February 2010
61 posts
January 2010
95 posts
Stylesight is looking for a full-time graphics... →
Ditto. Luckily, we had that chance and it was fantastic.
cobravsmongoose:
“The Bennington-Sarah Lawrence type looked like she’d spent the whole train ride in the John, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress.”
i couldn’t wait to be that.
thanks.
rip jd
“Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”
– Howard Zinn, R.I.P.
Wow, this is amazing. As if I wasn’t already...
Iron & Wine, The Trapeze Swinger
Two nights...
“There is always more than this”
– The New Southern, playing life coach/making up great band names, yet again.
“…because desire just cheats you. It’s like a sunbeam skipping here and there...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thenewjerktimes)
“I was taught that you want to start your stories as close to the end as...”
– Aaron Sorkin, The Real White House (via deadscreen)
Stereotypes by Favorite Author
Via Lauren Leto (she started that website textsfromlastnight.com):
Jeffrey Eugenides
Girls who didn’t get enough drama when they were younger.
Lauren Weisberger
Girls who can’t read. Or think.
Jonathan Safran Foer
30somethings who were cool when they were 20something.
Charles Dickens
Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.
William Shakespeare
...
Facebook movie?
I know I’m late to the game on this, but whoa—Sorkin + Fincher? Awesome. Timberlake? Not so much.:
The Social Network By Aaron Sorkin What it’s about: Chronicles Mark Zuckerberg’s complicated journey towards creating Facebook. Sorkin depicts both the founder’s motivations for starting the largest social network in the world and the human casualties that came with his profound...
The Black List 2009: Full Roster – Deadline.com →
“That’s right, it’s time for Universal film executive Franklin Leonard’s THE BLACK LIST begun back in 2004. Compiled every year from the suggestions of 311 film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2009 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. This...
“It’s a lot of kids in skinny jeans, black Keds and gauzy scarves. Big...”
– Ha! Former art dealer Bruce Hackney explaining what will be missed when Jeffrey Deitch closes up his downtown gallery to move to Los Angeles to be the chief honcho of MOCA
Via The Awl.
Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block →
More reaction to Roiphe’s now infamous essay from writer Steve Almond:
“The first and most basic one is: why the hell is she just talking about hetero white men? I’m not sure what feminist nomenclature Katie Roiphe would assign herself, but I can’t fathom why she would choose to “assign primacy” to The Man.
As a hetero white man (okay, Jewish, with an occasional trannie impulse, but...
“You don’t have to be overly macho. You don’t have to be over-complimentary. Gain...”
– John C. Holmes, from Exhausted: John Holmes The Real Story
Quoted in Molly Lambert’s article on This Recording responding to Katie Roiphe’s fantastic NY Times essay last week skewering the modern manchild writer.
Kenneth Anger is my co-pilot. | Sixpack France →
This French brand is depressing me today. From their site:
“I always been impressed by the Kenneth Anger experimental movie aesthetic, with Werner Herzog is one of my favorite movie maker of all the time…i felt obligated to pay him some pretty cool graphics tribute in our next collection…We will show you very soon some graphics inspired by his gay satanist mythology. In the meantime enjoy...