we have abandoned all resolution


you said, this will be a better year. make a little money, take a lot of shit. feel real bad then get over it.

harlem shakes - strictly game
harlem shakes - tfo
harlem shakes - a night
(harlem shakes sxsw daytrotter session)

photo: marla warner

all the arms around you now


someone had a party downtown and i knew the crowd. and everyone was strange, looking sideways at my funny sounds. so I toasted to the weekend and i drank a little more than i should. so i said a few things, i got sick like i knew i would. oh brother, lay a hand on me. i haven’t been in a fight in years.

arms - shitty little disco
(more arms.)

but it didn't

i've always liked the way that the 1999 version of mansfield park ends. as director patricia rozema explains,

"I had written these tableaus at the end of the film in which everyone in the scene would suddenly become still, slip into reverie, stare off into the middle distance at exactly the same moment, and then, altogether, slip back into the day-to-day. When I wrote those moments in, I knew I'd never be able to explain exactly what they meant...[but it felt] like a filmic way to do what Austen was doing in the book."

it's a neat effect. a second of considering what might have been, how things could have gone, but didn't. a brief wide-angle view. and here in the big smoke where the days are stretching out like afternoon shadows, it's hard not to think about the things that have and haven't changed since the last time round. for a moment the music stops, the characters go still, and the narrator says, "it could have all turned out so differently i suppose. but it didn't."

sweet for your heel


kiss your mouth to shut you up.

red red meat - gauze

photo: piers morgan