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

Home

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.

-Garden State

to do list

Break the mold.

Turn the tables.

Buck the trend.

Raise the bar.

Up the ante.

Tip the scales.

Shuffle the deck.

Jerk the chain.

Lead the charge.

Roll the dice.

Bet the ranch.

Beat the odds.

ripped from a magazine at salon

Mr. Please Please dies at 73

I got the somethin' that makes me wanna shout
I got that thing, tell me what it's all about
I got soul, ha, and I'm super bad, heh!
Got the move that tells me what to do
Sometimes I feel so nice, I said
I wanna tie myself to a fuse, huh, I
I, I, I got soul, heh, and I'm super bad!

My father grew up in St. Louis worshiping this man - the blues, the songs, the energy above all else. He used to tell me stories about going to the Firehouse to see James and being the only white kid in the crowd. I can understand it. Crazy he may be, but listening to Livin' in America on full blast in the living room while your usually stiff and serious father lets loose on the floor just gives you a sense of just how magical music is.

Just Jack - Snowflakes

research + fashion =

benjamin cho's spring 2007 collection

*fabulous*

Regina Spektor

New and original music out of New York's hybrid scene. I heard these today and fell instantly in love.

Conversation

todd andrew melville says:
If your actions affected millions of people...
what would you say?

Couture Cowgirl says:
people aren't judging you.
you are judging yourself.

Extraordinary Machine

Fiona channels old world Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland in her new Extraordinary Machine.

Flow

Photograph: Anonymous c. 1890

Erotic Poetry by Robert W. Birch, Ph.D.

moi new york

Making diamonds obsolete

B6/5

Today I learned how to play cribbage from a schizophrenic man. He alternated between giving me instructions, and reading from an upsidedown biochemistry textbook. Which he scribbled in incoherently.

He was an excellent cribbage teacher.

Damage Control

We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves, to other people. The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we've done, or that's been done to us. Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise. Sometimes we think we can fix the damage. And sometimes the damage is something we can't even see.

i love shoes

stupid boy
let's get some shoes

Animater vs. Animation II

click image

crop circles in google maps

Link to crop circle in Google Maps

We cannot prevent what we cannot predict.

While I look at the whole dulux colour chart of emotions,
he has the unique ability to see things in black and white.

the coffee shop series

10:52
in the morning and

snowing.

i stare between the wipers
and wonder if it will stop

or continue.

i close my eyes
and i think about how

ambiguity has never been
a state

i could
tolerate.

i need to know now.

It is necessary to suffer to be beautiful.

Indie Rockers Hate Halloween

Written to benefit UNICEF's Halloween Trick or Treat Fund

North American Halloween Prevention Initiative:
Arcade Fire's Win & Regine + Redd Kross' Steve McDonald + Beck + R.E.M.'s + Joey Waronker + Buck 65 + Rilo Kiley's Jenny & Black + David Cross + Roky Erickson + Devendra Banhart + Sloan's Chris Murphy + Elvira, Mistress of the Dark + Smoosh's Asya & Chloe + Feist + Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore + Gino Washington + Sparks' Russel Mael + Les Savy Fav's Syd Butler + Subtitle + Islands' J'aime + Sum 41's Stevo + Malcolm Mclaren + Tagaq + Peaches + That Dog's Anna Waronker + Postal Service's Jimmy Tamborello + Wolf Parade's Dan & Spencer + Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O

masks - happy halloween

"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didnt see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one."

Marilyn Monroe
1926-1962

Nelly Furtado - All Good Things

Madly in love with this song.

Dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon so that they could die

Honestly what will become of me
I don't like reality
It's way too clear to me
But really life is daily
We are what we don't see
We missed everything daydreaming

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end

Travelling I always stop at exits
Wondering if I'll stay
Young and restless
Living this way I stress less
I want to pull away when the dream dies
The pain sets it and I don't cry
I only feel gravity and I wonder why

And the sun was wondering if it should stay away for a day until the feeling went away
And the clouds were dropping and the...
The rain forgot how to bring salvation
The dogs were whistling a new tune barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon so that they could die

outlets

People need outlets. Outlets for sex, jealously, love, greed, affection, violence.
Anyone who studies the subject knows that energy cannot be reduced or annihilated; if denied outlet in one form, it soon finds it in another. However, in these substitue forms it is more insistent and obsessive in character than when normally expressed.

Fascination (2005)

Deleted scenes from 'Fascination' featuring Adam Garcia, henceforth referred to as "he of the fabulous ass".

unbalanced?

Listen to Lithium

Good Charlotte's video for "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl"

Let the record play,
Let the record play,
Let the record play.

The way that you dance,
The way that you move,
The way that you stare at me across the room,
You carry Dior bags,
And you got your Chanel,
You wear Louis Vuitton, HG, and YSL,
Now I got what you need,
I got DCMA
I got brass knuckles hanging,
From my neck in my chain,
I got a model 26,
But she stays in her place,
I got a curve shirt neatly,
Tucked inside in my waist.

sometimes i feel like i am just a well-dressed caboose on a train full of leaders.

"As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.
Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so that I could get an abortion.
If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you,
that's the first step to winning them over to your side."

~filmaker John Waters

Lily Allen - Littlest Things

Flawless Lily from the U.K. Very 30's Hitchcock. Great melody, voice, piano, and overall execution.

signs

"People break down into two groups when they experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance. I'm sure the people in Group number two are looking at those fourteen lights in very suspicious way. For them, the situation isn't fifty-fifty. Could be bad, could be good. But deep down, they feel that whatever happens, they're on their own. And that fills them with fear."

From Signs, M. Night Shyamalan

[figure text: first fate, then luck]

wake up

wake up, baby. virtual ipod player.

2006 > 1984

GEORGE ORWELL WAS A F**KING PROPHET
.

the W

wishes wanderlust wonderful whatever whenever
i've made the same wish on the same star every week since i've been 12
.

letting go of the familiar

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

We like familiarity don’t we? People, places and things that we have knowledge of or have encountered or seen bring us some form of comfort, safety, security and an element of control. I think of how many folks stay stuck in relationships, jobs, geographically etc. simply because they are familiar with their surroundings. For some it means giving up control of their life and to trust in fate. Sometimes the unfamiliar is just so cold, aloof, unfriendly, and leaves that empty homesick feeling in the pit of our stomach.

-French writer Andre Gide

i am sick of hearing

"Wow, you're really nice. I thought you were such a bitch."
Conclusion: smile more.

"Has anyone ever told you you look like Jodie Foster??"
Conclusion: kill. and kill again.

"What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?"
– Scarlett Johansson, voted Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive, on her other attributes

impulses

At any given moment, the brain has 14 billion neurons firing at a speed of 450 miles per hour. We don’t have control over most of them. When we get a chill...goose bumps. When we get excited...adrenaline. The body naturally follows it’s impulses, which I think is part of what makes it so hard for us to control ours. Of course, sometimes we have impulses we would rather not control, that we later wish we had.

Parkour - acrobatic fantastic

Parkour as featured in the "JUMP" video:

Parkour (IPA: [paʁ.'kuʁ], often abbreviated PK) is a physical discipline of French origin in which the participant — called a traceur (/tʁa.'sœʁ/) — attempts to pass obstacles in the fastest and most direct manner possible, using skills such as jumping, vaulting and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves. The obstacles can be anything in the environment, so parkour is often practiced in urban areas because of many suitable public structures, such as buildings, rails, and walls.

Madonna - Jump (preview)


There’s only so much you can learn in one place
The more that I wait, the more time that I waste

I haven’t got much time to waste, it’s time to make my way
I’m not afraid of what I’ll face, but I’m afraid to stay
I’m going down my own road and I can make it alone
I'll work and I'll fight, Till I find a place of my own

Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump
Don’t ever look back, oh baby,
Yes, I’m ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to jump

today i hate complainers, the idea of falling, green foods, silence, and the color orange when not used appropriately.

second art post

All Saints - Europop