’re of high quality. They’re good. They’re helpful. They’re compelling or interesting or fun to be around. And whatever the tipping point for moving from unknown to well known, I don’t think that progression negates the quality that’s there in the first place. In other words, just because something’s popular, it doesn’t mean it’s automatically without value.

You can call me a Kool-Aid drinker if you want, I don’t mind. I’m still passionate and enthusiastic about things that lots of other people like, too. Because to me, value begets popularity and attention. Not the other way around.

— Sometimes Kool-Aid Is Okay | Altitude Branding | Brand Elevation through Social Media

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Posted: on June 24 2009

» Beyond Hollywood: Johnny Depp’s Great Escape

roamin:

Douglas Brinkley on Johnny Depp: Vanity Fair

“That’s Keith [Richards]!,” Depp enthuses. “He recorded some of these after his ’77 heroin bust in Toronto. He thought he was headed to jail for 30 fucking years for trafficking.”

Depp, as if recounting a favorite outlaw fable, then goes on to tell how the Ontario Provincial Police and a team of Royal Canadian Mounties stormed into Keith Richards’s room while he was sleeping and confiscated 22 grams of heroin. (Richards eventually had his sentence reduced from trafficking to possession and was put on probation for a year.)

Depp tilts his head toward the hut. “Listen to this,” he urges, nodding in adoration. Richards, alone on piano, is now singing a haunting rendition of Hoagy Carmichael’s “The Nearness of You.”

“I played this one from a boom box when Lily Rose was born,” Depp says, referring to the day a decade ago when his partner, Vanessa Paradis, the French-born singer and actress, brought their daughter into the world. “This is her birth song. She arrived to this, man.”

Welcome to Deppville…”

Continue reading this article on Vanity Fair

I’ll never forget that magical day of riding around with Douglas Brinkley and then giving (and receiving) a head nod to Johnny Depp, only to wake up and fly out of Aspen with Brinkley the next morning.

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Posted: on June 24 2009

52books:

If you’re a reader and iphone user, indiebound.org offers one of the most helpful apps ever. It will tell you the location of the nearest independent bookstore, give various recommendation lists, and even let you search for titles and authors. Basically, it has helped me find a few things I never would have otherwise. Did I mention it’s free?

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Posted: on June 24 2009

leitch:

“There are two robots in the film called Mudflap and Skids, and despite being red and green, respectively, they are voiced in a way that clearly designates them to be the “black” robots. Also, Skids has a gold front tooth (no, I’m serious) and both cannot read.”

— Yeah, I think I’m gonna just sit the Transformers movie out, thank you.

ye gods.

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