Disco heartbreak done right. #loveablerobots
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“Madder Red” - Yeasayer (Odd Blood)
MmmHmm.
just to reinforce my current yeasayer obsession.
TLC: Go, Go, Jason Waterfalls??
Am I alone here? Anybody else thought the chorus to the TLC song “Waterfalls” went “Go, Go, Jason Waterfalls??” I understand it makes no sense at all (unless the song was about a retarded kid name Jason who was dying to see a waterfall)… but come on, you got to admit the original lyrics, “Don’t go chasing waterfalls,” was a little too deep for people like me, and Jason.
speaking of 90s song-stupidity, when I was a kid and saw a man who looked kinda unwashed or scruffy or greasy, I’d yell, “LOOK IT’S RICO SUAVE! LOOK! LOOK, EVERYONE!” And everyone would look - thus embarrassing the poor guy. I guess I thought it was my duty to perform a kind of PSA about hygiene. Then I went to college, land of ramen-stained sweatpants. karma.
Insane. Just insane, the best kind of insane. The version on the video is little different than the original- it sounds a bit more amplified, which only makes it better since the album version was so hyperactively joyous to begin with. There’s something so delectable in Anand’s moaning vocals; when I watch him, how he contorts his face and grimaces and widens his eyes, I feel like his singing ought to sound so much uglier than it actually does - since it actually does sound so splashy and gloriously earnest and yearning. Oh! what an incredible song! Everytime I finish it (ten times on repeat and counting!), I feel as if I’ve just eaten a whole bag of rainbow candy.
Plus all the dancing is so wonderful. From those tribal gyrations to how the band members throw their heads/hands/torsos around. man oh man.
Author Unknown - New York at Night (1935)
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that was that.
J.D. Salinger
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Walter Sanders - Fog in New York, January 1, 1950
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Seven years ago, he recovered quickly from the surgery to cut out his cancerous thyroid and was soon back writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and appearing with Richard Roeper on At the Movies. A year later, in 2003, he returned to work after his salivary glands were partially removed, too, although that and a series of aggressive radiation treatments opened the first cracks in his voice. In 2006, the cancer surfaced yet again, this time in his jaw. A section of his lower jaw was removed; Ebert listened to Leonard Cohen.”
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310-3#ixzz0fjve0YRh
Roger Ebert credits Leonard Cohen with saving his life.
©Ethan Hill
“Ebert in his office at his Chicago townhouse, surrounded by some of his thousands of books. Because he has difficulty sitting upright, he rarely uses his desk anymore. Instead, he spends hours in his recliner, writing on his laptop.” - Esquire
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310-2#ixzz0fjr1AnGh
