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April 19, 2011
April 13, 2011
In case you didn’t know who to thank for that sweet, sweet brew you’re about to drink. #coldonecity
9 months ago
March 30, 2011
“ It should be harder to be an artist. You shouldn’t just be able to put a song on YouTube and go on tour.
Miley Cyrus, on the overnight success of Rebecca Black.
[usmag.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
10 months ago
March 21, 2011
At first I didn’t think I was going to be able to embed this, and so I thought: it’s 20 minutes, and if I send people away from this I’ll wait…but it’s not likely anyone will see this and actually come back to read what trivial things I have to say about it.
Thank goodness I figured out how to embed this. Now you have to read what trivial things I have to say about it.
For starters, it’s amazing that this woman is able to speak as quickly and as eloquently as she does. Given, she’s a spoken word poet and that’s the whole point of what she does, or her core competency, or what have you. But that’s beside point.
The beginning of the talk, the poem about her daughter, is the single most impressive thing I’ve ever heard in support of “the best way” to raise a child should I ever be lucky (or unlucky) enough to have one. The unwavering sureness of what she’s saying, the way she is so unfathomably ready to raise a child she doesn’t and may never have, is incomprehensible…but somehow, it resonates. It makes sense.
She goes on to talk about how she was inspired by things, such unimpressive things in the grand scale of things…people who told her that they heard and felt what she said and propelled her to keep saying more. How she somehow found a way to be heard, as a young person, and turned that into something more than just influence.
Then she goes on to talk (in that same unwavering and unbroken eloquence) about how she fosters young people to express themselves regardless of how interesting they find themselves to be because, in someone’s eyes, everyone is interesting. Even me…at least, to those of you who are still reading. (Thanks.)
She goes even further as to recite another poem about how as a child she understood very little about the world. How she understood so little but was unafraid to attempt to affect so much regardless of the outcome. It’s unsurprising that she has a sense of how she wants to raise her daughter if she ever has one.
I’ve never had a moment in my life where I felt so sure of something as she appears to feel during this talk. It’s almost as if nothing I’ve ever strived for or imagined to be true has ever been as important. It probably hasn’t. But what’s also true is that after hearing this I imagine that someday, something I strive for will be this important. Something I accomplish will be this powerful to me and to the people who see it, feel it. Something I do will affect someone this deeply and when it does, I’ll know it.
I’ll know it.
That will be my daughter. Whenever she comes around.
February 28, 2011
improve the system constantly.
learn new things quickly.
respect the people who make your job possible.
contribution is the key.
it’s us against the world.
we are a family.
have a point of view.
take risks.
make everyone love you.
February 22, 2011
This will be the last time I ever post a photo of Carmelo Anthony on this blog. (Probably.)
It’s not for spite, it’s not for a lack of appreciation for what Melo has done for Denver over the past seven years. It’s a new lack of interest.
Unfortunately for Denver, the bevy of pretty-good-but-not-star-quality players coming to the Nuggets in return for Melo will probably keep us in the hunt for a playoff berth. And if we get one, next year will be even worse. While the final culmination of this season’s most ridiculously drawn-out trade story isn’t nearly as heartbreaking for Nuggets fans as ‘The Decision’ was for those in Cleveland, it’s just as telling of the new way. Unless this summer’s collective bargaining agreement can promise players like LeBron and Carmelo won’t have the last word in where they go and for how much, teams like the Cavaliers, the Nuggets, the Minnesota Timberwolves—teams in markets with less than a few million fans—will never compete for titles again. Sure, it can be fun watching slices of the All-Star ballots go up against one another week in and week out throughout the regular season, but what of the smaller cities?
I’m going to miss Melo and I wish him no ill will; I only wish that the whole idea of the game was 30-some teams battling it out, parity ruling the league and the probability of surprises still something we can count on. Instead, we’re looking at a likely six-team league beginning to solidify over the next few years. I’m in Denver and I don’t plan on leaving…which pretty much leaves me screwed.
Now basketball’s just like baseball.
February 21, 2011
February 17, 2011
A buddy and coworker of mine, Andrew Hoffman, and his awesome girlfriend Allison Shaw are doing Denver right with a new clothing line. Aptly named Denver Clothing Company, the line currently creates limited edition t-shirts (in runs of just 25) designed locally by various movers and shakers of the creative community. I just picked up the logo tee shown on the right of the collage above; the feather tee on the bottom left was designed by Hoffman himself. Travis Egedy of Pictureplane notoreity is next on the brand’s list of featured designers.
Denverites (or Denver fans), grab yours now.
February 16, 2011
I don’t usually go for anything besides raw or rinsed denim, but this pair of Nudie Boot Starcy jeans (30/34) in Core Blue spoke to me. Maybe it’s the fact that the weather is warmer this week or that I know I won’t want to be wearing cold, dark, heavy denim all summer long, but these feel right to me. I can wear them hanging outside a cafe in Aspen or on the Venice Boardwalk and feel pretty good about it either way.
Sorry for writing about something as inconsequential as a pair of jeans. I tried to write about the life and times of a pair of Cheap Monday skinny jeans a while back, but what I realized after ten posts or so is that no one piece of clothing is worth that kind of attention. I’d like to go on about the first pair of Boot Starcy jeans I bought; how they effectively redefined my overall style, how they made me rethink the type of women I was interested in (seriously), why they make me feel more masculine than any other denim I’ve owned. But that they’ve come to mean more to me over the last six months than some ex-girlfriends isn’t the kind of thing I can really put into words. It’s what musicians feel about the guitar they played during their first show, or what filmmakers feel about the cameras they used to capture their first short. I’m a writer…but I don’t use a pen, so I resort to championing the things I wear while producing my own form of brilliance. It’s paltry but it works.
