do it because you breathe it

“Great legends are usually people who die young because they didn’t live long enough to spoil their image.”
—Ed Limato



are you chasing cool?

notable/quotable

halle berry on benicio del toro:

"Let's not even talk about Benico. He's good, sexy and he's got that thing. Some actors have it. They walk in the room and the molecules in the room change. That would be him."

from an amazing (translated) interview with björk:


On Medúlla, you wrote "nor Bush nor Bin Laden". Do you feel this is even more urgent nowadays ?

We've been terrorized for more than four thousand years with these organized religions! Earth exists for more than four billion years, I think she's able to defend herself against those tiny four thousand years...
This idea, that we cannot live without orders from the left hemisphere of the brain, by completely neglecting the animal part, the pagan, the physical and the natural one is absurd. How could we neglect nature and become rolled up by the Bible or the Koran? How could we obediently allow this outrageous 12 month calendar with months we don't know if they have 28, 29, 30 or 31 days? The body, it knows there are 13 months: women bleed thirteen times during the year, there are thirteen full moons. But Christianity doesn't tolerate the 13th. By deleting this number, it imagined itself stronger than nature. Skyscrapers in New York don't have the 13th floor: that informs so much about the influence of this religion on that country. Even in Iceland, men imagined themselves stronger than nature and start building large dams, in this country which used to be considered as the purest in Europe... Volta, it's a comic horror film: I dream in it that one day nature is going to revolt... I see it, walking heavily and noisily down the streets of New York, entering each building and handwriting a "13" in the lift shafts. It's been four thousand years since she's been asleep and was letting the others do what they want to do with her. But now, it's over: we need to admit that we are only a tribe, who has to live with nature, has to forget its presumptions of civilization and cleanness. We are fundamentally pagans and we'll need to take that under our account.



track of the day: taking back sunday - my blue heaven

(I'm both a patient boy... and a jealous man...
We swing and we sway as this tiny voice in my head starts to sing
"You're safe child, you are safe")

out of context but still in my mind

classic weekend in new york conversation snippets:

at the half king: "she wasn't a drag queen, she was just a hooker."

at brite bar: "it's not about you, it's about the light fixtures."

at glass: "i wish i could drink champagne every day." "you can!"

case at chinatown brasserie: "stay black."

waitress at bowery hotel: "arigato!"

at 205 club: "if there were like, 30 fewer people here, it could be fun."

at 151: "but i think sheryl crow is hot." "i want a boy with snakebite piercings."

at b bar: "remember the thyme?"


















track of the day: the fratellis - creepin up the back stairs

Was there when your best friend said
"Sweetheart, I'm just here to get drunk again"
I wouldn't move if I was you
I wouldn't wanna caught when the lights go out
She said "You think you're so special"
I said "Sunshine I'm just just bored I'm just checkin' out"

we're not hitchhiking anymore. we're riding.

you're not like the others... you like the same things i do.


{i used to love those two}

one day, when you least expect it, i will have sex with you.

... george takei vs. tim hardaway

grey goose and jamba juice

sometimes when you're down, or you've got the pimms (not the good pimms but the bad pimms) you can sort of feel stuck in a rung on the hamster wheel of life.

but you know, it only takes a moment, a phone call, an afternoon of good people and good times to turn it all around.

quotable quotes:

"grey goose and jamba juice!"

"the boat turned and my foot went in the water - in the hudson."
"how did it feel?"
"cold and nasty!"

"lip kisses only."
"well it's gonna be a hug, then."

"i pitched it to the styles section but the new york times turned it down."
"eff them."

"the thing about the situation's situation is that the situation isn't even here."

(after the disco ball/strobe light punjabi MC moment at panna 2)
"that made it all worth it"

on this day...

on this day, several years ago, the woman pictured above gave birth to me. thanks, mom.

she called me today to say happy birthday and then said, "you should stop telling people your age."

"why?" i asked. "i'm not ashamed of it."

"because it makes me seem old."

okay.

notable/quoatble

"I would rather eat my own testicles than re-form the Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian."
-- Morrissey

"I once had sex in a trailer on a film. It was many years ago, in my youth. The second assistant director opened the door to call us for lunch, and we were sort of 'mid-passionate.' The most exciting part was seeing the look on his face."
-- Jonathan Rhys Meyers

"Whatever you end up wearing, always remember to bring your cell phone, some lip gloss, and some gum. If you have a problem that can't be solved with lip gloss and gum, you're probably going to have to make a phone call."
-- Paris Hilton