“When a song is unfinished, I can be in love with its potential. When you finish it, what you are doing is reducing that infinite number of potentials down to one singular actuality—and that is terrifying to me.”
Ramona Falls - Melectric 2009 (get it)
“You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.”
Sade - Soldier Of Love 2010 (get it)
1am - Cha Cha Lounge. Los Angeles, California Republic
1pm - Mini-press, my kitchen. Los Angeles, CA
My father and cousin. Oswego, NY circa 1955
My glass. Pacific Palisdes, CA
Photo by Eric.
Rumpus: You’ve previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use.
Facebook Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less. It was pretty fantastic.
Rumpus: This was accessible by any Facebook employee?
Facebook Employee: Technically, yes.…
This one writes itself.
Side of mailbox. Franklin and Bronson. Los Angeles, CA
Rose Bowl. January in Los Angeles.
This happened a few months back, but I was just talking about Darwin Deez and this night with some friends… and remembered that another friend Angelina had written about it in her own blog with video!
"Oh, by gosh, by golly! You did not see this one coming?!? You just bought a vintage Schwinn 10 speed only to find out that fixed gear track bikes were hip! Then you take it outside and WTF?!?! IT’S KINDA COLD OUT!!! How are you going to ride in mid 30 degree temperatures?!? Obviously, you are dressed for exercise. Skin tight corduroy pants? CHECK! Knit cap your girlfriend made for you because she’s “totally into knitting at the moment” ? CHECK! Slip on loafers you stole from your Dad’s closet? CHECK! But actually biking over the Williamsburg Bridge??? Not on your watch! You have cocaine to do! Thank you MetroCard!
So carry that bike up the stairs like a man! Showing all of us what you are really made of! Swinging that back tire around as much as possible! It may be close to hitting people, but they’ll move out of the way! They are all impressed your tiny frame could support such a weight! When you get to street level, straddle that old leather seat and bike all 5 BLOCKS on the sidewalk to meet your friends at the bar! And when they ask, ‘Oh man! Did you really bike here?’ You’ll nonchalantly spark up a Camel Light and respond, ‘Yeah…no biggie..’ “
(Thank you, Rachel…)
"I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."
- Mark Rothko
Pay attention at 00:30…
(For the record, Wack has “it” coming out of his pores.)
Big dreams. Joe’s apartment, Boston, MA circa 1983
Vampire Weekend - I Think Ur A Contra 2010 (get it)
Tune-Yards - Sunlight 2009 (get it)
I attended the first First Fridays of 2010 at the Natural History Museum of LA County. Yes! This is as it should be. Watching new and exciting bands perform in the Hall of North American mammals. Drinking, dancing, Dino Lab.
The highlight among many, was the personal discovery of Tune-Yards, who was opening for Atlas Sound. Merrill Garbus, the band, in this one woman band, is a vocal and ryhthmic powerhouse. She was accompanied last night however, by a bassist and three circling Graces playing a dissembled drum kit. The lo-fi sound bounced huge off the tunnel ceiling, and display glass holding the stuffed giants in their dioramas.
Last night’s theme was spiders. DJ Spider even made an appearance.
I’ll be back next month. Yeasayer!
