Sarah Meier

gq:

Amen! D’Angelo Is Back!!

Sh-t. Damn. Motherf—ker! If you love D’Angelo like we do, this one’s gonna give you chills. GQ presents the neo-soul legend’s first extended interview and his first photo shoot in more than a decade. Here’s a brief bit of GQ correspondent Amy Wallace’s spellbinding profile, and click here to read the whole thing.

Shame, guilt, repentance—D’Angelo knows them well. To say that he was raised religious doesn’t begin to capture it. He’s the son and the grandson of Pentecostal preachers. To D’Angelo, good and evil are not abstract concepts but tangible forces he reckons with every day. In his life and in his music, he has always felt the tension between the sacred and the profane, the darkness and the light.

“You know what they say about Lucifer, right, before he was cast out?” D’Angelo asks me now. “Every angel has their specialty, and his was praise. They say that he could play every instrument with one finger and that the music was just awesome. And he was exceptionally beautiful, Lucifer—as an angel, he was.”

But after he descended into hell, Lucifer was fearsome, he tells me. “There’s forces that are going on that I don’t think a lot of motherfuckers that make music today are aware of,” he says. “It’s deep. I’ve felt it. I’ve felt other forces pulling at me.” He stubs out his cigarette and leans toward me, taking my hand. “This is a very powerful medium that we are involved in,” he says gravely. “I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know? The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you’ve got to be careful.”

[Photograph by Gregory Harris]

Crying on a Saturday morning after watching this and Susan Boyle’s initial audition on Britain’s Got Talent.

I know every television programme loves a good tear jerking storyline, but strip it of the ratings, and it still comes down to truth.

Music is as universal as emotion, and will be the clearest measure of truth if delivered as such. The chance to reclaim what one might have been deprived of through this truth telling, through music, is one of the most moving symbols of hope that I have ever experienced, and I hope to spend the rest of my life surrounded by it…

I’m out of town. This is her dressing herself. @kayaysabel #PHFashionWeek (Taken with instagram)

thepenguinpress:

I’d like to believe that even though we are truly in an age where print is diminishing and reading a book has nothing to do with turning a page… by jove, if you create something that is meant to be touched — folks wanna touch it! AdHouse Books, Sing Statistics, Nobrow, Koyama Press—those peeps are my heroes! I want to see Ferocious move beyond its quarterly issues and start publishing the “Short Works” stories on paper, put a comic in print, publish a work of poetry, publish a work from our friends and collaborators… I want to go broke and I want to be surrounded by the smell of offset ink and uncoated paper. I believe in it.

A great interview in The Fox Is Black with Nate Utesch, founder of Ferocious Quarterly. I love that he used a national tour with his band to scout which bookstores and comic book shops could carry his magazine. 

My friends have friends that make cool s%^&.

Bottom to Top by Miles Bonny x B.Lewis

-s.

Listen to and download on iTunes or milesbonnyxblewis.bandcamp.com

finelinemagazine:

MARINA MOLARES

Spanish born artist Marina Molares has a lot of interesting work in her portfolio.  We only pulled from her most recent series of collages to show you these fun images, but she has a great collection of photography and installation work as well.

I know I am august.

alecshao:

Walt Whitman - Song of Myself (excerpts)

Looking forward to dinner with V tonight.

:)

-s.

—  it is a difficult city to verbally nerd out in. Niche and often misinterpreted, it has often been much easier to play to the tune of glamorous fashion sprite with a hint of a rebellious streak, than to get oblivion clouded masses to appreciate the beat of a geek.

Always been a bit of an oddity.

I look forward to being a student of an industry in a city that embraces that.

Can’t quit wit.

-s.

From one mutt to another - I feel you, Samon. So thoroughly.

thebridgefiles:

“No point in trying to understand Samon Kawamura from his nationality: half Japanese, half German, born in Berlin but raised in Tokyo, he’s your classic rootless kid – the sort that’s defined more by where he’s at than where he’s from. And where he’s at is hip-hop – soporific, jazzy instrumental hip hop that’s initially reminiscent of the Mo Wax catalogue, particularly the blunted beats of his countryman DJ Krush, but with occasional flashes of vision that hints at musical horizons that lay somewhere beyond your typical smoker’s choice fare.”

-Louis Pattison, BBC Music Review

helloyoucreatives:

MONSTER MILK

We believe kids would drink more milk if the packaging was this tasty.

teaim:

Monster milk, a fun identity designed for kids

(Source: kristinaberry)

I got it from my Mama. #supafly (Taken with instagram)