"You're doin' it wrong."

I spent a solid afternoon reading Herbert Marcuse today:

"In the medium of technology, culture, politics, and the economy merge into an omnipresent system which swallows up or repulses all alternatives. The productivity and growth potential of this system stabilize the society and contain technical progress within the framework of domination." 

In an appropriately ironic twist, whilst reading these thoughts on the fate of individuality in advanced societies, I received no fewer than 10 text messages and 50 instant messages online. I also received a number of emails directing me to, amongst other things, change my Flickr password, pay my cell phone bill, and check my bank statement, all of which I did. I browsed through Facebook. I downloaded some pirated albums. I organized my iPhoto albums. And I closed the afternoon with this sentence:

"There may be a need to keep alive the spark of utopia after all. Its function for us today is... to undermine the complacency that makes the intolerable tolerable."

Hmm.

Go to this!

Very excited for this one... you should be too.

PLUS it's Cole's birthday at midnight, so once we close out Double Punch, the festivities will be moved to another location more suitable for escalating wildness. Get ready.

Morning after

Am I falling over or am I dancing? I don't know. But thanks, Kayvon, for an evening of A-Trak, Theophilus London, and goddamn Popscene (I hate my life). In other news, A-Trak and Armand Van Helden just announced a new project called Duck Sauce. How could that not be good?

Daggers

http://www.myspace.com/shadowdaggers

We are going to be so famous.
(I'm half kidding.)

Graaaaaaad school

I am not even IN graduate school, and it is already sapping my energy. I haven't posted for almost 2 months because every ounce of written energy I possess is currently being channeled into the early stages of writing samples and statements of purpose for my applications. Just don't ask me what I'm writing about...

So my friends started a farm...

It's called Sun Born Organics, and it's going to be amazing. Still in the planting/start-up phase, but just you wait. If I bail out of the city frequently this summer, that might be where you'll find me, frolicking with puppies and releasing ladybugs and spraying fish emulsion and planting tomatillo verde plants (like the one above). Duh. And if I'm lucky, maybe Mike and Damon will let me drive the truck. p.s. Check out the link under Places to Go, on your right.

Saturday in Brooklyn

Apple cider donuts from the farmer's market

A rad t-shirt from Species by the Thousands at the Fort Greene Flea Market

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabyyyyyyyyyyy