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Monthly Archives: February 2008

THIS IS AN ORIGINAL MIDNIGHT READER

[via hollerboard via sweet gifs]

LYGARDE-DE-MAYNE NOW HELPITH ME RIGHT NOUGHTE.

So, kind of drunk at work. My boss took me to what ended up being a $200 lunch to sort of celebrate that I am his assistant and I am the best at that particular thing and he is glad that I don’t mind when he goes to Mexico for a week leaving me to [...]

MR. GOOD ENOUGH

Four songs for listening to:

Joe Bataan, “This Boy”
The Caprelles, “Walk on By”
Velvet Underground, “After Hours”
Grizzly Bear, “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)”

To do (tide-permitting): ride bikes to the Red Hook water taxi and take a harbor tour. Their beautifully designed map alone deserves my business.
R.I.P. that dude that wrote “Pony” for [...]

GOLDY McJOHN

From: [redacted]
Date: February 20, 2008 9:16:38 PM EST
To: laura griffin
Subject:
Sadly I did not have a camera on me during my run this afternoon,
because I really wanted to take a photo of this sign for you:
Tonight
at the Bamboo Grill
Gray Sky Falling
featuring
original Steppenwolf keyboardist
Goldy McJohn
sitting in on Steppenwolf songs

“I CAN’T STAND IT”

Dear Telepathe and the guy from Black Dice,
So, I just paid the New Museum ten crisp dollars to sit in a stackable wooden chair and stare at the looping video behind your heads. I have not had strong feelings about music or performance generally in a strangely long time*, and to be fair, I subjected [...]

BUONA SERA


BING-BONG

Spotted this evening on my daily machine-facilitated climb towards the earth’s surface at my subway station of choice: a dingy (but museum quality) grilled cheese sandwich with one bite taken, stuck forever in a perpetual buttery jostle at the ever-disappearing top step of the escalator. MTA customers glanced down, stepped over, and moved on, a [...]