Muusic

Pictures of Kurt Cobain Looking Happy

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by Emily Temple

Though we know there were many times in his life when he was a happy, goofy guy, he very publicly struggled with depression, addiction, and illness, and when you think of Cobain, you tend to think of a doleful guy barely looking out from behind his matted blond locks. So, to celebrate the good times in Cobain’s life, we’ve collected a series of photographs with family, friends, and bandmates, where the guy just looks really happy. Because that’s how we’d like to remember him.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s Rapturous List of His Favorite American Foods

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by Judy Berman

From France to Italy, Europe is supposed to be the global capitol of cuisine. But the famously opinionated Mark Twain didn’t think so, and when he tour the continent in the 1870s, he found himself longing for good, old American food. Lists of Note has harvested from Twain’s travelogue, A Tramp Abroad, the author’s lengthy rundown of everything he wanted to eat as soon as he returned to the States. There’s a lot of seafood and fowl on the menu, along with ample produce and, of course, apple pie. We don’t envy the chef tasked with preparing this feast, but it sure does make us feel patriotic. And hungry.

Mark Twain’s homecoming meal:

It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had a nourishing meal, but I shall soon have one — a modest, private affair, all to myself. I have selected a few dishes, and made out a little bill of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot when I arrive — as follows:

Radishes. Baked apples, with cream
Fried oysters; stewed oysters. Frogs.
American coffee, with real cream.
American butter.
Fried chicken, Southern style.
Porter-house steak.
Saratoga potatoes.
Broiled chicken, American style.
Hot biscuits, Southern style.
Hot wheat-bread, Southern style.
Hot buckwheat cakes.
American toast. Clear maple syrup.
Virginia bacon, broiled.
Blue points, on the half shell.
Cherry-stone clams.
San Francisco mussels, steamed.
Oyster soup. Clam Soup.

From James Joyce to Nora Barnacle, 1909

Dirty Literary Love Letters Written by Famous Authors

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by Emily Temple

The king of the dirty love letter, this is only one of Joyce’s many graphic missives to his wife. What can we say? The man was into flatulence.

“My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not

You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore’s glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover’s fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your s

kirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling’s cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly. like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.

Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.”

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty in His AP Case

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by Caroline Stanley

Earlier this year Shepard Fairey settled his civil case with the Associated Press over the misuse of Mannie Garcia’s photo of Barack Obama as the basis for his ubiquitous Hope poster. While neither side was willing to back down from a legal standpoint, Fairey agreed that in the future he wouldn’t use AP photos in his work without obtaining the proper license. There were also some confidential financial terms set, despite the fact that Fairey claimed that he never personally profited from sales of the image.

Today, calling it the “worst thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Fairey pleade

d guilty in the related criminal case, which was opened back in 2009 after he admitted to submitting false images and destroying others during his legal battle with the news organization. Apparently he now faces a maximum sentence of six months in prison, and $250,000 in fines for contempt of court, with his sentencing date set for July 16th. Do you think this means no new posters for Obama’s reelection campaign.

Creative Habitation

Inside Artists’ Living Spaces


by Emily Temple
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This week, New York Magazine ran a series of fairly great articles documenting apartment living in New York City. One of these in particular, entitled ‘The Perpetual Garret: Where the starving artists slept’ caught our eye for its rare peek into the homes of some of our favorite artists. Inspired, here we’ve put together some of our favorites from the NY Mag article as well as some of our other favorite artists’ lairs from around the world (and the internet), the whole collection running the gamut from the tiny and cramped to the ridiculously messy to the spacious and modern. Click through to see how the other half lives.

Marina Abramovic

Contemporary Japanese Art

Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art

by Doug Levy
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When New York’s Japan Society planned its latest art exhibition, Bye Bye Kitty!!!, its goal was to provide an alternative view of a country whose art has long been associated with the overly cute and cartoonish. With this month’s disaster in Japan, the exhibit takes on greater significance, spotlighting a grimmer, more chaotic vision of life in the newly ravaged nation. Subtitled Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, the show is divided into three sections — “Critical Memory,” “Threatened Nature,” and “Unquiet Dream” — and features a selection of artists who are pushing boundaries in their country’s creative realms.

One out of ten

Damaged Goods: The 10 Best Abused Artworks Ever

by Paul Laster
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Guards at the Museum of Modern Art thought a 22-year-old art student had fallen ill when he vomited blue throw-up on Piet Mondrian’s 1940s masterpiece Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow, but later found out it was part of a trilogy of colored vomiting acts that the perpetrator had planned. His destructive 1996 performance, titled “Responding to Art,” was exposed after he upchucked a red slime on a Raoul Dufy painting at the Art Gallery of Ontario a month. Fortunately, he never completed the series and neither work was permanently damaged.