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 [...]
Tag: poetry
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
colours: now not just a movie about gangs in LA
Tags: art, emo, philosophy, poetry, women
Monday, April 20th, 2009
love poems on rainy days: can you tell i’m too tired to be clever?
the soundtrack is rilo kiley, in particular their song silver lining. i’m not going to go into depth about why, especially as it’s going to be talked about in the body of the post. but suffice to say, they’re dope, musically amazing and i’m in love with the singer. silver lining is also one of [...]
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
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
daikons, donnybrooks and damnable dreams
the soundtrack to this blogpost will be what english subbed epik high songs you can find on youtube. lam, one of my readers and a really dope photog, turned me onto ‘em and they’re actually pretty decent. pay special attention to map my soul, ’cause that’s the song lam recommended me for and to love [...]
Tags: economy, jits, jiu jitsu, poetry, ruminations, sacrifice, show, women
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
april poems bring may… koans?
poem a day it is. soundtrack. exit clov. saw them in concert last night, absolutely bomb. now i need to go pick up my laundry. toodles. yes, i just said toodles. you got a problem with that? will be slamming at the bowery poetry club for their college slam tomorrow afternoon at 6. would LOVE [...]
Tags: love, missing limbs, poetry, sacrifice, salt
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
serendipity and ouroboros, new member
the soundtrack to this blogpost will be interpol. they just feel good to me, have an aural sensibility that makes me feel, which is difficult for music to do sometimes. i know they’re not that indie anymore, but whatever. the chords and waves of their music can keep rushing over me, and i’ll always be [...]
Tags: chapbook, poetry, ramblings, ruminations, women
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