dem bones

-- from a nameless yeast

the McMillan Reservoir Sand Filtration Site, a DC historical landmark. Come for the water, stay for the sand.

interdit! pour Ricky Martin

interdit! pour Ricky Martin
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every picture tells a story

every picture tells a story
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thataway

thataway
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"let's quit our jobs and find a farmer's market and buy some peaches"

"let's quit our jobs and find a farmer's market and buy some peaches"
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Jakuta and Carl opened up for The Picture is Dead last night at DC9. Jakuta is kind of an avant-garde new wave lounge singer performance artist, and Carl is his laptop. He opened up his set sitting at the edge of the stage crying into his hands muttering over and over, "God help us all," although at first I thought he was saying, "Gotta have a song". Maybe we're both right. He seems like a smooth guy when you meet him but for his act he plays at some stew of awkward foreign mentally challenged person without rhythm or tune. His songs are about feelings - "exploding hearts" is one title - and he's a welcome antidote to 21st century hipster irony - emotion is masked through layers of irony of course - "ineptitude", "gq style," (shades of Andy Kaufman) but his sincerity shows despite the act, or the act is a way for him to comfortable express sincerity in an ironic hipster world. Fascinating and likeable, at least for those audiences members who didn't walk out in befuddlement. Poor things.

" I did. They had so much fun, today I'm taking them to the beach!"

" I did. They had so much fun, today I'm taking them to the beach!"
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empty room

empty room
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This message is to inform you that THE PICTURE IS DEAD will be performing at DC9 on Wednesday the 25th of January at 9 PM.

The cover charge is $7.

The band members are BRYAN CORNELL, SAM SERAFY, PATRICK TIMONY, and JAMES WOLF.

To hear what we sound like, visit www.pictureisdead.com or www.myspace.com/thepictureisdead.

The band will play along with projected images by PAT PADUA.

Joining us will be the bands SPANORB (aka DJ Panic) and JAKUTA AND CARL.


DC9
1940 9th Street, NW, (9th & Florida)
Washington, DC
www.dcnine.com

eighth avenue, new york

eighth avenue, new york
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ghosts of the quality food people

ghosts of the quality food people
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the terrible boredom of paradise

photos by derek henderson.
via conscientious

51% U.S. Grant, 52% Britney Spears, 100% Yeast

the glamorous life w/a nameless yeast
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I was desperate for lip balm one evening and all my friend had was Burt's Bees lip gloss (pimped here).

So I ran this through the beta face recognition software at my heritage, which matches you up against a database of 2400 celebrities (not sure if Henny Youngman is among them). Among the matches this picture got me:

Naomi Watts - 62%
Wole Soyinka (?) - 61%
Britney Spears - 52%
MalcolmMacDowell - 52%
Ulysees S. Grant - 51%
Tennessee Williams - 50%

results have varied even on the same pic, so it must be learning - last night the top two celebs were reversed, and Madonna clocked in right between US Grant and Tennessee Williams. I'm relieved to know i have not yet lost my Britneyesque charm.

endless sleep and sizzle

endless sleep and sizzle
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little prayer mission

little prayer mission
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open

open
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carry-out

carry-out
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angie's new leaf

angie's new leaf
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come on come on to my house we're gonna slash our stomachs becase we're ashamed

Iggy Pop with Dinah Shore and Rosemary Clooney.
Click on them for a clip, and feel alright!

-- from a nameless yeast

eros and thanatos

slightly south of the border

slightly south of the border
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the agony of defeat

the agony of defeat
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I am haunted by a persistent memory from my childhood: the spectre of Dan Haggerty on the Battle of the Network Stars. He was heroic on the tug-of-war fields, gamely biting his lip in a passion germane to the era and long lost in this age of irony; but alas, he met his match in the form of that infernal technological monstrosity: the pinball machine. Howard Cosell offered instant exegesis as Haggerty stared up at the inhuman beast: the mountain man, blessed of human strength and Emersonian self-reliance, was felled by modernity. And that's the story of the Unabomber.

darkness and doubt

darkness and doubt
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why my photographs are bad. 1. placing a picture

A book called "Why my photographs are good" moved me to seek out it's inspiration, this guide to better photographs. Naturally, most if not all of the rules of good photography as set forth in 1902 have been broken freely and for deliberate aesthetic effect in the subsequent century and change.

memphis

memphis
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