April 2008
44 posts
Watch Scarlett Johansson - Falling Down
After alllll the spculation and practicing my cringe face in the mirror, it’s actually not bad at all. In fact, watching it a second time, I think it’s rather good.
“I’m going to say that I’m no spring chicken, and that Carlos and I...”
– JC, on his excuse for leaving The Blade.
“Brooke is barely old enough to have been a flower girl at his first wedding.”
– JC, on the age of Brooke’s beau.
“Make a short [film] about it. You’re Jewish, it’ll win at Sundance.”
– Eric, on my disdain for a certain group of local filmmakers.
I know where the summer goes.
Douglas Perrett probably put it best when he said: “You know it’s spring when there is a McGinley opening… You know summer is around the corner when there is a McGinley road trip.” More at Team Gallery.
“Wear as little as possible while reading intellectual books… So you look...”
– JC Reindl, on how to attract boys.
When is a fashion ad not a fashion ad?
Above: Juergen Teller for Marc Jacobs (2007).
Shamelessness is a feature of contemporary life; it visibly afflicts the celebrity and the wannabe celebrity, but it also informs and liberates the artist. For the Rampling shoot, which was done in a Paris hotel suite, Mr. Teller thought it made sense for him to be in the ads, since he and the actress were friends and she didn’t want to endorse a...
Aurel Schmidt makes yucky things pretty.
“I guess the idea is to take the things that are considered the detritus of society and see them in a different way, making new things out of them, making something beautiful.” —Aurel Schmidt. Pictured: Zombie (2007) by Aurel Schmidt.
Finelli: I wonder when I misplaced my soul?
Carlos: Did you ever have one?
Finelli: I'm not sure. Maybe when I was 4?
Finelli: No that's probably untrue. I stole a troll from Bob Evans when I was 4.
“Black girls are born pregnant. They’re like those Russian dolls: One...”
– JC, on a certain shade of the underclass.
OMG I totally remember that one summer when you embraced Star Trek and me and Betty were all WTF???
(via mirnanda):
z: my roommate called me excessively logical z: I AM TOTALLY A VULCAN z: i need to make a star trek costume and some vulcan ears z: i need to like embrace star trek mir: no, no you don’t
“Blogging about fav muxtapes is like talking about fav colors.”
– Mareen Fischinger on muxtape.com, via her blog DUH!
If you've ever stayed at a W, you're nodding your...
alexbalk:
“Originally, officials considered turning the 1931 Italian Renaissance-style building on First Avenue between 29th and 30th streets into condos, but oddly, the layout of a mental institution is better suited to a hotel, Melissa Konur, vice president of the city’s Economic Development Commission, told The Post. ‘There are long corridors, and the rooms aren’t very big,’ she said.”