The Cabinettes Live at the Silent Barn
Entries from July 2008
Presenting…
July 28th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Created · Music · Silent Barn · The Cabinettes · The Kitchen Cabinet
Recently Discovered
July 27th, 2008 No Comments
Haribo is not Japanese
Yes, Vampire Weekend and Wes Anderson use the same font
Charles Darwin may or may not have done drugs, but his great-great-grandson did
EDIT:
michael: ash’s new blog post = rob stenson facts of the weekend
Admittedly, all this information was gleaned during the Cabinettes’ grand excursion to Sayville, N.Y., mostly by Rob navigating the [...]
Tags: Charles Darwin · Futura · Haribo · Learned · Typefaces · Vampire Weekend · Wes Anderson · Wikipedia
It’s the “I Have a Master’s But Then I Got Married” Look
July 25th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Comedy · Learned · Sarah Haskins · Target Women · Yogurt
Joining the Legions of Cool
July 22nd, 2008 1 Comment
http://ashraya.muxtape.com/
Boy, am I tired.
Tags: Created · Legions of Cool · Mixtape · Music · Muxtape
From Appropriation to Exceptionalism
July 20th, 2008 No Comments
I’ve been watching a lot of Law & Order.
But I have also been reading.
Books I’ve Read Since Summer ‘08 Reached Its Murky Middle Month:
Jules Feiffer, Harry, The Rat With Women
Location: The 1 Local, mostly.
Dates: June 30th - July 1st
Comments: The guy who did the illustrations for The Phantom Tollbooth wrote a book? Really? From 1963. [...]
Tags: Appropriation · Claire Messud · Exceptionalism · Jules Feiffer · Learned · Literature · Milan Kundera · NY Times · Reading
All Things Forgotten, Vol 3: Frank Wilson
July 18th, 2008 2 Comments
Perhaps one of the less-forgotten of all things forgotten, seeing as Frank Wilson was (a) one of Motown’s most successful producers and songwriters, and (b) the man behind possibly the most valuable 45 in existence.
The guy wrote “Love Child” and “Nathan Jones” for the Supremes—the two singles that largely brought them their second wave of [...]
Tags: America · Appropriation · Daptone · England · Forgotten · Frank Wilson · Funk · Motown · Northern Soul · Soul
Cognitive Dissonance Off-Campus
July 17th, 2008 No Comments
Remember when this happened?
We’re at it again:
The Kitchen Cabinet presents: The Cabinettes Live at the Silent Barn
Monday, July 21st. Doors: 7 pm. Show: 8 pm. 915 Wyckoff Avenue.
With: Dreaming Kids, Data Dog, and Megafaun
Also, another All Things Forgotten coming soon. It’s tangentially related to this:
Well, sort of.
Tags: Created · Music · The Kitchen Cabinet
I Recently Read Every Short Story I’ve Ever Written
July 3rd, 2008 2 Comments
And they are all actually the same story.
Teas’ Tea
July 2nd, 2008 No Comments
Official Sponsor of Summer ‘08
Almost speaking of Asia and sponsors—this reminds me! OLYMPICS.
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