PAPER Magazine
If you leave a magazine around my apartment long enough, I will
probably read it. Erica has a subscription to PAPER, and I always
read it cover to cover, though with some feelings of ambivalence.
There is something vaguely annoying about it and I could never place
it until now: PAPER is a magazine for arty trust funders.
It’s like, no one having anything to do with the magazine has to
work. They just sit around all day and make art. Or start their own
clothing lines. So, yes, I’m extremely jealous of them. But at the
same time, FUCK THEM. I’m shocked they haven’t featured Dash I’m-A-
Talentless-Prick Snow on their cover.
[I'm sure the people involved are really nice and I'm sure there are a
lot of really great things about the magazine, but now that I've
figured out the source of my annoyance, I doubt I shall be reading it
again.]
Now listening to:
Now reading:
//RECENT
Vincent Moon and Arcade Fire Walk Into An Elevator….“[T]he crowd seemed really emotionally engaged with the music.”
Water Water Everywhere…. “Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An extended version of Bon Iver’s La Blogotheque Take Away Show of “For Emma, Forever Ago” with three versions of the song and some very startled tourists. I think this is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Not just that the song is so beautiful, and is so beautifully sung, but that [...]
So, This Stephen Malkmus-looking Guy Who Went to High School with My Boss Wrote a Children’s BookA man once said, “Childrens do learn.” and I believe childrens should learn to dream big dreams. Even better is to dream arty dreams like a hipster might draw. This hipster author’s name is Dallas Clayton. Although I do not know for sure that Dallas Clayton is a hipster, he looks like this: And, I [...]
Matilde UrrutiaIt isn’t simply that you are loved gloriously, or loved beautifully. But rather that a pitch perfect expression of love for you sounds and sounds, Rises into the very air. Though the love itself may fade, I do not know, The poetry you inspire ascends, ascending Becomes stars and you, who are so loved, Look [...]
//FROM THE ARCHIVES
PAPER MagazineIf you leave a magazine around my apartment long enough, I will probably read it. Erica has a subscription to PAPER, and I always read it cover to cover, though with some feelings of ambivalence. There is something vaguely annoying about it and I could never place it until now: PAPER is a magazine for [...]
20 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon FootprintWe’ve heard way too much lately about the seemingly insurmountable environmental problems to which we all contribute every day. It’s enough to make you downright defeatist. It’s enough to make you think we’re all just fucked and there’s nothing to be done. All we can say is that the more we hear about all of [...]
Pandering to the Religious RightObviously as we move closer to primary elections, we’ll start to see the wedge issues swing into the fore. And yet, this year we’re hearing a great deal more about how disappointing the religious right is finding the entire stable of Republican hopefuls. So it’s not like the religious right is likely to be avid [...]
RIP Karl RoveDear Karl. We wish you the best of luck and hope you enjoy phenomenal success on the conservative lecture circuit prior to accepting those numerous lucrative board appointments. We ask only that when you occasionally pop into Texas to see your estranged family, please tell them we said hello. In the meantime, let’s not forget [...]
Overdressed for an autopsy(a love poem for Kari King)
There’s a Sicilian man lying face down on cement in Omaha. Five feet away is a gun still warm and shining on sickly pavement. The blood makes its way to the pile of newspapers that landed there at four o’clock in the morning and tints the grainy paper still shivering from a hot press. A [...]
