I Am Gay for You, Please Don’t Leave Me.

So two of my best friends are moving this summer to greener pastures: Philadelphia and Austin, respectively. One of which that I’ve known since literally the first day of high school, while the other is someone that I met when I much older– halfway thru college. This post is dedicated to the latter– as she has a definite departure date of August 7th, just days shy of when I return back from New York. When she asked if I’d be able to see her off at the Sheep, I replied with the following “Wild Horses“*.

Now enough of my jibber-jabber, here are some vidoes:

Harry Nillson’s “Without You”.

NKOTB’s “Please Don’t Go Girl”.

OMD’s “If you Leave”.

Chicago’s “If You Leave Me Now”

This is like a half-mix at this point. These are just four singles that immediately came into my head when devising this mix for Melis.

* Actually one of the few Stones covers that I prefer to the original.

One Hulk, Two Hulk. Red Hulk, Blue Hulk.

From today’s Hulk #4.

I wonder if this has anything to do with Dr. Spectrum or color theory.

Boddington.

I love this campaign from Bartle, Bogle, Hegarty for Boddington from 2005.

Anyone else get to urge to read some Hate comics, and listen to Jesus Jones right now? God, I’m old.

Currently Coveting: White Shorts.

From : Alloy, J. Crew, Old Navy, American Apparel, and Urban Outfitters.
Why is the nearest American Apparel an hour away?! Because I think those might be the one. From what I’ve read online though– the sizing sounds inconsistent, and it’s something that I should probably try on in a store first. Boo-urns.

Why do I always feel like I should be doing calculus whenever I’m shopping for anything from the waist down?
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Other Things of Note:

• The ladies of Material Concern just linked me on their blog. Awesome.
• A friend just offered to fly me out to New York for a week to surprise one of my best friends for her 24th birthday.
  Wow. Could this be the break that I’ve been waiting on? It’d allow me to job hunt in New York for sure– idk.
• I’m a little pissed that I missed Adam Lerner’s lecture tonight at the FAC because I couldn’t request off work in time.
  Lerner’s incredibly witty, insightful, and I’d basically give my right arm to work at The Lab. I saw him lecture a semester before I graduated from college, and it blew my mind. I had one of those “Aha!” moments where I realized that this is what I want to do with myself.
  

Freewill Astrology for the Week of June 18th, 2008.

“We’re halfway through 2008. It’s a perfect moment to take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you, Aries: Are you working your ass off in order to stoke the fire in your belly? In other words, are you doing everything you can think of to get more motivated? Are you trying hard to supercharge your ambitions and refine your passions? If so, this will be the year when you finally figure out how to do what you love to do a majority of the time — and how to get rewarded by the world for doing it. It’s high time to answer your highest calling. ” - Rob Brenzsny of Freewill Astrology.

I’m working on it, Rob. Nail hitting head though– in terms of where my headspace is at right now.

Why Are You Up So Late?

It’s 3 AM on a Wednesday morning and I can’t sleep– figured I’d give the new laptop’s wifi connection a whirl, and well– I admittedly haven’t been updating this as much as I’d like. I work 6 days a week without respite, and on my free days (read: hours) I’d like to nothing more than binge-eat and watch something incredibly vapid like Gene Simmon’s Family Jewels*, that doesn’t happen though. My moments not spent at work are usually divided among the following: trolling Craigslist for jobs, checking my e-mail on a regular basis, reading bleak, longwinded Russian novels.

That being said I’m into Ivan Witenstein right now:

“ Kiss Your Little Girlfriends Golden Lunchroom Face Raise Your Middle Finger High” (2003); Epoxy resin, fiberglass, enamel.

“Boy on Dog” (2006); Epoxy resin, fiberglass, pigment.

* Now that Nick Simmons is officially of age (read: 18), I don’t feel nearly as much of a pedo for admitting that he’s attractive.  All six foot seven of him. Christ.

Everytime I Try to Get Out, They Keep Pulling Me Back In.

Resin rollerskate by Harry Allen. Found on Areaware.

Roisin Murphy.

Three singles and their videos from Murphy’s last record “Overpowered”. Maybe it’s because one of the gays from downtown stopped by into my store on Monday with a flyer for the Underground’s all night dance party every Saturday night starting this forthcoming Saturday night– but Murphy’s slow jams have hit me at exactly the right time.

“Overpowered”

“You Know Me Better”

“Let Me Know”

PS. My kingdom for her jacket in the first video.

Inner City Snail.

Inner City Snail is the sister blog of Little People, in it artist Slinkachu uses snails in addition to miniature models for his “slow moving street art”.

“Rush Hour”.

“Tagging”.

No snails were harmed during the production of these photos.

Words to Live By.