this is what i expect from the flaming lips concert tonight
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Salad Fingers by David Firth
Hello there young child, I’m here to inquire about your spoons.
The Man Who Fell to Earth - 1976 film starring David Bowie.
David Bowie, 1978, Madison Square Garden, $9.50
I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring. - David Bowie
HOW CAN I PROCURE THIS???
I want to watch Blue Velvet over the Christmas break… who is with me? I think the Den at Owyhee Plaza would be appropriate. I’ll see if it’s available.
WHITE DIAMONDS FOREVER.
Michelle Dockery by fashion illustrator David Downton for Vanity Fair, February 2012
Dockery […] spent an afternoon at Claridge’s in London with the celebrated illustrator David Downton, master of the light touch that goes deep. “The sense I had of Michelle,” says Downton, “is of somebody that is very intelligent and very ‘watchful’ … no, ‘watchful’ is the wrong word. She’s alive to life, to what’s going on.”
For three hours the artist sketched, the actress wore Givenchy and Balenciaga and Oscar de la Renta, and the two “Downtons” talked while a face was captured. Regal in the cheekbones, between-the-wars in her aloof beauty and that arched eyebrow, it’s a face that can go icy in an instant or warm like the dawn. “She has that thing of being classic and contemporary,” explains Downton, “that very strange mix where she looks at home, at ease, in period. But there’s also a glimmer, a spark.”
Bits and Bytes, a television program about computers, or rather about microcomputers — the small, personal ones that are selling like hot cakes nowadays.
Bits and Bytes was a Canadian television series, produced by TVOntario in 1983. It starred Luba Goy as the instructor, and Billy Van as the student. The show consisted of 12 episodes and featured many of the classic 80s microcomputers including the Apple ][, Commodore PET, VIC 20 and 64, Atari 800, TRS-80, TI 99 and the IBM PC.
The subjects were:
For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bits_and_bytes. This series has been made available on archive.org for posterity.
And, it is awesome.