Pygmania

reposting a nice little piece from last week's nyt magazine [ link ] with several parts that felt like inside jokes between us. should we feel robbed? Bitten to the Quick By ABIGAIL MEISEL SEPT. 19, 2014 In the spring of 2013, a family of pigeons nested in scaffolding outside my apartment building two blocks off St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan’s Washington Heights. From the window of my first-floor apartment, I heard the cheeping of baby birds and affectionately observed their downy forms and tiny black-tipped beaks: my very own slice of nature. But in May, when the squabs matured into fledglings and flew off, it seems that a horde of barely visible parasites that had been feeding off them — bird mites — needed a new blood supply. They launched an Old Testament-worthy invasion of the first-floor apartments. Relentless and nocturnal, the bugs robbed us all of sleep, raising painful red bites on my skin that were ringed with bruises. They appeared to prefer warm and damp l...

i see you, googill, i do

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Cribbed extensively (fully) from today's Dazed States of Independence with Mike the Ruler, please see the following description of a SS'04 show and accompanying image and video. Then enjoy spending the rest of the day devouring more information about it. "Considering the awesome, spooky spectacle of Carol Christian Poell’s “Mainstream Downstream” presentation in Milan for men’s SS04, it’s a wonder the label isn’t more famous. Models were sent floating down the city’s Naviglio Grande canal (presumably buoyed by hidden floats), like a bunch of well-dressed corpses, or modern-day male Ophelias. Injections of blood red in the outfits only added to the sense of the macabre."

Well Buzzfeed really nailed it .  In particular: You don't have a closet full of clothes, you have a closet full of potential decisions that will eventually make you late. Any menu that is longer than one page is going to give you nightmares. Netflix = the thing that makes you waste more time deciding between 46 different options than actually watching one thing. You have definitely stood at the store trying to decide what to get for so long, that you finally just quit and went home. (Even if you went to the store SPECIFICALLY to buy something.) **also applies to Netflix Choosing what to read next is kind of torture. Friday night = the night when you argue with yourself for two hours about whether to go out or stay in. You really wish that Google maps would give you one route option, instead of three.  **New York edition: You can't decide the best train combo to get to 25th and 3rd, so you walk.

This is an excellent YouTube channel, with excerpts from audiobooks of Jung's works together with surrealist film clips. You're welcome.

What do Angiepymy's recently-used emoji say? [narrate/caption in the comments below]

so i was getting a post ready about how much we really need to watch black orpheus and then when i went to add it to our extra-official film list page thing ...well black orpheus was already there. i don't even know why i'm making this post now.