If you have a Facebook profile, you’re already sick of this, but: Finally, a website that remembers the lessons taught us by Richard David James can be used to make things as irresistably creepy as me, below. Back-combing was a bitch.
“All David Hayes meant to do was cast for his granddaughter. Instead he wound up landing a 21-pound channel catfish — a North Carolina state record — on her Barbie fishing pole.”
3. Michael Phelps2. Usain Bolt1. David Hayes
“A trilogy as sexy, silly, and inscrutable as it was a quarter-century ago, these videos play out on the same early-’80s barren Texas landscape that No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurh traversed, though the proceedings here are decidedly more Penthouse Forum than Cormac McCarthy. In each successive video, a car mechanic, valet, and short-order [...]
One little indie rock addendum to this Dial M post about a trove of Blue Note album cover scans (which seems to be offline at the moment?), particularly their note at the bottom about Yesterday’s New Quintet’s visual homage to Ornette!:
Like you, I couldn’t watch enough replays of Usain Bolt winning the 100 on Saturday night, especially because he pretty much did the Soulja Boy dance backwards for the last 20 meters. I don’t mind cockiness as long as it’s earned and not overly performative, but holy shit is this guy fast. Has [...]
“When I am online I am perpetually aware of open-endedness, of potentiality, and psychologically I am fragmented. I make my way forward through whatever text is in front of me factoring in not just the indeterminacy of whatever is next on the page, I am also alert, even if subliminally, to the idea of the [...]
“I wanted some Olympics, and having no cable, I searched the interweb until I came upon the official NBC website for the olympics…I was able to get a video of the entire US vs. Spain men’s Basketball game. Sans commentary. Seriously. All you can hear are squeaks of sneakers, gasps from the audience, foul protesting [...]
“What’s notable here is the starting point of the discussion: an “individual.” The individual citizen posited by the court is defined as prior to his or her sexual orientation. He or she exists as a person before he or she exists as straight or gay. And the right under discussion is defined as “the opportunity [...]
On February 14, 2003, Gen and Jackie, who’d gone on to change her name to Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, lay on twin hospital gurneys, hand in hand. Having married nearly a decade before, they’d recently come up with a plan to take their relationship to the next level.
The idea behind pandrogeny, as they called [...]
No more standin’ there beside the walls I have got myself together, baby I’m havin’ a ball
Long as you’re groovin’ There’s always a chance Somebody watchin’ might wanna make romance
Instead of carving up the wall,Why don’t you open up and we’ll talk.We are ready, we are ready for the [...]