Being 8 Years Old Again

.

The Blue Angels are blazing over Seattle this weekend for Seafair.
I am just a tiny little bit excited.

Need:

Your Weekly Mr. Littlejeans

.

Flora and fauna of our apt

I Know About the Clubs and Drugs

.
On the occasion of today's release of the new Judd Apatow movie, Funny People, let's revisit this:



Also, don't miss this excellent Fresh Air interview with Apatow from last week, and this one with the great Eric Bana, who co-stars in Funny People. Trailer and other stuff here.
.

Time Passages

.
Olivier Zahm says the next issue of Purple Fashion magazine will feature a fold out poster of a Dash Snow collage.

Also, in case you missed it, there was a really interesting full-page piece on Dash in last Sunday's New York Times.

Benjamin Godsill, a curatorial associate at the New Museum, said Mr. Snow’s work “captures this period bracketed by the fall of the World Trade Center and the fall of the financial system.”

I would agree with that, and I guess it might have something to do with my interest in Dash Snow, since those were roughly the years we were in New York. Who knows. Anyway, it's a good article – the rest is here.

For a Day or a Lifetime

.

Mark Cohen Karate Stance, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1977

Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York has a new show of Mark Cohen's documentary-style photos of 1970s Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – click here to see more.

More info and a review at T.

What beer should President Obama serve at the White House tonight?

.
President Obama is hosting Police Seargent James Crowley and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at the White House this evening for some beers and discussion of just what the hell happened that night in Cambridge. From what I gather, the fuzz is drinking Blue Moon, Gates is drinking Red Stripe or Beck's, and President Obama is drinking Budweiser.

Really? I love Budweiser as much as the next guy (or, um, the leader of the free world) but didn't Cindy McCain just sell Bud to the Netherlands or something? Nothing against foreign beers (which all of the others are), and I get that this is more about healing race relations than beer, which is important and everything – but this could be a significant teachable moment for the nation on the merits of craft brewing, and Obama is really blowing it. He should be the one to decide on the beer they'll drink, it should be a researched decision, and they should all drink the same thing.

So what should they drink? Sam Adams would be a logical choice since it's from Boston, but it's totally boring; no disrespect to the greater Northeast brewing community, which is second only to the West, but there aren't any other stand-out beers specifically from Boston that come to mind. Yuengling would be another choice since its the country's oldest beer, but it's a little Sam Adams-ish.

I would vote for Brooklyn Lager, for the following reasons:

1. Brooklyn is a historic capital of beer production in the Northeast.
2. Brooklyn's brewery is wind-powered.
3. Brooklyn's founders are white, its brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, is black, and throughout its history the company has been a model of racial harmony.
4. Legendary American graphic artist Milton Glaser designed the logo, above.
5. Brooklyn Lager is delicious – it's actually more like an ale, but it's light enough for summer. If the lager doesn't suit Obama and his drinking buddies, Brooklyn offers a wide selection of other beers, and is constantly experimenting with small batches. Maybe a little sampler is in order.

So what do you think they should drink?

...
Update: I didn't realize when I wrote this that a lot of people were talking about it already. There's some interesting analysis to be found at The Pour (Eric Asimov's New York Times blog on wine, beer, and spirits), and Dan Savage posted about it on SLOG. It is a little ridiculous, but as I commented there, it is an issue worthy of some discussion, because Obama choosing Bud Light is kind of the same move as inviting someone to the White House and choosing to eat McDonald's. I do both of those things from time to time (drink Bud Light, eat at McDonalds's – both are delicious) but I'm not proud of either and I don't think it's the message he should be sending.

Hot Blooded

.
Check it and see:

Water No Get Enemy

.

Photography by the great Jamel Shabazz

Hike up your skirt, Seattle – it's time to get those fire hydrants open.

A cut to cool you down:



Fela Kuti "Water No Get Enemy"

Really Really Ridiculously Hot in the City

.
Thanks to everyone who braved the heat and came down to Rob Roy last night for Quarterly Disorderly no.1 – it was good times. Look for details on the next one in approximately ninety days.

I now return you to...melting your ass off on what is shaping up to be the hottest day ever recorded in Seattle WA.

.

Hot in the City

.
Tonight:
Rob Roy
2nd & Battery in Belltown, Seattle
6pm onward
No cover
Great tunes
Extremely rusty yet stylish DJing
Delicious beverages
Goldfish

[more info ]

My Mama Told Me Son

.


[via LineOut]

House Painting

.

Steve Keister and Jill Levine's place

Our good friend Bella Foster, an artist I've mentioned in previous posts, has a new blog project this summer: Here There and Them features her "paintings of other people's stuff," and offers a refreshing take on the endless images of apartments and living spaces to be found across the web.

Lady Diana Cooper's Night Stand

Click here for more.

"Instead of Saying 'That's Impossible,' You Try It Out"

.
Rest In Peace, Merce Cunningham.

"Mercier Philip Cunningham was born on April 16, 1919 in Centralia, Wash., the third of four children of Clifford Cunningham, a lawyer, and the former Mayme Joach." Above, Merce Cunningham in "Antic Meet," with design by Robert Rauschenberg, in 1958. Photo: Richard Rutledge/NYT.

Clive Barnes, reviewing the Cunningham company’s 1964 London season, wrote: “Mr. Cunningham is an iconoclast and is welcome in an art that has always suffered from a surfeit of icons and a deficiency of iconoclasts. In performances, night after night for a week, it becomes clear that, as with John Cage and even Robert Rauschenberg, Mr. Cunningham’s importance may primarily be as a propagandist and stimulant.” Above, Mr. Cage, left, Mr. Cunningham, center, and Mr. Rauschenberg in London in 1964. Photo: Douglas H. Jeffrey/The John Cage Trust/NYT.

Much more at The New York Times.

What Do You Want

.

Paul Alexander Thornton / Aiyana Udesen

A few images from the very short but nicely curated large-format local zine I Want You.

Sätty (Wilfried Podriech) / Nina Chakrabarti

Pick it up gratis, while supplies last, at Wall of Sound and Pilot Books.

Cover by Christian Petersen

More info and images here.

Hey Nerd,

.
Already burned through your summer reading list, nerd? Fear not:

100 Years of Design Manifestos eagerly await your attention.
Click here, nerd.

[via swissmiss]

Girls on Film

.
Another Girls video in lieu of photos from Block Party. My camera is just too big – the people at the gate told me it was "professional."
I think we all know better.



Their show was great, I had been looking forward to it for a long time and was totally satisfied. I'm not gonna say it was the best show I saw – there were so many stand-outs Friday night, I can't choose an overall favorite – but it was the best show I saw on Saturday, and their style felt like it complimented my somewhat toasted state of mind by the middle of day two. Already looking forward to next year.

I Got A Lot

.
I didn't realize they wouldn't let me bring me camera into Block Party, so sadly I don't have any photos to share from what was a truly nutso first night. Earth, The Live!, Black Lips, Past Lives, Deerhunter, Built to Spill – all outstanding. Mika Miko was a perfect end:



On deck for this afternoon and evening: Pica Beats, Pela, Thermals, The Gossip, Sonic Youth, the aforementioned Girls, and The Pains of Being Pure At Heart:

Street Flash

.

Viviana Volpicella, assistant to Vogue Nippon fashion director Anna Dello Russo, who has two apartments – one for her, and one for her clothes. Street fashion photography by Garance Doré

Half the time the street fashion sites drive me a little nuts – why do I look at them all the time? Is it really street fashion if half the time you're just waiting outside shows, photographing editors? who cares? – but I had to post this shot, from Garance Doré. Color as explosive as this transcends everything and is worth noting in and of itself. Anyone could wear that outfit and hold that bag and it would look tremendous. Click to enlarge.

Gonzo

.

Hunter S. Thompson Self Portrait, On the Road to Tijuana, 1960s

I just ran across these photos by Hunter S. Thompson from a past exhibition at M+B.

Hunter S. Thompson Hell's Angels, Traffic Stop, 1960s

Hunter S. Thompson Sandy and Agar II, Big Sur, California 1961

Hunter S. Thompson Self Portrait, Typing, Big Sur 1961

More here

Your Weekly Mr. Littlejeans

.
Scrappin' and mixin' it up,
loving every damn minute with this crew.

Is he a fighter?

Yes, he's a fighter.

Well then that's the best we've got.

Lights out old man.

Them's the rules.