HST portrait in a gallery on Bowery

HST portrait in a gallery on Bowery

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shorterexcerpts: The new Penguin cover of DFW’s The Broom of the System apparently highlights Vlad the Impaler. via quarterlyconversation.com Incredible.

shorterexcerpts:

The new Penguin cover of DFW’s The Broom of the System apparently highlights Vlad the Impaler.

via quarterlyconversation.com

Incredible.

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esquared: Top Five Irish Pubs in New York And I’m right around the corner.

esquared:

Top Five Irish Pubs in New York

And I’m right around the corner.

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It’s weird enough living in a country where a man can legally own an arsenal of machine guns, but his neighbor growing a pot plant will send a team of DEA agents kicking his door in with a no-knock warrant. But this goes even beyond that. If I go online today to HaveNoLifeAndBetOnSports.com and bet fifty dollars on the Bucks against the Celtics tonight, I’m a criminal. But some gazillionaire firm in New York can legally bet against the United States of America in unlimited amounts in a trade that has nothing to do with anything, but a guess about how many other people will make the same bet.

Jesus, are we a weird country.

Shorting America Rocks! - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant

Just discovered Taibbi’s blog. Sitting here reading, next to a grain of salt leftover from lunch. (This guy wants you to know you can only legally have a machine gun in two states. Important info).

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Flavorwire » A Walking Tour of Astoria With Sam Lipsyte  I love this so much. Each picture took me back to the neighborhood I feel most at ease in, having spent 3.5 years of my life there. It’s great to have been reading Lipsyte for five years and have his new book come full circle for me. I’m exciting for the reading tonight and for tackling the book in the days to come.

Flavorwire » A Walking Tour of Astoria With Sam Lipsyte

 I love this so much. Each picture took me back to the neighborhood I feel most at ease in, having spent 3.5 years of my life there. It’s great to have been reading Lipsyte for five years and have his new book come full circle for me. I’m exciting for the reading tonight and for tackling the book in the days to come.

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McNally Jackson Books - The New York City Bookstore - Sam Lipsyte

Tonight, 7pm.

The last time I was in a room with Sam, he was telling our college senior lit class that “Masturbation is the secret to writing well”.

So, yeah, I’ll be there tonight.

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Heineken Italy. Case Study - Champions League Match vs Classical Concert (Real Madrid, AC Milan) (via uldissilins)

On the night of the October 21st the Real Madrid played Champions League match against AC Milan.
Heineken convinced several university professors, girlfriends, and several bosses to convince their students, boyfriends and employees to go to a concert on that night. All of them couldn’t say no and had to go to the classical concert.
But…
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startmeup: *On right now. Marina Abramovic @ the MOMA, “The Artist is Present”….LIVE VIDEO FEED Marina Abramović will perform in the Marron Atrium at MoMA throughout the duration of the exhibition, starting just before the museum opens each day and continuing until just after closing, Abramović sits in a wooden chair at a small table. Visitors, one at a time, sit in another wooden chair opposite, and the artist and the viewer stare at each other. The artist’s chair is padded.. She will not perform during MoMA Nights. March 14–May 31, 2010 Stare down.

startmeup:

*On right now.

Marina Abramovic @ the MOMA, “The Artist is Present”….LIVE VIDEO FEED

Marina Abramović will perform in the Marron Atrium at MoMA throughout the duration of the exhibition, starting just before the museum opens each day and continuing until just after closing, Abramović sits in a wooden chair at a small table. Visitors, one at a time, sit in another wooden chair opposite, and the artist and the viewer stare at each other. The artist’s chair is padded.. She will not perform during MoMA Nights.

March 14–May 31, 2010

Stare down.

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bestrooftalkever:

Piano improviser on Chatroulette knows win.

(via gracenmichelle)

Any way you can make it.

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A 2 year old photo post gets hot today (with a almost 2 months old post in there too!)

A 2 year old photo post gets hot today (with a almost 2 months old post in there too!)

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Music I Should be Listening to, by my friend Will

Will’s process:

I like going to metacritic and looking at their music, if pitchfork, onion, and popmatters agree on the success of an album, it’s usually going to have the right amount of popular appeal (not pretentious) without being stale

Music I have to hear:

titus andronicus- new and old (monitor and airing of grievances)
los campesinos- everything they’ve ever done, but especially new album (great songs: in media res, straight in at 101, the sea is a good place…)
hood internet- usher vs los campesinos (from mixtape 3) and all of their mixtape 4
beach house- good and chill, not as amazing as 9.0 pitchfork but i wouldn’t rate under 8.0
surfer blood- astro coast, good rock, like weezer and beach boys with a little rougher texture
owen pallet- his new one, and all the old final fantasy (his old name)
spoon- old album “kill the moonlight” just fantastic

Other music he’s been listening to:

hot chip- brothers (“i can play x box with my brothers….”), not a big fan of whole album
zola jesus- night
the knife- colouring of pigeons (reminds me of the opera singer in 5th element)
jay electronica- exhibit a, exhibit b (with mos def), exhibit c
and if you like joanna newsom or just want to understand the vitriol/ hype, i’d get her first album, milk eyed
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Amazon.com: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (9780007204496): Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman: Books If you haven’t read this yet, the Harper Perennial Modern Classics PS treatment is reason enough. I own five copies and still had to pick this up. LOVE the imprint and format Perennial gives its books. There’s a whole big section of bonus content at the back, like DVD extras. A gotta-get.

Amazon.com: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (9780007204496): Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman: Books

If you haven’t read this yet, the Harper Perennial Modern Classics PS treatment is reason enough. I own five copies and still had to pick this up. LOVE the imprint and format Perennial gives its books. There’s a whole big section of bonus content at the back, like DVD extras. A gotta-get.

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I think the internet has been great for new fiction. That’s been the big change. People are still writing stories and novels and a few are great and some are good and most aren’t very good at all. I guess what’s different is that you could go through your awkward stage in private. Back when I was figuring out how to write the internet existed but not like today. We’d have the same conversations that people have online now, rants about the more established writers we revered and hated, and we made a lot of stupid pronouncements about the state of literature and how it’s all shit except for so-and-so and what’s-her-name and, of course, us, but the only witnesses were a few people and a sofa and some beer cans. Or you might show somebody a story you wrote, but there was no posting it on a blog. So there was no real record of when you were a dumb, scared, angry baby who didn’t know how to write yet. And for me, at least, that’s a blessing.

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I only have a really weird answer, which is Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. John [Cusack] and I co-directed the American stage premiere of the movie … Sorry great actors Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, and great director Terry Gilliam, but I still think we have something to offer in the Hunter S. Thompson canon of work in bringing it to film.

High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank co-writer Steve Pink on what movie he’d like to remake [MovieWeb]
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First Listen: She And Him, 'Volume Two' : NPR

The new album, in its entirety. Worth a free listen.

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