December 2010
26 posts
New York Magazine: Question about the lyrics to your song "Dynamite": Why is it "I throw my hands up in the air 'sometimes'"?
Taio Cruz: Because if I didn't throw my hands up in the air "sometimes", I would literally walk around with my hands up in the air all the time, and that would be weird.
"Jay-Z Spends $350K On Bags For Beyonce"
“On Christmas Eve, Hova reportedly dropped several boatloads of cash on Birkin bags for his ladylove. I’m so confused. This gesture goes against so much of both artists’ catalogs.
What happened to ‘Independent Woman (Part I)’ when Beyonce was all ‘the shoes on my feet, I bought ‘em, cause I depend on me’? And what about when Jay-Z was like...
“the Art we look at is made by only a select few. a small group create, promote,...”
– banksy, “wall and piece”
“there are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they’re an...”
– banksy, “wall and piece”
“it takes a lot of guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call...”
– banksy, “wall and piece”
“i got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. i told her...”
– banksy, “wall and piece”
saw sofia coppola’s new film, somewhere, this evening.
the good: stephen dorff and elle fanning are pretty good in their respective roles. dorff as a hollywood star in the midst of an existential crisis. fanning as his pulled together 11-year-old daughter. i have a feeling neither of these roles were much of a stretch. it’s not hard to imagine dorff living at the chateau marmont...
“the people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl...”
– banksy, “wall and piece”
“i love sleep. my life has the tendency to fall apart when i’m awake, you...”
– ernest hemingway
me: i watched "the carter". unimpressed.
zb: whhhat? really? we thought it was a great documentary about an adult growing up with mental retardation.
dude. only oprah can appoint herself the global ambassador to another country. honestly i don’t know why we even bother with government, democracy or the electoral college. oprah’s got that shit on lock.
“with the old nautica jacket from ‘96 or something. this shit is fly,...”
– das racist, “amazing”
“I don’t understand all the fuss. Taylor Swift makes training bra music. Her shit is one step removed from a Fisher Price Little People CD. Every record she sells should come with a complimentary pack of Spree. If you’re over fourteen, you shouldn’t want anything to do with it. But no, every fucking adult music critic on Earth fawns over this girl and protects her like...
“What I wonder when I see all these sparkly minis and sky-high heels - besides who the hell is going to all these fancy fetes - is, aren’t they cold?”
-jezebel.com
saw: black swan
need to see: somewhere & blue valentine
“zach, make me some cupcakes then give me a back massage.”
– pete
Nighttime is the right time...
catalogliving:
Waking up to a freshly ironed dress and a half-eaten watermelon, Gary suspected Elaine was back on Ambien.
“we dabble with non sequiturs, dadaism, repetition, repetition.”
– himanshu suri of das racist
