just 'cause

one more.

new yeah yeah yeah's video for 'skeletons'.

DJV'S Speekehs.

Red Wire Black Wire "Breathing Fire"

Thanks to mtv for jamming this one into my brainspace.

i like this song and this video.

local natives - airplanes

it's real hard being vampire weekend, ok?

VW's ezra koenig got acted like a spoiled, upper-middle-class white kid when he read this article asserting that he was a spoiled, upper-middle-class white kid, by twittering some cute responses.

“I'm asked how it feels to be called a WASP-y, insensitive, rich kid. I answer honestly. I become a WASP-y, insensitive, rich kid in denial.”

(via)

GTL.

now that the dust has settled on the first season of mtv's jersey shore, we can fill our empty lives with remembering the good times. nymag compiled a reader-voted top 10 list of catch phrases from the show. enjoy:

10. "I went on one ride, God bless me, it's fuckin summah!" —Pauly D (13 points but, more importantly, this was a Vulture reader write-in!)

8. It's a tie between:

"Unbelievable, huh, Snooks? It's so hard to find a good man these days. That's why I date women." —Pauly D (15 points)

"Have I got girls every day? Have they not been pretty? Some days no, some days yes." —Mike "the Situation" (15 points)

7. "I feel like this is beneath me. I'm a bartender. I do great things." —Angelina "Jolie" (17 points)

6. "My hair's windproof, waterproof, soccerproof, motorcycle proof. I'm not sure if my hair's bulletproof, I'm not willing to try that." —Pauly D (19 points)

5. "I would give her dick and bubble gum. I would send her a picture of my dick and a pack of bubble gum and say, 'Chew on this!'" —Ronnie "Sweetheart" (26 points)

4. "I told him to put me down because I'm not trashy. Unless I drink too much." —Nicole "Snooki" (28 points)

3. "I necessarily didn't want to bring back any zoo creatures whatsoever. These broads probably smelled the food at the house." —Mike "the Situation" (31 points)

2. "Gym, tanning, laundry. You know, that's how they, like, make the guidos." —Vinny (44 Points)

1. "You know what? You're excluded from dinner, then. You're excluded from Surf-and-Turf Night. You're excluded from Ravioli Night. You're excluded from Chicken-Cutlet Night." —Mike "the Situation" (60 points)

NeRd ALeRt!

most of you are likely aware that a competition to design a pedestrian bridge to the new volkswagen factory in chattanooga has been brewing down south. well, WAR EAGLE! 'cause a team from auburn won! michael glenboski and dylan cook took the $2,500 prize for their tiered bridge and tower which referenced VW's mid century ad campaign 'think small' :

"the jurors were enchanted by the entry’s clever mocking of a VW 'think small' advertisement and by the 182-foot tower that rises from the bridge. in their proposal, the students urged VW to 'think tall.'"

can't say i lurve the design, but congrats anyway!

oops, forgot that link [nytimes]

truer words ain't never been spoke

in an interview with yale daily news, denise scott brown said this when asked if she had any words of wisdom for aspiring architecture students:

"Architecture is a difficult career. You probably shouldn’t be an architect unless you absolutely have to because it’s a hard career, you will never earn very much, you’ll work long hours, it’s not up to you when you work, and it can be very heartbreaking when everything you want to do you find you can’t do."

this is a woman who in 1991, along with her husband robert venturi, won the highest honor an architect can win, the pritzker prize. if after all that, this is her perspective on the profession, we are defs all screwed.

i'm sorry...

...that i'm only blogging about my own fame.

here's a good story from the other half of 2Pz, and from the great state of tennessee. they got SNOW today! i know!!  like one-eighth of an inch it looks like!

and guess who can't drive in it without running off the road. joel (or maybe joel's friend). oops!

oh, finally.

looks like the masters of yesterday's news, NY1 finally decided to take a look at the internet or a newspaper or something.

"stand clear of the clucking chicken." oh pat kiernan. i love you so much.

omgomgogmgomgomg!!!!!

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i'd like to take this moment to expand my goals. we are currently in talks with the 4th hour of the today show. seriously. that's (kind of) true. in addition, i'm hoping to see our story on SNL's weekend update with seth meyers tomorrow, and the soup tonight. fingers crossed still!

thx bunz!