Archive for January, 2009
Unfortunately the film for Polaroid cameras are not being produced anymore. But there is a cool website where you can convert your digital photos into Polaroid look-a-likes. I am so excited about this; I’ve been converting some of my pictures for fun:
This song is so beautiful and the video is one of the most creative I’ve ever seen!
Oren Lavie: Her Morning Elegance
This is from a book called Disorder in the American Courts that a co-worker of mine sent me. Court reporters took down word for word everything that is said:
Attorney: Are you sexually active?
Witness: No, I just lie there.
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Attorney: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?
Witness: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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Attorney: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
Witness: Uh, he is twenty
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Attorney: So the date of conception of the baby was August 18?
Witness: Yes
Attorney: And what were you doing at the time
Witness: Uh… I was gettin’ laid
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Attorney: She had three children right?
Witness: Yes
Attorney: How many where boys?
Witness: none
Attorney: Where there any girls?
Witness: Are you for real? Your honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
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Attorney: Doctor before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
Witness: No
Attorney: Did you check for blood pressure?
Witness: No
Attorney: Did you check for breathing?
Witness: No
Attorney: So, then it is possible for the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
Witness: No
Attorney: How can you be sure doctor?
Witness: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Attorney: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
Witness: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
*Afghan Girl. *Starving Child.
*Earthrise. *A baby hand.
*The Kiss at Times Square. *Execution of a Viet Cong.
* Explore more at this website. They add a new photo every week.
So, it looks like we are in the midst of another British Invasion. But with all this great talent… who is complaining?
If you haven’t heard of The Ting Tings then you have been under a rock for the past 5 months! Even if you don’t recognize the band name, their songs are all over (from i-pod commercials to TV shows like Gossip Girl to in the movie Slumdog Millionaire). This duo (Jules De Martino and Katie White), from Manchester, were dropped by their label (Mercury) right before they were to release their debut album. They ended up splitting the band up but continued jamming at parties for fun. Their manager set up a 5 day tour and the very next week they were set to play at the Glastonbury Festival. It was there that a music scout for Apple heard them… and the rest is history.
The Kooks (from Brighton) have already put out two hit albums; Konk (2008) and Inside In/Inside Out (2006). But they are still not as popular in the US as they would like to be. But with their pop-punk love songs, I don’t think it will be too long.
Noah and the Whale (from London) have only had one big single (5 years time). But their whole album has been well received and a big hit among the indie/ folk music lovers.
I hope for more to come from neighbors across the pond!
This is a great blog that I follow. This man writes so beautifully. I don’t know much about him but I think that helps to be emotional toward what he writes. He also couples his writing with beautiful photography that his friend (who lives in Japan) does specifically for his blog.
Do you remember when we were vampires? Do you remember when we ran through the streets at night, our heads back, laughing and screaming, so alive it felt like we owned the world?
Do you remember?
Do you remember me?
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Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you.
I love this! Christian Lander started this blog and then turned it into a book. As his about page says, he takes a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like. He is very smart and witty. My favorites are:
*The idea of Soccer
*80s Night
*Not having a TV
*Promising to learn a new language
*Hummus
*Girls with bangs
Island caretaker in Sydney, Australia. The “job” requires you to stroll the island’s beaches, snorkel through the Great Barrier Reef, and post photos and videos of your experiences on a weekly blog. You would stay in an oceanfront villa. And for all this hard work… $100,000.00 for six months.
*They are still accepting applications until February 22.
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine’?”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
1. You can smell chocolate in the street from the Blommer’s factory.
2. Winter… just kidding. But I do love that we are all in this mess together!
3. Train crushes. Several times a week there is a cute guy on the train that I have a crush on. It never goes anywhere but I just like that I can be entertained on my commute.
4. Street fashion. This is where i get inspired for my wardrobe.
5. Brunch. Great food, great coffee, outdoor seating on a beautiful day… what more do you need?
6. Gay Pride Parade. I can’t even tell you. Its like “what happens in Vegas…”
7. Its never a wrong time to drink. Our people love their alcohol! I went to a lunch meeting with my law firm last week at noon and didn’t get out until 5… see, never a wrong time!
8. Summer outdoor activities. I love being outside but I wouldn’t call myself “outdoorsy” or athletic. However, I was in luck moving to Chicago because our idea of an outdoor activity is sitting on the patio at Pontiac playing bingo with a mimosa. Or sitting in Wicker Park playing scrabble, going to A Movie in the Park, and eating a ton of fried food at Taste of Chicago. (I don’t know how we aren’t all fat!)
9. Music. Some of the coolest music venues and festivals. You can’t escape music here.
10. Naked bike riding. Hopefully one day I will get the courage but until then I am content just watching this display of the human body happen every year.
11. Our farmers markets. So much to enjoy!
12. St Patrick’s Day. We die our water green!
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