You know how like when a deaf person gets their cochlear implant turned on for the first time and they hear a bird chirp and completely lose their shit because their mind was just torn in half by this whole other plane of existence that they never even knew existed before?
That’s how James Franco’s art makes me feel.
BRAD RENFRO FOREVER
Switchblades by James Franco for The Thing Quarterly.
Oh man, I hope I get my fucking tax return in time to buy a fucking switchblade knife designed by James Franco that says BRAD FUCKING RENFRO on the handle for six hundred and fifty fucking dollars.
This new interest in pastoral nationalism seemed like a strange fit for indie rock; or at least it made plain that indie rock was in the hands of a new and different generation of fans. At the height of the Iraq war, college graduates poured into cities and took internships at magazines, nonprofits, and internet startup firms. They found themselves drawn, for some reason, to adorable music that openly celebrated our national heritage. They dressed like stylish lumberjacks and watched Sufjan perform dressed as a Boy Scout, and they remembered a disappeared world of the small and the tangible.
I never really thought of that as a movement, but it was/is and I was/am a part of it. Interesting.
a collection of random moments i captured on my iphone over the course of the year. presented without context.
its been a good year.This is fantastic fantastic.
I’ll go ahead and second that, which makes this fantastic fantastic fantastic fantastic.
Our video for “Sometimes a Wolf” from our record “Top Button, Bottom Shelf”
Directed by Kevin Slack [www.kevin-slack.com]
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One of my favorite albums of 2011.
I love free software and could not have built my site without it. But free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resources. Your time is spent firefighting and your money all goes to the nice people at Linode.Don’t Be A Free User, Pinboard blog
You know what’s great about New York? The threshold for citizenship as a New Yorker is actually pretty short. Like, if you come to New York and you still like it two years after you arrive here and you still think its great and you’re having a good time and you haven’t been totally ground down and go limping back to wherever the fuck you came from…you know what? You’re in.Anthony Bourdain in his new show, “The Layover“ (via alittlespace)
(via buzz)
