Neon Bender: Archive

so yeah, http://kck.st/lafontkickstarter

Dec 27, 20112 notes

I wanted to wish you a merry Christmas
I wanted to wish you a happy 4th of July
I wanted to use the calendar a number of times this year
As a reason simply to say “hi”

Instead I put it in a bottle
And put it out to sea
And went inside
(And had a glass of red)

Dec 27, 20115 notes

rawkblog:

Let’s get this out of the way: I hate LA.

I hate LA the way that any good New Yorker hates LA, with a passion bordering on paranoid psychosis. I hate the faux culture, I hate the vapid people, I hate the unctuous politics. I hate their smug attitude toward snow, unless it involves indie movie premieres near ski slopes. I hate the things that are too cliché to even mention hating: their tans, their cars, their smog. I hate the way they turned silicon into silicone.

What the author is trying to say here is “I hate a six-block stretch of Robertson that I saw on Keeping up with the Kardashians one time.” Aren’t people smarter than this yet?

Nobody in L.A. hates New York. We love New York. Especially because we don’t have to live there.

Dec 27, 201118 notes

“One thousand pounds put all together
We’re disco brothers to last forever” —

The Fat Boys are the fattest 80s band ever.

I bet if you put Heavy D & the Boyz on a scale in ‘88 they’d only weigh-in at 950 lbs tops—and that’s with four members. The Fat Boys weigh over 1,000 lbs with just three dudes (including one Human Beat Box)

Do you know about The Fat Boys f/ The Beach Boys classic sorta-cover of “Wipe Out” from The Beach Boys’ 26th studio album, Still Cruisin’—my favorite record at age three? Please enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0LBlH3dAc

Dec 23, 20112 notes

Dec 23, 201111 notes

rawkblog:

Pretty great. Missing my favorite: “It glues to a tightwad / the pyrex is Jewish!” from Clipse’s Hell Hath No Fury.

Dec 22, 20118 notes

Dec 19, 2011133 notes

“The average man is tired and scared, and a tired, scared man can’t afford ideals. He has to buy food for his family. In our time we have seen a shocking decline in both public and private morals. You can’t expect quality from people whose lives are a subjection to a lack of quality. You can’t have quality with mass production. You don’t want it because it lasts too long. So you substitute styling, which is a commercial swindle intended to produce artificial obsolescence. Mass production couldn’t sell its goods next year unless it made what it sold this year look unfashionable a year from now. We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average American housewife can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr. Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk.” —

The Long Goodbye.

Just a reminder that Raymond Chandler is such a great writer.

Dec 17, 2011

Lipsmack LA Font

freeindie:

LA Font

Better than Helvetica and Wingdings

Lipsmack
Sharks
Fine Lines

Dec 15, 201176 notes

maura:

“I wish people understood that by buying new books at a deep discount they are pushing us towards a future that consists solely of self-published 99 cent ebooks. If you know anyone who edits, copyedits, designs, draws, writes, or otherwise publishes books, you should think twice…

Dec 14, 2011696 notes

lafontusa:

give some money, get immortalized in the liner notes 4EVA http://kck.st/lafontkickstarter

I’ll try not to reblog every LA-Font-has-a-kickstarter-now, but I can’t promise.

Dec 14, 20113 notes

rawkblog:

Would kick in $2,500 to be exec producer, but I gotta eat.

Play

“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the impeachment of a President for an adulterous affair with a White House aide twenty-six years his junior while he himself is conducting an adulterous affair with a congressional aide twenty-two years his junior, having earlier left the first of his three wives while she was hospitalized with cancer. Imagine a man who attributes these behaviors to “how passionately I felt about this country.” Imagine a man who, told he can’t sit in a front section of Air Force One, shuts down the government. Imagine a man who becomes the only House Speaker ever to be disciplined for ethics violations. Imagine a man who, in a country just staggering out of the worst recession of the past fifty years and facing the threat of worldwide economic collapse, proposes to hire small children to work as janitors, mopping floors and cleaning toilets in their schools (or their orphanages, perhaps). Imagine that man as Commander-in-Chief.” —Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)

Dec 14, 20111,663 notes

In which Dave Greenwald ranks LA Font above Jens Lekman

rawkblog:

Today on Rawkblog. More lists all week.

oh my gosh

Dec 13, 20117 notes

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Dec 13, 2011

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