The Revenge of Shaken & Stirred
I will happily try to answer Asks. Just drop them via the Magic 8 Ball (aka Ask) at the top of the page. And shake.
Naming your band after one of the most beloved (especially among the hipster crowd) TV series of all time is a ballsy move, but lucky for the four teens from Chicago which go by Twin Peaks, their music is pretty damn good. “Stand in the Sand” is an infectious fuzzy garage-pop jam that isn’t too far off from what fellow Chicagoans Smith Westerns are doing.
Twin Peaks’ debut Sunken is out July 9th via Autumn Tone Records.
Fun. Dance-around-the-room music.
I’m constantly yelling at people for not having a sense of scale when pondering their relative insignificance in the grand scheme of things. Maybe this will help.
I’ve been doing this in my head whenever I get stressed, but having it all laid out visually is wonderful. I also sometimes do this with space instead of time.
Lovely, really.
(via alexmuninn)
BASICALLY i’m really angry because it seems that nowadays a lot more young adult books are geared toward girls rather than guys which is fine but i’m a guy and while guys *can* read about girls falling in love with the perfect guy while trying to save the world… it’s not really…
I adore both these brill ladies and agree with each and every word. Click through and read the whole thing BECAUSE YES.
Janelle Monae
From her speech on “Black Girls Rock”:
“When I started my music career, I was a maid. I used to clean houses. My mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trashman. They all wore uniforms and that’s why I stand here today, in my black and white, and I wear my uniform to honor them.
This is a reminder that I have work to do. I have people to uplift. I have people to inspire. And today, I wear my uniform proudly as a Cover Girl. I want to be clear, young girls, I didn’t have to change who I was to become a Cover Girl. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.
Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.”- Janelle Monáe
I just adore her.
Ditto.
I… I want some of these ancient Siberian 2500 year old tattoos.
These are from the Siberian woman mummy they are calling the “Altai princess”. I love this detail from the article:
She was buried with two men and six horses. Because she was not buried with weapons, researchers think that she might have been a healer or storyteller.
Nice.
YA Muses: Writing Books, Iron Man Style / Loved this post from Veronica Rossi about the difficulty of writing the second book while learning how to be an author. Over here where I’m sitting, this really resonates even though my second book isn’t connected to my first. It was a challenging one to write, but in the meantime I did manage to rediscover that joy. I don’t know how it will be received, but now I just want to write Moar Books. (And it helps that I’ve already written and sold the third. Now to get on with the fourth…and fifth…)
I feel better able to embrace the terrors and insomnia and panic and happy little victories and occasional big ones of it all. Because telling stories is where it’s at.
Had a great night at Wild Rumpus and made some new friends.
Bookstore chicken! Maniacal glee! Love.
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (American, 1900-1948), Circus, ca. 1938, oil on canvas, 36 ¼ x 24 ¼ inches, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Gift of the artist, 1943.
from The Colorful World of Zelda Fitzgerald
Speaking of the Fitzgeralds, an exhibit of Zelda’s paintings came through town a few years ago. I love their twisted exuberance.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald dressed in drag in 1916 for the Princeton Triangle Club, the country’s oldest touring collegiate musical comedy troupe.
(To this day, despite a co-ed cast, it still features an all-male kickline which is something simultaneously terrible and amazing to watch. Here’s the “Touched By An Angel” number from 2000.)
[picture via Open Culture]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/db88969382c750c550af4257992222dd/tumblr_mmkzdbsY2J1qb1ld4o1_250.png)
F. Scott Fitzgerald dressed in drag in 1916 for the Princeton Triangle Club, the country’s oldest touring collegiate musical comedy troupe.
(To this day, despite a co-ed cast, it still features an all-male kickline which is something simultaneously terrible and amazing to watch. Here’s the “Touched By An Angel” number from 2000.)
[picture via Open Culture]
