August 2008
Hebrew lessons
lowlife:
Glida = Ice cream
Arctica = Ice cream bar
Ani rotezeh arctica.
Dude. Here’s one for you: “zian b’ayin.” Ask an Israeli, get back to me.
Watchrockuboff:
Kings of Leon - “Sex On Fire”
Mediocre video, awesome song. Kings of Leon are a band that unequiviocally rocks the everloving shit out of whoever is in front of them. I’ve seen them twice, they have yet to let me down. The new album will no doubt be incredible.
peterwknox:
ellebelle:lfarm:herenotthere:
Ra...
“Keep your heart three stacks, keep your heart, eh, keep your heart, three...”
– Andre 3000 (via soupsoup)
We’ve been over this, already. Best. Video. Ever.
Please don’t stop the MayaHEE, MayaHA, MayaHA, MayaHAHA.
davidcho:
Lauryn Hill - ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off...
Okay, what? Now that the “Numa-Numa” song is a T.I. sample that Rhianna sings over, I’m going to go stick my head in a toilet and give myself a swirly. This is the cultural equivielent of Petey Greene’s trademark line: “WAKE UP, GODDAMNIT!”
Tickets for the last home game at Yankee Stadium (against Baltimore, on my birthday), are starting on StubHub at $155. Those are for the highest “Reserved Tier” seats; i.e. the, You’re Not In The Same Fucking Atmospheric Layer seats. Jesus.
OMFG. Week of Longest Day Ever Continues: Day 2. Email Gods, speak the good words to me.
1. You’ve got some fuckin’
(A) Attitude
(B) Cool Shoes
(C) Balls
(D) Good Manners.
2. Inside your beat up brain, there probably is a (A) Whore
(B) Bat
(C) Snake
(D) Devil
If you answered (A) for both questions, you are correct.
Me: Ha. Her name is "Lo."
Her: She's such a bitch.
Me: I know! I want to do her. I'm not even into bitchy girls. It's just...
Her: Lo? Really? But..she's so evil.
Me: And vacuous....I just think she's a little misguided. And crazy. Crazy, definitely. So hot. We'd have an awesome time.
Past, Over - Tunnel, Abridged →
(via rodtownsend)
If the ODer was just messy, they’d leave them next to a dumpster in the West 30s. If they were more messy, or a white woman, then they’d be dumped off right outside an emergency room, usually St. Vincent’s.”
“Wait, why would white women—”
“Because the papers would pick up on a missing white woman. Men, especially gays and ethnics?...
FYMTQ: Zach Linder →
(via youngmanhattanite)
Your fellow tumblr Zach Linder and I did a nice little Q & A in which he makes a great joke about Pitchfork and calls Union Hall “the best bar in New York City.” Shower him with praise or raise your firey pitchforks in anger in the comments.
How many days this week are going to be the Longest. Day. Of. My. Life?
Right now, we’re one for one.
youngmanhattanite:
To start the week
I...
To Hell and Back Reliability →
I arrive two minutes to 11, which is exceptionally early for me. I was told via Curt - our organizer - that the “people at the gun range are really strict about being on time,” and if there’s anybody you don’t want to be late for, it’s some grizzled Heston fan who works at a gun range in New York City.
(via youngmanhattanite)
“At present, we do not have any confirmed contracts for Chick-fil-A stores in New York City. New York City is a growth market for Chick-fil-A, and it is our hope that in the near future, we are able to build a Chick-fil-A store in New York.”
Weaksauce.
There’s a Blockbuster in Astoria. Terribly underrated.
Purchases:
- The Darjeeling Limited
- Talk To Me
- Gone Baby Gone
Rentals:
- Afro Samurai (Directors Cut)
- Rocket Science
For the record, Conky is right: the article I excerpted was a total and complete fabriaction, and I wasn’t the only one who fell for it. It was, however, a great article. If only GQ didn’t have to make them up to bring readers in. And regardless of that: the line was still fantastic.
Okay, so he got the W, tonight. But he still allowed three runs in the second, only pitched five...
Carl Pavano is pitching for the Yankees tonight. If you know me, you know I have a history with Mr. Pavano.
The Area Codes Project
youngmanhattanite:
Because I’m tired, haven’t slept, don’t feel like being at work, and don’t feel like doing anything while I’m stuck at work, I’ve resorted to doing something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but have never had a reason to (I still don’t, but, whatever): the number-to-city interpretation of Ludacris’s 2001 hit single “Area Codes.”
I’ve always hypothesized that Luda’ was...
fusioned:
fek:
Remember when Outkast used to be good? I mean, really, really good?
Like 8 years ago? Hell fucking yeah.
Vince makes a good point - Stankonia was probably Outkast’s creative peak. But there’s something about the syrupy beats, the slow roll of ATLeins, the fact that they were still, at the core, a relatively genre-buried rap group, doing things nobody had ever seen...
And he kept askin me, what kind of car you drive, I know you paid, I know y’all got buku of hoes from all them songs that y’all done made…. And I replied that I had been goin through tha same thing that he had - True, I got more fans than the average man but not enough loot to last me to the end of the week, I live by the beat like you live check to check If you don’t...
Hail Satan, Tonight!
Every now and then, someone says something totally irreverent that, after a moment’s contemplation, turns out to hold shades of truth so profoundly obvious and clear, you have to get in the spirit.
Thus,
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don’t expect him to thank or forgive you. The best ever death metal band out of Denton will in time both outpace and outlive you....
If you can’t tell, the lack of content here is because I’ve taken up residence on the mothership.
Judd Apatow, and everything he does - including Freaks and Geeks - is tragically overrated.
Two things I just learned:
1. Rian Johnson, who directed one of my favorite indies ever, Brick, has a Tumblr for his new movie…..
2. Which looks solid.
It took this guy seven years - seven years - to get Brick made. Here’s to this guy’s persistance.
In high school "group dates" were just orgies.
via tylercoates
Yeah, this, more or less, was every Jewish youth group that wasn’t USY (which the Orthos and Conservative kids did). Every “first” I ever had came from some kind of BBYO/AZA event or from my experiences either at camp or with my camp friends (it was a NFTY - look it up, goyim - sponsored summer camp). The best part was that, because you’re doing...
Go read Katie’s recap of last night. Just do it. I wasn’t even there and it’s going to be the best thing I’ve read all day.
She says more about more things in one recap than I have about one thing in several of them. Just go do it now.
The YM Keith Gessen Q&A →
Some things are too good to be true. Read our interview with Keith Gessen.
AK: On that note, do you ever regret your foray into blogging? Has the experience cheapened the once-serious Keith Gessen brand or have you bolstered the medium’s legitimacy? In other words, what would have Fitzgerald done? I regret it all the time! But, you know, I’ve learned a lot. A reasonable person would...
The new Ra Ra Riot video is on Stereogum. A lot of people like Ra Ra; a lot don’t. I interviewed them for Nylon, of all places, about a month before their drummer, John Pike, passed away - the interview never ran. To make a long story short, another band (Tokyo Police Club) burst into where I was interviewing them (the boiler room at the Mercury Lounge) with a bottle of Jameson, and the...
The date rape lobby continues to move forward. Besides, part of the fun in drinking underage is that you’re underage.
File under Things I Want - Kenny Shopsin’s book, autographed by him :
“Fuck you. - Kenny.”
“Outside a handful of majors — engineering and some of the sciences — a...”
– For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time - WSJ.com (via mikehudack) (via johncarney)
It’s made us sad, but it’s also shown us one thing that we kind of knew already, but needed to be reminded about: No Penn students, ever.
Awesome.
Somehow, I hadn’t seen TALK TO ME until last night, and though I’m still not through with it, I can tell you this: Don Cheadle’s performance is wildly underrated, as it might be his best. Chiwetel Ejiofor, who won a Independent Spirit Award for his performance, knocks Cheadle off the screen in plenty of scenes, too. But the one thing I couldn’t stop thinking about while...
The subtle humor of Brooklyn Vegan.
davidcho:
The Wallflowers - ‘One Headlight’
A...
youngmanhattanite:
Sensitive thugs, they all need hugs….Then Richard Pryor go and burn up, and Ike and Tina Turner break up. Then I wake up to more bullshit.
Also notable: I told you’n ‘96 that I came to take this shit, and I did. Handled my biz.
Trade Me: Do you smell what Darren Aronofsky is...
- Darren Aronofsky’s new pic about professional wrestling starring one Mickey Rourke: THE WRESTLER. He’s already getting great early notices (a la SIN CITY). It’s debuting at this year’s New York Film Festival, along with Clint Eastwood’s late 1920’s missing-kiddo epic CHANGLING, starring Angelina Jolie, and Steven Soderbergh’s CHE. Per NYFF tradition,...