Moshi Bonjour

2012-01-22T15:33:00.000-05:00

A Sunny Place For Shady People

2011-12-09T06:06:00.001-05:00

Use Your Eyes

2011-11-23T21:32:00.001-05:00

désolé

2011-11-21T05:11:00.003-05:00

Je sais. Je me vois quand j'examine vos yeux.

Spain emerges
and from every dead child a rifle with eyes,
and from every crime bullets are born
which will one day find
the bull's eye of your hearts.
-Neruda

imsoluckyimsoluckyimsolucky.

2011-11-09T06:25:00.002-05:00

Sodade

2011-11-03T18:43:00.001-04:00

One Of The Best Documentaries Ive Ever Seen

2011-10-27T03:17:00.001-04:00

Alma Vieja

2011-10-20T04:16:00.002-04:00

http://gizmodo.com/5851062/generation-x-is-sick-of-your-bullshit

2011-09-24T06:17:00.007-04:00

just another night in paradise over here.

...

2011-08-29T03:17:00.002-04:00

“… My generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Memories Of My Melancholy Whores”

and the rain...

2011-08-14T03:54:00.001-04:00

Monica Sharp Rockabilly Mix Vol. 3 by MonicaSharp

2011-08-01T02:25:00.001-04:00

nouvel amour

2011-07-23T05:43:00.000-04:00

Got a little blurb on the wild mag blog

2011-07-11T17:24:00.004-04:00

http://thewildmagazine.com/blog/wild-profile-dj-monica-sharp/

Good Life. Real Life.

2011-06-12T05:46:00.002-04:00

Themes For Rain

2011-05-17T13:31:00.002-04:00

2011-05-01T05:01:00.001-04:00

"A society grows great when old men plant trees, who's shade they know they shall never sit in."

2011-04-23T04:31:00.002-04:00

One Month

2011-04-17T16:56:00.002-04:00

"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
— Charles Bukowski

2011-04-01T20:08:00.003-04:00

The worst part about death isn't even the finding out, intial shock,or funeral.
Its after the dust settles, when the phone calls and text messages stop.
And only the dull sense of loss is left that withdrawls and emerges whenever it wants.
The realization that your time in life together is over.
The tears that creep up even years later when your song comes on the radio.
There is only solace in the fact that no one will ever hurt or disappoint you ever again.
That we had one hell of a ride.

Swimming In My Soul Somewhere

2011-03-21T20:33:00.000-04:00

2011-03-18T06:23:00.007-04:00

It is with the deepest sadness that I have to inform you all that our dear friend Chris Purtell has passed away in Argentina.
Just typing those words just now doesnt feel entirely real.

Chris was more than a friend. He was family.
I could write on for eternity about how wonderful Chris was...
But there are no words that would do him justice.

What a magnificent life you led my friend.
How blessed I am to have met someone of your caliber.

Nothing would have made Chris happier than for people to enjoy his music.
So download here if you wish
http://djchrispurtell.podomatic.com/

One Ghost

2011-03-13T05:29:00.002-04:00

Two Ghosts

2011-03-02T17:23:00.001-05:00

2011-02-20T22:31:00.004-05:00

"Deprivation seems a strange sort of gift. I find food in a couple hours of fishing each day, and I seek shelter in a rubber tent. How unnecessarily complicated my past life seems. For the first time, I clearly see a vast difference between human needs and human wants. Before this voyage, I always had what I needed — food, shelter, clothing, and companionship — yet I was often dissatisfied when I didn't get everything I wanted, when people didn't meet my expectations, when a goal was thwarted, or when I couldn't acquire some material goody. My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness."

Steven Callahan Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Culture Vampires (Can Only Be Drowned)

2011-02-16T04:51:00.001-05:00

Monica Sharp - Culture Vampires (Can Only Be Drowned) by MonicaSharp

New Mix.

2011-02-11T02:11:00.003-05:00

Monica Sharp - Rockabilly Whatever Mix 2 by MonicaSharp

2011-01-23T21:58:00.001-05:00

RIP Trish from Broadcast

Sorry, but you are looking for something that isnt here.

2010-12-28T03:27:00.002-05:00

François Charles Cachoud

2010-12-20T05:07:00.000-05:00

2010-12-10T03:52:00.001-05:00

“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, and make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert

HERO.

2010-11-30T16:37:00.001-05:00

“To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. Firstly we must understand what aspect of government or neocorporatist behavior we wish to change or remove. Secondly we must develop a way of thinking about this behavior that is strong enough carry us through the mire of politically distorted language, and into a position of clarity. Finally must use these insights to inspire within us and others a course of ennobling, and effective action.”

-Julian Assange, “State and Terrorist Conspiracies”

WEDNESDAY November 17th 8PM

2010-11-17T14:36:00.000-05:00

the Cake Shop
152 Ludlow St.,
between Stanton and Rivington
NYC

$10 suggested donation
more if you can less if you can't

Sal Principato Presents
Keep Live Music Alive On the LES
a benefit to support affordable rehearsal space on ludlow st.

(in descending order)
short sets by:

DEADBEAT DARLINGS (joseph, mo, sanjay & evan) (approx 11:20)
DAWN DRAKE & ZapOte (fierce female fronted latin funk & afro-beat dance band) (approx 10:40)
LIKI OUTHAÜS (boozy pop from the 90's revitalized) (approx 10:15)
FAITH (felice rosser, nao hakamada, billy ficca) (approx 9:40)
KALETA JA (featuring afrobeat sensation kaleta) (approx 9)
MOJASA (electro-soul featuring monica, jamal & sal) (8:30)
maybe one more opening act

Emcee: JACK SILBERT (author, comedian)

DJ: PADDY BOOM (ex-scissor sisters & faith)

links:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121284657930641&index=1

http://www.deadbeatdarling.com/band/
http://www.myspace.com/kaletamusic
http://www.myspace.com/faithny
http://www.myspace.com/djmonicasharp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Boom
http://www.salvatp.com
http://dawndrake.com/
http://www.myspace.com/dawndrake
http://www.saltinwound.com/author/jack-silbert/

Per aspera ad astra

2010-11-01T15:59:00.002-04:00

"If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote."
— David Foster Wallace

L'Étranger

2010-10-18T04:12:00.005-04:00

"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."
-Albert Camus

2010-09-08T14:38:00.001-04:00

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

- Albert Einstein

Exhaustion And The Voynich Manuscript

2010-08-26T01:18:00.004-04:00

Summer dies a little more each day as fall grows stronger
No matter.
Cause who cant sleep when its raining outside?

.

2010-08-23T15:39:00.006-04:00

How hard it is to find such respected things.
Les gens ils m'ennuient
And I cannot rest.
So I will not rest.

Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test

2010-08-23T14:40:00.000-04:00

2010-08-01T20:32:00.003-04:00

2010-07-18T15:19:00.002-04:00

-Confucius

2010-07-06T21:23:00.004-04:00

"He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"

"Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself."

"The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage."

Somewhere

2010-07-03T01:31:00.003-04:00

“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have."”
- Henry Rollins

Cut While Shaving

2010-06-26T05:33:00.002-04:00

It's never quite right, he said, the way people look,
the way the music sounds, the way the words are
written.
It's never quite right, he said, all the things we are
taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we
die, all the lives we live,
they are never quite right,
they are hardly close to right,
these lives we live
one after the other,
piled there as history,
the waste of the species,
the crushing of the light and the way,
it's not quite right,
it's hardly right at all
he said.

don't I know it? I
answered.

I walked away from the mirror.
it was morning, it was afternoon, it was
night

nothing changed
it was locked in place.
something flashed, something broke, something
remained.

I walked down the stairway and
into it.

-Charles Bukowski

I Grew My Bones..

2010-06-12T11:47:00.002-04:00

so they should not be buried or burned...
let them remain as a reminder in some way
of places traveled, people touched and a great life lived.

No... that's not what I was trying to say...333

2010-06-08T21:16:00.012-04:00

Its always 3:33 in the morning or afternoon
Every single time I look at the clock.
Shit its gotta mean something to somebody somewhere.
I cannot for one moment
Not be immensely greatful for the life that I was given...
Not even in a passing moment of sadness.
My life is gold...
And it is so wonderful for me now...
That I almost pity the poor bastards...
Almost.

The whole world belongs to you

2010-05-28T14:37:00.003-04:00

Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.

-From the Tao Te Ching

Believe in kissing.

2010-05-19T23:15:00.003-04:00

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no whenever you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

-Eve Ensler

This Is What You Shall Do...

2010-05-12T23:56:00.001-04:00

Alexander Stirling Calder

2010-05-03T01:52:00.008-04:00

Calder Wikipedia
Summer, Philly '09

2010-04-20T00:11:00.003-04:00

I want to become a woman of letters….
But stamps are too expensive and the mailbox too far.
Who would I write anyway?
No ones interested in the highs of Agoraphobia, or the lows of Politics.
No instead I think I shall lay in bed, where its safe and quiet
And dream of the perfect pen pal who thinks about all of the same weird thoughts
And dream of an address I can’t yet discover.

2010-04-19T20:04:00.001-04:00

2010-04-14T19:22:00.001-04:00

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness."

-Hunter S. Thompson

2010-04-06T01:59:00.005-04:00

Why did you only reach me so late? What happened to my life before?
I'd hunted for love, but found only mirages.

-Voltaire

It is preposterous to think that an intelligent woman needs a man to be happy.

-Emilie du Châtelet

Dear Lucy

2010-04-04T03:07:00.002-04:00

Letters Of Note

les gens m'ennuient

2010-03-06T07:52:00.002-05:00

There She Goes

2010-03-01T16:27:00.011-05:00

There's a girl who belongs to everyone and no one at all
With a quick thought and a brutal comeback
I see her all the time...
Most bore her...
She wont remember your name...
Out in the night always on someones arm but never staying too long
No ones ever good or true enough
Heavy headed and uninspired
There she goes... The last of the intellectuals.. the last of the dreamers
She is not one to seek you out.

A Beautiful Ocean

2010-02-24T02:53:00.001-05:00

Can cure any ailment of the head, soul or heart.

All life is an experiment...

2010-02-09T14:27:00.001-05:00

The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

tout le monde peut le voir mais vous

2010-02-06T14:43:00.002-05:00

"super elegant. drinks like a fish. she's a throw back. she's dorothy parker."

Why Darwin’s “Adapt or Die” Policy Should Be Applied To The Plight Of The Poor And Middle Classes

2010-01-27T01:50:00.007-05:00

With the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting Corporations the same rights as “people” its no secret to any thinking person that the ruling is a knife in the back to millions of ordinary Americans. The passing of such a ruling is literally the lawful allowance of bribery from Companies with no conscience (only people can have those) to purchase even more influence on Capitol Hill. Goldman Sachs got away with paying a disgustingly low $14 million dollars in taxes at a 1% tax rate after reporting 2.3 billion in profits. The top 10 percent of earners in the U.S. now get nearly 50 percent of all income earned in America, the highest in recorded history. The thieves in Washington are seemingly out for blood, and by blood I mean money… and by money I mean yours.

With a dangerously uneducated public, little by little, day-by-day, lots of really nasty little laws are being passed and drawn up... and mostly overlooked. Not only do many large Corporations have a death grip on the political processes of the US, but they are using this power to literally do us physical and mental harm for profit. The federal government is encouraging US farmers to use runoff from coal-fired power plants on their fields, runoff which includes; mercury, arsenic and lead. The chemical BPA, which is used in many plastic products, has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and liver-enzyme abnormalities and is yet to be banned. Our drinking water contains traces of many dangerous chemicals and also a vast array of pharmaceuticals, no one knows the long-term effects this will have on us. Our food supply is host to numerous carcinogens, chemicals, antibiotics and hormones many of which are banned in Europe as a potential risk to human health. Carcinogens are everywhere in our food and water supply. Cancer kills an estimated 559,888 Americans a year and is the number 2 cause of death in the United Stated behind heart disease. And let us not forget the 45000 people who die from lack of Health Insurance each year.

Darwin’s “adapt or die” policy should be applied literally to the current political and economic environment of the poor and middle classes. If we as people do not come together and change these odds that are against us, we will only leave a much greater problem for our children… such as the one that was left to us. A culture that exists to buy things and look good doing it is simply not sustainable. Apathy runs rampant in this country, and it’s literally killing us as a people whilst the banks, major corporations and the wealthy pillage our country leaving nothing untouched in their search for more wealth. People should realize that at any given moment, we could cast these things aside, educate ourselves, boycott any unethical company or politician, and live better lives, Its just that simple.

“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau

SOURCES:

Supreme Court Rolls Back Campaign Cash Limits
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34822247/ns/politics-supreme_court/

Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1%, or $14 Million
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=a6bQVsZS2_18

Concentration of Wealth in Hands of Rich Greatest On Record
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/15/concentration-of-wealth-in-hands-of-rich/

Impact of Coal Mine Dump Contaminated Soils on Elemental Uptake by Spinach
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a742064827&db=all

How Dangerous is BPA?
http://envirolaw.com/how-dangerous-is-bpa/

US government wants farmers to dump heavy metals on fields
http://www.naturalnews.com/027982_heavy_metals_food_crops.html

US Agencies Recognize BPA as dangerous toxin
http://www.efitnessnow.com/news/2010/01/15/us-agencies-recognize-bpa-as-dangerous-toxin/

Meds Found In Water may Be Affecting Humans
http://cbs3.com/national/medicine.found.water.2.673206.html

CDC US Cancer stats
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/cancer.htm

Lack of Health Insurance kills 45000 a year
http://health-insurance.suite101.com/article.cfm/lack_of_health_insurance_kills_45000_a_year

Winter Disco Mix

2010-01-22T15:58:00.001-05:00

Monica Sharp - Disco Mix by MonicaSharp

Tips For A Successful New York City New Years Shit Show Eve

2009-12-31T15:02:00.005-05:00

1. Never leave Brooklyn, especially to go to Manhattan
2. Leave no man behind
3. Never pay a cover
4. Car service numbers are useless
5. The subway is a party in its own
6. No shots before 1am
7. Stay out of the emergency room at all costs
8. You will more than likely lose something... make sure its not your phone
9. Your bartender/bouncer/barback is already gonna be stressed, don't act like an asshole
10. Don't act like an asshole

Goodbye 2009

2009-12-29T16:46:00.002-05:00

This was the greatest year of my life thus far, I want to say thanks to everyone who added positive aspects to my life. Some things I’ve learned:

Your real friends will help you move
Nothing will guide you better than your instincts
New York City is one of the most amazing places in the world
I am proud to call Brooklyn my home
It is possible to fall in love in five days
San Loco continues to make the best drunk food in existence
My luck is increasing somehow and anything is possible

As my birthday approaches (*COUGH* January 1st) I want to thank all of you for another amazing year, gonna be hard to top that one.

I love you all

.....

2009-12-29T15:26:00.004-05:00

Not sure if im screwed or if I have it made
But if I died tomorrow I must say that I would be absolutely satisfied.

Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll

2009-12-20T23:24:00.001-05:00

"Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested . . . Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll."
— Hunter S. Thompson

Atlas & Fuck It! Mondays

2009-11-16T12:21:00.011-05:00

I could write a novel about this bar…. EASILY. Atlas was a dingy dive bar located on the corner of 21st and South in Philadelphia. My friend Drew worked the bar and needed a Dj for a Monday night. I was young and just getting started so I agreed, I decided to name the night “Fuck It!” mostly because I knew on a Monday night Djing at a dive bar, I wasn’t going to make shit for money. The bar was run down and the owner Nick was a very intimidating South Philly man, rumored to have lit an enemy’s van on fire once. He looked like Jerry Garcia but Nick usually never spoke… he yelled, he lived alone above the bar and usually didn’t leave his apartment, he would ALWAYS call and complain about the noise coming from the bar. I remember strange women going in and out of his apartment a hell of a lot. Once a friend of mine who was kicked out of the bar was outside trying to yell up at Nick’s apartment window to get back in. Nick dumped an entire fucking bottle of laundry detergent on him, when my friend walked back into the bar he was fucking GLOWING under the black lights. That’s how Nick was. To be honest Nick was the first person who gave me a tough skin, shit nothing really scares me in comparison to that man, dude was nuts. The bar had about 10 names in 10 years, and was a strip club before it became Atlas. There were clouds painted on all of the walls, Christmas and black lights everywhere and the carpet looked like someone had died on it. The place always smelled like weed smoke and the bathrooms were filthy dirty and always broken. The bar back Juan once mentioned he had actually been to a third world country and the Atlas bathroom was worse than anything he had seen there…. he was serious. Despite this place being a shit hole it was actually the very rare combination of right place right time. No one gave a shit about anything in that place, not even Nick. There were $3 dollar pitchers of beer all night and I don’t know anyone who didn’t get at LEAST one free drink in that place.

I started the weekly with very low expectations but the first night was absolutely packed and I ran that night for about 3 years. It was rowdy but there were rarely any fights. I booked everybody who would play on a fucking Monday in Philly some of whom got somewhat well known Jay Haze, AC Slater, Sean O’ Neal, Ivan Ross, god I cant even remember anymore. Usually the Philly hometown heroes played. The place was a shit show most of the time and the Dj’s were forced to drink a shot of Jameson every hour or they weren’t allowed to play (James hated this)

Once when I was setting up, an off duty cop came in, he was telling us about how drunk he was and we told him we weren’t buying that he was a cop because he was too drunk… WRONG. He proceeded to get on his phone and call out that a cop was shot in our bar.. we thought he was joking… WRONG AGAIN. 5 minutes later 8 cops rush into the bar guns drawn screaming. My boyfriend at the time gave me a “were gonna fucking die” look. Needless to say the sober cops were not amused it was a prank. That’s how retarded that place was, random shit like that always happened.

There’s something special about dive bars. No ones worries about how cool they are, what anyone else is wearing, who anyone else is. People want to drink… cheap and throw an occasional chair. In clubs and upscale bars there is a system, people want to go, want to be seen and want to get laid and spend a lot of money doing it. But in the dive’s people go to NOT be seen, of course want to get laid but could honestly care less if they don’t and don’t get all bitchy if the drink isn’t mixed perfectly.

I never thought I would say this, but I miss that bar. Now there is a new bar there that serves “brunch”.

The one good thing about the recession is that it’s knocking these places back to their former shit hole glory.

"3rd And South"

2009-11-16T02:05:00.011-05:00

“3rd & South”

My first real apartment was on 3rd and south street in Philadelphia above a dirty dive called “name that bar”. Moving in was terrible. The apartment was rented previously by a heroin addict who had been thrown out (later I found out that he was in jail). When I moved in I moved a shelf to have a (thankfully capped) heroin needle fall off the top and hit me in the forehead. It was pretty much an omen of things to come. The owner (a rumored drug addict) used to build bombs for GE in the 60’s. Ironically he was an ex hippie with wild (and always) messy long grey hair, who rarely wore a shirt. He once told me that “love was like catching lightning in a bottle”, I never forgot that. He bought the building with the GE money and lived underneath us in a dilapidated apartment that held literally STACKS of VHS porn as well as an unarmed warhead in his place. I was 20 (and a fucking idiot to take this apartment) but the rent was cheap, the apartment itself was in a great location, I worked at the bar downstairs and my friend “crazy colleen” lived next door. Colleen was a stripper who practiced Wicca quite often, and would have insanely wild fights with her then boyfriend. She often told me about how aliens would come and check people out when there was a lot of fog and that my best friend and I were from the same alien ship. Once Colleen found a cat “Jinx” who she abandoned when she moved out, the landlord threatened to kill the cat, fortunately my best friend saved her and still has her. Regardless I loved Colleen, she would give you the shirt off of her back, and I often got into a lot of shit trying to protect her, usually from herself. People told me Colleen used to be normal, but the Russians tested E pills on her in the rave days and she went nuts. Last I heard she was living out of her car in South Philadelphia, but who knows Philadelphia is a city filled with rumor. The place was in great condition but the building itself was a DISASTER. There was a rowdy college bar next door we would occasionally shoot fireworks at during especially loud nights. The bar wasn’t all bad though, sometimes we would lower a bucket with a rope into the backyard and the bartender would fill it with bud light. There was no wall in the hallway outside of the apartment, only chicken wire. One drunken misstep and you would be terribly injured if not killed. There were also no lights in the hallway, which made this especially scary and dangerous coming home late at night. The attic above the apartment was abandoned and there was a LOT of weird random shit up there, old dusty photos, records, books, furniture. It was like a museum of stuff abandoned by all of the weird freaks that had lived in that place over the years. Some squatter friends of mine, and their dog liberty lived up there for a little while and discovered a fully working claw foot bathtub hidden under trash.

The bar downstairs was rumored to be a stop on the Underground Railroad, and there was a tiny hideout carved into the stone which only people who worked there knew about. It was fucking CREEPY late at night. The heat never did quite work and I usually could see my breath while I worked in winter months. There were random leaky pipes that would drop random leaky shit on random heads quite often. The owner was a GENIUS with electronics, I’m guessing from his GE days. He would often rewire things and turn off the heat, hot water, and lights when he needed money. There was very rarely ever hot water, so I would shower at a friends gym down the street. The owner always complained that the hot water was broken but once for 2 weeks when he was in jail (I’m guessing for some drug shit) everything worked perfectly.

My roommate had just moved in from Baltimore and had a deep bond with my cat “chunk”. We got along pretty well and were poor as shit, I mean poor poor. We both were only Djing and working in shitty bars and we busted our asses to pay rent and somehow survived. There was a pizza shop down the street that would trade us beer from our bar for food. Philly punk legend Mike Lasater would often hook up margaritas and food from Copa along with a multitude of other bartenders. 611 records, coffee shops and parks were the usual hangout spots during daylight hours. If you lived on South Street you pretty much knew everyone who worked or lived on that street and everyone hooked one another up with discounts, drinks, free stuff.

The apartment was condemned which I will write about in an insane ass story later that involved a cop falling through the roof. But I'll always look back on this apartment and remember when I very first fell in love with the amazing city of Philadelphia.

I’ve been pretty uninspired with my writing lately, and read a good quote

'don't get it right, get it written.'

So I’ve decided to write about the thing that truly inspires me, my life.
I hope you guys all remember these moments if mentioned and I’ll try (not promising anything) to write more about these insane moments in the future.

Philly truly is the city of brotherly love, people helped each other when they were down and still do. That being said, I miss you all terribly and its stories like this that make me realize how amazingly strange and wonderful my weird ass life is.

Let's Get Lost

2009-11-13T21:26:00.002-05:00

"Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning." -- Shlomo Carlbach

MIND = BLOWN

2009-11-09T20:53:00.001-05:00

It's time I suppose

2009-10-27T19:07:00.000-04:00

Been Pretty Uninspired

2009-10-26T22:41:00.003-04:00

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." Hemingway

Music For Fall

2009-10-07T14:53:00.005-04:00

A lot of you have been asking me for music. So I made you a little sleepy playlist for the fall. All mps's are up on zshare just click the song titles to grab them. Enjoy!

Slowdive - Blue Skied an' Clear
Pretty much the best song ever made

Bedhead - Foaming Love
sleepy 90's indie rock, an absolute favorite band of mine

Papercuts - Summer Long

Neil Halstead - Witless or wise
Slowdive's neil halstead

Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul

Wax Doctor - Drums In A Grip
Love Wax Doctor, Love Jungle!

Deux - Game And Performance
i usually hoard little gems like this, grab it before I change my mind.

T.C. Curtis - you Should Have Known Better
Another gem from the disco days. Amazing tune I would normally hoard.

Portishead - It Could Be Sweet
Raver Early Morning/Afternoon Anthem

This Scarlet Train - Picture Frame
Recently spent 3 days sorting through 400 hard to find no wave tracks, this was one of the rare gems I found.

Barbara Lewis - Pushin A Good Thing Too Far

Teengirl Fantasy - Thieves

“Everyone has the right to be the hero in their own life.”

2009-09-23T00:26:00.002-04:00

Cherish The Day

2009-09-22T22:47:00.001-04:00

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

2009-09-21T16:06:00.006-04:00

Erik Satie - Gymnopedies 2 (ZShare)

Tones On Tail - Lions (Zshare)

YLT - Little Eyes (Z Share)

Neil Young - A Dream That Can Last (Z Share)

Now I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms

2009-09-18T15:26:00.009-04:00

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (ZShare)

Dear God...

2009-09-15T00:01:00.001-04:00

Noam

2009-09-07T21:58:00.001-04:00

Who Wants The Biggest Star...

2009-08-29T15:12:00.004-04:00

When You Can Have The Brightest
Keep it real humans

-Mon Sharp

If Anything Should Ever Happen...

2009-08-25T13:45:00.007-04:00

Recent events have made me realize how precious and fleeting life is.
Especially near death experiences.
So if anything should ever happen to me find some solace in this
Life is beautiful and moves quick... enjoy it
If you have ever brought a smile upon my face
Been a drunken comrade
Helped me in any way
Or joined me in some bout of unfortunate political banter
I Thank You.
Much love to everyone from the bottom of my heart.

The Sea In Barcelona...

2009-08-24T00:58:00.005-04:00

Does not lie
And when you swim in it you can see the sand no matter how deep
Except for the flakes that look like GOLD in the water
If you have never been, you would never know it existed
Reflecting off of the brightest and most genuine sunlight
It's the truest thing I've ever seen...
That was real anyway...
All will be well
My Bandage, My Barcelona

The Meaning Of Life

2009-08-22T01:18:00.005-04:00

Is to make your own expectations...

Apparently....

2009-08-16T20:03:00.001-04:00

I'm on TMZ!
FUCK YES!!!

PREACH!!!

2009-08-02T14:17:00.001-04:00

There are not enough words..

2009-07-23T23:04:00.003-04:00

To describe how much I absolutely love this man

WOLF

2009-07-23T15:48:00.006-04:00

So after I saw this today..

I decided I really want and NEED a baby wolf cub in my life
I'm imagining my wolf experience to be somewhat like this...

(here is my pet wolf hailing me a taxi)

My pet wolf could also stop future babies from crying and/or raise them!
I'll keep you posted

The Kinks - Monica

2009-07-18T15:05:00.001-04:00

my new theme song

PREACH!!!

2009-07-17T14:35:00.001-04:00

Tonight will hurt Tomorrow

2009-07-16T18:25:00.002-04:00

Yeats

2009-07-15T22:53:00.003-04:00

When You Are Old

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

-Yeats

2009-07-09T01:30:00.005-04:00

'If you do not work for others you will not have been worth the upbringing'
-Dr Richard Marsden Pankhurst (Sylvia Pankhurst's Father)

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.
Sylvia Pankhurst

Plutarch

2009-07-09T00:30:00.006-04:00

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. -Plutarch

Malraux

2009-07-08T03:05:00.005-04:00

"The mystery of life appears to each one of us as it appears to almost every woman when she looks into a child's face and to almost every man when he looks into the face of someone dead"

"The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."

"Man is what he hides, a wretched little pile of secrets,"
-Andre Malraux

Rosseau

2009-07-08T02:40:00.004-04:00

"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. ” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they."— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘The noblest work in education is to make a reasoning man, and we expect to train a young child by making him reason! This beginning at the end; this is making an instrument of a result. If children understood how to reason they would not need to be educated.” –Rousseau, Emile.

Rousseau's essay, "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" (1750), argued that the advancement of art and science had not been beneficial to mankind. He proposed that the progress of knowledge had made governments more powerful, and crushed individual liberty. He concluded that material progress had actually undermined the possibility of sincere friendship, replacing it with jealousy, fear and suspicion.

Summer thus far has been amazing (for the days that it hasn't been raining)

2009-06-29T20:31:00.004-04:00

Gastr Del Sol - The Seasons Reverse (ZSHARE)

In Search of the Flower that Blooms Every 3,000 Years

2009-06-23T18:11:00.001-04:00

Die Tanzdiele - Strandgut (ZShare)

Dina Goldstein

2009-06-19T15:02:00.001-04:00

via jezebel

Amazing Videos from Iran Today

2009-06-17T15:20:00.000-04:00

The Death Of Print

2009-06-16T15:11:00.009-04:00

Ahh the New York Post, you have truly reached a new low (previously thought impossible)

Glad you can turn stuff like this into a joke in some sick way

...dont get me wrong weve had our good times..

But It's over. It's not me it's you.