munching on the apple
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
he-man hipster
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I sometimes think what it would be like for my friends from home to come to live in Brooklyn and it makes me feel so happy. And I wonder who would fit in, and who would work where, etc. To be honest, I very seldom wondered what it would be like for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe to come live in Brooklyn, but now I know what it would look like. Kudos to flavorpill for finding this dude’s awesome work. My personal fave is the Skeletor:
the cats pajamas
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If you’re on the fence as to whether cats should wear pajamas then this might make you vote yes. Just look at 0:16. I wish Irish lotto ads featured cats in pjs.
the nyc subwait
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Reasons to love the L-train:
1. The route; running right through Williamsburg to Union Square and the Meatpacking District.
2. It’s the only subway to have a display telling you when the next train is.
3. It runs 24 hours.
4. A marvelous mix of people on it, so really good people watching.
5. It’s shiny.
HOWEVER since September hit it feels like the ‘L’ no longer stands for ‘Love’. It stands for WAITING. Because all I ever do is wait for the train. Wait wait wait. And the aforementioned display either confirms how long you’ll be waiting (although at least I’ve never experienced this) or tells you fibs about the train being zero minutes away when it clearly isn’t there. Goddamit L train get it together.
Herbert – Moving Like A Train
“i thought he was just a rat, but he was a super rat all along. a super rat in rat’s clothing.”
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Don’t tell Nualasoc or she’ll never come over. But after leaving work last night I was walking down the steps of the subway only to find two rats having the banter on the steps! It’s definitely the closest I’ve ever come to standing on top of a rat.
CSS – Rat is Dead (Rage)
