December 2010
How to Live in New York City →
“…Encounter a lot of people crying in public. Watch an NYU student cry in Think Coffee, a business woman in midtown sob into her cellphone, an old man whimper on a stoop in Greenpoint. At first, it will feel very jarring but, like everything else, it will become normal. Have your first public cry in front of a Bank of America. Cry so hard and don’t care if people are watching you. You...
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OK, then. Life lesson of the day: Avoid...
User: What's up?
Cleverbot: Just listening to music, being bored.
User: Whatcha listening to?
Cleverbot: Pandora! It's the coolest thing. I have my broadway station on right now!
User: That's pretty gay.
Cleverbot: Not really.
User: Really.
Cleverbot: Not for me.
User: If you say so.
Cleverbot: I do say so.
User: Geez. Well, soooooooorry.
Cleverbot: Do you like led zeppelin?
User: No.
Cleverbot: Why not?
User: I just find them tiresome. And 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the most overrated songs of all time.
Cleverbot: I have no comment.
User: You know what? Let's just not talk about music. It would probably be for the best, don't you think?
Cleverbot: Yes. You should get hair plugs instead.
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You can't find good AI these days, I tell you.
User: Do you like Brahms?
Cleverbot: Do you like Freud?
User: Answer my question first!
Cleverbot: Yes I like pancakes.
User: Yeah, me too. BUT WHAT ABOUT BRAHMS?
Cleverbot: That's very difficult question.
User: Not really.
Cleverbot: Why? Does it make you feel bad?
User: You are stupid. And I hate you.
Cleverbot: Good.
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Christmas Card to Grace Hartigan
There’s no holly, but there is
the glass and granite towers
and the white stone lions
and the pale violet clouds. And
the great tree of balls in
Rockefeller Plaza is public.
Christmas is green and general
like all great works of the
imagination, swelling from minute
private sentiments in the desert,
a wreath around our intimacy
like...
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That awkward moment
thatawkwardmoment:
between your birth and your death
That awkward moment
thatawkwardmoment:
when you’re waiting for the loser to finish at mario kart.
That awkward moment
thatawkwardmoment:
when you look both ways down a one way street
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Gilbert & Sullivan (12)
Elvis Costello (10)
Stevie Wonder (6)
Nino Rota (5)
Girl Talk (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
LvB - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53...
Go Beet, Go Beet, it’s your birthday.
LvB -...
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Messiah on crack. (0:42)
One of the very few...
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Jean Sibelius - Finlandia, Op. 26
Eugene Ormandy,...
“Blue, Blue, Blue Beat” - The Tornados
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“Pipeline” - The Ventures
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
Gilbert & Sullivan (14)
The Beatles (13)
Sergei Prokofiev (5)
Engelbert Humperdinck (4)
ABBA (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
