The last of Polaroid film stock expires next month. Will it go the way of the spotted owl? Will Urban Hipsterfitters and Overpriced Polaroid Distributors be able to save it?
Nan Goldin’s Owl Polaroid
Photograph: © Nan Goldin
For my favourite pregnant lady 
via: The Observer
Title credit: The Weakerthans, The Last Last One
Categories: Heartwrenching · Photography · instant film · polaroid
Miniature George Eastman House via rochestersubway.com
This is my current desktop background. Whoever made this (someone at the design-savvy Rochester Subway site, I think) gets two thumbs up. It makes me grin and think of the “Nathan Lyons Entering the Eastman House after 15 years” photograph from two VSW auctions ago… everytime I see it. It also makes me pre-miss Rochester. Is that a thing?
Title credit: The Frames, Seven Day Mile
Categories: Heartwrenching · Mapping · Photography · Pop culture · Rochester
By the man who first brought us Every Building on the Sunset Strip. via NYTimes
Yes, they do.
Title credit: The White Stripes, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Categories: Art · Artist's books · Heartwrenching · Sad Bastard Mondays
Top Ten Songs (Right now) About Going or Being Somewhere Else
Old Crow Medicine Show: Highway Halo
Lodi – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
Sigur Ros – Saeglopur
El Ten Eleven – Every Direction Is North
Tom Waits – Ol’ 55
Wilco – Passenger Side
hmm… three more…
My Morning Jacket – Bermuda Highway
To Live And Die In The Airport Lounge (nah, i just like the title)
The National – So Far Around The Bend
and ten, with the Title credit: Paul Simon, The Only Living Boy in New York
Categories: Car · First Friday · Heartwrenching · Lists of ten · Mix tapes · Music · Sad Bastard Music · Youtube
Growing up at rural route no. 5 in Campbellford meant that instead of cable, we picked up our tv programming through an antenna on the roof and one of those little NSEW remotes beside the television. We only got a handful of channels, so watched whatever came in the best. (If you have never known anything besides cable, this is probably lost on you.)
Golden Girls was on at 7:30pm, after Empty Nest (which we HATED), and before the Cosby Show (which we loved). So we watched the hell out of it. I have probably seen the entire 7 or 8 seasons, and Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia probably had more influence on me than I would ever want to admit in real life. But this is just the internet, so embarrassing admissions away. At some point, each one of them was my favourite. Except for trashy Blanche. Sophia reminded me of my Nana. Rose reminded me of my grandma. Dorothy reminded me of two of the toughest ladies I have ever known.
I have three sisters, so that may also explain why those cheesecake-eatin Miami birds appealed so much to us.
Title Credit: Andrew Gold (performed by Cynthia Fee), Thank You For Being a Friend
Categories: 1980s · 1990s · Campbellford · Canada · Growing up in Campbellford · Heartwrenching · Pop culture · television
Categories: Films · Heartwrenching · Photography · Rochester · Uncategorized
Stephen and Eliza have a pretty great music blog over here:
with a pretty great post (despite the Bryan Adams typo) on mixtape making and taking back.
Now that that wretched over-hyped, underwhelmed day is past, I’m happy to cover the topic of heart-ache, -fake, -forsake, and -break.
Title Credit: Daniel Ledwell, I Have Made You A Mixed Tape
Categories: Crushes · Heartwrenching · Holidays · Mix tapes · Music
January 9th would have been my grandmother’s 79th birthday. Being born in the same month gave the two of us one of those unspoken bonds and I miss her like crazy. Just found this photo on a recently processed roll of film from Christmas ‘08. I reserve the right to be all sadbastardly on Mondays. Never could quite get the hang of Mondays.
Title credit: Luke Doucet, Blood’s too rich
Categories: Heartwrenching · Holidays · Photography · Sad Bastard Mondays
I’m feeling like 2:48-4:37 of the Sigur Ros song. (Comes in around 1:58 in the youtube)
Maybe it’s time to start penning top ten heartwrenching songs 2008 edition.
(Interweb Translated:
Alive
Has returned home
A lost seafarer
Alive
Has returned home
A diver comes
)
Title Credit: Sigur Rós, Sæglópur
Categories: Growing up in Campbellford · Heartwrenching · Youtube
Why, when I have more stuff on my plate than I can handle, do I agree to do more?
Why can’t I finish everything I start?
Why do dumb things get done when everything else waits til the last second?
Why am I bloggin about all the stuff I haven’t done, rather than just buckling down and doing it?
Title Credit: Hayden, We Don’t Mind / My Parent’s House, (1995)
Categories: 90s music · Art school · Break down · Freak out · Growing up in Campbellford · Heartwrenching · Music quote · To do
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