Rule, Brittaniea! Dirty little whirlwind
My dream outfits
Black and white, geometric figures. And I used to have that haircut, for like 10 years. Their version ain’t great, but I’ve also always loved this song.
I wanna hold em like they do in Texas Plays
Gaga just played two sold-out nights in Houston. I went Sunday night for work. You can read my review here. Her music is mindlessly fun. But when she talks about her mission to free her fans of their insecurities, and when she talks about her relationship with her parents, she seems 100% legit, vulnerable and [...]
Proper Fucking Booming
The Deepwater Horizon spill is bad. Really bad. But you want to know what’s worse? Uhh, language is NSFW. (Via MetaFilter, where the comments are, as always, priceless.) Those fuckers better not screw up my approaching Florida vacation, and they better not fucking kill off the 8,000 remaining endangered Ridley sea camp turtles that are [...]
Fire and hailstones
I’ve been obsessed with watching weather videos on Youtube lately. Metafilter is partly to blame, as is The Awl, but the real culprit is El Nino*, which is responsible for the worst winter Houston had in the past 30 years and also the fact that we’re probably gonna have one helluva hurrican’ season. I also [...]
Piano with Wind and Trains
Trailer: Piano with Wind and Trains from Andrew Laker on Vimeo. I just found out my friend Butch, whom I’ve written about before, has had his first feature-length doc, PIano with Wind and Trains, accepted to the Chagrin Falls International Documentary Film Festival. Butch and I met while working at a small suburban newspaper — [...]
Category 5
Rick Mitchell + Jeff Corwin = Hank Schyma, my new crush. We bonded over tornadoes at the Art Car Ball. This one makes me miss Oklahoma.
Minsk meets Cub meets Vespa
In the middle of watching the Top Gear: Vietnam Special. But don’t read the link like I did, because spoilers abound. The entire episode is available on Youtube.
What is tiki?
It was CLH who turned me on to the Polynesia Pop craze, but it fits in perfectly with my love of all things Midcentury. Most people don’t understand the Hawaiian shirts, cocktail culture and exotica music. The DVD of Tiki looks like a good primer to explain how Polynesia went from culture to kitsch in [...]
Lousiana Man
Been on a Cajun/zydeco kick this past week, thanks in no small part to my boss at the paper, who suggested we write about it. I had always known EastTex had a strong zydeco history but even with my French minor I was dumb to the fact that zydeco = les haricots. Language always fascinates [...]
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