August 2008
July 2008
Sufjan in the SL Cheesestore...
well played
Haven’t been this far west on Sunset in months
This American Life loves...
telling each other jokes on-air
Jon Brion’s Eternal score
playing Elliot Smith ironically(?) during stories about madness
piercethenight:
Grizzly Bear - “Two Weeks” (live...
Ha ha ha - Team Robespierre
perfect Friday music
Technicolour Stallion R.I.P. →
my hopes of a tour dashed. hope you chi kids made it to their last show.
(link via piercethenight scoop via raisedonsandwiches)
infy JETSETTING: Secret Bars of Barcelona →
“El Mariachi is a drinking den, one of an estimated 40 clandestine bars that have sprung up in recent years in Barcelona. They have been set up by okupas - squatters who have taken possession of empty buildings because a generation of Spaniards have been unable to buy or rent their own homes due to spiralling housing costs.
A little way from here, off Calle Princessa is perhaps one of the...
Batman Beats Up His Mother or BOFFO Bale Boxes... →
Bale turned himself into British authorities after allegations that he roughed up his mother the night before the European premiere of The Dark Knight.
infy GIVES BACK: Get 'em while they're hot
Friday before last I got up early and left my house in Silver Lake for downtown. I rode to South Park, locked up on the steps of the convention center and went inside. A week prior I told my local Obama organizer I’d help register new voters for the Democratic Party.
Over 6,000 people entered as resident aliens to leave as American citizens. I’m handed a sign which I hoist over my...
The Silver Lining to the Sunday Office Experience™
is listening to This American Life while wrapping up the show
infy LADYNEWS: G'd up from the Feet Up →
from the LA Times:
To Jannini, it’s clear: Some women have extra-thick, sensitive, different tissue in the front wall of the vagina, whose stimulation can lead to vaginal orgasms. Other women don’t. (Call it a G spot if you like, he says; until there’s a formal definition, the label is more about marketing than science.) Thick or thin, though, it’s all part of natural...
The Dark Knight breaks all box office records →
“A hamburger is the architecture of taste par excellence. The meat needs to be a...”
– Ms. Grasser-Hermé NYT via irb
Dark Knight IMAX, best after a fatty
