Daily View, 7/15

Sigh. Blog addiction + insomnia=Zombie consumerism. Grr.

• As a GD, kinda generic mass production of stuff that people like me are supposed to be asked to create for unique individuals appalls me. Though at least people are embracing the pretty. Sigh. Fuck it.


• Star Wars meets Architecture


• Poor teenage T-rex...


• I've joined the International Mix Tape Project. Here's some flashy press if you're not already sold. I'm told that the vast majority of members send CDs (good thing, because if I get an actual cassette I'm not sure I'll know what to do with it).


• I drool for this stupid pretty blue umbrella. Being raised in that anti-umbrella hippie household has made me covet the enemy (while at the same time firmly entrenching within me the incapability to shell out a huge wad of cash for something so frivolous and unnatural). Sigh.


• I always love things like this... and then immediately draw a blank when trying to come up with a phrase to put on my personalized scarf.


• Man, the cool stuff is always sold out (though sure, I didn't need a unicorn and dinosaur bag anyway... especially one with crappy short handles).


• While reading the Onion's movie reviews this morning, I stumbled upon the AV Club's The Hater column (meh). However, it led me to this article about Stone Phillips, which features the following quote: "The move to St. Louis led to one of the great blessings of my life: Parkway schools. I have often described Parkway West High School as Camelot in St. Louis County." Jaysus haitch. Only those of us who grew up in St. Louis (where it's true, your high school defines you) and went to non-Parkway schools will feel the same slow-spreading horror after reading that statement.


• If ever I was to have an oriental rug (not likely), it would look like this. Oh, too bad it's just a concept. But what a great idea.


• The town troubadour is (to my surprise) growing on me—I've had Grant Lee Phillips singing Mona Lisa on repeat for like, three days. His recent release nineteeneighties is solid too (I love the strummy cover of New Order's Age of Consent).


• The TBS Humor Study (the ad campaign of which is currently plastered all over the NY subway) is worth wasting time with, if only for the periodic table of laughter and the fruit n' veg man thong. Cleese? Eh, he's old and established, he can do what he likes.


• Man, I'm going to stop commenting anywhere: scroll down to comment 16. Note that the antagonizer named simply "e" made the special effort to hunt me down personally through GDBar (which was the link I provided and which uses a standards-compliant Blogger template with beautiful code). Asshole.