The wonderings and wanderings of an occasional party boyTumblr (3.0; @indierockbakery)http://indierockbakery.com/<iframe src="http://videos.nymag.com/video/Vultures-Guide-To-Kanyes-Grunts/player?layout=&title_height=24" width="400" height="309" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Huh?</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/9920505500http://indierockbakery.com/post/9920505500Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:14:48 -0700“Hollywood people are remarkably susceptible to fantasy. The same people that make fantasy want it and need it.”<br/><br/> - <em>Producer Richard Roth, in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/us/21dmitri.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">a nice profile</a> of old-fashioned maître d’hôtel Dmitri Dmitrov.</em>http://indierockbakery.com/post/9257725758http://indierockbakery.com/post/9257725758Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:18:00 -0700“Persueco. It’s Italian Champagne, homie.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://itisnotforyou.com">INFY</a></em>http://indierockbakery.com/post/9160748208http://indierockbakery.com/post/9160748208Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:04:50 -0700<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27235856" width="400" height="180" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>“L.A. Light,” by Colin Rich.</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/8479090144http://indierockbakery.com/post/8479090144Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:43:49 -0700“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.”<br/><br/> - <em>Junot Diaz, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/20/the-city-tokyo.html">reflecting on Tokyo</a></em>http://indierockbakery.com/post/7088733130http://indierockbakery.com/post/7088733130Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:33:00 -0700Bill: Where do you suppose he went?<br /> Jake: Up to Paris.<br /> Bill: What do you suppose he'll do?<br /> Jake: Oh, to hell with him.<br /> Bill: What do you suppose he'll do?<br /> Jake: Pick up with his old girl, probably.<br /> Bill: Who was his old girl?<br /> Jake: Somebody named Frances.http://indierockbakery.com/post/6559835276http://indierockbakery.com/post/6559835276Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:23:00 -0700hemingway<iframe width="400" height="243" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kBIL1d_nDmQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Is there anybody cooler than Glenn O’Brien? Via <a href="http://putthison.com/post/6074351629" class="tumblr_blog">PTO</a></p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/6099516457http://indierockbakery.com/post/6099516457Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:46:21 -0700<iframe width="400" height="262" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" id="nyt_video_player" title="New York Times Video - Embed Player" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=100000000831937&playerType=embed"></iframe><br/><br/><p>The illest. Better get that ankle insurance, kids.</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/5888708728http://indierockbakery.com/post/5888708728Thu, 26 May 2011 21:13:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llorjjc1Zq1qz5oqpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Daily Planet?</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/5835229304http://indierockbakery.com/post/5835229304Wed, 25 May 2011 09:12:44 -0700<p>Some say the world will end in fire,<br/> Some say in ice.<br/> From what I’ve tasted of desire<br/> I hold with those who favor fire.<br/> But if it had to perish twice,<br/> I think I know enough of hate<br/> To say that for destruction ice<br/> Is also great<br/> And would suffice.</p> <p><i>—Robert Frost</i></p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/5384805650http://indierockbakery.com/post/5384805650Tue, 10 May 2011 23:06:00 -0700<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21034894" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Cool video imagining what downtown L.A. could look like in 2030. I especially dig <a href="http://tamthientran.com/research/downtown-los-angeles/">the maps</a> breaking down current land use. (via <a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/05/gensler_going_to_make_downtown_carless_but_gondolafied_1.php">Curbed</a>)</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/5353061018http://indierockbakery.com/post/5353061018Mon, 09 May 2011 21:30:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjllyWlTk1qz5oqpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Summertime? Close enough.</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/5117425297http://indierockbakery.com/post/5117425297Sun, 01 May 2011 17:34:46 -0700“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.”<br/><br/> - <em>D.J. Waldie, <a href="http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/04/27/the-foster-city/">“The Foster City”</a> (file under: #realtalk)</em>http://indierockbakery.com/post/5075485818http://indierockbakery.com/post/5075485818Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:13:00 -0700<a href="http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2011/04/hangover-helper-the-breakfast-banh-mi.html">Breakfast of Champions</a>: <p>J. Kenji Lopez-Alt with a brilliant recipe for a breakfast banh mi.</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/5075364296http://indierockbakery.com/post/5075364296Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:08:49 -0700“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.”<br/><br/> - <em>Robert Gottlieb, in “<a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1760/the-art-of-editing-no-1-robert-gottlieb">The Art of Editing</a>”</em>http://indierockbakery.com/post/3646391033http://indierockbakery.com/post/3646391033Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:15:32 -0800<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bBJrjGSG2pw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Still got it. #gotemcoach</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/3428558318http://indierockbakery.com/post/3428558318Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:22:06 -0800KP: It's really good, and I got these for $6.99 for a six-pack. Not bad for an imported beer.<br /> IRB: Yeah, but it's imported from Canada.http://indierockbakery.com/post/3295915208http://indierockbakery.com/post/3295915208Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:28:01 -0800<object width="512" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/88bN9wicSxJmbIujctAMAg"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/88bN9wicSxJmbIujctAMAg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Ah, the circle of life.</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/3237187385http://indierockbakery.com/post/3237187385Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:31:20 -0800““No one appreciates anything when it’s going on.””<br/><br/> - <em>Kobe Bryant, in <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-kobelakers021011">an interview with Woj</a></em>http://indierockbakery.com/post/3218542261http://indierockbakery.com/post/3218542261Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:08:15 -0800<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/19115891" width="400" height="227" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>The trailer for <i><a href="http://zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork/">Bill Cunningham New York</a></i> looks promising (no punctuation, though?). More of Bill on IRB <a href="http://indierockbakery.com/post/88552692/on-the-street-dapper-as-fuck">here</a> and <a href="http://indierockbakery.com/post/139766565/high-fashion">here</a>.</p>http://indierockbakery.com/post/2915722728http://indierockbakery.com/post/2915722728Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:11:49 -0800