MOURNING WEREWOLF

2011-01-17T12:33:00.002+01:00

I just want to want to get out of bed at a "reasonable hour" -- whatever that means. I constantly struggle to remember that I am happiest, busy. And yet my instinct is always to do as little as possible all the time. The red glow of the smoking trailer attached to Berlin's largest palace of hedonism illuminates this paper, as I struggle to enjoy myself, the music, to prove to myself that I actually enjoy this atmosphere, the most popular atmosphere of my new-ish home. The first home I have chosen.

Hello, New Year

2011-01-01T21:39:00.000+01:00

Rihanna, circa 1990s

Going to try this blog thang again. Here's hoping my interest lasts longer this time!

2010-06-22T20:03:00.001+02:00

Nan Goldin
Nan one month after being battered
1984

Apparently Nan had a friend take this picture to remind her not to get back together with Brian.

2010-06-13T22:49:00.000+02:00

Stephen Shore
Ginger Shore, Causeway Inn, Tampa, Florida, Nov. 17, 1977

2010-06-09T18:53:00.002+02:00

If breaking up with a shitty job is this difficult, I can't begin to imagine how difficult it is break up with a shitty boyfriend.

2010-06-09T18:52:00.001+02:00

(insubordinate wordplay)

This reminds me to dig out my Elvis ken doll.

Here is the reading material that I enjoyed most today:

2010-06-03T23:33:00.002+02:00

As wedding season approaches and I am fitted for my fourth (?) bridesmaid’s dress, I am more keenly aware than ever of the push to join in. I am trying, with every ounce of Normal Lady genetic residue and desire, to be that kind of girl, when I am asked for and offer my opinions on invitations, hemlines, gift bags, guest list. At the same time, my dude counterparts have nothing to do pre-wedding except hit the bank for small bills to push into a stripper’s thong. And that, there, is a thing I really would like to join in on.

As always, Kate Carraway
Not much of a joiner

And...
More entertaining with every new entry, Daniel Scott Byrne
From TOP to Bottom: TOPSHOP Comes to TO

2010-06-02T21:17:00.001+02:00

Robert Rauschenberg (my favourite)
Bed
1955

required reading 4 art nerds who may not have the time for the whole book:

Leo the Lion: How the Castelli gallery changed the art world.

2010-06-02T18:45:00.001+02:00

(cellar door)

2010-05-26T18:28:00.000+02:00

Zach Shrock
New Mexico Slum
2009

2010-05-22T19:34:00.002+02:00

1960 Celanese

(myvintagevogue)

Ladies, you no longer have to hide it with your kitchen appliances.

2010-05-20T18:01:00.004+02:00

Behold,
THE MINI MAGIC WAND!

2010-05-20T17:39:00.000+02:00

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
1909

(Jessicakes)

2010-05-15T21:13:00.000+02:00

I think we should start some only child union

To convey our needs, concerns and interests to wider society

I was talking about this with my only-child Colorado friend the other day

And I've determined we're different

So we should organize on a national level to express our concerns

yes

yes indeed

i have an only child friend visiting

it's great to see her

we have unique issues

and qualities that tie us together

Like a need for personal space

Right

indeed

We're operating on our own wavelength

And people like you know who need to get out of our bubble

Maybe we could have special seats on the back of the bus where nobody could sit next to us

hahahahhaha

Yeah, that could be our first organizing issue

We could all boycott the TTC and the MBTA and the like until they give us special treatment

You could be like the reverse Rosa Parks of the only child empowerment movement

"Degrading is a subjective term. I find commercials in which women become orgasmic over soapsuds to be tremendously degrading. The bottom line is that every woman has the right to define what is degrading and liberating for herself. "

2010-05-15T19:53:00.000+02:00

A Feminist Defense of Pornography

Secular Humanism (cult?) has peaked my interest.
(They need to redesign their website though!)

Peeping Tom

2010-05-08T22:55:00.004+02:00

James Robert Durant
I Have Been Here Before
2009

Now here's something I was impressed by: Tropical Punch at Galerie Lausberg.

(Before I picked up the artist statement for the show, I knew what it was going to say. I realize that in some sense this is an accomplishment, but for some reason, I find this depressing.)

I will be surprised if I see anything better in Contact. But here's hoping.

2010-05-08T17:27:00.001+02:00

Jake Kovnat
The Smallest Bar in Key West
2010

Fashion benefits from online slander.

2010-05-06T16:22:00.003+02:00

"Ariane, who has more than 100 posts on her site, said she had not been terribly bothered by anything she has read so far, but she acknowledged that after one comment about a certain pair of leggings, she stopped wearing them. "

Read more:
On Formspring, an E-Vite to Teenage Insults

Sorry Richard, your show was kinda boring, and I went armed with excitement and curiousity and an open mind. I liked this one, though.

2010-05-04T22:53:00.001+02:00

Meh

2010-04-10T22:49:00.002+02:00

Dan Epstein
2010

2010-04-10T22:38:00.001+02:00

Oh Toronto art scene, sometimes you are just a huge DISAPPOINTMENT.

2010-04-08T05:04:00.002+02:00

2010-04-07T19:19:00.002+02:00

Cribs with Louis XVI

2010-04-06T18:20:00.001+02:00

Enrique Metinides
Untitled (Primer plano de mujer rubia arrollada e impactada contra un poste, en avenida Chapultepec, Ciudad de Mexico)
1979

2010-04-05T05:52:00.001+02:00

(vga card)

This song will not change your life.

2010-04-05T05:40:00.001+02:00

2010-04-03T20:17:00.001+02:00

2010-04-01T20:22:00.003+02:00

William Etty
The Parting of Hero and Leander
1827

(Had hipsters and blogs existed in the 19th century, I think there's no question that this would have proliferated the blogosphere.)

2010-04-01T16:46:00.001+02:00

Faye Dunaway & William Holden in Sidney Lumet's Network

SO MUCH YELLING!

2010-03-30T20:34:00.002+02:00

The most compelling love story I can remember, of late.

2010-03-30T20:31:00.001+02:00

2010-03-26T15:46:00.001+01:00

(vmagazine.com)

2010-03-26T15:41:00.002+01:00

(vmagazine.com)

Ryan McGinley

Untitled (Black Bear)

2007

2010-03-26T15:29:00.002+01:00

Amir Normandi

Women of my homeland in: Reluctant Accessory

From: The Rise of Islamo-Erotica

(Lazy Pilgrim)

One of my favourite courses I took in university was taught by an expert in Islamic Art. She pointed out that so much of Islamic art today is dominated by two tired tropes, the burka and Arabic script, both of which support narrow, Western views of Islamic culture. Nevertheless, this series is still interesting.

Happy Belated Birthday, Mourning Werewolf!

2010-03-26T14:52:00.004+01:00

In celebration, here's a look at my very first post: to name a blog

I'm a beat you like a congo.

2010-03-26T14:28:00.004+01:00

Trey Songz - Say Aah (Feat. Fabolous)

You know that song that goes nah nah nah nah nah?

...

Yes, this is it!

2010-03-25T22:44:00.000+01:00

Best 10 wines under $10

(Thanks Jean-Paul!)

2010-03-25T21:50:00.005+01:00

From my favourite store on Queen St. W., Robber.

Little House on the Big Market

2010-03-25T17:24:00.001+01:00

Read here about Toronto's most adorable house.

2010-03-24T22:30:00.002+01:00

(frosted tips)

2010-03-24T18:01:00.008+01:00

Click each image to enlarge.

2010-03-23T22:39:00.001+01:00

Ah, my long-lost friend Hipster or Gay

2010-03-23T20:57:00.001+01:00

Bruce LaBruce interviews Karl Lagerfeld for Vice

America: Successfully setting back Feminism, one court case at a time!

2010-03-23T20:34:00.001+01:00

"Lay Off" Married Men: Jilted Wife Successfully Sues Mistress

This is (one reason) why I don't want to move to America. While the plethora of court television shows generally offer entertainment, being able to sue ANYONE for ANYTHING does have consequences.

2010-03-23T17:08:00.001+01:00

2001: A Space Odyssey

I guess I only stay awake during slow movies.

2010-03-22T04:21:00.000+01:00

From Joris Voooooooorn's Flickr

2010-03-21T20:40:00.000+01:00

Landon Speers

2010-03-21T20:38:00.001+01:00

Landon Speers
nocturne no. i

2010-03-21T16:29:00.000+01:00

(Ghoulish Sounds)

Fear of the Unknown

2010-03-20T16:39:00.002+01:00

No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale

2010-03-18T22:04:00.005+01:00

Wipe that face off your head

AND, also from Kate,

Womb temperature

THE ECSTACY

2010-03-16T20:34:00.000+01:00

by John Donne

WHERE, like a pillow on a bed,
A pregnant bank swell'd up, to rest
The violet's reclining head,
Sat we two, one another's best.

Our hands were firmly cemented
By a fast balm, which thence did spring ;
Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread
Our eyes upon one double string.

So to engraft our hands, as yet
Was all the means to make us one ;
And pictures in our eyes to get
Was all our propagation.

As, 'twixt two equal armies, Fate
Suspends uncertain victory,
Our souls—which to advance their state,
Were gone out—hung 'twixt her and me.

And whilst our souls negotiate there,
We like sepulchral statues lay ;
All day, the same our postures were,
And we said nothing, all the day.

If any, so by love refined,
That he soul's language understood,
And by good love were grown all mind,
Within convenient distance stood,

He—though he knew not which soul spake,
Because both meant, both spake the same—
Might thence a new concoction take,
And part far purer than he came.

This ecstasy doth unperplex
(We said) and tell us what we love ;
We see by this, it was not sex ;
We see, we saw not, what did move :

But as all several souls contain
Mixture of things they know not what,
Love these mix'd souls doth mix again,
And makes both one, each this, and that.

A single violet transplant,
The strength, the colour, and the size—
All which before was poor and scant—
Redoubles still, and multiplies.

When love with one another so
Interanimates two souls,
That abler soul, which thence doth flow,
Defects of loneliness controls.

We then, who are this new soul, know,
Of what we are composed, and made,
For th' atomies of which we grow
Are souls, whom no change can invade.

But, O alas ! so long, so far,
Our bodies why do we forbear?
They are ours, though not we ; we are
Th' intelligences, they the spheres.

We owe them thanks, because they thus
Did us, to us, at first convey,
Yielded their senses' force to us,
Nor are dross to us, but allay.

On man heaven's influence works not so,
But that it first imprints the air ;
For soul into the soul may flow,
Though it to body first repair.

As our blood labours to beget
Spirits, as like souls as it can ;
Because such fingers need to knit
That subtle knot, which makes us man ;

So must pure lovers' souls descend
To affections, and to faculties,
Which sense may reach and apprehend,
Else a great prince in prison lies.

To our bodies turn we then, that so
Weak men on love reveal'd may look ;
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.

And if some lover, such as we,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him still mark us, he shall see
Small change when we're to bodies gone.

Well, doesn't that look like fun?

2010-03-04T19:38:00.001+01:00

(the vagabond set)

La Chinoise

2010-03-04T19:19:00.000+01:00

(the vagabond set)

2010-03-04T16:50:00.000+01:00

2010-03-04T15:28:00.001+01:00

This morning I told Sam James & Emma -- who works for Sam James at the Sam James Coffee Bar -- that "I had slept over at my girlfriend's house."

LOL.

2010-03-04T15:25:00.000+01:00

(curb crawlers)

2010-03-03T04:11:00.003+01:00

Don't those leaves look like fun?

2010-03-02T23:05:00.000+01:00

(skinny bitch)

"Deep, dirty and devastating."

2010-02-28T20:40:00.007+01:00

Simian Mobile Disco @ Essential Mix (BBC Radio 1)

I heart Essential Mix.

This week's episode, with Faithless Sound System, is TIGHT.

2010-02-27T23:10:00.001+01:00

(I Love Charts)

2010-02-27T00:00:00.000+01:00

Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009

New French Anti Smoking Campaign

2010-02-26T15:35:00.000+01:00

2010-02-26T07:06:00.003+01:00

De La Soul Feat. Chaka Khan - All Good

2010-02-25T22:19:00.002+01:00

Woman Live Tweets Her Abortion

2010-02-25T20:12:00.003+01:00

This week I started watching The Larry Sanders Show, much to my satisfaction. An important predecessor to more recent hits like Curb Your Enthusiasm (also HBO) and Arrested Development (also starring Jeffrey Tambor), Sanders chronicles the life of a late-night talk show host, played by Gary Shandling, and his trials and tribulations trying to balance a show buisness career, a marriage, and his own sanity. The large cast of characters include a few real gems: in addition to Tambor, the show includes Rip Torn, Janeane Garafolo, and Jeremy Piven.

Give it a shot.

(Oh, and one last thing: The Larry Sanders Show occupies this unique space in time where television shows had become racy, and thus interesting, yet still had to star inherently likable characters. How refreshing.)

2010-02-24T15:15:00.003+01:00

Michael K. Williams as Terry Richardson

(be sure not to miss the situtation)

From "Julie Klausner on Pauline Kael, Miss Piggy and the Sexual Revolution"

2010-02-23T23:14:00.003+01:00

I’m at the point, frankly, where I’d rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max’s book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is. The modern model of misogyny has to do with marginalizing people who are sexual and thinking of them as dumb, or not serious, or not cool or tweedy enough to take seriously, for fear of seeming like one of the guys from “Jersey Shore.” The sex is so much more present in sexism than, I think, ever before.

Read more here.

Julie Klausner's Blog

Ahh, my love of assholes affirmed by a feminist (like myself). I never thought this day would come.

2010-02-23T19:51:00.002+01:00

2010-02-22T05:56:00.002+01:00

Eric Kaluzny

Best living actress. Yeah, that's right Meryl.

2010-02-17T18:47:00.001+01:00

Julianne Moore in Berlin

2010-02-15T22:53:00.001+01:00

Patti Boyd & George Harrison

(from tavi gevinson's style rookie)

2010-02-15T18:52:00.002+01:00

Jeremih - Imma Star (Everywhere We Are)

aaaaaaand Birthday Sex (Uptempo Remix)

Indeed, a White Supremacist Dick

2010-02-15T17:40:00.003+01:00

Someone who claims that their "dick is sort of like a white supremacist" deserves this other, less-written about, portion of their Playboy interview re-blogged as well.

PLAYBOY: Masturbation for you is as good as sex?

MAYER: Absolutely, because during sex, I’m just going to run a filmstrip. I’m still masturbating. That’s what you do when you’re 30, 31, 32. This is my problem now: Rather than meet somebody new, I would rather go home and replay the amazing experiences I’ve already had.

PLAYBOY: You’d rather jerk off to an ex-girlfriend than meet someone new?

MAYER: Yeah. What that explains is that I’m more comfortable in my imagination than I am in actual human discovery. The best days of my life are when I’ve dreamed about a sexual encounter with someone I’ve already been with. When that happens, I cannot lay off myself.

Happy Fucking Valentine's Day

2010-02-14T23:20:00.000+01:00

If only more men were this direct...

2010-02-13T16:38:00.002+01:00

I found this on my car windshield last fall. My girlfriend and I now close the bedroom blinds.

(Thanks to LP for reminding me of FOUND)

2010-02-13T00:14:00.000+01:00

2010-02-12T19:59:00.002+01:00

My boss put on an Alexander McQueen dress this morning, not knowing that he had passed. RIP.

2010-02-11T21:41:00.002+01:00

Duck feather and silk and polyester organza dress by the late Alexander McQueen
Photograph by Mario Sorrenti, styled by Camilla Nickerson
in W, August 2009

Congratulations, Marc Jacobs

2010-02-11T19:55:00.000+01:00

via Gawker
from BUTT

2010-02-11T02:43:00.000+01:00

2010-02-11T01:01:00.002+01:00

Time to go back to Japan

2010-02-10T23:01:00.003+01:00

2010-02-10T15:16:00.001+01:00

I appreciate this time of day, if only because I can listen to Taylor Swift without fear of roommate repercussions.

2010-02-09T15:35:00.005+01:00

David Zilber, RECIDIVISM

I miss the days of card catalogues.

2010-02-09T05:42:00.001+01:00

Rachel Ballinger for Talula

2010-02-09T01:54:00.007+01:00

Thoughtless Podcast

This is only to restore my reputation with Elizabeth.

Happy Birthday Week, girlfriend.

2010-02-09T01:03:00.005+01:00

Clipse, Rick Ross "I'm Good" (Remix)

So stoked to FINALLY see these two at Circa next month.

Now Robin, you're pretty lovable, but I think JT might beat you every time...

2010-02-07T23:35:00.001+01:00

Does anyone else find this video RIDICULOUS?

2010-02-07T23:30:00.001+01:00

2010-02-06T00:37:00.002+01:00

(Spectacular Attractions)

International Readership

2010-02-06T00:35:00.001+01:00

2010-02-03T23:44:00.001+01:00

Vogue, February 2010

2010-02-03T23:28:00.002+01:00

(Spectacular Attractions)

2010-02-02T17:10:00.000+01:00

Tokyo's Brave New Noodle World

2010-02-02T02:19:00.003+01:00

Push for Tush

2010-02-01T22:35:00.004+01:00

American Apparel's Search for the Best Bottom in the World

So far, Christine from Edmonton is still my favourite...
(I just noticed she has a Parental Advisory sign on her door, to the right of her body. Yikes.)

RIP Angelina "Trashbags"

2010-02-01T20:07:00.005+01:00

I just happen to be Italian, I happen to have some spiky hair and a six-pack, and I'm proud to have that. And if you don't like me, I don't care, I've still got 5 million viewers every Thursday night at 10 PM.
-- Mike "The Situation"

Awkward Jersey Shore Interview

2010-02-01T19:54:00.002+01:00

TWLOHA

2010-02-01T18:56:00.000+01:00

Tom Ford

Did you know that he is from Austin, Texas?