reach, grasp, taste

Mar
9th

Tue

I have a guarantee from someone up high in the Yamaguchi-gumi that they won’t touch my family. Their word is pretty solid. It’s a gentleman’s agreement that they’ll only kill me, which makes me feel better. (via Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster - Boing Boing)

Mar
7th

Sun

His first roman (Things, in translation) was a modish, mildly Godardian disquisition on class and sociology; its 1967 follow-up, a slight study in post-Kafka solipsism. But it wasn’t long until THIS AUTHOR (1936-1982) found artistic individuality by, paradoxically, joining Oulipo and applying its notorious formal constraints across a panoply of works — palindromic (1,247 words!), univocalic (inspiring Christian Bök’s similar productions), and so forth. (via HiLo Hero: Georges Perec | Hilobrow ) —click through for Franklin Bruno’s lipogrammatic acclamation

Mar
6th

Sat

And so, by the time it’s filtered through to the Brits single, “You Got The Love” by the Source and Candi Staton has lost all of the original Source and almost all of Candi Staton. It’s practically homeopathic.

— House to Astonish » Number 1s of 2010: 28 February 2010 —scroll down a little for a very interesting history, with embedded videos, of the current #2 single in the U.K., “You Got the Dirtee Love.”

Mar
5th

Fri

pitchfork:

A woman from Botswana’s unique guitar-playing style. And the song’s nice, too. (via the great Naturalismo)

Covered: Sam Mitchell covers Green Lantern

But for him CDs are a statement of value and subversive aspiration. “My friends and I sneak into stores that used to be big music retailers years ago and put our CDs on the shelves. We even got an old shrinkwrapping machine from eBay so we can make them look right. We’ve been thrown out so often, banned. The stores hate us because people get excited and say ‘Oh, how much is this thing?’ Of course if you scan the code on the CD you get the music free, but having it sitting there between two boxes of diapers really surprises people. It’s a way of saying— this stuff, physical music, used to be mainstream, not just something collectors care about.

— Pitchfork: Poptimist: Poptimist #26 —a future history of the CD revival

Mar
4th

Thu

Every time I see your face
I think of things so pure and chaste
I want to pet you like a dog
I’ll take you home and make you waffles (via Supercute! humored me last night by singing a…) —a clean rewrite of “Flower”! Fantastic. (via perpetua)

fuckyeahthefall:

“Free Range” at Brownies, NYC in 1998

classic Fall fight. best part is when Karl says “YOU COCK!”

Submitted by erraticerotic

Oh my God. I can’t believe somebody VIDEOTAPED this show—this was the night where that lineup of the Fall broke up on stage, pretty much. One of the most remarkable gigs I’ve ever seen, in its way: total chaos. Actually my favorite part is the guy in the front row who grabs a microphone and starts yelling “ARE YOU THE FALL, OR ARE YOU A GIMMICK?” Priceless.

Mar
3rd

Wed

The best part of this one is that Obelix totally has those bows in his hair already. (via ComicsAlliance Takes On: Gender-Swapped Fan-Art [Girl Week] - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews)

When we played Coachella, I was passing the mic to people in the crowd to sing along, and I was like, “What’s sucking on my nipple?” And I looked down, and there was an older gentleman, looking up at me, smiling, and sucking on my nipple. I looked down to him and kept going on my way, because, you know, growing up fat you don’t get a lot of random displays of affection. I’ll take it where I can get it. (via Pitchfork: Guest Lists: Fucked Up)