distracted by dingleberries

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Quentin Pfeiffer took a deep breath, opened the car door, and stepped onto Shakedown Street for the first time in five years. 

An excerpt from my upcoming Phish mystery, The Ashakiran Tape.

(via Shakedown Street — Medium)

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"Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red In It” - a Tuareg remake of Purple Rain

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I see the vultures moving in (at Plage De Ngor)

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Oh hai Gerhard Richter! (at Plage De Ngor)

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Marlene Dietrich - Morocco 1930

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Anne Brigman, ‘The breeze’, 1910.

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Lichtgrenze 2014

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Andreas Gursky, “99 Cent” (1999), Chromogenic color print.

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, dir: Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)

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Naja, das New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival war es sicher nicht, aber wir wären schon ganz gern zum Just Music Beyond Jazz Festival gegangen, um uns dort prätentiös am Kinn zu kratzen. Aber leider fand sich auch am Tag des Auftaktes nur Platzhaltertext auf der Webseite. Und von einer Jazzkombo namens "Lorem Ipsum" haben wir noch nicht gehört.

Eine entsprechende Nachfrage auf der Facebook-Seite wurde ohne Antwort gelöscht. Fazit: Grosse Anzeigen- und Litfassäulenkamagne, schicker Hintergrund, netter Name, leere Webseite. Echt peinlich.

Note: Mangelhaft

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Thanks for following...

...but all the really fun tumbling I do is now happening over at Tulpendiebe. I wish I could make it my default tumblr, but apparently that's not possible. Either way, chances are you'll have a better time in the company of Weimar Berlin artists, floozies, and madmen than in this tumbleweed ghost town. For Kino!

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OK, I’ll play — here’s my home screen. The background changes frequently. Right now it’s a Percolator-treated photo I took of my daughter, Nina.

I got the iPad last spring as the one thing I could hang on to when we dissolved our home of ten years in New York and moved to Germany, a kind...

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The White Hell of Pitz Palu, Dir. Arnold Fanck & Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929

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Kino

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iwdrm:

“Oh, I lie now and then. Sometimes I’d tell them the truth and they still wouldn’t believe me, so I prefer to lie.”

The 400 Blows (1959)

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One of the things that attracted us to this house in East Nashville, was the stone façade and the way it was tucked away in trees and greenery, despite being in the city. My writing room was beyond this window, in what was supposed to be the master bedroom. I didn’t notice until after we moved...

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Trailer: LE HAVRE (dir. Aki Kaurismaki) 2011

our first significant glimpse of Kaurismaki’s latest film — a deadpan charmer which emerged as the best-reviewed entry to this year’s Cannes Film Festival — you can expect to see LE HAVRE pop up in the Criterion Collection towards the end of 2012. the folks over at The Playlist are right to warn that Kaurismaki’s films don’t make for ideal trailer fodder, so it’s best to appreciate how this clip sets the mood more than anything else. 

here’s the film’s official description: “An elderly working-class couple living in the famous Norman port city find themselves harbouring a young African illegal immigrant from the authorities as he tries to make his way to England. The local police inspector suspects that they are protecting illegals and a cat-and-mouse game ensues.”