December 2011
71 posts
Empire State of Mind
You cannot keep The New Yorker out of the hands of New York-minded people, wherever they are. For, unlike the myriad points in which New York-minded people live, New York is not a tack on a map, not a city, not an island nor an evening at ‘21.’ The New Yorker is a mood, a point of view. It is found wherever people are electrically sensitive to new ideas, eager for new things to do,...
Watchnprmusic:
Early footage of Talking Heads performing at CBGB in 1975, from the new documentary Chronology.
"Secret Love" (1980/2011)
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Twitter by Post
Giles Turnbull, “Twitter by Post”:
Back when people wrote letters, they didn’t have to be the long catch-ups that people tend to write today. We write long letters now because we hardly write letters at all, so we feel obliged to make them something special, to pad them out with lots of news. This makes them long and tedious to write, which means we’re disinclined to write letters;...
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and...”
– Robert Frost
How to be the Photograph:
Smith read another of...
