Tower of Sleep: Archive

The National Student Loan Service Center just took...

Happy fucking New Year. There goes my paycheque.

Jan 1st

No one should be a cock to a stranger, ever. →

Best Achewood strip of all time. Thanks to chalkedup for the reminder.

Dec 31st

Happy New Year

What an excellent day: -perfect amount of coffee -beautiful sunshine - {ie all to myself (with occasional customers) - four-hour mix of my favourite songs of 2008 - delicious mandarin orange just when I was getting hungry - trying on my own merchandise I might be a little less stoked on sitting here by myself in four or five hours, but right now, life is just fine.

Dec 31st

“They brought me the signature “Coffee and Doughnuts.” This would be my third...”

– a young foodie drops $298 at Per Se. well done. (via warfordium) Wow. Sixteen-year-old kid pays $300 for 16-course meal. That’s good reading.

Dec 31st

Robert Fisk: Leaders lie, civilians die, and... →

Quite a lot of the dead this weekend appear to have been Hamas members, but what is it supposed to solve? Is Hamas going to say: “Wow, this blitz is awesome – we’d better recognise the state of Israel, fall in line with the Palestinian Authority, lay down our weapons and pray we are taken prisoner and locked up indefinitely and support a new American ‘peace process’ in the Middle East!” Is that...

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Dec 29th

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Wow, this really is a good-looking city. And it has a lot of people I don’t know in it. (via chalkedup)

Dec 29th

Spring Fashion

Mandy’s Rag & Bone post prompted me to go look at the Spring shows from a few of my favourite designers. Obedient Sons: going for a commune/cult vibe, but it’s too clean-shaven and blank-eyed and creepy. Lots of loose v-necks and dumb floppy knit hats. The safari-ish outfit above is probably the only thing I liked in the set. There were a few other nice things, but not what...

Dec 29th

Fever Ray - if I had a heart Fever Ray is the new...

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Dec 28th

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Another Jace Clayton quote

So do you think the internet has made “music without borders” an inexorable process? “No, it wasn’t the internet that made ‘music without borders’ an inexorable process - it was the Silk Road and its predecessors. Music is precisely that which underscores the ridiculousness of borders, their porousness, their chimerical nature. Look at this insane fence the US is building between Texas and...

Dec 28th

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Pop Couture →

A deliriously well-written post on the New York Times style blog about the romance of street style blogs, with rapturous praise for The Sartorialist and Garance Doré. “What can be learned from a global anthology of fantastic-looking people? First off, you might find that looking at people on city streets is almost a perfect allegory of Web-browsing. Tellingly, the major Chinese search...

Dec 28th

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Ray Barretto - o elefanto (SHH remix) A song...

Dec 28th

DJ Rupture on the internet and "outernational"... →

Plan B: People also talk of the “fetishization” of non-Western music by Western listeners… “I don’t care what ‘Westerners’ fetishize. They’ve been fetishizing black people for centuries now, who cares? You simply exist in all your complexity and let them deal with it. Fetishism is so vague. I care a lot when Westerners rip off non-Western musicians, even by rendering them anonymous like Sublime...

Dec 28th

So, New Years plans.

I’m stating for the record that I am going to the Biltmore to see Gang Violence, Defektors, and Juvenile Hall with the Ice Cream Social DJs. I hope to see many of my friends there. I’m going to dance my face off and hopefully pop the cork off a bottle of champagne at some point.

Dec 28th

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