How have I not made it to a Drake Drive-In screening yet? I'm willing to wade through hipster vomit for Pee-Wee.

Girl 1: So you're back on the market?
Girl 2: I want to shoot you in the face.

I had the sense that if I was so terrific at it, it wasn't worth doing.
--Diane Arbus, on painting

CORKIN GALLERY

Group Exhibition Opening & Summer Party

Thursday July 30th from 5pm - 7pm

Join us on to celebrate the opening of a dynamic group exhibition

featuring the work of 25 renowned artists.

55 Mill Street Distillery District bldg 61 Toronto Canada M5A 3C4

info@corkingallery.com tel. 416.979.1980 www.corkingallery.com

Michael Deforge for The New York Times Magazine.

(I think Michael stopped talking to me for a while because I didn't really know who LC was either.)

"Actively enjoys snuggling"

SMART AND BEAUTIFUL, intellectually curious and athletic. Consultant/educator -- tall, slim with natural radiance. Adventurous with calm, warm demeanor, genuineness of character. Expressive, affectionate, divorced, 5’8’’. Laughs a lot, thinks deeply, politically liberal. Interested in social change, literature, politics, nature, beauty. Midwestern roots, international outlook, has lived abroad. Actively enjoys skiing, hiking Rockies or Whites, tapas in Barcelona, snuggling at home, Mozart sonatas (but can’t play despite years of lessons), Sunday Times, The Economist. Seeks healthy/active man (59-60s) with warmth and an intellectual bent – Boston area. Greta2222@aol.com; (781)439-722

The New York Review of Books personals: AMAZING.


Thanks lovely Valentine.

Love and Sandwiches

-- interesting article about a study that was sponsored by Hellmann's (mayonaise) that compared personality types with their sandwich choices.


according to this study those who prefer tuna sandwiches are, "competitive, easily irritated and intolerant of failure." (tbone1987???)

"Tuna-sandwich types are better off hanging with other tuna-sandwich types. Seafood salads and BLTs are a slam-dunk love connection. Egg-salad lovers get along with everybody, while ham-and-cheese types, apparently the players of the bread-and-lunch-meat set, function best without strong romantic entanglements."

p.s. I am a ham and cheese type of girl.

http://fuckyeahskinnybitch.tumblr.com


http://artsandcrafts.tumblr.com

I have to rewatch The Beach again to see if it is as fucking awesome as I remember.

http://fuckyeahskinnybitch.tumblr.com/

the things that anti-matter

dreams, decline and hysteria

Why I Hate America

Lou Dobbs did go there.

Photo: Sandro Michahelles for The New York Times

Alice in Wonderland, a Theatrical Essay on the End of Civilization

Will Arnett's dramatic reading of Are you there God? It's me, Margaret

http://tsutpen.blogspot.com

Why I'll hestitate to ever vote NDP again.

(I should add that I volunteered and worked for the NDP in high school and I know that there is a spreadsheet with these two names right next to each other (names are listed by address for door-to-door campaigning) as well as very very close together on alphabetical lists...what's even more amusing is that campaign literature is being wasted on two non-citizens.)

Rudolph Nureyev

http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

Marcel Dzama
Boxers
2001

My preferred Toronto steak house.

The Tulip
1610 Queen St. E
Toronto, Ontario
M4L 1G2

The Tulip used to be filled with bookies (from the former Woodbine race track), locals, FOBs, and rich Jews all the way from Forrest Hill. Just like the area, the clientele is far more gentrified but the menus are nicer.
Also the woman who made the pie recently died. RIP.

You should go back to therapy to find out why your father hates the dome more than he loves you.

{fashion is love.}

You'd probably feel better if you stopped whoring it up with anonymous homeless men.  Standing in the soup kitchen lineup shouldn't count as speed dating.

Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan

Hungry Cougars

Excuse me, are you two in the military?

No.  We're gay.

Jeremy's Red Sox Run-Down for Alice

Tim Wakefield , 49
Pitcher
-longest serving current member of the Red Sox
-only pitcher in Baseball today who throws a knuckleball
-good to refer to him as a “knuckleballer”
-unique in the modern era
-having the best year he’s ever had at 40 years old
-on the bubble of getting 200 wins
-probably see him because he likes to pitch in the domes

Dustin Pedroia
Second Base
-everybody likes him a lot
-reigning MVP in the American League
-very short, the same height as me

David Ortiz
DH
-aka “big papi”
-had a very bad beginning of the season
-for the last month has been kicking all kinds of ass

Jason Bay
Left Field
-new to the team
-born in British Columbia
-became an American Citizen like a month ago

Aaron Bates
-brought in due to Mike Lowell’s injury
-no guarantee he’ll be playing but was on fire when I saw him, got like three hits

Josh Beckett
-nevermind, probably won’t play in this series

Kevin Youkilis
Filling in on Third Base, usually plays First
-in Boston, sounds like everyone is booing him because the fans chant “youuuuuuu”
-pretty good

Daniel Bard
Relief Pitcher
-first season, “dope”
-scares the shit out of everybody
-can throw 100 MPH

Jason Varatek
-team captain
-first captain since Jimmy Foxx (two x’s baby!) in 1942
-if anyone is the fan favourite, it’s him, having a pretty good year

http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/

London phonebooths are more interesting

I do yoga so that I can eat chocolate. Cadbury's milk. If I can't get 15 hours of sex in... I'll have a bar of chocolate. -- Sting

Most of Sting's quotations of the day on Sting.com seem to revolve around him making fun of Tantric sex. Sting, maybe you should call it your Joke about Tantric Sex Quote of the Day, huh yeah?

Valle de Bravo, Mexico
Gomez Crespo Arquitectos

Love ArchDaily.
Makes apartment hunting more grim, but also makes me more selective, which is good.

The new friendship litman's test

If listening to this does make you want to read more Cheever, I don't know what will.
Reunion

(Last summer I told Angela to read his short stories, and she proceeded to complete the collection -- something I have not done. This is why Angela is my favourite.)

Oh, and, forgive me, but while we're on the subject of repressed homosexuality, I definitely do not remember Billy Corgan looking this ___________. 1998!

RED SOX NATION

Admittedly my dedication to the Boston Red Sox began with a seventeen-year-old girl crush that only seventeen-year-old girls can have (you know what I'm talking about); however, if there is one thing I know about sports, and I don't much, it's that team dedication is largely arbitrary or geography-based and that this illogical nature of team loyalty is universaly accecpted.

Whatever. His wife has fake boobs (sorry mom, breasts) and he's really not the looker I once thought he was. Here's to now having better taste...ha.

My friend Jeremy lives mere minutes away from Fenway Park. (Generally this is a good thing except when you have to hear the Dave Matthews Band for three days straight. I think this is grounds for automatically reducing Murder to Manslaughter. Most people don't realize that in Canada, if you manage to stay awake for 72 hours straight, you get this reduction.) Jeremy and I are going skype daily this week so that he can teach me everything I need to know about the Red Sox this year so that I can get the most out of their visit to Toronto this weekend.

Go Red Sox. And Johnny, we're better off without you.

ps one of the most endearing things I've ever heard was Jeremy's immediate approval of a girl when she informed him that she was a boston fan and not in a pink hat sort of way...boston hats come in all colours now but no real fan has the pink version, obviously

return of the black widow

see you this week.

Iain Baxter&
Racing Queens
1983

http://hipsterorgay.tumblr.com/

Embarassing Dealbreaker: Hasn't been to Europe.
I have never kept my pretension a secret.

Abel's Island

William Steig

1976

Keep Calm and Carry On

Wayne Thiebaud

Last night confirmed it: I need to start my own vinyl collection. Having to part with Nik's record collection is the only sad part about not living in my house anymore (that and no longer having my psychiatrist on-call in my basement at all times). He promised I could take the Hall & Oates, which I think I might be close to wearing out. I was also drunk enough last night to enjoy the late night Rod Stewart dance party. Thankfully we smartened up quickly and changed the music. This is all to say that my own record player is first on my list of purchases. I think I will trade my bike for one, steal back my copy of Mclemore Avenue, and rock out.

Mclemore Avenue is not my favourite album of theirs but it is easily one of my favourite album covers. It's almost entirely songs from Abbey Road which sometimes sounds like what the demo button would play on a Yamaha keyboard...Lennon and McCartney were big fans though so it's cool.

JOKES YOU CAN ONLY TELL IF YOU ARE OLD

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last week she came home with an escalator!

Joan Rabascall
Atomic Kiss
1968

New Spaces

Once, a friend of mine in a semi-lucid state spent the evening shouting about a quest for new spaces while I dragged us to old haunts. I plan to spend the month of July in a new Toronto.

You Need Me: July 2nd, 2009

What's Going On/Let's Get It On

When I first downloaded these albums, they came as one. I must confess that I only recently realized they weren't a joint album but in fact two very separate albums. This obviously distinctly coloured my impression of them, and thus this article is about both of them at once.

"What's Going On" and "Let's Get It On" are perhaps the two most prevalent thoughts of youth. As child, I, like probably many others, wasn't very concerned with either, but once my balls dropped and hair sprouted out from strange places on my body, each of them became all consuming in their own various ways.

Interestingly, it's perhaps these areas of the mind that divide and define us we grow up. How, where, and when you answer the question "What's going on" is essentially what maturation to some degree. If you are like Marvin, it's the state of social welfare, the ecology and our relationship with god. That also sounds like typical answers of those who have smoked weed and possess a tendency for harshing buzzes. I digress.

Both are essentially insatiable; new things are always happening, and lust renews itself very regularly for those of us lucky enough to have a libido. If you believe freud et al., sexuality is the most psychologically revealing area of behaviour. It's also typically the most physically revealing, unless you are of the Jewish Orthodox faith.

I've probably already made the point that I enjoy the illusion of narratives in my albums. "What's Going On" especially possesses few breaks in between the tracks, songs blending into one another; "Let's Get It On" breaks up the tracks more but still has a unifying musical aesthetic throughout.

If you are like me, these are still the most important issues in day-to-day life. If you wish to figure out what's going on or to find to some to get it on with, I suggest you reguarly listen to these records.


Try Let's Get It On
Try What's Going On

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Ellsworth Kelly
Red White
1962