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yes this bookstore is about 5 blocks from my apt
December 2010
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Amazing article in the New Yorker about Hospice... →
This was definitely one of the most difficult pieces of writing I’ve read in a while but also possibly one of the most important. The way our society and medical system talks about and deals with death and terminal illness is something that directly influences the way we die and the quality of our end of life experiences. It is excruciating to think about, but one of those things I think...
June 2010
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Beck and Bat for Lashes made a pretty rad song for... →
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2 new Arcade Fire singles streamed!! →
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the MAN
Listen to LCD’s James Murphy’s interview with Terry Gross on NPR Fresh Air
Just about everything he says is quotable. I am convinced he is one of the music world’s smartest and most influential critical thinkers. Here’s a good one:
“I’d start to see bands prioritize things wrong in my mind,” he tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “[They...
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this video makes me smile on monday morning :)
May 2010
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The Artist is Absent
Today, Saturday May 29, The Artist is Absent, a show of reperformances of Marina Abramović’s performance art will run all day, from 10am - 12am at 25CPW. I will be there tonight documenting the performances, and a large group of my friends have been working very hard to pull this all together. Please check out the website and please stop by…
How Lost Should Have Ended
thedailywhat:
Now I get it.
[randompictures.]
some really good ones, and some really stupid ones…magic wine?!
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live together die together. →
best explanation for LOST i’ve read so far… supposedly by a writer for the show.
The trailer for Jean-Luc Godard’s new film Socialisme: supposedly the entire movie in high speed
kale chips!!
are my new obsession. half-way through a box of them one night this week i started researching how i could order them wholesale in mass quantity. and i came across the story of how the ones i was eating were made, by a woman in my neighborhood. try spicy miso flavor and never look at pirate’s booty ever again.
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reperformance art
I have been having an ongoing conversation about the Marina Abramović retrospective show at MoMA: The Artist Is Present and what it means both to reperform performance art and to experience performance art as reperformances. At the MoMA retrospective, the reperformances serve as an educational tool. They give the viewer a chance to experience Marina’s work beyond the constraints of the...
and everyone who cried... →
portraits of everyone who has sat with Marina... →
April 2010
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Big Bambu @ the Met: built, tied and ready to be... →
NY Times article on the installation of Big Bambu - and info for getting tickets to get a guided climbing tour of the sculpture/peformance/architecture piece. Oh - and there’s a bar there too, and an awesome view of NYC - yay summers on the roof!
March 2010
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watch live video of Marina Abramovic's performance... →
SW!PE: Guards Matter - back at 25CPW
A show of artwork by the guards of the Metropolitan Museum, celebrating their publication of SW!PE Magazine is now back on display at 25CPW Gallery from March 20 – April 4th, gallery hours Friday – Sunday 2-6pm 25 Central Park West at 62nd Street this is the NYTimes article written about the show when it was first up at the beginning of the month the show was also featured on NPR this morning
_________The Wet Bandits Present___________: Help... →
So a bunch of our good friends from Boston have been involved with a tutoring program called 826 Boston.
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-from www.826boston.org
Every year they do a sponsored moustache grow, where people donate money to individuals to grow a keep a moustache. Three of us Passion Pit’ers (Ayad,…