www.calendars.com

meet alex

he's a cancer.

http://alexshahan.blogspot.com/

good gifts for spoiled brats pt. 1

the gashlycrumb tinies by edward gorey

Greg and Julie sent this early for the Holiday...Thanks so much! me and my sissy-in-law share a love of bookies and...the absurd? i didn't own any edward gorey, but I know she is a huge fan and I'm not in any way disappointed by his unreserved approach...realism for the little nuggets. sorry. life is rough. 

get it...

kelsey, one of my besties, is currently in a masters program for spiritual psychology at the University of Santa Monica. 
she's much better at taking care of me long-distance than i am of taking care of her. 
she's beautiful. and. she's my therapy. 
anyway, she just sent along a little gem. her friend from class, carly margolis is gifted. 
what i mean:
charming band. she and her boyfriend. learn how to be free. 
also. she makes gorgeous thought-provoking jewelry. fresh. 

you gotta see this stuff:    allforthemountain.com

i have too many favorites to mention. i'm grateful for inspiring people. 

listening...

014: The Velvet Underground
Loaded 
[Cotillion/Atlantic; 1971]

Though Lou Reed might be more widely remembered for some of the most provocative and contentious experimental rock of the 20th century, his influence stretches equally far within the rock 'n' roll mainstream. A spot-on portent of Reed's vibrant solo career, Loaded witnesses The Velvet Underground emerging from the druggy maw of their late-60s work to pen some of the best vanilla rock anthems of the era, with the typically reticent Doug Yule assuming a more conspicuous role. The album is staggering not for its consistency, diversity, or technical proficiency-- something the band came to stylize-- but for the ardor and joie de vivre with which it explores the capacious boundaries of its form.

Sadly, Loaded often comes recommended with one glaring stipulation: "It's a good starting point, if you're looking to get into them." But the album is too good to be relegated to sub-intellectual standing; from the dripping tongue-in-cheek melancholy of "Who Loves the Sun", to the sultry narrative swagger of "Sweet Jane" and "Rock & Roll", to the maudlin-but-oh-so-irresistible "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'",Loaded proves the Velvets top-shelf geniuses with a vocabulary fit for the hoi polloi. It's here that they finally chose to break the din of their histrionic, often difficult 60s triumvirate, striking the hot iron of rock in a transitory period-- and what a way to do it. --Sam Ubl

via: pitchfork.com

reasons not to date until you're over it...xx (you know what i mean)

today we had to talk about books we'd read outside of class... mine: The Third Policeman (which was absurd and delightful)

i very seriously explained that this novel reminded me of kafka -- [cough cough] 

amelia immediately brought up this 

clip...god love her

i want these...

www.warbyparker.com

just sayin... 

read at harper's archive

(or pick it off the shelf--dec. 2010 edition)

My nephew drew a succession of pictures and gifted them 

ever so thoughtfully to me...

This one was included

When I asked what it was he said:

"IT'S YOU, IN VERY DEEP WATER"

Thanks for not letting me forget Kade

shut up right now....

IN A POSTMODERN FANTASY WORLD, I WROTE THIS

Don Delillo won the National Book Award for White Noise in 1985. 

If I could pretend I wrote anything of genius, it would be this book. 

(cover--revamped for Penguin's Classics Deluxe Edition by Michael Cho)

lungs

and this....

via www.20x200.com

i like

via www.20x200.com

Yep... people I like

via ffffound

vintage photo

via the sartorialist

older man love

via the sartorialist