Indie-Rock Bakery

The wonderings and wanderings of an occasional party boy

Sep 7 2011

Huh?

Aug 22 2011

“ Hollywood people are remarkably susceptible to fantasy. The same people that make fantasy want it and need it.

—Producer Richard Roth, in a nice profile of old-fashioned maître d’hôtel Dmitri Dmitrov.

Aug 20 2011

“ Persueco. It’s Italian Champagne, homie.

—INFY

Aug 4 2011

“L.A. Light,” by Colin Rich.

Jun 30 2011

“ It is a strange thing to love a city. In the end because no city is entirely knowable. What you love really are pieces of it. […] That is perhaps part of the allure, what brings us back to the cities we love: our desire to accumulate enough pieces so we can finally have it whole within us. But to love a city is also to love who we were at that time we fell in love.

—Junot Diaz, reflecting on Tokyo

Jun 15 2011

We had another absinthe

Bill: Where do you suppose he went?
Jake: Up to Paris.
Bill: What do you suppose he'll do?
Jake: Oh, to hell with him.
Bill: What do you suppose he'll do?
Jake: Pick up with his old girl, probably.
Bill: Who was his old girl?
Jake: Somebody named Frances.

Jun 1 2011

Is there anybody cooler than Glenn O’Brien? Via PTO

May 26 2011

The illest. Better get that ankle insurance, kids.

May 25 2011

Daily Planet?

May 10 2011

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

—Robert Frost

May 9 2011

Cool video imagining what downtown L.A. could look like in 2030. I especially dig the maps breaking down current land use. (via Curbed)

May 1 2011

Summertime? Close enough.

Apr 30 2011

“ Few of us want to see Los Angeles as it is or what it should be; we’ve let others do it for us. This city’s unaccountable political structure, its conception of power merely as the means to another deal, and the city’s air of disconnected neutrality have let thugs police its streets, unfeeling technocrats run its services, and the McCourts loot its most-loved institution.

—D.J. Waldie, “The Foster City” (file under: #realtalk)

» Breakfast of Champions

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt with a brilliant recipe for a breakfast banh mi.

Mar 4 2011

“ Whatever I look at, whatever I encounter, I want it to be good—whether it’s what you’re wearing, or how the restaurant has laid the table, or what’s going on on stage, or what the president said last night, or how two people are talking to each other at a bus stop.

—Robert Gottlieb, in “The Art of Editing”