Another chance to turn it all around.
"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around." Vanilla Sky
Woman, writer, editor, geek, redhead, new yorker, brooklynite, consummate culture consumer and critic. I'm T of T-Sides. You can also find me on Popdose and Bullz-Eye.
If all you're looking for are cool links, check out my Google Reader page.
Give me what you've got: taylorlong at gmail dot com.
Woman, writer, editor, geek, redhead, new yorker, brooklynite, consummate culture consumer and critic. I'm T of T-Sides. You can also find me on Popdose and Bullz-Eye.
If all you're looking for are cool links, check out my Google Reader page.
Give me what you've got: taylorlong at gmail dot com.
Jul 15
Jul 14
Dear Two Gallants,
Come back to the East Coast. I miss you.
Jul 13
Anna, Mita & I at Battery Park this weekend.
Fleet Foxes performing “Mykonos” at Bowery Ballroom on July 9th.
You might try going to the YouTube page and viewing it in high quality. It makes a pretty big difference.
Someone posted one of my other videos and said the sound quality was bad, but I think it’s pretty good.
Reminder that Life is AWESOME
Things I’m doing within the next week:
Seeing Billy Joel @ Shea Stadium (gratis!)
Seeing Deerhoof play Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” (one of my favorite pieces of music) at Prospect Park (gratis!)
Seeing The Dark Knight on IMAX
Going to Siren Fest (gratis!) where I’ll see Broken Social Scene, Helio Sequence, Beach House, The Dodos and maybe some of those other bands
Going to see Apes & Androids (time for them to prove it to me) and A Place to Bury Strangers
Oh, New York.
Jul 12
I feel stuck. Very, very stuck.
Jul 11
This is kind of hilarious.
“Look, I’m beating the bull!”
“…but you’re on an ATV.”
“So?!”
Jul 10
In honor of Sexson being dropped from the Mariners, I bring you this fan video: “I Want Ritchie Sexson Gone” - set to the tune of “Sexyback.”
RIP “Big Sexy” (what I called him back when he was good)
Re: Tonight's Fleet Foxes Show
- Me: FOXXY FLEET
- That's what I'm going to call them
- Mita: omg yes!
Jul 09
For Once, Taylor, You Are Actually Wise At 5 AM
Note to self:
Stop staying up until 5AM, even when you have the excuse that you’re in the middle of writing something. You need to stop procrastinating and learn how to bite the bullet so you can get shit done in a timely fashion. Nothing you’re doing in the act of procrastinating (looking at old pictures, checking tumblr, reading other blogs, being nervous about job stuff…) is something you can’t do tomorrow. After you’ve finished writing and you’ve SLEPT.
Please keep this in mind tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that, and the day after that, and so on and so forth.
Jul 08
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Pattern is Movement, “Sound of Your Voice”
Listen to this. It is wonderful.
» Popdose: Top of the First
The Popdose staff selects our five favorite albums of the year thus far. If I were to write that list today, I’d probably include Wolf Parade in there somewhere and bump Thao Nguyen down, but ah well.
Jul 07
Dengue Fever @ SummerStage (edited - click through to see original)
For quite some time, I’ve been very against processing my photos. I know it’s basically the norm for many a photographer, but there’s an aspect of it that really irks me. Mostly it all relates to how “good” photography is moving less towards the older standards (one’s eye, when shooting, one’s technique, when printing) and more towards who has the money to spend on a fancy camera and who’s good at playing with photoshop. With photography, I’m something of a traditionalist. I still prefer to use 35mm (not so much for parties, etc., but if I’m shooting anything I might consider “art”) and I almost never process my photos (except those I scan, and even then, usually only for contrast). I like how organic the original process is. Light to film, light to paper, paper to chemicals, paper to water. I’m slowly warming up to the idea of processing, because it’s clear that a few slight adjustments do drastically improve pictures, and there’s no sense leaving myself in the dust, but it sill kind of feels like cheating.
Jul 06
Apparently I may or may not have appeared on the JetBlue televisions recently. You know how they air specials from the Times Talks series? Well, I went to the Feist one, and was one of the question-askers. If anyone has flown on JetBlue lately and watched this, please get in touch.
Jul 04