weekend included: cinco de mayo / andrew bird / frieze art fair
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Archive for 2012|Yearly archive page
YOU ARE
In east on 05/06/2012 at 4:19 pm
My little brother, Angel, graduated from Penn State today. We are so proud. This is for him.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary- Steve Jobs
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on Magic
In west on 04/30/2012 at 10:56 amHave heroes outside of magic. Mine are Hitchcock, Poe, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Bach. You’re welcome to borrow them, but you must learn to love them yourself for your own reasons. Then they’ll push you in the right direction…
Love something besides magic, in the arts. Get inspired by a particular poet, film-maker, sculptor, composer. You will never be the first Brian Allen Brushwood of magic if you want to be Penn & Teller. But if you want to be, say, the Salvador Dali of magic, we’ll THERE’S an opening.
–Teller, of magician duo Penn & Teller
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The Ritz, Paris
In west on 04/29/2012 at 10:21 pm
a future present
In east on 04/26/2012 at 8:35 pm
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, and you must treat it as a powerful stranger, must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, if you leave it you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, you are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows where you are. You must let it find you.
David Wagoner
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on Life
In west on 04/26/2012 at 6:39 pmBy 30, you should have …
1. One old boyfriend you can imagine going back to and one who reminds you of how far you’ve come.
6. A past juicy enough that you’re looking forward to retelling it in your old age.
By 30, you should know …
11. What you would and wouldn’t do for money or love.
12. That nobody gets away with smoking, drinking, doing drugs, or not flossing for very long.
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Los Angeles Weekend Recap
In west on 04/26/2012 at 11:00 am
Saw an insane amount of people in 2 full days. Before I surprised my father at dinner in Malibu, he apparently told my family “I’m glad Michelle’s not here because she really would have run up this bill” – then I walked in (and ordered oysters and king crab legs). Apart from family, I flew to LA to surprise Tatiana – my childhood best friend – at her baby shower. This is my first Auntie experience and I can’t wait.
Additional food highlights:
- In-N-Out the moment I landed
- MEXICAN FOOD!
- Adventurous dinner at Animal where Rich, Julia, and I tried: bone marrow, pigs ears, octopus, quail, and shrimp and rabbit sausage
Almost missed both flights, coming and going, and arrived home in NYC at 5:15am Monday morning and went to work.
Have I mentioned that I love LA?
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The Waste Land
In east on 04/25/2012 at 11:08 amApril is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us,
T.S. Eliot
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