munching on the apple
who shot rock & roll?
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It has been running for months but naturally enough most of Brooklyn decided to see ‘Who Shot Rock & Roll?’ about an hour before it wrapped up in NYC. I was (thankfully) among them.
The exhibition showcased incredibly personal, emotive and iconic photographs of rock’s favourite kids such as The Beatles, Jimi, Patti Smith, Grace Jones & of course Bobby D himself. Overall, the show was beautiful, passionate and pretty much flawless. I feel I’m doing it a huge disservice posting only a few pics but I guess such is the way of the internet. Gah!
my (video) year in (video) lists
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Jan 22nd & munching on about a list from last year, perhaps a little late? Although personally I think a good list is always in order.
I couldn’t believe how many I had seen, and was equally staggered that Julie & Julia wasn’t featured until 6:12, eep! Lots of ‘Terminator Salvation’ to keep Foxy happy. And lots of ‘Whip It’ to keep the whole world happy because let’s face it, it was the movie of the decade. Drew Barrymore for the win!
Los Campesinos! – My Year In Lists
i’m obsessed with the mess that’s america
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More precisely, obsessed with New York.
The little things seem so much more shiny now. I am obsessed with our local bodega, the 711 beside work (and the stench of coffee in there), how E. Williamsburg/Bushwick feels like an actual factual neighborhood, coke-on-draft everywhere, how beautiful the city is, the parks, the burgers, the amount of steps I walk up and down every single day, American Apparel and their ways, the amount of people I see on the way to work, lists (like this one), cats in shops, open bars (nights out for little monies), free books outside our door, free coffee in the launderette, the L magazine and of course, the subway. An absolutely fascinating place where you watch people watch other people, and see some of the most interesting clothes, books, knitting patterns and hip flasks.
These songs are what it sounds like in my head:
Jay-Z & Marvin Gaye – Hello Brookyln
Marina & the Diamonds – Hollywood (JoeBot Robot lol-o-remix)
Wild Beasts – Hooting & Howling
it’s a wonderful life
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Gah, long time no blog. Perhaps my New Year’s resolution will be to keep this updated better.
Tomorrow I fly home! Ending just shy of half a year spent living in New York City. It was rad for sure. I am very much in love with New York, and I have a feeling he feels the same.
Happy Christmas to one and all! Turns out I was your Secret Santa and I got you this awesome game:
Peace out,
D
HURTS – Wonderful Life
Beach Boys – God Only Knows (I maintain that it is a Christmas song)
it was a graveyard smash
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Fever Ray has compiled a spoooooooky podcast exclusive to RA that is perfect to get you in the Hallowe’en mood. You have to sign up real quick and go here to get it. I would not recommend it if you are alone/prone to being spooked. Something like the Monster Mash or the Mummy is far more seemly. Enjoy, mwah haw haw, etc.
Bobby Pickett – The Monster Mash
Bob McFadden – The Mummy
the misconnection of
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Missed Connections combines the hope, love and sense of destiny of every romantic movie that Catherine has ever made me watch, and is actually factually operating successfully in New York City. Each post on craigslist oozes the hope that a glance in the subway or street may be something a little special.
Sophie Blackall, an illustrator living in Brooklyn, plucks a few of the most interesting posts and portrays them in a medium infinitely more attractive that a post on craigslist. So this:
Thursday, May 14, 2009
- m4w – 20 (Williamsburg)Well, whatever the case, it was cute. Do you live on N7th too? We could hang out.
becomes this:
Here are a couple more of my faves from Sophie’s missed connections blog:
gossip blast
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Last Friday after watching lots and lots of this:
I went to see some of this:
Both of which impressed me greatly! Yes GG is great once again and I think is made even better by watching it in NYC. Getting outside of the school may be exactly what it needed.
In other news I had won tickets to see Gossip live and I must say that B*Ditto and co put on a pretty neat show in Terminal 5. Heavy Cross is a stonker of a tune!
Gossip – Heavy Cross
lolcats for life!
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O hai
The owner of lolcats was in town for a book signing and it seemed fitting that lol-o-dmcg should meet mr lolcats in the flesh. The event was at Columbus Cirle, which is so pretty and I recognised it immediately from Gossip Girl. Of course we all expected him to either be a big cat or at least look like a cat but he was neither. And because the pics are all sent in from contributors he’s actually just a faciliator of lolcats at the site, icanhascheezburger. So what I am doing writing about him when I should just be posting up some lolcats!
Kthkbai.
fatty rat pants
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You’ve heard of duck tales but have you heard of rat tales? Well I could tell you a rat tale or two. It was business as usual in American Apparel Williamsburg until a little rodent friend decided to come into the store and kick back around the tights. Oh, vom! And I guess anywhere else in the world it might be a sign of uncleanliness but there are so many of them in NY that I guess it’s inevitable. He was a clever one too because once we closed the door he stayed outside and I saw him on my break later on. He was a fatty pants and had the longest tail I’ve seen on a rat. I hope he’s not there tomorrow.
the passion (pit) of the duck
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Passion Pit & Phoenix played in Central Park last week and I went to see them. “Oh how were Passion Pit?”, I hear you ask. How was Sleepyhead, one of my fave songs of the year? Well yeah it was great I mean they sounded a lot like they do on the album probably because I spent most Passion Pit’s set listening to my iPod waiting on the fooking L-train!! So I only saw the end of them. Raging.
Phoenix were awesome and the awesome setting was a huge attraction too. The stage was set up among a big bunch of trees in Rumsey Playfield, and the atmosphere was a little bit fantastic. I felt like going to the Quidditch World Cup when I was walking through the Park to get to it. It started to rain towards the end of Phoenix’s set but thankfully they had time to absolutely nail ‘1901′ with a stellar performance of it. There wasn’t a single person not dancing, which is what we all want to see.
Phoenix – 1901
Phoenix – Run Run Run
