even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

yeah that one looks a lot more lived-in and less forced but still really fucking nice. Would rather live in that one.

mike d's apartment is kinda cheesy in a sort of uncool way, but that's cool. I feel like actual cool artist types have apartments that sorta look 'accidentally' way cooler, but mike d is kind of a dude who wants to impress actually cool art types! is my take.

― chinavision!, Thursday, June 13, 2013 1:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah this was what sort of surprised me about it, like I didn't think of him as the dude that would want his apartment to look right out of a catalog but it really does.

mike d's place is kinda flailing

poor mike d :(

walking in that weiner place must feel like a hug. from a robot.

The 90s!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/fashion/the-night-comes-back-to-life-the-return-of-the-90s-dance-club.html?_r=0

mike d would be so hurt if he knew we were saying this about his apartment!
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his wife seemed kinda appalled by him too
also he described his home as vernacular?!
the bug cabinet is repulsive
i like the mirrored swinging shelf thing but it's totally opulent rich people thing -- it was in a palace!

i like the bug cabinet :)

i think i might like it in a museum more than my home

bug cabinets are so 2008.

Next Beastie Boys record needs to feature a couplet ending with "rhyme spectacular/style is vernacular"

whoa she directed Billy Madison, CB4 and Half Baked

Tamra Davis, onetime director of CB4, is now above shopping at CB2.

do you think they are auditioning the members of fun lovin' criminals for the vacant beastie slot?

a vision of a long hallway with members of house of pain, fun lovin' criminals, crazytown, young black teenagers waiting to audition...

I see a reality show coming out of this

i've seen ad rock perform live on bass a lot lately

I look at some of these chairs and think, "who would sit on you" /i work in a bank

Mike D is the one whose dad was an art dealer though, right? So I guess this isn't that shocking.

waiting to hear who made the final three on I Wanna Be A Beastie!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/484648_10152310133922137_1460812796_n.jpg

Tamra Davis did the awesome grunge-kids-making-out video for Sonic Youth...for um, Teenage Riot? yes?

omg you're right she did
list of her music videos

Depeche Mode - "But Not Tonight" (1986)
54-40 - "Baby Ran" (1986)
Faith No More - "Anne's Song" (1988)
The Bangles - "In Your Room" (1998)
Tone Lōc - "Wild Thing" (1988)
Indigo Girls - "Closer to Fine" (1989)
Beastie Boys - "Netty's Girl" (1989)
The D.O.C. - "It's Funky Enough" (1989)[4]
The D.O.C. - "The D.O.C. & The Doctor" (1989)
MC Lyte - "Cha Cha Cha" (1989)
Young MC - "Bust a Move" (1989)
Young MC - "Principal's Office" (1989)
Bette Midler - "From a Distance" (1990)
Sonic Youth - "Kool Thing" (1990)
Sonic Youth - "Dirty Boots" (1991)
Sonic Youth - "100%" (with Spike Jonze) (1992)
Luscious Jackson - "Daughter of the Chaos" (1993)
Cher (with Beavis & Butt-Head) - "I Got You, Babe" (1993)
The Lemonheads - "It's About Time" (1993)
The Lemonheads - "Big Gay Heart" (1994)
Sonic Youth - "Bull in the Heather" (1994)
Luscious Jackson - "City Song" (1994)
Veruca Salt - "All Hail Me" (1995)
Hanson - "MMMBop" (1997)
Hanson - "Where's the Love" (1997)
Tatyana Ali - "Boy, You Knock Me Out" (1998)
Luscious Jackson - "Ladyfingers" (1999)

only it was dirty boots you're thinking of?

Beastie Boys - "Netty's Girl" (1989)

sometimes this is my favorite Beastie Boys video

she directed the video for "wild thing"! she directed GUNCRAZY.

yes yes Dirty Boots, thank u LL!! my brain was confused

I look at some of these chairs and think, "who would sit on you"

+1. i can't stand impractical chairs, all conspicuous and incongruous, esp when they don't even have anything in front of them and are backed against a wall. people who plonk them in a space are like people who have to fill silence with empty talk.

also, that rajasthani swing is ridic

'here's where we stash the xmas tree 11 months out of the year' 'this is were we cram the kids uncool backpacks and the extra wheel-y suitcase we never use'

heh, my storage closet has an xmas tree, an uncool backpack, and a wheely suitcase.

Perhaps no article has more literally fit the title of this thread (other than the NYTimes part):

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-saudi-prince-forbes-20130607,0,2292701.story

A Saudi Arabian billionaire prince has sued Forbes magazine in London, accusing the publication of underestimating his wealth in its highly scrutinized annual list of the world's richest people.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal claims the magazine was "deliberately biased" when ranking him at a lowly 26th place in its 2013 tally of the super wealthy, according to court documents cited by the United Kingdom's Guardian newspaper.

The magazine pegged his net worth at $20 billion. The prince claims it is closer to $30 billion. The difference? About $9.6 billion, the Guardian reported.

its hard out here for a prince.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/nyregion/in-brooklyn-bill-lees-music-is-his-neighbors-headache

i'm sure EVERYONE will agree with me and there will be no ensuing conversation at all but i'm on the neighbor's side with this. being famous, having lived there a long time and claiming you have a "jazz house" is no excuse for being a shitty neighbor.

i was a shitty neighbor once years ago and i still feel really bad about it.

They took that page down or the link is broken or something, but I read that last week.

Torn, tbh. On one hand, I hate jazz. On the other hand, if people keep homogenizing everywhere they go, it'll be pretty boring.

you hate jazz?

You know I don't really like music that doesn't get to the point in a not-very-long straight line.

asking that people play music quietly enough that it doesn't bother the neighbors isn't homogenizing a building, it's common courtesy. I don't care if you're ornette coleman; rent a practice space like everyone does.

if i had the address of the woman who lived below me in philly years ago i would send a sorry card today. she was really nice. so embarrassed...

my brother in law lives in a very cloistered McMansion suburb outside Sac. He ended up building a soundproof practice room in their front room, because the first time the band even tried to practice the neighbor called the cops. In the middle of the afternoon!

I hate jazz too.

I had to call the cops for a noise complaint a few times (in high school my neighbors would leave for months at a time, leaving their 30-year old burnout son alone, he'd turn the bass up high enough at 2am that I could hear the vibration through my pillow). I hated to do it, but talking to him never did shit.

The magazine pegged his net worth at $20 billion. The prince claims it is closer to $30 billion. The difference? About $9.6 billion, the Guardian reported.

Is this really citing the Guardian for what 30-20=?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/fashion/manly-manicures-end-in-color.html

http://i.imgur.com/hfTn2UN.jpg

ANY dude i know who rocked that look would get laughed at

The magazine pegged his net worth at $20 billion. The prince claims it is closer to $30 billion. The difference? About $9.6 billion, the Guardian reported.

Is this really citing the Guardian for what 30-20=?

― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, June 15, 2013 5:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

i mean if you're signifying genderbending, cool but if this is a new metrosexual perk i am saying NO ONE in my circle would dream of doing this as a primping thing

even more quiddities and agonies of forks' circle

"more and more men are doing x" = "more and more advertising dollars are coming to us from company that makes x" probably

otm i used to have to read a lot of corporate news for work and there would be a new "more men are wearing makeup!" trend article every month

my circle may not be especially q or a but it's a broad range of types and professions.
i know lots of men who wear makeup and some who paint their nails but all of them are doing it because they like to crossdress not because it's the new fashion.