carly guarino

Ask me anything. It’s anonymous.

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:03:00 -0500

Looook. LOOOOK! I wrote one of these!

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:04:00 -0500

’s cool, right?

(It’s the one about The Giving Tree Yoga Studio. Those people were super-nice. Go there if you live or work in Astoria!)

beenthinking: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The very...

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:19:00 -0500

beenthinking:

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The very first version, acoustic and recorded by Strontium 90 back before Sting and Stewart Copeland and the rest of those London boys became The Police.

My older brother and sister were all gaga over the Synchronicity tour in 1983. I listened to The Police because THEY listened to The Police and they were the coolest people I had ever met and also? I was eight and didn’t have my own stereo. But, eventually, when I started actually LISTENING to the music instead of just singing the choruses to be cool (ahem), all I heard were the drums. THE DRUMS. Good god, did that guy know how to use a hi-hat. And I learned something during 1989 that everyone already knew years before: Stewart Copeland is a genius.

So fast-forward to a few weeks ago, when I first saw Elvis Costello’s new show Spectacle. That show. THAT SHOW. It’s a cross between Inside The Actors Studio (but for bands) and The Johnny Cash TV Show. (If you haven’t seen this show you need to put it on your Netflix immediately.) And like The Johnny Cash Show, it’s instantly credible simply because the host is clearly equally as talented (or more, in a few cases) than his guests. Anyway! There’s an episode that features The Police and I was immediately drawn to Stewart Copeland. I already knew he was an AMAZING drummer, but now I realized the most important part: he is also totally insane. Swoon!

So, I’m reading his autobiography. It jumps around (it is unsurprisingly manic) but I just read a part from around when this song (above) was written. It may be super-cheesy, it may be slow and acoustic and weird to some of you, but this song and these people are about a YEAR from blowing everyone’s minds and I think that’s pretty important.

The Great Record Alphabetization of 2009.

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:24:46 -0500

The Great Record Alphabetization of 2009.

Behold! The Christmas Bounty!

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:18:59 -0500

Behold! The Christmas Bounty!

Wow, I want pretty much every single one of Gus FInk’s...

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:49:05 -0500

Wow, I want pretty much every single one of Gus FInk’s paintings. Those repurposed photos and postcards are so awesome. Check out his website for more of his work (and for purchase, if you’re looking for a gift for meeeeeeeee, HINT HINT).

[via accidental mysteries]

ok, so when someone has the tumblr url that you want, and they have only posted once (and it was in...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:39:22 -0500

ok, so when someone has the tumblr url that you want, and they have only posted once (and it was in march 09), how do you get them to release that shit? I HAVE AN IDEA. help!

Songs To Learn & Sing

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:06:15 -0500

soundonsound:

At some point I realized that the wisdom and insight that’s seen me through the most formative experiences has almost always come from music, not literature. It’s always communicated something that words alone cannot. Given the central role that music has played in my life so far, (amplifying my joys, soothing my defeats, serving as foundation for my growth) how exciting might it be to expose our daughter to this most powerful and universal of art forms? It occurred to me that we could play a different record every day, provide the soundtrack for her awakening senses, let her develop a vocabulary of sounds and feelings, and rediscover things about myself and my own history along the way. I found that the question of “which record to pull off the shelf today?” seemed to have more weight to it. I approached the question more seriously, because she is hearing everything for the first time.

I love you people, but what are you still doing here reading my website when you could be reading this website?

the coolest things happened today: 1) i got a crapload of music from my friend at work (thanks,...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:07:00 -0500

the coolest things happened today:

1) i got a crapload of music from my friend at work (thanks, fear!)

2) i met ari up from the slits (the video will be posted xmas day)

3) i found stewart copeland’s autobiography in the free bin at work!

4) xmas came early, and i’m totally tagging this so tumblr gives me reindeer ears on my photo. red nose covers my face! love it.

readers by author.

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:35:00 -0500

meaghano:

designage:

this is some kind of wonderful:

Margaret Atwood Women whose favorite color is hunter green.

William Faulkner People who are good at crosswords.

Cormac McCarthy Men who don’t eat cream cheese.

Mark Twain Liars.

Nicole Krauss Girls who intern at Nylon but end up moving back to the Midwest for their real job.

Anne Rice People who don’t use conditioner in their hair.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Men who can’t lie but will instead be silent if they know you don’t want to hear the truth.

Sue Grafton: Women who have an @aol.com email address.

Douglas Adams: People who bought the first generation Amazon Kindle.

Toni Morrison: Female high-school English professors who only have an undergraduate degree.

Charles Dickens: Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.

Bret Easton Ellis: Foo Fighters’ fans.

Haruki Murakami People who like good music.

Anais Nin Librarians.

Joseph Heller People who love buying drinks for their friends. See also, people who cringe when they see their bar tab.

THIS IS GENIUS.

Every December, Trac and Huy roll and fry about 1,000 eggrolls...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:46:54 -0500

Every December, Trac and Huy roll and fry about 1,000 eggrolls at their Eggroll & Bourbon party. This is where the magic happens.

Another in the floor/shoes series.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:34:02 -0500

Another in the floor/shoes series.

Video

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:18:38 -0500

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:53:00 -0500

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Scouting New York did a 3-part series with then-and-now pics of Taxi Driver locations.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Corduroy skirts are a sin.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:57:13 -0500

Corduroy skirts are a sin.

good lord, this shot from a serious man is beautiful. and the...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:39:00 -0500

good lord, this shot from a serious man is beautiful. and the line delivered just afterwards (“but even though you can’t figure anything out, you will be responsible for it on the midterm!”) pretty much just sums everything up at the moment.

ps. it’s my website and i’m allowed to take stuff out of context if i want to.

For all my newly be-babied friends. BE CAREFUL! See also: The...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:05:08 -0500

For all my newly be-babied friends. BE CAREFUL!

Some great photos of New York City in the 70s. Have I mentionend...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:48:24 -0500

Some great photos of New York City in the 70s. Have I mentionend how much I love this crazy town?

PUT THE COMMA INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARK.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:53:49 -0500

crowth:

minou:

lenorebeadsman:

faithandbegorrah:

THE PERIOD TOO. PUT IT IN. PUT IT IN RIGHT NOW.

And after the closing parenthesis (131-133).

I almost just stood up and screamed this at my class. I wanted to before I saw this post, but now I am really tempted.

Unless you’re British, in which case logic applies in the same way it does with question/exclamation marks. Though with all the American English we tend to read, it looks irritatingly wrong to me nowadays.

I found an explanation for the variance. It’s written by an American (if the double spacing doesn’t make that glaringly obvious).

[I]t seems to be the result of historical accident. When type was handset, a period or comma outside of quotation marks at the end of a sentence tended to get knocked out of position, so the printers tucked the little devils inside the quotation marks to keep them safe and out of trouble. But apparently only American printers were more attached to convenience than logic, since British printers continued to risk the misalignment of their periods and commas.

Oh.

PUT THE COMMA INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARK.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:51:00 -0500

choire:

THE PERIOD TOO. PUT IT IN. PUT IT IN RIGHT NOW.

THANK YOU. I will go a-killing someday over this.

I get that this is what is supposed to happen, but can someone please explain to me WHYYYYYYYYY? Sometimes it looks weird.