Friday, November 30, 2007
Who is Scrappington? I want to date them. They release this excellent "slow music from west africa" mix and apparently are from new york (is that German?). Google, you have failed me.
This Cortez person is for real.
Camayenne Sofa's "Vol. 2 Attaque" album is fire.
This Cortez person is for real.
Camayenne Sofa's "Vol. 2 Attaque" album is fire.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Mike Perry
Jill Greenberg
Restaurant wrap-up:
Zenkichi was good. It wasn't just a gimmick.
Dressler was good. The manager chastised our waiter because I was thoughtless.
Marlow And Sons was good. Hipsters, hey.
Karaoke One 7 is the best Karaoke place I've ever been to.
Cafe Zaiya is my absolute joint!
No, the reading room at the Bryant Park branch of the New York Public Library is my utter joint.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving
Monday, November 19, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
achewood is completely what's really, really good.
Here's a poem I wrote about God:
What's good?
What's really, really good?
Holler at your boy
what it is.
Holler at me
what it do.
Every line in that poem is a different variant of hip hop slang for "hello"/"how are you"/"what's going on?"/"hey." Despite being complete sentences (what=subject, is=verb), in practice they idiomatically serve as ejaculations and, like curse words, lack a grammatical structure. "Hey" and "Hello" have no subject or verb.
ps. What's really good? Samgyeopsal.
pps. What's really not good? People using the phrase Opportunity Cost more than Tipping Point.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Annabelle Texter’s Polaroid transfers.
What's the best place to see movies in NYC?
- Walter Reade Theater (Film Society of Lincoln Center)?
- Sunshine Cinema?
Friday, November 16, 2007
What a handsome book jacket/sleeve.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The TED talks are something remarkable. Video of talks & lectures. There's tons of them. I recommend: Hans Rosling 1, Hans Rosling 2 and Vilayanur Ramachandran.
Also, this is important.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Zombis do not speak, cannot fend for themselves, do not even know their names. Their fate is enslavement. Yet given the availability of cheap labor, there would seem to be no economic incentive to create a force of indentured service. Rather, given the colonial history, the concept of enslavement implies that the peasant fears and the zombi suffers a fate that is literally worse than death-the loss of physical liberty that is slavery, and the sacrifice of personal autonomy implied by the loss of identity. Critically, for Narcisse as for all Haitian peasants, the fear is not of being harmed by zombis, but rather of becoming one. And it is to prevent such a horrid fate that the relatives of the dead may reluctantly mutilate the corpse if there is any suspicion of foul play. Unless, of course, the family itself was involved in the zombification.
From "The Serpent And The Rainbow" By Wade Davis
Monday, November 05, 2007
I've posted some of my recent paintings on flickr.
Yes, the photos kind of suck - I don't have good lighting in my studio, and I didn't bother with my good camera or a tripod.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Achewood is funny.
Interesting:
Balkinization
Crooked Timber "Benkler Seminar"
Some of the stuff I've been enjoying lately:
B.O.B. Feat. Wes Fif And Natureboy Rowe - Haterz Everywhere
Brother Ali - Champion (Remix)
Bruce Springsteen - Jersey Girl (Live At Meadowlands July 9, 1981)
Cass McCombs - That's That
Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Collie Buddz - Come Around (Album Version)
Daft Punk - Live At Paris, Bercy (2007.06.14)
Ellen Allien - Dataromance (Paul Kalkbrenner Mix)
Flying Lotus - Spicy Sammich
Ghostface - Big Girl
Jean Jaques Perrey & Luke Vibert - Moog Acid (Plastician Mix)
Kanye West - Cant Tell Me Nothing
Kanye West - Flashing Lights (Ft. Dwele)
Kanye West - Get Em High (Ratatat Remix)
Ken Ishii - Extra
Lcd Soundsystem - All My Friends (Album Version)
Lil Wayne - Fireman So Cold (Dj A Trak Mix)
Lil Wayne - I Feel Like Dying
Lindstrom - Breakfast In Heaven (Arp's Worn Cassette Version)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Remix Ft. Bun B & Rich Boy)
M.I.A. - Paperplanes (Instrumental)
Modeselektor - The Dark Side Of The Sun Feat. Puppetmastaz (Original Mix)
No Age - Every Artist Needs A Tragedy
No Age - Neck Escaper
Sizzla - Girlfriend
Spragga Benz - All About Dem
Tracey Thorne - Raise The Roof
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Unrecognized Angels
The key to understanding the essence of this earlier model comes from something just mentioned: the fact that, in various stories in Genesis and elsewhere, God sends angels to meet with various human beings. There are a great many such encounters-in the book of Genesis, for example, with Abraham and Sarah and Hagar and Jacob, and elsewhere in the Bible with Moses and Balaam and Joshua and so forth. What is striking in all these encounters is that the angel never looks like an angel. Unlike the angels represented in medieval paintings, these biblical angels never have flowing wings or haloes or light that radiates out of their garments-they look exactly like ordinary human beings, at least at first. That is why the biblical account of these meetings always goes to the trouble of narrating a "moment of confusion," during which the people in question think they are talking to some ordinary person.
From "How To Read The Bible" By James L. Kugel
ps. This person commented on one of my flickr photos. Take a look at that comments/commenters on her photos.
