Achtung Baby!

.a catalog of increasing disasters.

letters by ~breakfast

+ Like I Do | Minipop
+ The Letters | Leonard Cohen

Dear xxx,
Your letter was too short. You asked: "How goes your obsession?" My answer: Which one?
: I refuse to give up a love which I believe is good. I believe it's
good because it's not linear, just an obsession; but calm, rich,
and many-angled.[ Kathy Acker ] 

can't ever be by *missbecca
[ I'm Actual (Demo) | The Format ]
+ My Body Is A Cage (live) | Arcade Fire

Dear xxxx,

My hotel room felt like an accident. Hours of being there culminated in an discharge of several letters that were long overdue. But yours never reached you. Don't worry, you only missed a few delineated romances, complaints about culture and miniature compliments to make you smile.

"A tale without love is like beef without mustard--insipid" [Anatole France]

marcio simnch
[ Love is Here | Starsailor ] You can't love what you have not
+ Country Feedback (live) | R.E.M: It’s crazy what you could’ve had

Dear xxxxx,

What I miss the most are your accounts of saturnalia dreams. Maybe even your capricious chasm and your delicate expectations of me. I am bound to ignore the expiration date on our friendship. Eventually. The anticipation could almost be called delight. Am I your subject or your object? I squint to tell the difference.

: I have to erase you out of my life so I can keep on living.
no matter how passionate no matter how perfect no matter
how deep love, it fades and there's nothing. I won't stand for it. [ Kathy Acker ]

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away" [Dorothy Parker] 

Kissing Lips Mosaic

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid. Let's go.'" [ Maya Angelou ]

+ 'Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart' Video | Rufus Wainwright

P.S. thank you for hearing me

King Of The Castle

Of course Brian K. Vaughan would write the best "Lost - Missing Pieces" (so far).

+ The Police - King Of Pain (live)

[r]ed [R]ED [r]ed

I've decided to call Pomegranate 7 Up + UV Cherry Vodka "Red Red Red" in honor of Fiona's song.

+ Fiona Apple: Red, Red, Red (live)
+ Tori Amos: Code Red (live)

Secret

+ Feist: "Secret Heart" live
+ Leonard Cohen: "In My Secret Life"

thank you

Thank You Tina Fey for "30 Rock"
Thank You Hamonix for "Rock Band'
Thank You Ronald D. Moore for "Razor"
Thank You Shigeru Miyamoto for "Mario Galaxy"
Thank You Jade Raymond for "Assassin's Creed"
Thank You Viz for "Death Note DVD Vol. 1"
Thank You Steven Spielberg for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition (Blu-ray)"
Thank You Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill for "THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: THE BLACK DOSSIER"

Goodbye New York, Again

+ NEW YORK TUNES, TAKE 2 : "It's New York Week next week on the History Channel."

streets

Every time I stop at the 14th Street -Union Square subway station I can't help but think of Rufu's song.
"You walked me down 14 street" | Rufus Live at The Fillmore

I've yet to go over to Clinton Street.
"Theres music on Clinton street all through the evening." | Tori Live, Albany 10-09-07

Kristen Bell + Assasin's Creed

+ Kristen Bell at the Maxim party for Assassin's Creed
+ Kristen Bell gets digitized for Assassin's Creed
+ GT Review: Assassin's Creed
+ Top Ten Hottest Girl Gamers (who are actually gamers)

U2 - Wave of Sorrow

+ ilike@Facebook : "Wave of Sorrow is one of several rare and previously unreleased cuts which feature on the bonus audio CD of the  remastered deluxe and super deluxe Joshua Tree."

Random Fact: Evan Eachel Wood is as old as Joshua Tree.
+ Evan Rachel Wood to Get Record Deal

Media Vice Presidents and CEO's are assholes

+ /Film:"The good guys at United Hollywood have edited together yet another video which nails home why the writers are on strike. The following video is titled “The Heartbreaking Voices of Uncertainty”

Home, Away From Home

+ HELL, I STILL LOVE YOU NEW YORK MIX @ I Am Fuel, You Are Friends

+ Mark Ronson “Oh My God” Video

" It don't matter to me
'Cos all I wanted to be
Is a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar"

Crying & Passion

louploup by *gloria-aniela

"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless"
- Dorothy Sayers

+ Crying
+ Hallelujah
+ Bird On A Wire

[ You're My Thrill ]

(c) BOOGIE

[ Joni Mitchell - You're My Thrill ]

"Desire persuades me one way, reason another, I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."
- Ovid

Dear xxxxxxe, 
I dreamed of you. I don't want to see you, but my heart does.

[ To Build A Home ]

maki miyashita

[ The Cinematic Orchestra: To Build A Home ]

Writing is what I did when I was alone with no one watching me or telling me what to do. I could do whatever I wanted.
- Kathy Acker

[ Absolutely Zero ]

[ Jason Mraz: Absolutely Zero (live) ]

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera 

Sympathy for Daredevil

+ Daredevil Omnibus Companion Gets Over 100 Extra Pages!
+ The List: DD
[  Sandra Bernhard: Sympathy For The Devil  ]

A Love Letter From Leonard Cohen

From Leonard Cohen

You're going to leave me. I know you're going to leave me. Like you left Laporte. Like you left Arif. I'll be someone you call by his last name. Laporte didn't look too good tonight at the Alhambra when he limped over to say hello to you. He didn't want to give me his hand because it was so wet. He took the tips of my fingers and he smiled cheerlessly, as if to say: The greatest fuck you've ever had, the deepest love you've ever known, and she's going to leave you very soon, you poor stunned sonovabitch. In the car you told me that his hands always get that wet when he has to meet people. You know his terrors, don't you? As you know mine. We haven't seen too much from Laporte lately, film-maker of a certain period, when you were his juice, when he was allowed to tie you up, and you commanded him to treat you like a slave. Then you told me to look at the moon, so I looked through the windshield at the moon. Then you told me to be impressed by the colour of the sky, so I applied myself to a study of the royal blue Paris sky. The turbaned Sikh assigned you, as he always does, the most impossible space in the garage, and when we walked past his window, he said, as he always does, The Champion of Parking. In the room you did sail so sweetly into my arms. I'm yours. For tonight. Your big joke. And my heart still leaps up between the declaration and the punchline. Like you left Laporte. Like you left Arif, and then slept with his twin brother. I leave them just before they leave me. It's better that way, no? Not to have a crying girl on your hands. Okay, darling, you're sleeping, the night has come to an end, and I'm nervous as hell. You'll either read this by yourself one day, or we'll be reading it together.

1980

Extracted from Four Letter Word: New Love Letters, edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter, published by Chatto & Windus on November 1, 2007 at £12.99. Editors © Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter 2007 Individual contributors © 2007

+  David Bazan  -  Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
+  Gerald Collier  -  Is This What You Wanted (Leonard Cohen cover)
+  Ravens & Chimes - So Long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen Cover)

Lynch + Entertainment Weekly + Twin Peaks Gold Box

+   David Lynch: Climbing the 'Peaks' : The cult-cinema director looks back on his landmark ''Twin Peaks'': How ABC ruined it, why he'd never work in TV again, and what, exactly, Agent Cooper is doing today.

+ Angelo Badalamenti- Twin Peaks Theme

+ Detroit Free Press: 'Twin Peaks' more than it seems - review of  "Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition"

Bono + Rolling Stone Magazine

+ Rolling Stone: The U2 frontman sits down for our 40th anniversary to talk about the future, the Buzzcocks and reasons to compromise.