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What did you want to see
What did you want
To be when you grew up
(repeat)

Aaaaah aah

To go away and not look back
And think of what the others say
To go ahead and change your life
Without regard to what they said
And everyone must do the same
You find yourself must again
The better things you left behind
But looking back you may go blind

instrumental break

What did you want to see
What did you want
to be when you grew up
(repeat)

To go away and not look back
And think of what the others say
To go ahead and change your life
Without regard to what they said
And everyone must do the same
You find yourself must again
The better things you left behind
But looking back you may go blind

What did you want to see
What did you want
to be when you grew up
(repeat)

visual acoustics

art:21

a new season of art:21 is coming and looks like they will have some excellent artists featured.

florian maier-aichen will be in the episode “fantasy ” airing october 14th, along with cao fei, mary heilmann, & jeff koons.

(i am somewhat in love with his photographs at this moment…)

“…they’re new york flowers…”

fight

india ink on paper 9″ x 12″ 2009, timothy b. buckwalter

love letter

steve powers (aka ESPO) along with 40 local and international graffiti artists and in conjunction with the philadelphia mural arts program has been working on a project putting up murals along the market street el between 63rd & 45th streets. i have been following his progress through zoe strauss’s flickr account as well as the love letters blog. to say this project is beautiful and inspiring would be an understatement.

all photographs © 2009 zoe strauss

apologies

many apologies for my lack of posting on this blog. things have been a bit crazy & life changing, which i will post about in the near future, but also i havent had any internet at my apartment. (which ironically the day after i splurge on buying my own internet service, the free internet i was stealing finally shows up again. wtf?!)

i should be all set to resume posting from now on. and i will begin with this…

the week of september 30-october 6th the film forum in NYC will be showing a film called “an american journey” by philippe seclier. in which the filmmaker travels through the same towns  robert frank did while making his groundbreaking and hugely influential book the americans.

the trailers online look pretty interesting and along with this film they are showing a short film “in the street” that helen levitt, janice loeb & james agee made in 1948.

space

tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the man’s first moon landing. there has been some really excellent reading material both online and in print and i feel like i a kid in a candy store. (as you may remember some of my pasts posts, here and here (scroll down), about my love of all things outerspace)

if you have a chance i would pick up a copy of the new GQ (with bruno on the cover) while you may feel weird walking around with a naked sacha baren cohen on the cover, there is an excellent article about the future of nasa and it’s return to the moon. there are some amazing photographas by robert polidori which look much better in print than online.

the stennis space center’s B-stand © robert polidori/GQ

the current issue of time also has some excellent conversations with the men who walked on the moon and took part in the apollo missions.

here is an nytimes op-ed by tom wolfe (author of the right stuff)

and a great blog piece about ‘for all mankind’ and space and music on moviemorlocks…

(the coolest mixtape of all time??)

how could you not be mesmerized by this stuff:

so good

the purple rose of cairo 1985, written and directed by woody allen

we’ve already said so long