Achtung Baby!

[NOT] Fine

James - Fine

I'm a fortune cookie Full of cheap advice
I'm a suicide rookie
Blowing last call
Show more than I hide
Care more than I can cry

 1,2,3,

Tim Gunn and a Shutgun

 
+ Tim Gunn Lives Up To His Name, Goes Buck Wild

i took, i took the worst of the blow

Eisley: Ambulance

Photo by Me

diminutive romances and the tender pattern of nudity on a hopeless summer night

[ Twilight Sad: And She Would Darken the Memory of Youth ]

Alone with a drowned passenger's shivering child. Darling, this is only a game! How marvelous were my fancied adventures as I sat on a hard park bench pretending to be immersed in a trembling book. Around the quiet scholar, nymphets played freely, as if he were a familiar statue or part of an old tree's shadow and sheen. Once a perfect little beauty in a tartan frock, with a clatter put her heavily armed foot near me upon the bench to dip her slim bare arms into me and righten the strap of her roller skate, and I dissolved in the sun, with my book for fig leaf, as her auburn ringlets fell all over her skinned knee, and the shadow of leaves I shared pulsated and melted on her radiant limb next to my chameleonic cheek. Another time a red-haired school girl hung over me in the metro, and a revelation of axillary russet I obtained remained in my blood for weeks. I could list a great number of these one-sided diminutive romances. Some of them ended in a rich flavor of hell. It happened for instance that from my balcony I would notice a lighted window across the street and what looked like a nymphet in the act of undressing before a co-operative mirror. Thus isolated, thus removed, the vision acquired an especially keen charm that made me race with all speed toward my lone gratification. But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.
Nabokov

+ Cassino: Lolita

singer

 
By Chip Kidd used with permission. Thanks Mr. Kidd 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Singer
Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter

+ Wired:Chip Kidd's Batman Fandom Gets Arty in Bat-Manga
+ Good is Dead: Chip @ NYCC `09 for Salon

would you like a booty sweat with your order?

Josh Jones: Paper Plans (MIA cover)

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)

scenes from a rooftop party

in which great pals in NYC throw a rooftop party for Abby and myself and ask me for a playlist.

Some selections...

\\ Mr. James Brown - Get up Offa That Thing live
//Too Young - Discotech
\\ Bono/Mocean Worker- Air Suspension
// Missy Elliot vs The Chemical Brothers - "Lick Chemicals"
\\ Kid Chris vs George Takei - Sulu Dance

+ DJ Mix Complete Set

Robots Rock

Ultraman & Mazinger Z

+ Daft Punk: “Robot Rock” (Live @ Coachella)

Back

+ I had no idea chances were high that I would hear a Texas band ( The Toadies ) at MisShapes.
+ "Mother Courage and Her Children" was pretty good.