jay-z on fresh air

south korea...you are a genius

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what did you do this weekend?

well! i'm back! jicydak, i went to tennessee this weekend, including a trip to neyland stadium for a footvolgame! here are some highlights.

we'll start with knoxville:

it was a perfect day, and we got in some really great tailgating on ol' fiji island. everyone looked great. i must've gotten some beer on my b-berry, because most of these pixies are blurry2death.

 grace came with me, and joel was there!

 the pride of the southland welcomed us with a beautiful power T. 

i don't know if you heard, but we kind of embearassed ole piss.

 there was a lot of this going on.

 that night we drank our hearts out, and joel and i ended up at a random karaoke bar, without a car. so we killed time as needed.

until djv came! he rescued us and took us to cool beans, but there was a line out to the damn street, so we had to relocate our college-bar-nostalgia venue to OCI. it looked and felt like this.

we stopped at the pilot on the way home for 18 natty lights.

middle tennessee highlights included:

 grace's homemade dinner. jazzy helped! they're friends4life, jicyww.

 risotto, veggies, salad, etc! it was so delicious, y'all.

a day of shopping in nashville, featuring this great boutique, imogene + willie. ktv recommended!

and oc, hangin' with jAzZy!

not pictured:

our drinking time with sarah and sean sharp. what a delight!

delicious 9-person brunch at tomatohead on sunday.

our monday night nashville dinner with ktv + beeun. sorry guys! i was too busy making sure tom was wasting our time, and forgot to snap some pixies.

probs lots of other stuff.

d. n. d.

twilight 2.

catherine hardwicke, director of the first twilight movie, is directing the new little red riding hood movie. the trailer has just been released, and as gawker points out, it looks exactly the gd same as twilight.

i'll still watch it because it stars 2Pz fave amanda seyfried and i really liked twilight.

brb finding out if that's 2Pz fave karin dreijer andersson on that trailer.

UPDATE: yes! it is!

As it turns out, Catherine Hardwicke talked to Hero Complex about the film, and revealed that not only is the song Andersson’s, but she’ll appear in the film. Hardwicke says that there’s a scene in the film reminiscent of Burning Man Festival where the townspeople “build this giant wolf effigy, a huge bonfire, everyone’s dancing like crazy and partying and going wild, so I used the Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights as my inspiration for that. We built all the instruments in the Bosch painting, a hurdy gurdy, standing horn pipes, the same blue drums.”

It’s in this scene that Andersson will appear, in the guise of her side-project Fever Ray, whose self-titled album was one of the best records of last year. Hardwicke relates that “We commissioned this band from Sweden called Fever Ray. She’s always performing in radical costumes, she’s like the Lady Gaga of Sweden. In our movie she’s wearing a harvest mask with a corn husk face and she’s singing and everybody’s dancing and singing.” (via)

kewl!

this is for joel.

because he loves when people fall down.

congrats kate and prince william

they are going to be married. he gave her his mother's sapphire engagement ring.
nymag has a slideshow of course. she is real pretty (not in a slutty way) and will make a wonderful princess.

"this bear was exceptional"

via. source.
i think he is saying thanks for driving a nissan leaf.

daily ri ri

today rihanna's new album dropped.

read some critics reviews here. they mostly like it.

i'll be giving you a track by track review once i go to the cd store and buy one. maybe ill buy one for you too!

go get your LOUD today.

some genius put the giraffes with the ostriches

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tina fey on sarah palin :

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women-except, of course-those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape 'kit 'n' stuff.' But for everybody else, it's a win-win. Unless you're a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years-whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know-actually, I take it back. The whole thing's a disaster.

comments edited from her speech as she accepted the mark twain prize for humor.

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sthisthtine chapel

gawker reports :

Italian art historian claims some of the images depicted in Michelangelo's "Last Judgment"—the fresco on the wall of the Sistine Chapel—were inspired by acts the artist witnessed in homosexual bathhouses. Let's take a closer look, shall we?

ctm, i find this quote particularly funny :

Elena Lazzarini, the author of a new book about the work, explains, "The virile male bodies are inspired by the physiology of laborers engaged in physical exertion, with taut muscles, strenuous exertion and pain etched into the expression on their faces." (That is the most polite description of man-on-man intercourse we've ever heard.)

spot will never give up

the dizzying and tragic everlasting companionship of a puppy

goddamn! they tow this mothafucka up!

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DJVOL googles

I've really been wanting to use the phrase "those were our salad days" but i wasn't sure i was gonna do it right. soooooo i googled it. now I know.


"Salad days" is an idiomatic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the
inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a
young person. More modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a person's heyday
when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities—not necessarily in that person's youth.

History


The phrase was coined in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in 1606. In the speech at the
end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she
says:

"...My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood..."

The phrase became popular only from the middle of the 19th century, coming to mean “a
period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion." The metaphor comes from Cleopatra's use of
the word 'green' — presumably meaning someone youthful, inexperienced, or immature.

what are you doing this weekend?