January 2011
43 posts
This must be the grossest Louis Armstrong I’ve ever seen. Thinking of changing my URL to: cooldopeysweater.tumblr.com
Maggie doesn’t wear that colour, but I guess it makes this coooler/DIY.
nohemy:
co-stanza:
might need a girlfriend this year, because I like the idea of wearing his ‘n’ her andy kaufman shirts on dates.
I too need to find a boyfriend who wants to do this. (Where did you find this btw?)
Believe it or not, these shirts were produced by American Apparel, and I stumbled onto ‘em on this blog.
And, here’s a photo I found of a girl using the...
might need a girlfriend this year, because I like the idea of wearing his ‘n’ her andy kaufman shirts on dates.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Note, non-Australian readers, that a “Multicultural Day” replacement has never actually been proposed.
Australia Day is gonna be a real scorcher!
Happy ‘Australia Day’ Dennis Ferguson!
‘Australia Day’ picnic on the riverbank at St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, 1908
I don’t know anything about the following topics, but I’ll try to direct you to some films/books/bands that do:
Facing Love:
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (Come on, you’ve got to read this one anyway for the credddddd)
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset (Fuck Paper Heart, or these ‘mumblecorezy’ banal/alternative romance films, because Linklater is the contemporary...
“Look at the man in the bleachers who’s pacing the aisles, a neighborhood crazy,...”
– Don DeLillo, Underworld. London: Picador, 1998, p. 28. (via tracesoftraces)
Decided to reblog this excerpt, because I’m sick of getting no cred for reading an 832-page novel, that spans 41 years of American life, incorporates baseball, Lenny Bruce, J Edgar Hoover, nuclear-test sites, and...
Nice segue
Alexander: you will be the talk of the town with that boxset
Alexander: we got the friendliest stripper last night for this guys birthday
Alexander: she even took a bow at the end of the show
Me: I wonder where she gained that kind of showmanship
Alexander: or learnt some her tricks
Alexander: maybe the secrets are passed from mother to daughter
Me: what kind of tricks? because i'm just picturing the "pick a card, any card" variety
Alexander: making 15 feet of pearls disappear
Alexander: then spitting them out slowly on to brandon's face
Alexander: maybe she was new the job.
Alexander: might become bitter and twisted with a few more months
Me: just like every other woman! ey ey ey?!
"Materialism: A Love Story."
From my last birthday, this Christmas just gone, and all around lazy gift-giving, I have now amassed $200 in JB Hi-fi gift cards:
I can either get the following:
Roman Polanski Collection: $37.99
Richard Pryor Show: $19.98
Duckman, Season 1 & 2: $34.99
Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Box Set: $113.99
OR
I can just get this:
The Twilight Zone Box Set: $190.99
A lyric picked from Eminem’s 2010 track Won’t Back Down:
“Girl, shake that ass like a donkey with Parkinson’s/Make like Michael J. Fox is in your drawers/Playing with an etch-a-sketch.”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
I’ve been thinking about trying to pioneer a genre of literature that’s a combination of travel-writing and philosophy/cultural criticism. I’d call my first effort: ”Beijing and Nothingness.”
These flood jokes/puns are becoming pretty (inun)dated.
David McDiarmid in his celebrated series of safe sex posters for the AIDS Council of New South Wales.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
Among other suburbs, Brisbane city and Fortitude Valley can expect flooding come Wednesday. Happy canoeing, ya’ll.
Queen Street in 1893
Some other time - Roy Montgomery
get some NZ...
How to do breakfast:
To gain the inspiration required to aestheticise and decorate my new room, I’ve been looking at this slideshow of Bryan Ferry’s London home.
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“A City of Churches.” A short story by...
Afternoon wrap-up: Just made a nice bowl of spaghett with a lot of rocket. Now, I’m just sitting back in one of those old leather “lay-Z-boy” chairs, listening to some Francoise Hardy, and considering going to goma later to watch Gattaca. Note: there are no pictures of the food, because I was just sitting down and enjoying it with my friends.
“Desks are zones for contemplation and concentration. Ajax is the ideal partner for both of these activities. The birchwood top is a “tabula rasa” that encourages the free flow of thoughts and ideas. Indeed, the overall, restrained design is extremely functional: raised storage provides a clutterfree writing surface and provides additional storage space while a lamp, concealed an the...
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good to have you back co-stanza. its funny that we...
Looks like I’ve found someone to go into business with? I’ve missed tumblr in the sense that I missed knowing/remembering that there are a few people on the internet who aren’t cultural idiots.
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