Desire For Tiger

The Real Katie West: How I Choose My Lovers

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:48:40 -0400

The Real Katie West: How I Choose My Lovers:

I find them on subways reading books I have on my list of Books To Read. I find them at bars dancing more enthusiastically than anyone else; even if they can’t really dance. I find them in line at the grocery store on a Friday night buying cookie dough, milk and that’s it. I find them in the…

giveuponline: Taking deep breaths is my new thing. I do it all...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:29:04 -0400

giveuponline:

Taking deep breaths is my new thing. I do it all the time. If I’m feeling like I want to steal a second for myself, I just pause and take in a deep breath. That moment you hold in your lungs, the one that slows is all down, and then that feeling of release, that’s what making these podcasts feels like to me. It’s a second where I feel like I get it. And then it’s on to the next one.

Louie S03E11
Paul McCartney & Wings - Jet
Thee Oh Sees - No Spell
Paws - Catherine 1956
Silver Jews - Night Society
9 to 5
The Babies - Alligator
The Monks - Hushie Pushie
Dizzee Reece - The Escape
Ruby Sparks
Jay Brannan - Soda Shop
Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way
The Beach Boys - Mamma Says
The Men - Open the Door
Charlyne Yi - Magic Perfume
Sharon Van Etten - Give Out
Silver Streak
Choir Of Downside School, Purley, Viola Tunnard, Benjamin Britten - Songs From Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: “Cuckoo!”
Action Bronson

jashnetwork: Michael Cera presents: Brazzaville Teen-Ager

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:58:58 -0400

jashnetwork:

Michael Cera presents: Brazzaville Teen-Ager

Video

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:58:15 -0400

G R I M E S: I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:10:34 -0400

G R I M E S: I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living :

actuallygrimes:

i dont want my words to be taken out of context

i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized

I’m not afraid of flying. Never have been. If anything,...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:24:08 -0400

I’m not afraid of flying. Never have been. If anything, I’m too fearless about flying. The idea makes me over-confident. When I walk onto a plane, I head straight towards the cockpit. “Pilot School? What’s that?” I’ll say, “I’m in 13B. Why don’t you head back there and take it easy. First drink’s on me. I’ll make sure we get to Dawson City, sure and steady.” And of course, instead of a pilot’s message to passengers, we’d play this podcast.

Jurassic Park
No Age - Miner
Cold Warps - Science Fiction
Speakeasy with Paul F. Tompkins - Nick Kroll
Elevator to Hell - Why I Didn’t Like August 93
Fair Ohs - Katasraj
Marnie Stern - Winktester (Year of the Glad Demo)
Buck 65 - Blood of a Young Wolf
My Mad Fat Diary S01E05
Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
Joni Mitchell - My Old Man
Rhye - Open
Jennifer Castle - Misguided
St. Vincent - We Put A Pearl In The Ground
Bored to Death S03E08

torontocomics: FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: TORONTO STRIP...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:38:12 -0400

torontocomics:

FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: TORONTO STRIP SHOW

We’re kicking off this year’s festival with a kick ass art show and we TOTALLY NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Opening May 1st, “TCAF presents the TORONTO STRIP SHOW” is a month-long gallery show and fundraiser hosted by the Steamwhistle Gallery featuring a decades’ worth of TCAF talent. Any artist who has exhibited at TCAF in our 10-year history is encouraged to participate. TCAF doesn’t fundraise often, so we’d appreciate if you’d help us out this one time.

The thematic link for the show can loosely be described as “Toronto / Comic / Arts / Festival”. We don’t want to limit your creativity as you interpret the festival, the city, and the medium, so interpret that as you will. Of course, we love comics, and submitted works that make use of the medium will be appreciated.

The deadline for submissions is April 22nd and must be delivered to The Beguiling Books and Art. For full details and to let us know if you want to participate, please email miles@torontocomics.com.

(Feel free to reblog this too ;)

wheelr.tumblr: Why I Write an AudioBook

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:52:52 -0400

wheelr.tumblr: Why I Write an AudioBook:

wheelr:

I write Valentin & The Widow, a 1920s pulp adventure serial in which a feisty young English widow and her burly gay Russian valet travel around the world dismantling her late husband’s evil and oppressive secret society. (Find it on iTunes, RSS, Tumblr.) It’s big, plotty, proudly…

giveuponline: Barring any last minute evidence, I think it’s...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:06:21 -0400

giveuponline:

Barring any last minute evidence, I think it’s safe to say that my imagination never left the realm of the possible. To this day, most of the time that I’ve spent spaced out was time spent theorizing conversations with people the people in my life, in places I’d been before, doing things that were reasonably within the real of possibility. Now, please don’t think about this as me having a boring mind. Clearly. What seems more likely is the idea that I’m really just trying to do everything right, and I could use the practice.

Enlightened S01E04
The Orwells - Lays at Rest
Turbo Fruits - Poptart
Balacade - California Frown
Burning Love S01E05
Smith Westerns - Boys are Fine
Hidden Words - Paradise of the Placeless
Bob’s Burgers S03E16
The Hidden Cameras - Hump for Bending
Depressive Reality
Women - Group Transport Hall
New Buffalo - It’ll Be Alright
Charlyne Yi - Reincarnation
Here’s the Thing, “Lena Dunham”
Joanna Newsom - On a Bad Day
Stuart Warwick - Man with a Pussy
Save the Date
Lady Lazarus - Lapsarian

"I enjoy the variations that can come with having a tape and listening to it in different machines...."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:49:59 -0400

““I enjoy the variations that can come with having a tape and listening to it in different machines. The idea that music should always sound the same, that once something is recorded, that’s it, that’s the be all and end all of that recording and it will never sound different – that’s kind of boring to me,””

- The Ontarion - Cassettestival 3: Cassette culture revival

Preparing Give Up Spring 2013 mail out. These are free. They can...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:43:46 -0500

Preparing Give Up Spring 2013 mail out. These are free. They can be sent anywhere in the world. Let me know if you’d like one. andrewt.press@gmail.com

You Are Boring

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:58:19 -0500

yourmonkeycalled:

Here’s the full text of a piece I wrote for The Magazine a few months ago. I really enjoyed writing it, and would like to thank Marco once again for publishing it there. If you haven’t checked out The Magazine yet, you should. Anyway, here’s why you’re a total snooze:

Everything was going great until you showed up. You see me across the crowded room, make your way over, and start talking at me. And you don’t stop.

You are a Democrat, an outspoken atheist, and a foodie. You like to say “Science!” in a weird, self-congratulatory way. You wear jeans during the day, and fancy jeans at night. You listen to music featuring wispy lady vocals and electronic bloop-bloops.

You really like coffee, except for Starbucks, which is the worst. No wait—Coke is the worst! Unless it’s Mexican Coke, in which case it’s the best.

Pixar. Kitty cats. Uniqlo. Bourbon. Steel-cut oats. Comic books. Obama. Fancy burgers.

You listen to the same five podcasts and read the same seven blogs as all your pals. You stay up late on Twitter making hashtagged jokes about the event that everyone has decided will be the event about which everyone jokes today. You love to send withering @ messages to people like Rush Limbaugh—of course, those notes are not meant for their ostensible recipients, but for your friends, who will chuckle and retweet your savage wit.

You are boring. So, so boring.

Don’t take it too hard. We’re all boring. At best, we’re recovering bores. Each day offers a hundred ways for us to bore the crap out of the folks with whom we live, work, and drink. And on the internet, you’re able to bore thousands of people at once.¹

A few years ago, I had a job that involved listening to a ton of podcasts. It’s possible that I’ve heard more podcasts than anyone else—I listened to at least a little bit of tens of thousands of shows. Of course, the vast majority were so bad I’d often wish microphones could be sold only to licensed users. But I did learn how to tell very quickly whether someone was interesting or not.

The people who were interesting told good stories. They were also inquisitive: willing to work to expand their social and intellectual range. Most important, interesting people were also the best listeners. They knew when to ask questions. This was the set of people whose shows I would subscribe to, whose writing I would seek out, and whose friendship I would crave. In other words, those people were the opposite of boring.

Here are the three things they taught me.

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torontocomics: TCAF 2013 Poster by Taiyo Matsumoto. Lettering...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:22:05 -0500

torontocomics:

TCAF 2013 Poster by Taiyo Matsumoto. Lettering by Michael DeForge.

torontocomics: TCAF 10th Anniversary Poster, by Maurice...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:21:56 -0500

torontocomics:

TCAF 10th Anniversary Poster, by Maurice Vellekoop.

giveuponline: I sat alone in the 2 Cup. Fall Out Boy played...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:27:04 -0500

giveuponline:

I sat alone in the 2 Cup. Fall Out Boy played through my headphones. As I read about the rising STIs rates in Toronto, while I waited for my hot apple cider to become less hot, a single question cut through my moment. “Is travelling inherently selfish?” Probably. It’s is hardly selfless, that’s for sure.

By the time most of you read this, I will have breathed foreign air.

Ghostbusters
Iceage - In Haze
The Bitters - Nails in the Coffin
Sleater-Kinney - End of You
Girls S02E01
The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You
The Go! Team - I Never Need It Now So Much
David Letterman featuring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein
Coasting - Pirates Cove
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Kindness Be Conceived
The Velvet Underground - After Hours
Bunheads S01E14
Andre Ethier - Now I Wanna Be Your Dad
Samantha Savage Smith - Devilman
Yo La Tengo - I’ll Be Around

"I’m a storyteller with a small creator-owned comic trying to build a readership from scratch...."

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:25:52 -0500

“I’m a storyteller with a small creator-owned comic trying to build a readership from scratch. There’s absolutely no reason for me to narrow the delivery model for my story. The more channels I can make my content available through, the better.”

- Zub Tales | The home of Jim Zub on the web

giveuponline: It’s a good thing that I didn’t spend more time...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:17:50 -0500

giveuponline:

It’s a good thing that I didn’t spend more time falling in love with all the ways people describe drowning. If I had, I’d be spending moments like this, moments where I have too much to do and say, filling my pockets with rocks and taking showers with all my clothes on, I’d draw portraits of myself in black ink being pulled under into the deep end, I’d say “Who wants to do a beach day? Beach day?” whenever a thunderstorm was on the horizon.

As it is, I read Steve Martin novels and listened to The Unicorns. I’ll figure it out.

GIVE UP JANUARY

Children’s Hospital - S02E12
Andrew W.K. - I Was Born to Love You
Magneta Lane - Lady Bones
Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time
Arrested Development - S02E13
Cold Pumas - Fog Cutter
Bodies of Water - Here Comes My Hand
Step Brothers
Sunset Rubdown - Swimming
Why? - The Fall of Mr. Fifths
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway
Lightning Dust - Listened On
Rock Plaza Central - I Hope You Live Long
Silver Linings Playbook
Waxahatchee - American Weekend
Parenthood - S04E06

"Read it and I think you’ll agree that it’s a stunningly ignorant piece of writing. A..."

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:42:19 -0500

“Read it and I think you’ll agree that it’s a stunningly ignorant piece of writing. A proud declaration of ignorance. An ignorance manifesto.”

- Globe and Mail runs loony screed against “hackers”, Aaron Swartz, logic - Boing Boing

"Hello, science! It’s the next Frankenstein’s monster jam in the Brooklyn hipster culture..."

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:21:23 -0500

“Hello, science! It’s the next Frankenstein’s monster jam in the Brooklyn hipster culture secretly dominates Billboard meme. But instead of going on their Grizzly, Paramore dig a little deeper into the muck for reference points about a half-decade off of everyone else’s reference points. Ergo, “Now” is not even the sound of now’s then. It’s wannabe art-stars doing their best Yeah Yeah Yeahs and young Liars, down to the blown-out “Date With the Night” vocal effects and Threw Us In A Trench aggy-disco beat courtesy of the hired Nine Inch Nails dude. Catchy stuff, but early-’00s swagger-jacking already sounds super dated in the wake of, say, labelmates fun., who are currently making pop mincemeat of more contemporary bands. And also, Ashlee Simpson was doing the “post-punk verse/American Idol chorus” thing back in 2005, and, uh, Nine Inch Nails was too. Paramore clearly wants to go wild, let loose, thrash for the future, play feedback for the no-future, be their own pet. But if Metallica is up on Liturgy, can’t someone get Paramore a the Men record or something?”

- Christopher R. Weingarten on Paramore’s New Single ‘Now’

I’m always mystified at how this man uses words to describe music.

retrofitcomics: I asked my two favorite web comic artists KC...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:14:42 -0500

retrofitcomics:

I asked my two favorite web comic artists KC Green and Nedroid to discuss comics for #comicsdope . These are comics professionals of the highest order and this discussion again raises the bar for the art form. Let us continue their mission.

#comicsdope