NYTimes says Melisma is dead, but I don't know...

"Melisma may have also run its cultural course. Ms. Carey, Ms. Houston and Ms. Aguilera, to name its three main champions, are most associated with the period from the late ’80s through the late ’90s: an era now largely associated with money, ostentation and American power, especially during the latter half of the ’90s. Their brawny vocal approach and lush, widescreen records reflected their times as much as the Clinton-era Wall Street boom."  I guess we are stuck with Kei$ha... but atleast we have this guy: 

The Rundown says ART!

Check out these awesome exhibits while they are still here!!

Street Style:

Japan Fashion Now

Japan's youth culture has so many subgenres, it makes our old high school equation of jock/nerd/stoner look prehistoric. Established menswear designer Yohji Yamamoto gets served up next to gothic babydolls and futuristic get-ups suitable for Comic Con.
Thru Apr 2, 2011. The Museum at FIT, 227 W. 27th St. (212-217-4558)

The Rundown

this is silly but i really like it

keeping time, ryan adams, and high fidelity

Have you ever kept time on your bed?  I guess that sounds pretty weird and sexual – not my intension. I was just lying in bed listening to whiney music attempting to go to sleep and distracted myself by tapping the beat on the mattress.  People definitely do this, right? Rob Gordon in High Fidelity definitely kept time on his bed. His bed, his head, with his fingers while his thumbs hook into the belt loops of his black skinny jeans…

The idea of laying awake listening to music unable to sleep isn’t a novelty.  Although there was something interesting about the hollow sound the mattress made that made me take note.  Heck! It made me sit up and turn on my compute. Perhaps I am being too reflective and making every casual observance have some significance I can ponder over. (I am into that sort of thing. You could even say I get off on it.)  Perhaps the hollow sound speaks the hollow crevasses of my callus heart.  I am such a B! Or maybe what A said to me the other day about not having people in his life stuck with me.  Do I not really have people in my ‘life’? I have people around me but who do  I share my life with?? Is my existence hollow in that way?  Ehhhh whatever. I hate that crap.  No more sharing. Jokes? 

i am such a pansy

I am working on the lusty pop sensibilities of John Mayer and the pathetic angst of Syvila Plath.

A blushing sun-dress
Testing it out by the water
I need a new life
____

An experiment in word association and of a similar vein and tone:

Spring sun dress
Warm warn jeans
shorts with heel, the sydney uniform
basketball sneakers... Adidas flip flops?
I don't remember...
Thresthold!
Fingers.
Gasp... high five!
"I need to get a new life."

Outside of Boston

"I was sleeping the sleep of death..." - Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Forever in Carlyle 

Intense physical memory
A cold fleshy cheek and a hug with half your body
Empty, a klonk of our heads.
Love? Doubt. Loneliness.
Him calling my name.
Strain.
We have to go.
"I'll carry you in my dreams."
He alone understood. (Along with one other person.)
Why?
Love!

new fav magazine.

This website is so great. Tons of info - gotta love the FAQs and all the beards. http://beeradvocate.com/

The James Franco Project

The James Franco Project

But seriously, is James Franco for real?!

Murakami

I'm reading Norwegian Wood and I am obsessed.  I have been looking for an new something to be a fan girl about.  So I guess this works out nicely.  Why is the Japanese erotism so surprising? 

new video, ‘Nuthin But A Hero’ by Tabi Bonney

he looks like a young mos def but sounds like a grown up lupe.  i dig.  thoughts?

Marques Houston is back and offensive?

Rick Ross... i don't know.

me, by aaron

flip camera experiments... 1.

Kitten Mittons! No need to say anything else.

the heat is on

kind of excited about lebron going to the heat. it would have been super fun if he chose the knicks but we knew that wasn't happening...

sometimes i dig snl.

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seriously. i don't know what to make of this...

this sort of stuff is why i hate on drake in public and listen to him in private. (i'm complicated)

Drake Brings Out Kobe Bryant At Concert In L.A.! from the.LIFE Files on Vimeo.

food vs. man

what is this? i am upset by it

new fav blog

http://www.thelifefiles.com/

http://www.hulu.com/watch/132515/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-california-dreams-reunion

The Get By

pratt monster

The Hills - MTV Shows

telephone remake

look how terrible life is when you live in an infomerical

yesterday i was reading a really old believer article interviewing david foster wallace and in it he talks about what it would be like if you were a character in a novel. here is what it would be like if you were a person in an infomerical. not really related to my comment about DFW, but whatever.

ahhh

i am using tweetphoto. look at me!!!

http://twitter.com/sydstreets

this is moving to brooklyn... or at least he'll be there for nets games

e-bullying

the e-bullying sign in the openning credits of the simpsons this week seems in poor taste considering what happened in western mass et al.

getting ready for the hills this thursday!!!

The Hills - MTV Shows

http://whitneyport.celebuzz.com/

dancing with the stars and why evan lysacek is the worst

This is from nytimes.com

"Last week the show instituted a one-time-only scoring system with points for technique and performance, and Mr. Lysacek, dancing the tango, was in his zone. He dances as he skates. Mr. Lysacek is a task-based performer (tell him what to do and in what order, and he’ll deliver) with a beautiful instrument (his body), but his approach, while initially satisfying, loses its gloss because it’s mostly about following rules."

Boardwalk Empire. So excited.

I saw Michael Pitt the other day on my way the the subway. He has the most piercing blue eyes. Seeing him motivated me to finally figure out what the heck they were filming in my neighborhood. Turns out the production is kind of a big deal.

Preview Trailer #2

Eliot Ness References in Pop culture from Wikipedia

I read an article were Eliot Ness' name was mentioned (can't remember the article, I will post it if I do.) and couldn't figure out why his name got stuck in my head. No, not from my time as a history major but from the Tupac song, California Lovin'. On some strange level that is extremely amusing.

References in Popular Culture:

In the fictional television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles a 21-year-old Indiana Jones dorms with Ness at the University of Chicago and solved a murder mystery together connected to Capone, along with Ernest Hemingway.
Ness stars as the main character in the graphic novel Torso, written by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko. The fictitious story is inspired by Ness' investigation of the Cleveland Torso murders.
Great Lakes Brewing Company in Cleveland has a beer named the Eliot Ness. "Named after one of Cleveland's most respected safety directors who frequented the Brewpub's bar during his tenure from 1935-1941 and, according to popular legend, was responsible for the bullet holes in the bar still evident today. Margaret Conway, the mother of owners Patrick and Daniel Conway, worked with Ness as his stenographer."
Eliot Ness is mentioned in the Tupac Shakur song California Love in the verse rapped by Dr. Dre.
Lil'Wayne mentions Ness in his song "Comfortable."
In the Fugees' "Ready Or Not" Lauryn Hill mentions Ness.
In The Simpsons episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" the character of Rex Banner is based on Eliot Ness fight over alcohol dealers.
In Breaking Bad episode "Bit by a Dead Bee" the character Hank Schrader likens his success to Ness'.
In Prison Break episode "The Sunshine State" Don Self likens Lincoln Burrows to Eliot Ness.
He is parodied by Warner Brothers cartoons as Bugs Bunny plays Elegant Mess

Cinema Titantic

Pretty excited to see Cinema Titanic tomorrow. Maybe I will get to sit next to Keith Olberman. ohhhh!!

http://www.cinematictitanic.com/

Tina Fey Backlash

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/04/14/tina_fey_backlash/index.html

she was always exactly what i expected her to be.

NYC Coffee Challenge

New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously - http://nyti.ms/csoY1T
A Glossary of Coffee Terms - http://nyti.ms/9GEuMr

I am thinking about trying every coffee place on this list.

jimmy fallon is the worst

i love ricky.

Ep. 3 - Preview

helpful?

http://www.runnersworld.com/video/1,8052,s6-5-0-1,00.html?bcpid=2884339001&bclid=27960358001&bctid=67014439001

why poor people are fat.

more on my internal debate about food and pricing.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/why-a-big-mac-costs-more-than-a-salad/

and some more

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/rich-people-exercise-more/

oh joel mchale!

impressive

kid cuddi plus MGMT whaaa?

the combo made me pause and watch, but when you think about it... it's beautiful.

KiD CuDi ft. MGMT & Ratatat "Pursuit Of Happiness" from TELL&ViSiON on Vimeo.

check this out

i normally love to hate on snl, but this monologue from this weekend is kind of awesome.