Dan Campbell

My life stopped lending itself to poetry a few years ago. Or maybe it was the other way around, but I’ve either stopped feeling enough to write about it or I never did and manufactured my sadness in tiny factories that rose up all over my skin and had little neighborhoods form around them only to watch the industry fail and the buildings decompose and the neighborhood give way to violence and drug addicts and alleyways you don’t walk down even in the broadest light of day because some people just don’t give a fuck anymore. Yes, it must have been this way because I was absolutely sadder this past year than I ever have been before and the poetry just never came. I saw glimpses of it when I had dreams of daughters we never had crying for their mother to name them after a sad song they heard on the radio once or of times you muttered to me when I was half awake about how you saw pictures of us painted in vivid colors on a veranda in post-war Europe making love to the sound of silence after the bombs stopped.

“Little boxes made of ticky tacky..”

Cellophane House is a modern, prefabricated dwelling (iconic). It is the product of the Museum of Modern Art’s Home Delievery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. The exhibit took place in the vacant lot of the Museum and was built in real time (meaning, live). The project aspires to meet new global demands for sustainable housing while exposing the often over-looked versatility, design, and formality of prefab. The project was assembled in 16 days, says Wired.

momahomedelievery.org

Up&coming

R5 Productions

Courtesy R5

October 1st

8p.m. WXPN 88.5 presents Jenny Lewis with Benji Hughes and Michael Runion at the Keswick Theater ($25)
8p.m. Ratatat with Panther and ERock at the Starlight Ballroom ($17 adv/ $19 day of)
October 2nd 8p.m. Fleet Foxes with Frank Fairfield at the Starlight Ballroom ($14)

The September Top Five of CraigsList’s Missed Connections Quotations!

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me… but reading the missed connections list is something of a serious hobby, one that takes many hours of dedication. It’s a lot like sifting through the dozens of notes you passed in middle school. Some of them leaving you feeling nostalgic for summer flings, others depressed, some are funny and awkward, and some actually make you want to throw up.

I am a little bit doubtful that anyone actually finds true love on the Philadelphia craigslist “missed connections” but here is a list devoted entirely to the unforgettable quotations for the month of September of the anonymous writers there.

Burn After Reading

Google.com

“Intelligence is relative,” the catchphrase of the new Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading, is an inter-connectivity flick whittled by moronic and, frankly, absurd behavior. The story’s main protagonist is a female gym worker, Linda Litske (Frances McDormand, Somethings Gotta Give, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) seeking out money for four elective, cosemtic surgeries. Her body image obsessions quickly throw her into a mess of former CIA and Treasury department personal with her “associate” and co-worker Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt, Babel, Ocean’s 11-13).

A Project from MAKE Magazine

MAKE

In case any of you are bored or interested in making a “powerful pocket amplifier,” courtesy MAKE. This video explains how to make a basic amplifier for your MP3 player using relatively basic electronic knowledge. It also provides helpful suggestions on how to substitute expensive elements to hacker hobbies.

Four dead but more importantly, Blink 182 injured

Google.com

According to the NYTimes, two musicians(Chris Baker and Charles Stills), a pilot(Sarah Lemmon), and a co-pilot(James Bland) died in a plane crash as it was attempting to lift off, but instead hurtled into the fence. In addition, former Blink182 drummer Travis Barker was left critically injured after playing a free show at Columbia College with a DJ, Adam Goldstein, under the name TRVSDJ-AM.

Strangely, the names and origins of the deceased were not listed until the third paragraph of the Grand Old Lady’s report, but Barker’s name was not looked aside in the lead-in.

Classy.

Beth Wolbach

’swish. swish.’

what the fuck?

AllPoster.com

one of the patients or techs explained to me that she liked to take water, churn it around her mouth and spit it out. she did this so that she could avoid eating. anything to help along the dying process. the patient was old woman, Jewish grandmotherly, semi-propped up in a hospital bed who would be rolled around the unit for reasons unknown to me. maybe she couldnt or wouldnt sit in a wheelchair. attached to tubes and machines, hair in all places and croaking ’swish, swish’ in her old voice, but sounding more like a obstinate child.

Hacker revealed, perhaps?

Google.com

Anonymous group that previously hacked into the Church of Scientology made its way into the personal yahoo account of McCain running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin. Although nothing terribly incriminating content was discovered, the political business conducted on a private account breaks Alaskan freedom of information laws–formerly leaving her not subject to subponeas.

The account was frozen after a “good Samaritan” hacker released an email encouraging Ivy Personal to contact Gov. Palin and alert her of the hack. He/She also took the time to reset the password, which was thereafter also published online.  The screenshots are available on Wikileaks.

Kiladelphia

A tid bit:

The name comes from the Greek philos, meaning love, and adelphos, meaning brother.

Google.com

The rest of the article is about federal employees, which frankly is irrelevant to this blog, but I thought I would bring forth a piece of evidence that our fair city wasn’t just called the City of Brotherly Love because of some old school hipster… not that it would make it less cool.

$$$

Among scientologist, in particular, people who come out of this group come to us and report very high levels of amnesia, memory loss, of insomnia, of disorientation, or halluecinations and delusions…

Several stories of ex-scientologists, spending so much as thirty-four thousand pounds. The Church’s methods include forced lodgings at followers’ homes and the use of followers’ transportation methods, etc.

Old news but still relevant.

I’m cutting up my credit card

MarketWatch

MARKET SNAPSHOT
U.S. stocks battered as AIG takeover flames fears
Shares of Morgan Stanley plummet 40%; Goldman Sachs falls 23%

By Kate Gibson, MarketWatch

Last update: 12:09 p.m. EDT Sept. 17, 2008

Comments: 586

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) – U.S. stocks were slammed hard on Wednesday for a third day in four as the government’s rescue of American International Group Inc. failed to stop financial sector hemorrhaging and as credit conditions tightened.

Read the rest…

See your phone

Visualcomplexity.com

TODAY is a program that monitors your cell phone usage. You can monitor your own for up to one week. Each usage has a color and symbol.

Based on your phone usage, the program generates a graphic of your communication, whereby each phone number used during the course of the cycle, is given a colour and each communication with that colour is measured in time and intensity. Intensity is given visual weight through the speed by which you attend the call: an urgent call being literally more colour saturated than an untimely unknown number.

UK vs US

a man out and about in london and beyond: eye candy for the style hungry

Facehunter pick of the week:

Facehunter

Ain’t got no soul!

Maisonneuve posted a Musical Olypmics online calling Sweden, Scotland, and Iceland musical Olympic Gold. And honestly, I would have to agree with them… mostly on the given line-up: Bjork (Iceland) being first,

Mascotas.org

Belle and Sebastian (Scotland) trailing second, and The Hives (Sweden) in last. Although my lineup completely flips the article’s author, Michael Chadwick–a self-proclaimed “American ex-pat.”

He goes onto talk about Canada’s line of musicletes–the entire Arts and Craft label (Broken Social Scene, Feist, etc), Wolf Parade, and Tegan and Sara.

America is nowhere to be found on this list, or any other list made up of any non-Hollywoodite, Perez Hilton-loving jerk off. And aside from decades ago, I can’t think of anything worth while that America produced that eventually wound up being traded as social currency in the world. Always these Australian hosts on our MTV shows.

From now until the end (of the month)

R5 Listings
September 19th
8p.m., Mogwai and Fuck Buttons at the Starlight Ballroom (20$)
8p.m., Stars and Bell X1 at the Troc ($16.50 adv/ $18 doors)

September 24th

R5

9p.m., Rachael Yamagata with Kevin Devine at Johnny Brendas ($15, 21+age)

Ali Carter

fuck dreams
reminding me of
a person, a place
but not just a person, a place
the person, the place
a remnant of longing that I’m keeping like a secret

UTNE

uncovering myself from your bedsheets, half-naked
staring out your window at the ocean
“look how the blue swirls with the purple, and there’s a bit of green too”
we’re living in a floating house
fuck dreams, fuck
dreams

Honey, honey?

SLATE MAGAZINE:
The Great Vegan Honey Debate
By Daniel Engber

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008, at 2:20 PM ET

There’s never been a better time to be a half-assed vegetarian. Five years ago, the American Dialect Society honored the word flexitarian for its utility in describing a growing demographic—the “vegetarian who occasionally eats meat.” Now there’s evidence that going flexi is good for the environment and good for your health. A study released last October found that a plant-based diet, augmented with a small amount of dairy and meat, maximizes land-use efficiency. In January, Michael Pollan distilled the entire field of nutritional science into three rules for a healthy diet: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” According to a poll released last week, Americans seem to be listening: Thirteen percent of U.S. adults are “semivegetarian,” meaning they eat meat with fewer than half of all their meals. In comparison, true vegetarians—those who never, ever consume animal flesh—compose just 1 percent.

THE REST….

Guilty.

Google.com

I would really love one of these, regardless of the fact that it makes being a writer much more difficulut. That is, if at any point, I would hope to become profitable.

Man Gone Down

“I think that, much as many Christians don’t know the beatitudes, most people don’t listen to or understand the blues. Most people don’t understand, or have never experienced rage. It isn’t singular, random, episodic. It’s cumulative, with a narrative thrust like a black-iron locomotive. It’s always there or on it’s way, started initially by some unseen engineer, some fireman wraith

Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas

endlessly shoveling endless coal into the fire. Hot locomotive rage. Inexorable.  And you can keep switching that train, switching it,  keeping it on the long runs of the rail through your wastelands until one day that rage is closing in on you, you don’t switch. You let it run. And for an instant it feels co good–the smack-thunk of skinbone on skinbone, feeling yourself strike something and having it give.

It’s Permanent.

google.com

Not really, though. And they never really have been. According to the Contemporary Health Communications, a Missouri based commission, people have been removing their tattoos not quite as often as they get them. Instead of discussing how or why people get their tattoos, let’s look at the progression (leaving out DIY creams and kits) towards what is now a seemingly revolutionary step towards making tattoos less permanent: an ultrasonic tattoo remover (“eraser”).

More to Love

google.com

While the “more to love” (better known as “more cushion for better pushin”) ideology has been force-fed down the throats of every American man who has ever crossed a women who, at any time in her life, read a women’s magazine or endured any unit of weight gain, straight women are still finding themselves sexually unsatisfied or insecure and more often in periods of rapid weight loss or gain. They say that a man should love a woman’s body for what it is—fat or thin, athletic or petite, boyish or stacked… rather, instead, the body is a symbol for the gift he is being given: love.

And although the pressure is seemingly unbearable to be just the right weight, there is another side to story that many magazines ignore for the sake of looking well-mannered and good intentioned. But the fact is that they are not fighting for the well-being of women, or promoting the responsibility and rights over a woman’s body—going so far as calling it anti-feminist.

Anti-feminist because it does not promote the feeling of efficacy of a woman over her most prized possession: her health. It also demotes a woman’s choice to prioritize; whether she chose to become an athlete, or an office worker, her body is a manifestation of the major life choices that she has made (which includes the bumps and bruises!). And she should be proud of them, or in the very least, own up to them.

typo&grpahy Introduces Itself

typo&graphy hopes to soon serve the Philadelphia and PABurb region as a art and information blog–covering the increasingly influential swagger of the youth generation in the great state of Pennsylvania. It aspires to become a staple to remaining close to those you do and do not already know, focusing mostly on the inspiring and sometimes maniac lives of the greater Philadelphia twenty-somethings (and those who are not drinking legally… yet). typo&graphy will also serve to connect readers to the modern internet-savvy age culture it created with monthly art and design updates, music reviews, and that which otherwise makes us unique.

google.com

This blog is deeply rooted in the idea that most of us have not made it to our dream jobs (… yet) and for the sake that the age old tradition of ass-kissing and ladder-climbing desperately needs to get over itself. Not because we’re impatient or think that nothing can be learned from our seniors and higherups, but because our work is good and worth repeating. typo&graphy deeply encourages non-traditional contribution and a no obligation atmosphere. All work at all times is appreciated.

The playing field for jobs is dwindling in the global world so we must create work for ourselves.

Anyone interested in writing or designing for typo&graphy may contact the editors at: typefaceprint@gmail.com. Monthly contributions for the Short Fiction section and the Glean Machine, as well as freelance visual art and design, must also be submitted to this address.

Those seeking to write must submit a cover letter with their name, address, email and a detailed description of the direction of writing you intend to contribute. Thereafter, a writing sample must also be sent. If you do not have published or even relevant non-published work, please specify and otherwise submit an idea for work.

Designers, illustrators and photographers must follow a similar application process. A cover letter detailing your name, address, email and a brief description of both work and personal taste. A sample of your work must be sent in an attached email in web-friendly formats. Links to other websites and hosts are welcome as well.

Thanks,
The Editor
typefaceprint@gmail.com