Glynnis Ritchie

“For Your Love” - The Yardbirds

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:59:22 -0400

“For Your Love” - The Yardbirds

"It was the custom in those days for passengers leaving for America to bring balls of yarn on deck. ..."

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:55:20 -0400

“It was the custom in those days for passengers leaving for America to bring balls of yarn on deck. Relatives on the pier held the loose ends. As the Giulia blew its horn and moved away from the dock, a few hundred strings of yarn stretched across the water. People shouted farewells, waved furiously, held up babies for last looks they wouldn’t remember. Propellers churned; handkerchiefs fluttered, and, up on deck, the balls of yarn began to spin. Red, yellow, blue, green, they untangled toward the pier, slowly at first, one revolution every ten seconds, then faster and faster as the boat picked up speed. Passengers held the yarn as long as possible, maintaining the connection to the faces disappearing onshore. But finally, one by one, the balls ran out. The strings of yarn flew free, rising on the breeze.”

- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, page 64 (paperback edition)

NC-#06 (via Uncle Shoe)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:57:55 -0400

NC-#06 (via Uncle Shoe)

Apple - Movie Trailers - Cold Souls

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:06:00 -0400

Apple - Movie Trailers - Cold Souls:

As kottke says, “Cold Souls = Being John Malkovich - John Malkovich + Paul Giamatti. Sort of.”

Also, is anyone else obsessed with Lauren Ambrose? I think she’s wonderful, although that is a lot of Six Feet Under talking. Apparently she’s doing some voice work for Where the Wild Things Are, and is a trained opera singer to boot.

Arrested Development Documentary: Final Trailer - Updated (via...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:51:07 -0400

Arrested Development Documentary: Final Trailer - Updated (via kottke)

For any Arrested Development fans out there. It’s time for me to rewatch it.

Double Feature Finder

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:28:05 -0400

Double Feature Finder:

iamachilles:

For those who are unemployed and are looking to kill some time during the day, here is something extremely useful: Double Feature Finder, a website that shows you when movies are scheduled back-to-back at your local theater, so you can sneak into them.

(via charlietodd)

Yes, please! Hope I get a chance to use this soon.

Pretty Cool People Interviews: Miranda July (via beitelblog) I...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:23:20 -0400

Pretty Cool People Interviews: Miranda July (via beitelblog)

I enjoyed this video of Miranda July speaking about her collaborative art projects. I especially love what she says about the internet — about how seeing a photo of someone’s face or reading about their hobbies doesn’t really communicate much.

“Washington, D.C., circa 1915. “Birth of the...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:12:12 -0400

“Washington, D.C., circa 1915. “Birth of the American flag.” View full size.”

Happy fireworks and pie, y’all.

(via shorpy)

(via From Betsy With Love)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:48:57 -0400

(via From Betsy With Love)

annfran: really, woody allen? really? Indeed.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:43:20 -0400

annfran:

really, woody allen? really?

Indeed.

Toothpaste for Dinner on April 28th. (via gregbrown)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:12:33 -0400

Toothpaste for Dinner on April 28th.

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(via gregbrown & Zoe) Yep.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:49 -0400

(via gregbrown & Zoe)

Yep.

Glastonbury 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com “Revellers...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:48:00 -0400

Glastonbury 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com

“Revellers gather near the Stone Circle in the early hours of the second day of the annual Glastonbury festival near Glastonbury, Somerset on June 27, 2009. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)”

Baise m’encore - a sonnet by Louise Labé interpreted by...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:43:17 -0400

Baise m’encore - a sonnet by Louise Labé interpreted by Nataly Dawn (via natalydawn)

So, no secrets here. I’m a sucker for moody, sexy French ditties.

Le Commun des Mortels (via PomplamooseMusic) AAAAAAAAAND she has...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:36:17 -0400

Le Commun des Mortels (via PomplamooseMusic)

AAAAAAAAAND she has a master’s in French lit.

(via latenightinawaxmuseum) 1. Pomplamoose is cute. I like...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:20:00 -0400

(via latenightinawaxmuseum)

1. Pomplamoose is cute. I like Nataly’s hair, her beauty mark, her cute singing voice. She is all kinds of lovely.

2. Rufus Wainwright, specifically of the Poses era, never gets old. Still perhaps the best concert I’ve attended, circa 1999/2000(?).

3. 1 + 2 = Yes, please.

Plushy palms (via Glynnis Ritchie) In response to this post,...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:04:00 -0400

Plushy palms (via Glynnis Ritchie)

In response to this post, someone asked “I am not a letterpresser, but what are ‘plushy palms’?”

It means I have pretty fat palms (from piano, maybe?) for someone so bony. They make perfect little bowls when I curl my fingers — the secret to making fart noises with your hands. What can I say? My talents are limitless.

“I’d had very little experience with New Orleans before...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:47:00 -0400

“I’d had very little experience with New Orleans before Katrina; I didn’t really start getting to know it until it was full of water. But even without much in the way of the cuisine and entertainment that makes it famous, New Orleans had me intoxicated. Its people were responding to the disaster with such candor and wit that the city seemed the national repository of that snoot-cocking Huck Finn spirit we Americans claim to cherish, and if it disappeared, a piece of the American soul would go with it.” — Dan Baum (of tweet and New Yorker fame), The Way of the Bayou - Happy Days Blog - NYTimes.com

During my year outside the South, I’ve been thinking a lot about Southern identity and what the South means to me. I think I probably sound like a broken record with friends at this point, trying to define “my South” with all its strangeness and complexity. Baum gets at it in this article — a sense of humor, resiliency, porch-loitering DIY values. He makes me miss New Orleans and the Jazz Vipers (who play at the Spotted Cat every Monday and Friday — it’s my favorite dive, don’t miss it!).

I’ve said repeatedly over dinner and while meeting friends, recently, that when I get back I feel like whatever’s brewing about the South will mean a lot of hard work. I don’t know how it will manifest itself (photography?), or if now is the time to create it, but it feels Big.

So. Who’s going to New Orleans with me this fall? I am ready for some street swing, beignets, and curb-side foot tappin’.

More of my own Spotted Cat photos here, and some of NOLA here.

Hand cramps

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:27:30 -0400

I have all these weird cramps and tiny knots in my hand muscles (damn you plushy palms!), which I suspect is from sorting type, operating presses, etc. Does this happen to any other letterpressers, or is it just because I’m a n00b?

(via leavesofsass & recrudesce)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:54:40 -0400

(via leavesofsass & recrudesce)