Heart is Strange

Heart is Strange (Active Child Remix) - School of Seven Bells
via stereogum

Another weekend over and I'm already excited for the next, and the next. Once more I come into the new week with someone on my mind. Entirely preoccupied - and entirely happy.

Jumpin Jive From 'Stormy Weather'

Dogeared

Photography of Daniel Weiss - via theselvedgeyard

I Need You Now - Cut Copy

ShyScapes - By Misha Shyukin, via monsieurbandit

Movement - Dam Mantle, via gvsb

Adriana Lima - for Vogue Italia, via fashiongonerogue

Stylecaster undoubtedly hurt a lot of people's feelings with their listing of the 50 most stylish New Yorkers. I wonder what the Boston list would look like - could we even fill out a full 50?

School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep

Music Videos by Garth Jennings

A Song to Cheer You UP - Keep Shelly in Athens

via gorillavsbear.net

Watching Sanjuro, writing about Islam and the Internet

Assault with a Smile

There's inspiration everywhere - Sounds like my sound - how much are you for sale for?

Text Messages from last night: "Leave before the cops come."

lazy day

via nedroid

Remembered Moments

I remember this being a major turning point in my youthful exploration of literature. via monster brain

Dogeared

Free time and fantasy; swing through my life, paint on a mailbox.

Michael Schmidt Photography - NYC & LA*

Monster Brains - make your nightmares more creative, create your nightmares.

Who's a pool shark? Punter's Pub and then (breaking into) the MFA.

C215 stencil via vandalblog

pieter bruegel - landscape with fall of icarus, 1558

Club Icarus

We're no more than a few silver

seconds in the air when that winged

and cocky boy gets sucked

into a turbine sparking off a fire

that rips the starboard wing

away from the fuselage, shucking

passengers out and raining

us over northern California, dozens

of us dropping towards the bay

and you can imagine the screams,

I'm sure, the prayers cast up

then down the twirling sky,

and yet here's my daughter

laughing the whole way

down, her yellow hair whipping

around her first teeth smile,

as she titters at the tilted

wonder of what was happening,

rolling airborne over and over,

as we all drop like sacks of wet

clay and for a second I want to snag

her, to show her how frightened

she should be, so I can hug

her safe one last time, but the way

she looks laughing I just can't

and so as the brick of the bay

comes up to kiss my back I watch

my little girl giggling, grinning

floppy-cheeked into the wind

and then, damn, if I don't see, right

before the world splits my sides,

wings all her own butterfly

from her back and lift her

laughing back into the blue.

MATT W. MILLER

Alpha

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. -Muhammad Ali

Royksopp - Alpha Male

Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know from CANADA on Vimeo.

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

Today I'll be visiting the Prado, Hermitage, and Versailles: thanks to Google Art Project



Lovers keep loving; Image - Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss - Antonio Canova, 1787

Ascendant Sunday

via likecool

Color blind

What do you see?

Black, white & Red

Facts and Passions

Your eyes

don't see what I see

I see

Too little

Write it on the Walls

I had twitter for maybe a month - I believe that brevity is the soul of wit, yet twitter is witless. Better to make it a crime and work for the fame of your anonymous moniker.

SAMO© as an Escape Clause

Choose one:

[ ] Impotent Rebellion

[ ] Soulless Capitulation

[ ] SAMO©

Maybe it's because I spend 15 hours a week riding public transportation, another 15 watching documentaries and thinking liminal thoughts, but vandalism/street art/graffiti has been on my mind.

After watching, Bomb It, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Warriors, and Radiant Child, I might pick up some rustoleum on the ride home today.

"Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . ." - HST

Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane) - HD from Ed Banger Records on Vimeo.

I want to have the whole world dancing to this by the end of the night. I'll settle for everyone at my friend Chloe's party. Happy weekend - Joyeux temps libre.

Image via likecool

I love heavy weather.

Moonlight over Boulogne Harbor - Edouard Manet

"And I shall go on talking in a low voice while the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars."
-Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier

A collection of Stanley Fish's favourite sentences appears here.

Aside from the above, I appreciated the included Swift sentence. It underscores his dramatic command of conversation.