before anything, i’d just like to say, i know this ain’t one of my better pieces of writing. there are better pieces coming. but hey, you know how when the city shuts your water off for a few days (or in my case what feels like fucking years)? when you first turn the faucet on, [...]
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
colours: now not just a movie about gangs in LA
soundtrack is thao nguyen. she and her band, the get down, stay down, are having a spring tour. if i’m not too too swamped with work, imma try to roll through. i’ve seen her live and she’s dope. her myspace doesn’t have my favorite of her songs, tallymarks, but hey it’s on youtube. so. oh [...]
Tags: art, emo, philosophy, poetry, women
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
banh mi and bars: sounds like something vinh’d write about huh?
soundtrack to this post will be camera obscura. it’s hella twee, but it always makes me happy to listen to them and belle and sebastian… sometimes crazy cheery, sweet music is exactly what you need. maybe, i just need to be soothed. god, i’m burned out… oh and they got a show at webster hall [...]
Tags: emo, food and drink, poetry, ramblings
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
the 80′s in all their long haired glory
i’m emo, so the soundtrack will be appropriate. someone wise said that creative writing is always inherently self-indulgent. i guess i’m being so today… with john waite, one of those power ballad type singers from the ’80s. all the cheesiness and self-serious and the hair, goddamn the hair. he’s one of those dudes who sorta [...]
Monday, April 6th, 2009
sisyphean swagger on a sunny sunday
the soundtrack to this post will be nyc hipster hop icon and darling of the alt-hip hop scene, mickey factz. he embodies what i see to be the cutting edge of the iGeneration sensibility, swagger and style that is a globalized amalgamation of many different traditions coming together in a seamless, semi-ironic but still self-serious [...]
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
bratwurst, brats and d-d-dreams
jeebus, this posting schedule is kicking me arse. the soundtrack to this post will be the gym class heroes. what can i say? i like my hipster hop. and i’ve seen them live and they’re fucking amazing. how do you not like hip hop with a live band? they also got such a dope steeze [...]
Tags: food and drink, poetry, project, ramblings, salt
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
oh cupid, why have you forsaken me?
since this is going to be a sappy, cheesy, maybe even emo post… i think this post’s soundtrack will be a random’d mix of three albums. kanye west’s 808s and heartbreak, jason mraz’s we sing, we dance, we steal, and lily allen’s it’s not me, it’s you. yeah… it’s going to be one of those [...]
Tags: love, pain, philosophy, ruminations
Monday, March 16th, 2009
subtle jokes and east meets boy
the soundtrack to this blog will be meiko, who i honestly believe to have one of the most compelling voices i’ve ever heard. it’s relative simplicity manages to lend it an air of elegance, fundamentally graceful without gauche and unnecessary accoutrements. Furthermore, she can write damned well… in a world where singer-songwriters are a dime [...]
Friday, February 27th, 2009
my name, my city, my tumultuous affairs
‘there’s a man going ’round taking names, and he decides who to free and who to blame, everybody won’t be treated the same’ – johnny cash “when the man comes around” firstly, as i realize hella folks don’t read through the entire post because they’re ridiculo long… i just want to say a few things [...]
Tags: love, manhood, masculinity, ruminations, sacrifice
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
the ex, missing limbs, asian am women
for various reasons, the soundtrack to this blogpost will be a selection of songs on a quicklist that i created in itunes on repeat. the first is the decemberists ‘the engine driver’. i love the decemberists, i think they’re poetry set to music. the emotionality of their work paints vividly felt, but subtly shaded sentiments. [...]
Tags: admin, missing limbs, pain, poetry, ruminations, women