Achtung Baby!

Mr. Nabokov had Strong Opinions, but one person ain't listening

+ NPR: Nabokov Novel to Be Published, Against Dying Wish
+ Dear Dmitri Nabokov: Don’t Burn Laura! Let Draft Gather Dust (2005)
+ Wikipedia: "The Original of Laura"

Summation: It was like LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends"

A definite highlight of my trip was attending an appearance by Amy Poehler and Fred Armisen at the SoHo Apple Store store. So best! Here's the podcast of it:

Songs that remind me of this trip...

+ LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" (live)
+ Santogold - I’m A Lady
+ Pulp - Common People (Live)
+ PRINCE - KISS music video
+ The Strokes - Reptilia (Live)
+ Like A Virgin - live
+ M.I.A - Paper Planes (live)
+ Franz Ferdinand -  Take me out  (live)

What New York used to be

//The Kills: What New York used to be

Dawn in New York has
  four columns of mire
  and a hurricane of black pigeons
  splashing in the putrid waters.

Dawn in New York groans
  on enormous fire escapes
  searching between the angles
  for spikenards of drafted anguish.

Dawn arrives and no one receives it in his mouth
  because morning and hope are impossible there:
  sometimes the furious swarming coins
  penetrate like drills and devour abandoned children.

Those that go out early know in their bones
  there will be no paradise or loves that bloom and die:
  they know they will be mired in numbers and laws,
  in mindless games, in fruitless labors.

The light is buried under chains and noises
  in an impudent challenge to rootless science.
  And crowds stagger sleeplessly through the boroughs
  as if they had just escaped a shipwreck of blood.
"A Poet in New York" by Federico Garcia Lorca

//The Magnetic Fields: The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side

Away for a few days. You know where.

New York City spread herself before you

+ Suzanne Vega : New York Is A Woman
+ Lou Reed: New York Telephone Conversation

[ She's The New York City Skyline ]

Rion

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.
Frank O'Hara

[ The Damnwells: She's The New York City Skyline ]

+ Preview of THE NEW YORK FOUR

you're like New York City

"Alvy, you're incapable of enjoying life, you know that? I mean you're like New York City. You're just this person. You're like this island unto yourself."

+ Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City "(live)

discipline

Reader, I am anxious about
your discipline
are you constant as me?
Otherwise, burn this book
Go to the movies
if you aren’t doubled up with laughing.
Leonard Cohen

[ Spain: It's So True ]

Extinction

The progress of an artist is continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S. Eliot

+ X-Men Reload: Remember When...?
+ E is for Extinction
+ Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (live)

So for the time being, I'm being patient

+ Elvis Costello and the Imposters "I Know" @ The Architectural Dance Society
+ Fiona Apple: Green Chimneys intern

you were kissing me once more than once

love...it won't last kissin' time

alice lemarin

[ U2: Dirty Day (Bitter Kiss) ]

but who wants to be in love in vain?

+  Love in Vain [a mix] "I thought that I would be in heaven but I'm only up a tree"

Out of time: Stipe and them, 1995 & 1998

M. Stipe & T. Amos, Photo by Anton Corbijn, Details Magazine, February 1995

+ Stipe - "I'm Not Over You"

Icon Magazine, April 1998

+ R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious (acoustic)

[ Don't Let Your Hair Grow Too Long ]

Photo submission by raccoon

+ Oren Lavie: Don't Let Your Hair Grow Too Long

+ Song of the Day: Oren Lavie - "Her Morning Elegance"

my phone rings but it's not you

kren

+ Lightspeed Champion - Everyone I Know Is Listening To Crunk
Sometimes in the cold night my phone rings but it's not you

+ Kathleen Edwards - Buffalo
It's like a ticking clock every time that you phone

Seems that I'm always Thinkin' of you

+ She & Him: You Really Got A Hold On Me
+ The Cardigans: Hold Me

Fear and panic in the air

+ Muse - Map Of The Problematique Live @ Abbey Road

"The title is a reference to a book called Limits to Growth and the Club of Rome think-tank who would create a "map of the problematique" detailing the "global problematique" - a set of likely challenges the world might face in the near future." MuseWiki via Ultra8201

+ Map of the Problematique [Does It Offend You, Yeah?] Remix
+ Muse - Knights of Cydonia form the HAARP DVD

(secret) Invasion

+Eisley: Invasion (live in Austin, TX, 4/2/08)
+ Eisley: Blackened Crown (live in Austin, TX, 4/2/08)
+ The Skrulls Take Manhattan
+ What is Secret Invasion?

Wylie Maercklein

How To Be Happy After the End of the World

+ Everything you were afraid to ask about "Battlestar Galactica"
+ What The Frak Is Going On?

+ Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There
+ How Would Cylons Convert Us To Their Religion? 

+ The Top BSG Moments of All Time
+ 'Battlestar Galactica' photos from Season 4
+ Battlestar Galactica - All Along the Watchtower

everything revolves around you you you you

[ Sarah Slean - Weight (DNA Groove Mix) ]

i have kissed you into a memory

vinna.

believe me that strangers arrive
when i have kissed you into a memory
slowly, oh seriously
-that since and if you disappear
e.e. cummings

+ Radiohead: How To Disappear Completely

Got the cigarettes you smoke burned into my brain

Danny Griffin

+ Emm Gryner - Almighty Love (live)

+ The Edge rte interview from march 31

Now You're Playing With Power.

- Bigger

+ Obama Monotonously Bangs Game Drum
+ Stephen King: Videogame Lunacy

 

Warcraft+Star Trek+Star Craft

"I'm guessing this is to get me back for making him watch Enterprise in bed. He hasn't forgiven me yet but this is also the same dude that's trying to get me re-hooked on WoW so I can heal him while he tanks, so he's one to talk. If you understood anything about that last sentence, I'm very, very sorry." - Anonymous
+ VIDEO: William Shatner Featured in World of Warcraft Commercial

"Thus my decision to swear off "World of Warcraft." But here's what bothers me: The people who play the game — people all around me — are developing shared cultural reference points. For perspective, imagine the degree to which "Star Trek" references dot the shared mental landscape of 25- to 60-year-olds. Even if you have kept "Star Trek" at arm's length, try to imagine not getting it when someone says, "Beam me up, Scotty."
+ Austin Statesman: 'World of Warcraft': I'm swearing it off

+ Happy (belated) 10th birthday to StarCraft
+ StarCraft's 10-Year Anniversary: A Retrospective