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thewiremagazine: Kim Gordon: DissonatineMono:Kultur (#33...

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:10:33 -0400

Kim Gordon: Dissonatine
Mono:Kultur (#33 Spring 2013)

Loose leaf A5 magazine on various colours of paper, held together with elastic band. More details here (and in The Wire bookshop here).

FRIDAY MOODS

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:34:32 -0400

FRIDAY MOODS

britticisms: DOSSIER: My queen, Lizzy Mercier Descloux On the...

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:51:54 -0400

britticisms:

DOSSIER: My queen, Lizzy Mercier Descloux

On the brink of graduating college, I fell into something akin to obsession. Why? Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Her cover of “Jim on the Move” drew me in, but I found completion through Mambo Nassau, the perfect mix of post-punk, no wave, and worldbeat. The weather was so perfect today. I couldn’t help but listen to a little Lizzy.

Pieces of Lizzy:

She is one of my style icons.

Her BRILLIANT cover of Arthur Brown’s “Fire”

“She was an innovator for world music, endlessly influential, curious-minded and spirited.”

On Compass Point Studio

More reflections on Lizzy: “There’s Something About Lizzy”

The never ending cool of “Hard-Boiled Babe”

How to Improve Your Spirits in the Morning

“Maita”: I was trying to teach myself French to pronounce the lyrics to this song.

The weirdness in “Sports Spootnicks”

And this is my favorite.

And earlier Britticisms Dossiers: On “All Night Long” by Mary Jane Girls, on Henri Fantin-Latour and “Power, Corruption, Lies,” on Cristina, Grace Jones, and Jean-Paul Goude

Doyers Street, c1900.

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:19:20 -0400

Doyers Street, c1900.

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:54:52 -0400

thisrecording: helen schumacher and joy williams

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:16:39 -0400

thisrecording:

helen schumacher and joy williams

me too

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:32:31 -0400

me too

theparisreview: “I wouldn’t have wanted anyone to teach me how...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:30:33 -0400

theparisreview:

“I wouldn’t have wanted anyone to teach me how to write…I prefer to stumble on it.” RIP Chinua Achebe.

Read our interview with the Nigerian writer here.

Whenever the writer writes, it’s always three o’clock in the morning, it’s always three or four or...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:12:51 -0500

Whenever the writer writes, it’s always three o’clock in the morning, it’s always three or four or five o’clock in the morning in his head. Those horrid hours are the writer’s days and nights when he is writing. - Joy Williams

And we, poet and felon, know how certain times are right for others and wrong for us. We die 4pm on friday when the fun begins for others. - Richard Hugo

Dworkin’s “Heartbreak” also contains this...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:44:48 -0500

Dworkin’s “Heartbreak” also contains this quote — one that runs through my head each time we discuss Girls or Beyonce or Tumblr feminism (so… daily?).

Andrea Dworkin on discipline, from “Heartbreak: The...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:41:22 -0500

Andrea Dworkin on discipline, from “Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant”

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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:29:05 -0500

collectorsweekly: The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:18:20 -0500

collectorsweekly:

The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class

“The next day, Mao delivered a message to the workers, who were still stationed at Qinghua University, designating them as the “permanent managers” of the nation’s education system. Accompanying the message was the untouched case of Pakistani mangoes. In the days to come, much would be made of Mao’s “refusal to eat the fruit,” which was interpreted as “a sacrifice” on the Chairman’s part “for the benefit of the workers.”

…The mangoes were imbued with all sorts of power. They were the vehicle conveying a rare personal message from Mao, in which he thanked them for their heroism in the battle with the Red Guards. Even more auspiciously, the mangoes’ appearance coincided with the transfer of the Cultural Revolution’s stewardship from members of the nation’s intelligentsia (as personified by the student Red Guards) to its workers. Indeed, the mantra of the revolution soon became, “The Working Class Must Exercise Leadership in Everything.””

You have to wonder if the “estimated 30 million Chinese citizens dead, most lost to starvation” from Mao’s Great Leap Forward policies may have also contributed to the fruit’s reverence. At any rate, really dug this piece and the artifacts.

“Skeletons Fighting Over Pickled Herring”

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:13:46 -0500

“Skeletons Fighting Over Pickled Herring”

monica: so gone after which you’re going to have to track...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:07:49 -0500

monica: so gone

after which you’re going to have to track down that sample

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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:29:13 -0500

text-mode: 19th-century Tibetan tiger rug, from Giovanni...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:53:00 -0500

text-mode:

19th-century Tibetan tiger rug, from Giovanni Garcia-Fenech flickr.
Via.

ryan’s doing fashion week illustrations for the OAK blog!

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:05:43 -0500

ryan’s doing fashion week illustrations for the OAK blog!

<3 land gallery

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:24:03 -0500

<3 land gallery

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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:02:52 -0500