December 2009
21 posts
I can’t really get over Hope...
“The charitable interpretation rests on the invisibility of white suffering. It...”
– There Are No Poor White People - Ta-Nehisi Coates (via clingtomymouth)
"Did you wonder if I was singing to you, like a...
Did you wonder if I was singing to you, like a serenade? Or maybe that there was something wrong with me, something wrong with most boys our age? Maybe you were impressed? That I knew all the lyrics? Or you thought how attractively uninhibited I was for singing along when the spirit struck me? That’s hard to imagine, knowing how I felt back then, and how I felt like I looked, and how much I...
hey cool kid (via brooklynvegan)
i’m a man man man man man maneater
On riding a fixed gear in New York
gillianmae:
I was riding across the bridge tonight, racing faster than I usually do. I had a good ride home—beating all the stop lights, slipping through the LES crowds, singing out loud. One of those nights.
There’s a hill at the entrance to the Williamsburg bridge that doesn’t let up until you’re over the water—somewhere at that invisible Manhattan-Brooklyn line under the East River. You...
tumbledore:
Billy Idol - “Eyes Without A Face”
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Young American Bodies
Did you know that there’s this IFC mumblecore show about twenty-somethings called Young American Bodies? Four seasons of it available online in 6 minute installments. It pre-dates QuarterLife, doesn’t make you want to punch the lead, and features a lot more full-frontal nudity (ah lot—of both sexes). Same director, Joe Swanberg, as Hannah Takes the Stairs and Nights and Weekends....
