Reverend Jesse Jackson on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
At the CPS Closing Rally 3/27/13
There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro because today with cameras as pervasive as they are there is no such thing really as professional photographers and then there is EVERYTHING as professional photographers. Certainly there is varying levels of skill but we didn’t want to have a Flickr Pro anymore we wanted everyone to have professional quality photos, space, and sharing.
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| — | Marissa Mayer regarding the new Flickr |
Goose & Fox
Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection
Imagine going to someone’s house to have a 10 course restaurant style farm-to-table dinner prepared around you while chatting with around 8 other friendly strangers and you’ll have some idea of what a Goose & Fox dinner party is like.
Now imagine that the food is amazing, the atmosphere is comfortable and the conversation is great. This is what Beth Ann and I did on Saturday night. We left with our taste buds amazed, our bellies full and with a few new friends. I can’t recommend this enough. Goose & Fox is one of the most interesting an exciting ideas I’ve experienced in a long time. Cannot recommend this highly enough.
Check them out: http://goosefox.tumblr.com/
I’m sitting in my bedroom and I can hear my roommate, her boyfriend, and their friend bitching loudly about Zach Braff’s Kickstarter. One of the reward tiers is to get to be an extra, and one of them just said “I hope it’s just a bunch of Arab guys.”
They’ve been talking about this for more than 15 minutes.
Someone get me out of here.
If you spent half as much time looking for an apartment as you spend complaining and saying mean things about your “crazy” roommate, her boyfriend, and their friends you’d have found a place and moved out already.
Or you know, you could say things to people’s faces and resolve issues like an adult but I guess it’s much easier to play the victim online to an audience.
Your Tumblr and YouTube are public, when you trash people who you live with, who loved you, trusted you, considered you a dear friend, and tried to help you out - they find out and they get really, really hurt by it.
Basically: You’re a really mean person. I hope it at least makes you feel better about yourself, but I doubt that.
I guess I’m a hypocrite stooping to your level like this but I can live with that, at least I know you’ll see it instead of saying it behind your back like a teenager.
Take a look in the mirror and take responsibility for yourself and your actions (or inaction) and stop blaming other people for your misery.
Or just take your own advice and move out already.
Yesterday, Sundowner (the mostly acoustic solo project of Chris McCaughan from The Lawrence Arms, but you probably already know that) announced that he was signing to Fat Wreck Chords to release his third album later this year. This is great news, because both Sundowner records to date have been pretty outstanding, but also troublesome, because sometimes his shit is just too real and makes me feel sad.
In fact, the last time I listened to Sundowner (barring yesterday when I was “researching” information to make this list) was when I was driving to the southern Chicago suburbs to pick up Amanda on my way home from Indiana and had a bunch of unspecific feelings and just needed a solid 20 minutes of reveling in them.
McCaughan has an unrivaled ability to write songs that perfectly encapsulate the boredom and frustration of being at once ambitious and aimless and having what seems like too much and too little time. In other words, with McCaughan using his almost David Foster Wallace-esque ability to articulate things that you always think about in the back of your mind, but don’t spend a whole lot of time actually reflecting on, because, well, they’re kind of sad. Match that up with some expertly employed minor chords, and you’ve got the secret ingredients for surfacing a lot of feelings.
That being said, here are the five saddest Sundowner songs, if you need to just take a moment in the middle of the week or something.
I love this stuff, Chris’ music is great.
