November 2010
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Ed Banger group Cassius featuring the duo of Philippe Zdar and Hubert Blanc-Francart unveil their latest video to their hit song « I Love You So ». The video is a true testament of the times with the iPhone making a pronounced appearance. The video features an eclectic cast of Ed Banger-affiliated personalities as they each play their part in the performing of the song.
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“A history of the humanities in the 20th century could be chronicled in “isms” —...”
– Patricia Cohen, NY Times
Things I brought but shouldn't have: PART TWO
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“I think a lot of the problems we’ve been experiencing come from the fact that no...”
– Patton Oswalt
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Heston Blumenthal: The Man You Want Cooking In...
Literature and cooking. What a delicious partnership, except Heston has taken this marriage to another level recreating dishes from classics such as Alice & Wonderland to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. A madness seems to ensue every episode of recreating chocolate waterfalls, real magic mushrooms and dry ice landscapes. Science grasps the hand of the imagination to entertain a bevy...
Day 29- In this past month, what have you learned
I stole from…. somewhere. Vague disclaimer are nobody’s friend.
Life Skills Vulgarity for shock is banal. If you want to curse, do it creatively, and in a torrent. Friendship It’s hard to overestimate the affection you will hold for those who’ve been through tumultuous circumstance with you. Fashion Never apologize for two days of stubble. It lengthens the appearance of the jaw, and...
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate...”
– Noam Chomsky (via uncle-iroh)
Mad Men Don’t Lie by Ironic Sans
I’m pretty good when it comes to grammar, but my wife is better, as I’m reminded every time I misuse the word lay and she corrects me. Some bad grammar sticks out like a sore thumb for me, but lay/lie misuse goes past me every time. My wife never fails to catch it, and she seemed to be pointing out lay/lie misuse every time we watched Mad Men. We wondered whether it’s the fault of the...
Day 28- A picture of you last year and now, how...
To pluck the heart out of this mystery, we have to go back a a few months. Strangely, graduation meant a lot to me. Albeit in a belated fashion, People kept asking me how I felt and what had changed since receiving my goat skin parchment. I always said “I’m more qualified than ever to be a professional bum.” There were no fireworks, synchronised dance sequences or even a lousy slow motion...
Day 27- Why are you doing this 30 day challenge
The Internets is about indulgent self expression, duh.
Day 26- What you think about your friends
They’re the best. They all enchant, inspire, and dazzle me.
They tell me I’m okay, even when I’m really not. Medicate my neuroses with punctuated intakes of coffee and fries. They indulge my quirks and smile through their teeth when I’ve made a particularly grotty joke. They’ll let me bitch about how much I hate: Sand Badly designed menus People who say ‘Haitch’, when it is actually...
Day 25- What I would find in your bag (Fuck, I'm...
As promised. Receiptlandia. Where all impulse buys go to ferment and haunt my monthly bank statement.
Frasers - Coffee. Peppermint tea. Unity Books - Alain de Botton ‘The Consolations of Philosophy’. Seneca ‘On The Shortness of Life’ JB Hi-Fi - Arrested Development season 3 Wendy’s - Bacon Burger Meal Warehouse - Blue Tack Smith & Caughey’s - Witchery Shoes Ticket stub to Tanti Baci Dopo...
Day 24- A letter to your parents
I love you. In spite of yourselves, and myself. Dad: Thank you for my E.U. passport. If it still exists in a couple of years time. I will make good use of it. Eating hash brownies and admiring all the [historical] ruins. Mum: You’re bloody brilliant. For many reasons. - You have your own power tools and can use them. - Can back a trailer. - Like Ministry of Sound, The Killers, Vampire Weekend...
“Drunk Girls” / Drunk boys, we walk...
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Hipster's Mecca got raped in Mircrosoft's WordArt.
Day 23- Something you crave for a lot
The first time I tried cigarettes I spluttered and coughed myself into oblivion, not at all Marla Singer(esque). But Coffee…
We’ve been co-dependent since 2006.
This is also a film I heartily recommend.
This is how Michael Caine speaks.
Fuckin’ love it.
Day 22- What makes you different from everyone...
Think if him and Twilda Swinton ever met, and their androgynous powers coalesced. It’d be like the most unstoppable gender bending sexual force ever.
I know what day it is by what is on television. Monday : Dollhouse Tuesday : 30 Rock / HIMYM / The Office Wednesday : Wednesday’s Malteser Movie Night Thursday : QI Friday : Sunny In Philly Saturday : Is shit....
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Day 20- Someone you see yourself marrying/being...
Jim Halpert, Florence Welch, Jonathan Safran-Foer, Kitsune Noir, Uffie, Alain De Botton, Howard Goodall, Kevin McCloud, Beyonce, St. Vincent, Karen O, Oliver Sim from the XX, The Bloggess, Jessica Hische, Storm Thorgersom, Steven Moffat, the people who created popping chocolate elves, Penelope Cruz, Nick Hornby, William Powhida, Zach Condon, Seneca, Holly or Kendra, Joss Whedon, Lord Denning
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The Snooze Button: Linguistics and Poetry →
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Linguistics and Poetry
One of the most important lessons I have learned as a student of literature and rhetoric is the value of diction. It allows a writer to put into words exactly what he or she means to express. Proper diction mitigates verbosity and ambiguity and is the hallmark of a cogent speaker and an effective wordsmith. Mark Twain’s wit, William...
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“And speaking of weaving, in the 17th century “India dominated the cotton trade,...”
– Book Review - At Home - A Short History of Private Life - By Bill Bryson - NYTimes.com (via 10tonfunk)
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Day 19- Nicknames you have; why do you have them
Jaz/Jas : personally, I prefer it with a ‘z’. It has pep.
That Girl/It/You There : In retail, you have no name, but your slave name(s).
J : I secretly don’t really like being called this, but I overlook this since the person in question is an exceptional friend and an amazing person.
Munchkin/Cookie Monster : Why? Because my mother is 12 years old.
Potato...
Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have
Live. Eat. Design. Die surrounded by plump grandchildren. but sometimes I just want to give it all up and become a handsome billionaire.
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“* I’m supposed to meet @ neilhimself in a few hours but he missed his flight...”
– Excerpt from The Bloggess’s post in tweet format, on meeting Neil Gaiman.
Fuck, she’s awesome. She writes about clown porn too. THERE, that got your attention.
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Top Five Movies Loved By Hipsters →
For the record, I hated ‘The Darjeeling Limited’. I just didn’t get it. Much in the way in I didn’t get ‘Napoleon Dynamite’. I just vagued out and wished I could get back those 120 minutes of my life.
The rest of these films however are lounging in my bookcase opposite me.
Super duper recommend.
Remember, remember the 5th of November. Phew, got...
A vapid peroxide blonde. Obviously. So I could make poor life decisions and dish on my portmanteau relationships for squillions of dollars to Hello magazine. A very Speidi Sequel. Just kidding. I’d love to be Gabriel Garcia-Marquez because he is just such a delicious writer, or Vincent Moon since he gets to work with all these cool bands for Blogotheque. I’d like to be surrounded by mad and...
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WatchUffie - Difficult
She can pop my glock any time.
” You Don’t Know Me” / Afraid...
Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs...
Editors - Open Your Arms
Calvin Harris - Blue
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love III (Revenge!)
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus feat. Hope Sandoval
Camera Obsucra - Honey In The Sun
Janelle Monae - Many Moons
E.S. Posthumus - Decifin Pi
Frank Sinatra - Young At Heart
Kill Bill Vol. 1 - You’re My Wicked Life
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
