February 2012
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“And one thing he’s keen to do is continue the “ambitious”...”
– Glad to hear this of the newly-announced Director of AGNSW, Dr Michael Brand. After 33 years of Edmund Capon this is gonna be int-trest-TING!
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“4. Tell stories that are short and sweet because the mind of a Wall Street man...”
– Thanks, dating guide to the aficionado of the Wall Street Man! I will bear that one in mind.
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twofortyfiveam:
This is my new book I hope you like it.
Bitching About Sydney Is Boring
Page 1. Get off the internet bitching about Sydney and leave your house.
Page 2. The end.
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January 2012
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“Sober girls are the worst. So are really drunk ones… The sweet spot is 4 white...”
– From the Goldman Sachs Elevator twitter. LOLTRUE.
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“There is no single moment of loss, there is
an amassing. The disbeliever sleeps...”
– A nice (you know, sad-nice) bit from Stacie Cassarino’s Zero at the Bone (2009)/here. Via Lucy, whose poetry-reading ranges farther than mine in a guilt-inducing but educational way.
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Agreed, Picasso's "Glass of Absinthe" is a... →
December 2011
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“What is still not sufficiently appreciated is that the twist Frankenthaler gave...”
– Michael McNay in the Guardian sneaks in a last-minute entry for Art-Critical Thing Said of the Year.
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from 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'
…”Play” is something else; It exists, in a society specifically Organized as a demonstration of itself. There is no other way, and those assholes Who would confuse everything with their mirror games Which seem to multiply stakes and possibilities, or At least confuse issues by means of an investing Aura that would corrode the architecture Of the whole in a haze of suppressed...
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John Ashbery reading 'Forties Flick' aloud in 1973 →
FORTIES FLICK The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall, Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals, Focus on the tragic melancholy of the bright stare Into nowhere, a hole like the black holes in space. ‘In bra and panties she sidles to the window: Zip! Up with the blind. A fragile street scene offers itself, With wafer-thin pedestrians who know where they are going. The...
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From the NYT obit for George Whitman, founder of...
Overlooking the Seine and facing the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, the store, looking somewhat beat-up behind a Dickensian facade and spread over three floors, has been an offbeat mix of open house and literary commune. For decades Mr. Whitman provided food and makeshift beds to young aspiring novelists or writing nomads, often letting them spend a night, a week, or even months living among the crowded...
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“This is a bad record that makes other bad records use to feel superior. It gives...”
– (Found via Caitlin of andmixwell is this) possibility for review quote of the year from this consideration of Chris Brown’s Boy In Detenion mixtape.
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mez en scène: English Pronunciation by G. Nolst... →
mezenscene:
(After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud)
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat…
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“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn’t any good. But everyone has a different...”
– Jerry Saltz
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'Sexily uninterested' is pretty much the go-to...
K: OK, so in your response, what message do you want to send? Are you trying to play it cool like you don’t really care that much, unless he cares a lot? Or are you like, trying to be sexy and forward?
B: I’m trying to be … sexily uninterested.
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WatchVia Pedestrian: St Augustine Academy s/s 12, Love and Haight, the final before an indefinite hiatus. Pretty.
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November 2011
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Am I dedicated enough to read this book about... →
I mean: I am very interested, but I am also very aware that I will probably start feeling very dumb as I get into it as my brain is out of proper training (and not really trained for this anyhow) and when I don’t feel clever about things I can be inclined to give up on them. But I should try! I mean, it is right there on the internet for free, and it is self-improvement &/whatever.
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“超マジでむかつく / chou maji de mukatsuku / real super nauseating”
– I am totally adopting this piece of ko-gal slang. Am not totally above a little bit of a school uniform reference, either, and the pigtails-of-late do have to be taken into consideration.
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WatchHere is some bad video for a 360-degree view of a vase Adam Cullen designed for the FONAS plate auction. I liked it! Missed how much it went for though :(
Anonymous asked: why does female flesh make you anxious? discuss.
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YAEBA TEETH
Another reason to run away to Tokyo: my wonky teeth are fashionable and a thing there. Per Michelle Phan:
“Yaeba teeth” have become more and more trendy in Japan recently. If this term is new to you, in Japanese, the word yaeba means ‘double tooth’, and it describes the fang-y, pushed-out incisors look that usually results from bunched or crowded teeth.
So why have misaligned teeth become...
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"3. Her famous exes were all "unattainable... →
Um, way to go Diane Keaton. No but seriously: good for her!
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Sure, why not look at the catalogue for this... →
No but srsly go look, it’s amazing.
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