Catherine Deneuve marries David Bailey
Image Craving
July 6, 2009A Vote
July 5, 2009If someone told you they were really into “Holocaust Porn”, would you think that:
A. The porn was set in a concentration camp
B. They got off on watching genocide itself?
Jesting, Infinitely: Part II
July 4, 2009“…and for an instant the Provident cafeteria seems pin-drop silent, and his own heart grips him like an infant rattling the bars of its playpen…”
This is What is Wrong with America
July 2, 2009ID: oh man
i saw the scariest shit ever the other day
a pink party bus
i was in a taxi next to it
LM: HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA
ID: and a bunch of kids were grinding in the aisle
LM: hahahahahahahaaaaa
ID: i started cracking up
but i was crying inside
it was sooooo awful
LM: i’m literally laughing in my cubicle
ID: i literally was like, this is emblematic of EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH THE
WORLD
LM: i wonder if they do …. bah mitzvahs?… 25th birthday parties??
people grinding anywhere – particularly in a pink party bus – is always a red flag to the rapid demise of our civilization.
Words of wisdom…
“102 Colors from my Dreams”
July 2, 2009I was completely enchanted by this piece by Spencer Finch when I saw it this past December at Art Basel in Miami (where in the world was I.D.?) and have managed to track down some nice pictures of it. Finch made Rorschachs of colors that he claims to have seen in his dreams. Beneath each are tiny explanations such as “Knitting a sweater and crying” or “Ham in a Mercedes Limousine”, etc.
102 Colors from my Dreams
This dream is: "Vest (Bob Dylan in a Skyscraper)"
The Definition of Ethereal
July 1, 2009
Anne Louise Lambert as Miranda in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock
JUSTIN MURPHY, JOURNALIST: One of those is Ann-Louise Lambert. Her character, the enchanting Miranda, had a surreal presence in the film – ethereal, untouchable, mysterious. One of her experiences on location connects eerily with that character. After one tough filming session where nothing went well, Lambert, in full costume, wandered off into the bush to be alone. She soon realised she was being followed. She turned to find an old woman clambering over the rocks towards her. Instantly, she recognised Joan Lindsay.
ANN-LOUISE LAMBERT, ACTOR: And she came up to me and just threw her arms around me immediately. And she said directly into my ear, um, “Oh, Miranda. It’s been so long.” And she was very emotional. And, um, and she just hung on to me for what seemed a long time. And finally she let me go and sort of stared at me. And she was, you know…she had tears in her eyes. And she was quite shaky. And it felt very…like a very powerful, very true thing, you know, that she was feeling. She was remembering somebody or something that was true.
Nod to George W. S. Trow
June 26, 2009Theory: Michael Jackson is more “alive”/beloved now than he has been in the past ten years.
The Songs That Best Sum Up My Life
June 26, 2009Because “theme song”s sounds lame.
“You Don’t Know How it Feels to Be Me” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“Don’t Be Scared” by A.R.E. Weapons
“Dig a Pony” by the Beatles
“This Cloud” by Bush (nod to my moody teenage years)
“Hospital Beds” by Cold War Kids
“Closer” by Nine Inch Nails (Ha!)
“I Want to Live in a Wigwam” by Cat Stevens
“Dedicated Follower of Fashion” by the Kinks
“I Want to Know What Love Is” by Foreigner (is she joking? I can’t tell…if not, that’s pretty sad…wait, seriously?)
“What Is Life” by George Harrison
And the grand, choreographed dance finale to my movie-life:
“Papa Was a Rolling Stone” by the Temptations
The Guy From the Tom’s Commercial: Gay or Unbelievably Dreamy?
June 25, 2009
Seriously?
Unbelievably dreamy: Spokesman for a global network, featured in a commercial in which he is traveling for his job
Gay: Wears a stylish scarf in said commercial
Unbelievably dreamy: Commercial shows him giving shoes to adorably third world kids
Gay: Works with shoes
Unbelievably dreamy: Started a program in which Toms Shoes gives away one pair of shoes for everything pair they sell
Gay: Cares about shit
Unbelievably dreamy: favorite TV show on MySpace is Lost
Gay: other favorite: Grey’s Anatomy
Unbelievably dreamy: from the LA Times, “He’s not egocentric like some entrepreneurs are.”
Gay: also from the LA Times, “He is not afraid to show his emotions to make sure people know they are appreciated.”
Seriously, though, if you’re straight, please…marry me. I want to go around the world in a hot air balloon with you and make it rain teeny tiny shoes in Nigeria.
The First…Err, Second of a New Category!
June 23, 2009You know what I looooove? Categories! So I’m making a new category. This category is: Things I Love That I Go to Inappropriate Lengths to Track Down. It’s pretty much a category within a category, as the definition of category is: any general division. Things I like! Things I like MORE! The exact thing I like about the thing I like! Things I like within things I like! It’s a bonANza of specification!
So sometimes I get fixed on things and then I go to “inappropriate lengths” to track these things down, and then I get sort of proud of myself for my perseverance, but I have no one to whom to brag about it. I figured: hey, the internet! This is where we all blow our meaningless and futile activities out of proportion, right? And display them to a faceless and nameless crowd? Wee! Cue applause.
Okay so I have this obsession with quoting, quoting accurately, I should say. I was quite taken by this compliment a steel magnate gave to a woman in the first season of Mad Men, the scandalous and sumptuously styled show on AMC (returns in August for its third season.) Noticing that the first season was on demand out here on THE END (Where in the World is I.D.?), I decided to watch each episode until I found the quote. I didn’t have to get very far, though. It appears in the fourth episode. Pete Campbell, the weaselly professional schmoozer, brings over two women as eye candy/”companions” for his client, the steel magnate. Particularly taken by one of them (“Would you look at that! You could lose a nickel in those dimples!”), he asks her what she does for a living.
“Well, I’m an actress,” she responds, “and I’m also taking some classes at Hunter.”
“Really?” he says. “I would have thought you slept all day and bathed in milk.
Boys…write this one down! Methinks it will work quite well.
In hindsight, this is actually the second post that falls under this category…
