Meanwhile I had Oprah chillin in the projects

Jay hearts Damien Hirst skulls (and Interpol) in one of the best songs off the new album - love it soooo much!

PS "Come here let me coat you" - is one of my favourite rap lyrics in ages. Genius!

Voy a Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode)

Jesus Christ - this trailer totally killed me. There have been a lot of bad trailers around recently - must memorable for me is Forgetting Sarah Marshall which I loved and the trailer made it look so bad! I found the whole thing quite upsetting. Bad trailers lead to people seeing movies alone people cause no one who wants to go see something with a crappy looking trailer (except me of course).

There is an art to the trailer AKA theres more reaons than Meryl Streep x Alec Baldwin that everyone wants to see Its Complicated.

Anyway this film looks amazing exec produced by Diego Luna and Geal Garcia Bernal can't be a bad sign (**lalala Rudo Y Cursi never happened lalala**) and all the touches of french new wave meets mexican hotness and the use of an Interpol song that doesn't make me wanna revisit breakfast? Exciting - but is this too late in the day for MIFF or ACMI? Should I be looking to Video Dogs/Criterion once more? Le sigh.

Now I am quietly waiting

Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.

The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.

It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.

- “Mayakovsky,” Meditations in an Emergency, Frank O’Hara

Um Frank - can you just stop being so true, amazing and insightful. Also that having an amazing way with words so a paragraph sounds like a song and looks like a painting thing - stop that too please. Theres just no hope for the rest of us.

Machotaildrop

This looks both trippy and awesome. I really like most skateboarding movies I've seen including (ahem) one of the best trashy perve-on-cute-boys flicks of all time - Lords of Dogtown - which incedently lead to me and my friend Courtney's short lived (aka never actually was) 90s cover band - Lords of Kurttown (RIP).

(via The Vine)

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts

Is it just me or has their been a spate of biopics lately? Mostly I don't mind if these films (or even books) are accurate or true as long as they're good. I don't know if this looks that good - but making a movie with anything to do with Serge is a probably good step in the right direction for anyone.

If you haven't seen the Serge and Whitney interview you really should.

you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

Nautical style in Pierre le Fou (1965) - Jean Luc Godard

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots,

I was inspired by this blog post to think about my current style inspirations. Its weird to see them all together - they all look quite the same? In case you couldn't tell I love androgyny though I can never quite pull it off.

1. Jeanne Moreau in Francois Truffaut's Jules et Jim

2. Patti Smith (especially in a Keith Richards t-shirt)


3. Diane Keaton in any Woody Allen film

4. Clotilde Hesme in Philippe Garrel's Les amants réguliers

5. Lou Dillon


6. Another anonymous Sartorialist girl