February 2012
16 posts
“It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959...”
– The Day Lady Died by Frank O’Hara : The Poetry Foundation
Alice Bag: Don't Tame Your Shit Down →
violencegirl:
“People accuse Hardcore of killing off the original punk scene but I wonder if that scene hadn’t already served its purpose and run its course. Bands that came after us, like Black Flag and Minor Threat, absorbed the lessons at which we’d failed. They took the D.I.Y. ethic a step further. They knew they were never going to be signed, they had no interest in being signed and so they...
LADYFEST PHILADELPHIA JUNE 2013
GET READY FOR THREE DAYS OF LADY PUNX, VEGAN TREATS, WORKSHOPS, STUFF SWAPS, GOOD VIBES, SOCIAL CHANGE-MAKING, FRIENDS, HANGS, BBQ, ETC AT THE ROTUNDA
MAKE A BAND NOW, PRACTICE A LOT, PLAN A TOUR FOR SUMMER 2013 WITH A STOP IN PHILLY
EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT TO GET INVOLVED, PLANNING STARTS IN EARNEST THIS FALL
January 2012
15 posts
Thomas Hirschhorn and the Crystal of Resistance
Today I saw a man for whom English is not a native language give a talk on his work and practice. At one point he was searching for a word and landed on “remembership.” I don’t think he meant to, but I also don’t think I have ever heard a more beautiful word in my entire life.
Participating in memory, electing to remember, a discourse of ghosts.
Ceremony - “Hysteria” - Zoo (Matador,...
“There is, we recognize, a historical danger here. Someday, the record of this...”
– Hirsts Spotted at Gagosian, Art Fag City on the decision by Gagosian to show every Damien Hirst Spot Painting at every one of their international branches. Amen.
intr. To move away or apart; to lose contact; to separate. adj. Of a material: light and delicate, as if capable of floating in air. Pale, absent, airy, of nacre and ivory, delicate, insubstantial, she is silent, absent, airy—all attributes of a recently constituted femininity.
RIP ESME BARRERA
Esme and Herbie
Many of you have undoubtedly seen this somewhere online already. Esme Barrera was murdered in Austin, Texas on New Year’s Day after walking home two blocks from a party.
I was lucky enough to meet Esme this March at Waterloo Records during SXSW. She snuck me a piece of pizza from the back and we joked about “South By Boyfriends” and squealed over the fact that Wild Flag would...
Cleaning Out Desk Drawers
“BYE!
FLY STRAIGHT & SAFE!
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE MORE TO SAY
I’M GLAD
LUCKY
TO KNOW
YOU
AND NOW SO IS LONDON
(DON’T LET DUBSTEP
HAPPEN TO YOU)”
similarsimians:
Currently the best song on the...
“1. WORK MORE AND BETTER
2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE
3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
4. SHAVE...”
– Woody Guthrie, 1941 (via jacquelineelizabethmolly)
December 2011
17 posts
From Joan Didion's "In Bed," on migraines
“We have reached a certain understanding, my migraine and I. It never comes when I am in real trouble. Tell me that my house is burned down, my husband has left me, that there is gunfighting in the streets and panic in the banks, and I will not respond by getting a headache. It comes instead when I am fighting not an open but a guerrilla war with my own life, during weeks of small household...
Art v. Science or Why I Do What I Do
Some friends met me at the Courtauld Gallery for the afternoon. I had the kind of hangover that makes you say “I am never letting that poison we call alcohol cross my lips ever again,” it was bitter cold, I was tired, we were all hungry. I talked to them about a lot of art — I stood in front of Cezannes and waxed poetic about single red brushstrokes and his understanding of...
Meg Baird - Seasons on Earth
Balaclavas - Snake People
Iceage - New Brigade
Household - Items
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
Rank/Xerox - Rank/Xerox
Royal Headache - Royal Headache
Total Control - Henge Beat
Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
2 tags
Watchyour strength / your fingers / your mind / your bones
Watch“what a fucking waste” b/w “what’s the point”
I want to be in a band for longer than one month. Needs more snarl.
November 2011
38 posts
Meg Baird live on XPN →
On Monday night in London I will cry while listening to her version of “Friends” and thinking of Philadelphia.
