An annonmous tip about The Last Waltz on my message machine at work that dishes out what kind of cigarettes Bob Dylan was bumming, the contents of a telegram delivered to Ringo Star, what Erica Clapton’s hotel room was littered with and the promise of a story about Robbie Robertson too good to tell over the phone. Now if only this spacey salty dog had left his number for me to call him back.
I’m so happy it’s warm and spring is in the air! #happygoth
I love all of this.
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SURF PUNKS Valley Girl Slang
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Happy Easter
Stella Lochman is hosting tonight’s gallery talk on Damien Hirst’s Pretty Vacant. She made this playlist inspired by the piece, so if you use Rdio, have a listen!
Dull days, wishing for summer.
Teenagers run and play on large white sand dunes in New Mexico, 1957.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic
#beachgoth
Drunk #beachgoth
This really sums up alot of the complexities that I have felt without ever being able to express it.
I have no patience with hipster-bashing. A lot of what’s identified as hipster culture is an improvisational response to the contradictions of petty-bourgeois precarity. It’s self-styling for those who for the most part don’t work very much or don’t have much security at the jobs they do have – not much of a future – but who are nonetheless forced to maintain an ability and readiness to work at any moment: a kind of unmoored professionalism. The insufferableness and tragedy of hip life is a function of its scramble for cultural autonomy within the most abject dependency on the attenuated wage-relation. As opposed to earlier counter- or subcultures (punk, say), the moment of negation is perpetually deferred. Needless to say I’m not talking about the stereotypical trust-fund hipster here but rather the mass of mostly post-collegiate individuals in the global North who have been socialized as middle-class workers but who now find this way of life inaccessible, whether temporarily or permanently. Daniel Spaulding, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/OCTO_a_00122
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Conversation between William Eggleston and Leigh Haslip.
They didn’t have roy orbison in the middle ages.
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