good reads || howard altmann



When all that consoled consoles no longer
loneliness finds a room inside the one it knows.
 
from "Fragments"
which will be part of his much awaited book In This House, to be released in April 2010.


yoko ono and john lennon, rolling stone 1981

sean lennon and kemp muhl, purple magazine 2009
 
karen and hank moody, californication 2008



good reads || letters to a young poet

ultimately,and precisely in the deepestand most important matters,we are unspeakably alone...
rainer maria rilke

boring day blogs || purple diary

ok so all the kids check out lookbook.nu and 13-year-old fashion prodigy tavi's blog and tumbl 00888 over and over and that's why everyone looks the same, right? because of some secondhand shitstorm of trendiness? ok tavi, you're adorable, i don't mean to lump you in there. but:

BLAH. how many fucking hotpants and thigh high socks do i have to look at?
teenagers are (cute but) redundant as hell.

well, if you want to see the fashion industry in (drunken) action, wearing clothes IRL instead of to pose in for their facebook album called "bored"--and not from the sterilized style.com runway shots, then check out fashion editor, curator, and art critic olivier zahm's blog.


after all, they are saying that parties have surpassed runway shows as THE fashion events to be at. and this man likes to party with the cream.




he's always taking 2005 myspace shots like this. but when it's with brilliant artists like robert longo, well shit. i guess i can forgive him for being slightly douchey.

plus there's the occasional gem.




warning: you may realize that the innest fashion trend is nudity. nsfw 4sho.

desires || gray's anatomy

someone pleasepleaseplease get me this book for chrismahannukwanza.
imagine. you'll buy my unconditional love for <$40!

it is the only art book i have ever needed. hook a sista up.

i will read it to my grandchildren and mention your name.

career discussion || the english degree

matt and i met in a contemporary american poetry class in a magical place called university hall.
i was a proud bearer of a mullet and bright future, and he wore beige too often and refused to speak or make eye contact. fast forward four years. he's in grad school, i'm in a non-english speaking country. but still, we're both broke, lonely, and too willing to spend hours on the internet--which is good, i guess, because at least we can discuss our career options.


Matt: so if you read the deer park, 4 critical essays, and watch kiss me deadly for me and attend my class tomorrow, i'll memorize your poem and contact some literary agents for youme: hahaha fair deal but there are no blockbusters here and i don't know where else to get kiss me deadlyi can't believe you asked me about deer park because you were gonna use me as sparknotes!Matt: i downloaded it online because it's raining and i don't want to watch it in a cubicle in the libraryhaha no, i was going more for "how much of this can i skim"although i am proud to say that i have literally read every word of every single thing assignedwhich no one else has, and may explain why i am exhausted and slightly deranged me: i admire youit's too easy to bullshit the english degree Matt: i wouldn't feel right cheating myself out of this experience, even if it makes me a useless dork who ends up flipping burgersme: you'll never be a useless dork flipping burgersi'll be your sugar momma and you can read or not read all the books you wantMatt: you've inspired me to take that route in lifeyou'll obviously always have a back-up career as a solo acoustic rap cover artistme: somebody's been stalking my youtube! 

the finer things || bone thugz x jay-z


whackness || sammy sosa


this hasn't been reworked. somebody is taking mj's legacy a bit too far. p.s. hombre was born with brown eyes, not green.

dave's nuggets || on unemployment

David: soon the weekdays and weekends will blurr togetherme: hahha they do i'm not sure if it's sunday or mondayDavid: and you'll have a hard time remembering the last time you took a shwoerme: no wait its tuesdaysweeeeethahha yeah unemployment is a time machineeveryone else is in fast forward and you're still in your pjsDavid: hahaha hell yeah... me: do you have a job? David: noi donti'm milking unemployment for everything they goti give them the ultimate insult on days when i wake up and decide not to do shit me: hahahhaaaa niiiiiceDavid: are you trying to reset your sleep schedule now since you dont work the graveyard shiftme: well no, i'm not trying to reset my sleep schedule, but it's doing that itselfi used to sleep at 9 am because i'd get home around 7 and need to unwindbut now i sleep at 2ami still wake up in the middle of the afternoon thoughbecause nothing about the day excites me David: dude thats exactly how i feel hahame: hhaha ughhhhhh



lists || things i miss about new jersey on this particular day

1. the beach being a drive away
2. urban outfitters
3. coat weather
4. the abundance of sexy irishmen
5. long walks at the tourne
6. rutherford rooftops
7. mexican/italian/ethiopian/japanese/cuban/non-filipino food
8. fucking diners!
9. no traffic at certain times of the day
10. trees, breezes, knowing people, everything everything

shark week || facts


mad men

holy shhhhh. season finale of mad men was a total boner jam.

and speaking of boner jamz, why has no one told me that californication is a must see? truly life changing. also, its soundtrack is bonkersly good.

d/l sea wolf's 2007 ep get to the river....nowwwww.
i keep trying to get off this island to no avail.

i'm digging a tunnel out. see you when i see you.

beef || mad men message board


i was trying to figure out if the last episode i watched of mad men was the season finale ("the grown ups"), so i checked out the episode's comments and found this gem.

turns out season finale airs tomorrow, nov 8. not sure what i'm going to do with myself now that mad men and true blood are off. good thing there's dexter and message board beefin to keep me busy...

hilarity || men who look like old lesbians

dot blogspot dot com

need i say more?

fashion || homemade chanel


steez || i'm wrecking every shirt you ever gave me





most definitely



"our past is our own,
we can change it if we want."
be kind rewind

max hodges

i definitely don't want to like this guy because
a) he works for tmz
b) he's not smart
c) he's sort of a douchebag
d) he may be an alcoholic
e) his myspace lists his relationship status as being "swinger"
f) he has a fucking myspace
g) he doesn't have a beard

but

i definitely can't help it because
a)

b)

c)

what uppppppp booboo?
you know how i love them scraggly menz.

good reads || the woman warrior

"I learned to make my mind large,
as the universe is large,
so that there is room for paradoxes."
maxine hong kingston

halloween || best costume part 2

my ubertalented photographer pal eric schnare took this portrait of his lady friend and fellow cute animal aficionado, the beautiful samantha g.


steez || i figured out the fishtail braid


chic as hellllllllllll! now i have something to stop me from shaving my head like i've been considering for the last 36 hours. grow, hair, grow! tutorial: here.

hilarity || christopher walken x lady gaga

laugh out loud funny

gracias a mi amigo sr brandon por el video

justin's thoughts || on women and ignorance

Justin: how are the filpino dudes
me: nothing compared to woo
Justin: u forreals?
me: well
i Think its safe to say that Pauline still wants [you]
Justin: hahahaha
yo
me: haha
Justin: whats post coutium mean
me: coitum is the act of sexual intercourse
post coitum means just had sex
Justin: oh
thanks
fancy words
me: yeah those romans and their latin
you reading my blog or something
you're sooooo stalking me!
Justin: yeah i cant see half the pictures though
me: sweeeeeet
oh lame why not
Justin: im at work probably your hosting sites for someo fht epics are blocked
me: oh yeah i think there may be a nipslip or two
Justin: "fuck sex"
what's wrong
me: hhaha
justin. i can't even masturbate with pleasure. can you imagine such a hell?
Justin: are you serious
maybe ur doing it wrong
me: yeah
can you send me some how-to's?
and noodz
Justin: yeah
www.youporn.com
that should be all u need
u nkow what i learned
not all girls masturbate
yet every guy does
so weird
me: yeah not all girls do
Justin: ignorance
when will they learn

i have nothing left to do today

jewelry || non-piercing ear ornament


made from a broken necklace
steezy or sleezy?

hilarity || anti-smoking ads warn teens "it's gay to smoke"

halloween || reduce, reuse, throw everything else in the flame

by day, brandon is a dignified professor at a respectable college. but every halloween, he WYLEZ OUT. last year, he wore a green sheet and a spiky headband, with nothing else, and was the statue of liberty. two female cops busted the party he was throwing, but he somehow drunkenly charmed them into not giving him a ticket/shutting down the party. although, no one knows the actual details of what transpired between them.


me: hahah wtfffffff you love being almost naked at halloween don't you
Brandon:  dude, its halloween, youve got to be
i got like the flu from being freezing cold, but totally worth it
i also fell on some rusty garbage and cut the fuck out ofmy leg
me:  eeek tetanus
Brandon: yeah i had to get a shot to prevent that
me: the farmer's tan is the best though
how do you still have one
Brandon: dude that shit is baked in there
its from biking
from being out in the sun so much
me: and was the ladder originally intended as fuel for the flame or is some poor dad missing his ladder now
Brandon: oh man we burned like 20 doors
two laders
a ton of shit
me: from what abandoned warehouse did you get twenty doors
Brandon:  well
the party was on this piece of land this guys family owns, 150 acres in northeast PA.
there are like several falling-down houses and trailers on it
so... thats where 20 doors came from
p.s. they were old doors, like from the 40s, so they were all covered in lead paint hahaha
me: you walk the razor's edge m****r
Brandon: the fire was enormous
like 8ft tall in the beginning
me:  whaaat did you burn all 20 doors at once
Brandon: haha no
but it was so funny to say "throw another door on the fire"
on like many, many occasions i came running out of the darkness carrying a door to throw on
me:  hahaha
no one drunkenly fell in the fire pit? i'm surprised
Brandon:   actually several people stood on it
on a freshly-thrown in door, wet with rainwater, as flame leapt up around
me:  epic
Brandon:   yeah. it was pretty metal
me:  you in a recycling box, with a farmer's tan, on a raft sailing on waves of flames. i wish caleb d. took that picture, it would be my screen saver
Brandon:   i got two photos of my friend pete doing it
theyre on my film camera
yeah so i need to go get that roll developed
my leg is infected as shit it hurts like a motherfuck
me:  ewwwwwww
Brandon:   im going to like limp into my class tomorrow morning
me:  are you gonna tell them the real story if the students ask
"well i was half naked, ripping doors off abandoned buildings...."
Brandon:   haha no!
i try to maintain an aura of professionalism
ill just say "Halloween won"
me: good choice
Brandon:   i'll say "my costume was inappropriate on a number of levels"
me:  twas indeed
Brandon:  the box ended up in the fire


hilarity || rush limbaugh responds to jay-z's "off that"




"mr. z, it is mr. obama who wants mandate circumcision...if we need to save our penises from anybody, it's obama."

and while we're on the subject of mr. z. here's a video featuring every album cover: