May
24th
Tue
24th
May
21st
Sat
21st
Tokyo Electric Power Company Managing Director Akio Komiri weeps as Japanese officials finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people.
Absolutely devastating.
Mar
13th
Sun
13th
Julian Imrie in his Los Angeles workshop
Imrie quit college to assist Bruce Weber, went on to work on a horse farm in Montauk, NY, then moved to Amish country, where he salvaged crumbling barns. He spent a year studying the New Testament (in Greek). Then he biked from Los Angeles, his current home base, to Brazil. At one point, he decided to start Julian Boots, his stylish take on 19th-century footwear, but first he learned how to make molds in the English Midlands and to tan leather in a 250-year-old Swiss factory. Now he’s an amateur boot historian, able to slip easily into a disquisition on what a 19th-century Cornish miner might wear. What his boots share with their fuss-free forebears, Imrie says, is that ‘‘you can use them in your garden and then rub them off and go to a wedding.’’
Mar
9th
Wed
9th
America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It’s just that it’s not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich. Today just 400 Americans have the same wealth as half of all Americans combined. Let me say that again. 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer “bailout” of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can’t bring yourself to call that a financial coup d’état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your heart to be true.
Jan
20th
Thu
20th
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Things Between People - Holly Throsby
Absolutely love this song, and I just learnt it on guitar.
He usually brings the car around and parks it outside our house
And he talks to me of loneliness and the feeling’s all ‘round
So he takes out all these women but he doesn’t feel a thing
And he thinks there’s something missing or there’s something wrong with him
‘Cause he reels them in and he reels them out againAll of these old mistakes they, they catch us up
The same old patterns form again
‘Til every day
and every day feels the same…I usually bring the car out front and she gathers up and finds her things
Well he can’t see where his friends stop and his lovers begin
He says ‘I cannot be around you because god knows it hurts
But I cannot be without you ‘cause it’s much, much worse’
So he reels me in and he reels me out againAll of these old mistakes they, they catch us up
The same old patterns form again
Till every day
and every day feels the same…
Jan
2nd
Sun
2nd
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.
— Benjamin Franklin (via theimpossiblecool)
(Source: moxfoth, via frankiezee)
Another shot at Coolangatta with my Diana Mini.
(via frankiezee)
