[11:42:48 AM] Wah: i am currently reading a letter written to me by a 'BFF' from junior high while i was in costa rica for my dad's sabatical
[11:42:50 AM] Wah: it is HILARIOUS
[11:42:52 AM] Wah: yeah yeah it's perf being home
[11:43:34 AM] Alexandra Smith: oh my lord re: the letter.
[11:43:49 AM] Alexandra Smith: so good. does it profess undying and everlasting friendship 4-eva?
[11:44:31 AM] Wah: yes and the questions
[11:44:31 AM] Wah: i mean
[11:44:34 AM] Wah: i can't even express it
[11:45:25 AM] Alexandra Smith: yowza. like, "do you want to run away after school ends in may?"
[11:46:33 AM] Wah: like, here is a direct quote, "he went down my underwear, and didn't go like up, up. but he kind of went in. n-e ways i don't think you want to hear all the details.'
[11:46:44 AM] Wah: here is more:
[11:47:09 AM] Alexandra Smith: ohmygod, amazing.
[11:47:10 AM] Wah: 'one night i was so happy, because i told cory to go to jam-i-zon, and he went, but lauren and ashley took him from me and hung all over him, it really pissed me off, what bitches'
[11:47:14 AM] Wah: HAHAHAHA
[11:47:16 AM] Alexandra Smith: i am laughing out loud.
[11:47:17 AM] Wah: i can't throw these things away
15 December 2009
16 October 2009
Friday Night
I'm sick. Sick enough to give up a chance to hear a great alt.-rock local band, Birds of Virginia, at a cool local venue, Cedar Cultural Center, at their CD release party with Starpusher, and a good friend. I'm sick enough to stay in on a Friday night, and sick enough to watch movies that I got from the local library (Dune, Aurora Borealis, 12 Angry Men, et. al.) and sick enough to get intimate with a whole free-range chicken that's de-thawing as I type, for soup.
I'm kind of glad I'm sick.
I'm kind of glad I'm sick.
03 September 2009
I feel this way about copywriting/creative services.
"The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem — solve it.
The thing from the agency said, 'We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,' this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said 'and it must be 31/4 seconds long.'
I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.
In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time."
-Brian Eno on composing The Microsoft Sound
The thing from the agency said, 'We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,' this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said 'and it must be 31/4 seconds long.'
I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.
In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time."
-Brian Eno on composing The Microsoft Sound
28 August 2009
Jamie Gots a Job!
I wanna consume some of these healthy and rich-sounding deeelights! And after getting a lovely gift of a t-shirt from Uniqlo and now this (plus some other kind of phenomenal reasons) I kind of wish I was there to do just that this weekend.
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Farmstead Cheese & Salamihomemade crackers, pickled quail eggp/a
Wood Fired Tart heirloom tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, marjoram
Shaved Market Vegetables toasted almonds, wild cilantro, honey-cayenne vinaigrette Watermelon Salad feta cheese, taggiasca olives, mint
Chicken Liver Mousse vinegar onions, pistachios
Oven Roasted Seppia cauliflower, harissa, sultanas, pine nuts
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Sweet Corn Ravioli jalapeño, bacon, sage
Black Pepper Tagliatelle cherry tomatoes, cranberry beans, basil
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Cast Iron Chicken $15
Long Island Fluke cucumbers, dilly beans, pumpkin seeds
Boneless Braised Short Ribs Maytag blue cheese, heirloom tomatoes, croutons
Red Wattle Country Chop fingerling potatoes, crème fraîche, dill
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Sides
Roasted Corn Salad cabbage, lime, parmesan
Roasted Beets horseradish
Wild Arugula shaved parmesanPork 'n Beans
*VHH via The New Yorker
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Farmstead Cheese & Salamihomemade crackers, pickled quail eggp/a
Wood Fired Tart heirloom tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, marjoram
Shaved Market Vegetables toasted almonds, wild cilantro, honey-cayenne vinaigrette Watermelon Salad feta cheese, taggiasca olives, mint
Chicken Liver Mousse vinegar onions, pistachios
Oven Roasted Seppia cauliflower, harissa, sultanas, pine nuts
--------------------
Sweet Corn Ravioli jalapeño, bacon, sage
Black Pepper Tagliatelle cherry tomatoes, cranberry beans, basil
--------------------
Cast Iron Chicken $15
Long Island Fluke cucumbers, dilly beans, pumpkin seeds
Boneless Braised Short Ribs Maytag blue cheese, heirloom tomatoes, croutons
Red Wattle Country Chop fingerling potatoes, crème fraîche, dill
--------------------
Sides
Roasted Corn Salad cabbage, lime, parmesan
Roasted Beets horseradish
Wild Arugula shaved parmesanPork 'n Beans
*VHH via The New Yorker
31 July 2009
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