Lost in Translation: Bunch of Crack

Dad:	So I have a question for you about an English phrase.
Me:	Yeah?
Dad:	The other day, someone called my department a "bunch of crack"
Me:	Crack?
Dad:	So they think we're drug addicts right?
Me:	Haha, "quack" not "crack" -- it's ok, they just think you're crazy.

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A toast — Happy Holidays!

(via thatkindofwoman)

"That generation has bred a new rock concerned only with now, not with nostalgia. It provides marches for their protest, lullabies for their dreams, ballads for their girls, and, most of all, anthems to their freedom. It is the first music born in the age of instant communication. And it is the most popular music of all time. Outliving big beat’s thump thump, the new rock is an eclectic cornucopia. You never know what will pour out of it next—rhythm & blues, folk, jazz, country & western, even the eerie synthesized squeals of Stockhausen. The harmonics of today make the rock n’ roll of the early 1950’s sound as if they were Neanderthals working it out on hollow trees."

Robin Richman, LIFE “The New Rock” June 28, 1968

"The more I look at graphics of prunes the more they look like testicles. I wonder if other ppl feel the same. Gotta find a different job."

Shit my best friend says

"Take French lessons, go swimming a lot, buy Langston Hughes books, get high, hire a girl once a week to take care of your clothes (sew, clean, organize closets), find a psychiatrist, a Spanish babysitter, take dancing, find shoemaker, write Hazel Scott, find yellow pills, buy books a friend told me about, stop abusing Andrew."

Nina Simone, from a list made to herself (written on Air France letterhead), 1965

[taken from the July/August issue of The Believer]

(via camplittlewolf)

(via sarahb)

love my best friend

Email forwarded from her BlackBerry:

Subject: Maria’s Toes

Trying to remember how drunk/crazy I was when I did this :)

Left foot: smallest to big
Sally
Suzanne
Samantha
Sandra
Shavanra

Right foot:
Molly
Magdalena
Madeline
Mindy
Miranda

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Makes my day. Live jazz at glen park bookstore.

The epitome of our personalities

Kim:	(Tries to hail a cab after a night out, unsuccessful. A limo stops in front of us.)
Me:	We live less than a mile away! We CANNOT take a limo home.
Kim:	(Opens door) Ok guys! Hop in!

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