8 Feb 2010   5 notes   [ photography film ]

Compass” - Jamie Lidell (via stereogum)

Consider me intrigued!

8 Feb 2010   [ music jamie lidell ]
Yep, I’m a dork. (:

Yep, I’m a dork. (:

8 Feb 2010   5 notes   [ iPhone apartment ]

This:

Not this:

Oh, Dodge, if it weren’t so completely insulting it would be charming how you apparently think stereotyping and discounting us is the right road to take. Because: no. Also: fuck you.

(dashboard friends: gotta click through for the videos. darn you, dashboard!)

8 Feb 2010   2 notes   [ super bowl commercials football videos ]
Eggs in a basket is one of those things I keep telling myself I should try, but then I don’t. Until this morning. (:
Lessons learned:

This size basket, though large relative to the piece of bread, works great
I like having that bread-guide; yum!

My bread tastes gooood, but I’ll be experimenting with others.

Eggs in a basket is one of those things I keep telling myself I should try, but then I don’t. Until this morning. (:

Lessons learned:

  1. This size basket, though large relative to the piece of bread, works great
  2. I like having that bread-guide; yum!
  3. My bread tastes gooood, but I’ll be experimenting with others.

7 Feb 2010   3 notes   [ cooking breakfast via:saltandfat iPhone ]

Learnalilgivinanlovin” - Gotye

That sound! Those drums! The unexpected resemblance to Matt Brown (you see it, right?)! That interlude around 2:30! Lyrics like “what’s the use in keeping all the good things that you found to yourself” (hello, tumbly raison d’être). Love. it.

6 Feb 2010   [ videos music modus operandi nerd! ]
Classic.

Classic.

6 Feb 2010   3 notes   [ iPhone photography ]
There’s something about living smack in the middle of 2 mountain ranges that I enjoy; it’s been weeks since it was clear enough to see the Olympics (from my living room :P).

There’s something about living smack in the middle of 2 mountain ranges that I enjoy; it’s been weeks since it was clear enough to see the Olympics (from my living room :P).

6 Feb 2010   2 notes   [ photography seattle ]
520 westbound.

520 westbound.

5 Feb 2010   1 note   [ Seattle photography iPhone ]
5 Feb 2010   [ photography Polaroids Yosemite ]
5 Feb 2010   1 note   [ via:kottke McSweeney's Dave Eggers ]
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” - Shakespeare
The lovely postcard (-slash-new bookmark-slash-reminder) I got from Julie of the Here You Go project (handing out umbrellas — just because — around Pittsburgh; how do you not love that? It’s impossible, don’t try).
Thank you, Julie. (:

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” - Shakespeare

The lovely postcard (-slash-new bookmark-slash-reminder) I got from Julie of the Here You Go project (handing out umbrellas — just because — around Pittsburgh; how do you not love that? It’s impossible, don’t try).

Thank you, Julie. (:

4 Feb 2010   2 notes   [ photography kickstarter here you go ]
4 Feb 2010   [ movies via:coudal ]
Stuck in traffic, out of focus.

Stuck in traffic, out of focus.

3 Feb 2010   1 note   [ film photography ]

Progress: 6 down, 15 to go! (list)

Which: The Tao of Wu, The RZA

What I knew about the Wu-Tang Clan before this book couldn’t fill a thimble. Rappers, Shaolin something-something, and a few of My People dig ‘em. Not that I’m an expert, now, but learning about their (okay, mostly RZA’s) history as a backdrop to RZA’s own philosophies worked for me.

He manages to tell his story and explain what he’s learned without falling down the preachy rabbit hole. Mostly¹. Except even the moments where he teeters on the edge of that descent, he sounds more earnest, fervent, than judgmental.

For all the work his hard work on his path to enlightenment, it’s not until the loss of his mom and later his cousin (ODB) that RZA’s sense of perspective starts to square with my own and I begin to relate to him. That kind of loss has shaped my entire life, observing its effect on someone else is a bizarre and heart-breaking thing.

¹ In a 20-year-old letter he uses to close the book, there’s 1 line that hints at homophobia; it doesn’t ruin the book, but I did think “Come on. 1989, but dude. Sigh.

3 Feb 2010   [ books reading 20 by June the world has broken ]