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I love this movie so much - one of those I think it's necessary to go back to every few years (like the Star Wars Trilogy). The lines below are wonderful - reminds me of those extraordinary, crystalline moments when a teacher or professor says something that profoundly changes the way you see the world, and thus how you live your life. Also ( Read more... )

I really wanted to dress up as Rosie the Riveter for Halloween 2010 after seeing this awesome image on the cover of the Economist.


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It was to Santogold =)

You know what the essential problem is that I find with some artists? Some believe that they are apolitical, that they bear no responsibility to civil society, that they somehow exist "outside" of society. Zhang Yimou, Elia Kazan, Chris Burden, Gao Xingjian ( Read more... )

Ed Norton: When people think you're dying, they really really listen to you. Instead of just...

Marla: Instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.

I was about to fall asleep at my desk this morning, but went outside for lunch. It is a gorgeous spring-like day in the middle of November. I walked about 10 blocks to get a vietnamese baguette at a tiny bustling little shop on lex and 25th, crowded with workers out for Friday lunch. I got my chicken baguette (medium spicy) and saw 3 things on ( Read more... )

Things I love about the morning subway commute ( Read more... )

I just had a vision of what could be and what is, and for a moment they were the same ( Read more... )

One of my favorite museums in New York is the NYC tenement museum. The dark hallways, cracking linoleum, narrow staircases, and the musty smell of aging wood and sweat. They all bring up memories in me of visiting my uncle in his apartment on Canal and how it looked, felt, smelled so much like the turn of the century tenement preserved there. I ( Read more... )