Coin-Operated Boy - Dresden Dolls

Momma Likes.

Even better Live. See them in Chicago this spring with Badly Drawn Boy.

At the bus stop

Even in science, we accept that there are unknowns. Incredible truths in the universe that defy all logic and reasoning.

I do not accept the belief that there is an ultimate agency that predetermines our lives; I do not underplay the significance of coincidence and randomness in our world. But at the same time, I believe that when logic and reasoning defy us, there may be something unexplainable guiding us. Perhaps, fate.

Switch

Want to turn off a woman's brain? No problem.

Here's the switch.

This is probably the kind of parent I would be

Kid yelling: What are we doing after dinner? [Parents ignore him] What are we doing after dinner?!

Mom, calmly: Stop yelling, or I'll have to kill you.

--10th St, between Broadway & University
Overheard by: Calling the Morgue

Source: Overheard in New York

Waisman chronicles

DK: Why can I never sneak up on you?

DO: Because of your heels.

DK: *pouty lips expression*

DO: You could take them off. You have cute feet.

DK: The PET people yell at me for walking barefoot around the genetics freezer etc.

DO: Wait. Good call. I think you're glowing.

DK: rad.

Whatever Lola Wants

Whatever Lola wants
Lola gets
And little man, little Lola wants you
Make up your mind to have no regrets
Recline yourself, resign yourself, you're through
I always get what I aim for
And your heart'n soul is what I came for

Whatever Lola wants
Lola gets,
Take off your coat
Don't you know you can't win?
You're no exception to the rule,
I'm irresistible, you fool, give in!...Give in!...Give in!

Hello, Joe
It's me
He hits so far
-hold on-that's you
Aaah-haaaaaa
Poo poo pa doop
Peek-a-boo
Yoo-hoo

I always get what I aim for
And you heart'n soul is what I came for
...Lola wants
...Lola gets
...You'll never win
I'm irresistible, you fool,
Give in...Give in...Give in.

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I've heard every known jazz musician sing this, but I've learned that the music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the musical play Damn Yankees. The song also appeared in the movie made from the play.

Mediation

The caterpillar has a life span of 1 to 2 months; the butterfly a mere 2 weeks. What happens when you want something in between? Can you be beautiful and grounded all at the same time?

Bright and Shiny

Many people don't know that the human eye has a blind spot in its field of vision. There is a part of the world that we are literally blind to. The problem is, sometimes our blind spots shield us from things that really shouldn't be ignored. Sometimes our blind spots keep our lives bright and shiny.

SHINY TOY GUNS

Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. ~

Chuck Palahniuk

LILY ALLEN FIRST US TOUR

Mon 02/05/07 Los Angeles, CA Music Box @ Fonda

Tue 02/06/07 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall

Thu 02/08/07 Chicago, IL Metro / Smart Bar

Sat 02/10/07 New York, NY Webster Hall

Mon 02/12/07 Philadelphia, PA Theater Of Living Arts

Fri 02/16/07 Washington, DC 9:30 Club

Sun 02/18/07 Boston, MA Axis

source: ticketmaster.com pollstar.com

Overheard in New York

Conductor: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, this is your conductor. It seems that many of you enjoy cramming into this train as if there is not another one directly behind us. But I understand, for I am a very sexy conductor, and everyone wants to be on my train. If you do, please stand clear of the doors. Thank you.

--6 train, 59th St
Overheard by: Katey

CHECK OUT OVERHEARD IN NEW YORK

lyrics - this ain't a scene ...

Sherrington once said that posture accompanies movement as a
shadow. I have come to believe that anxiety accompanies intellectual
activity as its shadow and that the more we know of the
nature of anxiety, the more we will know of intellect.

(Liddell, 1949, p. 185)

The Current Status of Clinical Psychology - Where Are We Now?

Man has produced many remarkable machines, some so complex that only relatively few people with considerable training can fully understand their workings. But man himself is far more complex than anything he has built. To understand him, to predict his behavior, or to change him in a predictable way is a challenging task of enormous magnitude. The attempt to understand man from a scientific point of view - that is, as an object of nature following natural laws - has only recently begun. Man is the object of his own scientific interest, and his personal experiences limit his ability for detached study.

taken from text by author Julian Rotter, dated 1964

Every photograph makes a promise, and the promise is never kept. That's what makes a photo great. And if the promise is sex...then you really have something.

-transcript from Gia

International Bad Cat

"Je me souviens tendrement le grignotage de vos chevilles dans la nuit."

I remember fondly the biting of your ankles in the night.

U2 - Window In The Skies

Bono tends to trade in platitudes these days, but the savvy U2ers know just how to spin it, assembling a montage of music icons mouthing the words to "Window In The Skies," making even the band's rounded edges (and generic lyrics) larger than life, and larger than themselves. If you're not a U2 fan, they've thought of that, too; stick through it for footage of Jimi, Thom, Karen O, Elton, Marvin, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bowie, Elvis, Plant, Flav, Sinatra, Kanye, Stevie, Kurt ... you get the picture.

Source

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Catch You

Sophie Ellis Bextor is ready to drop a new album, and the Brit babe has just released the disc's first single, Catch You.

Sterile

Theory is– the more you think like a doctor, the more you become like one, the better you get at remaining neutral, clinical, cut, suture, close and the harder it becomes to turn it off to stop thinking like a doctor and remember what it means to think like a human being.

ScarJo for LV - Spring

Gorgeous french coquette spread, very artistic, love the palette.

Happy Science

New article on The Science of Well-Being published in the NY Times.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2007