Small town Vermont in the summertime: what else is there to do besides work at a gas station, meth, dirt biking in the woods (oft combined with meth), binge drinking, and "ugly chicks"? Making a gangsta rap side project, but of course. I enjoy their bargain bin Biggie Smalls-style and Adam's falsetto vocals.

I opened the champagne pre-emptively last night at 11:35pm. 2010 couldn't be over soon enough. Me, a master of my own reality.



p.s.:

Joan Didion, 1979


Ben Johnson, Weary, 1966


Anntian spring/summer 2010


Aidan Koch


Mara Carrafone


Mikhail Vrubel


Well hello there...





Carrie Schneider, Derelict Self, 2006–2007, c-prints, 30 x 36 inches each

"Derelict Self is inspired by the idea that mimicry can be a way to both gain and lose a sense of oneself, as well as my own experience of being a younger sibling."


"Portrait of the Artist in Her Studio (Jessica James Lansdon)" (2007) by Carrie Schneider


Carrie Schneider, Dazzle Camouflage (for Peter), 2008, c-print, 45 x 60 inches

I really love her work. See more on her website.


Jessica James Landsdon, War Between the States, 2004, string, nails and cut vinyl


Back of Monster Island where Mollusk Surf shop is. Mural work by Maya Hayuk, Kyle Ranson, Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, and Momo.


Kyle Ranson


Mary Virginia Carmack


William Blake


Nicolas S






Tauba Auerbach


Bruce Conner


Adam Farmer


Tomita Fumio


Yago Hortal


Magali Reus




Silje Ramstad. Haha, I love this.




Arna Óttarsdóttir




Benjamin King


Bodys Isek Kingelez


Chris Labeau


Gunnar S. Gundersen, Dance, 1968


Philip Guston


Jonathan Zawada




Monica Canilao

2010 went tits up, bottoms up for 2011!


Daul Kim

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages…For what I have always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort…this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. - Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“This above all: to thine own self be true
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. - Shakespeare, Hamlet

If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

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I am giving serious consideration to less-than-desirable money making options (hey, Kathleen Hanna did it!), a wee bit tipsy, and these are the three songs that I think are the most beautiful ever and I just played them in a row.


"Dear John" by Nice (1991)

Lyrics like a short story in song form.


"Cattle and Cane" by The Go-Betweens (1983)

The notoriously difficult time signature gives both a nostalgic quality as well as a timeless one.


"Golden Brown" by The Stranglers (1982)

In between beating up The Clash and doing lots of drugs, they wrote this song and scored a #2 hit on the British top 40. It has a very English, traditional sensibility about it – a bit reminiscent of The Pentangle (who I am also a huge fan of). Plus this video is fucking class.