end of The Road...

I just finished reading The Road. It was incredible and one of my favorites. A great unsensationalized view of the future. Read it.

The Road

I just started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Within the first 10 pages the mood was set so solid it was hard to put it down. It's the story of a father and son's walk and survival through a burned out American wasteland. He beautifully captures the desolation and loneliness of they're journey while keeping it tense and always slightly on egde. i'll update when the book is finished but so far this looks like a keeper. check it out.

“The genius of McCarthy’s work [is] in its bold, seamless melding of private revelation, cultural insight, and unabashed philosophizing . . . The freshness he brings to this end-of-the-world narrative is quite stunning: It may be the saddest, most haunting book he’s ever written or that you’ll ever read . . . The Road [is] more Time of the Wolf than Mad Max, and more Kuroi Ame than either of those . . . McCarthy’s purest fable yet . . . Hypnotic, gut-punching prose and bracing depictions of emotional longing . . . The tender precariousness of The Road’s human relationships is what finally makes it such a beautiful, difficult, near perfect work.”
–Mark Holcomb, The Village Voice

$11,000.00 Coffee

This past saturday (my birthday sucka) my friend Joe took me to the most rad coffee place. Cafe Grumpy on 20th st between 7th and 8th ave. It truely was some of the best coffee i've ever had, which is probably becuase they use a beautiful 11 thousand dollar coffee machine. It also helps that all they're coffee beans are roasted right there and they grind them special for each cup. Price wise it really wasn't that bad. i think i paid just over 2 bucks for a pretty good size cup. They have another location which i haven't been to in Brooklyn in Greenpoint. They don't have the magic machine that the Manhatten location does but i'm sure it's still good. If your in the city and your a coffee drinker you have to go. If your rich then buy one of those 11 thousand dollar machines and let's hang out.



Coffee Mug by The Descendents
Mug Mug Mug
Coffee Mug
Gonna Clear Away The Haze
Liquid Proof
That I Can Win This Race
Coffee Mug
The Grip That Keeps Me Tall
My Inter-Link
Keeps Me Questing All
I Don'T Need No Booze Or Drugs
I Just Chug-A-Lug-O My Coffee Mug
And I Don'T Need Your Kiss And Hug
I Just Chug-A-Lug-O My Coffee Mug
They Haven'T Banned
My Liquid Drug Of Choice
There'S Too Many Hooked
And They'Ve Got Too Much Voice
So For The Moment
We'Re All Pretty Good To Go
With 98 Cups
With 98 More To Go
I Don'T Need No Booze Or Drugs
I Just Chug-A-Lug-O My Coffee Mug
And I Don'T Need Your Kiss And Hug
I Just Chug-A-Lug-O My Coffee Mug
Here A Bean, There A Bean
Everywhere A Mean Mean
Bean Chug - A - Lug - O - My
Coffee - Mug, Mug, Mug, Mug

XY

Recently I've been totally pysched on a comic series called Y: The Last Man. Written by Brian K. Vaughn and published by Vertigo (sublabel of DC), Y is about the last man on earth and his male monkey after everything on earth with a y chromosome suddenly dies. The main character Yorick's main goal is to make it from Brooklyn to Australia, where he believes his girlfriend his. His adventure quickly get side tracked when he meets a secret agent intent on getting him to a docter in order to help save the human race. Along they way the run into several groups of women all dealing the the now manless society in different ways. Several wish to get there hands on the last man for a number or different reasons.

Y is incredibly well written and never manages to slow down. currently the series is up to issue 48. The best way to read the series is through the collections currently up to vol. 8, each collects about 6 or 7 issues and available at most comic shops and online. It's rumored that the series will only be 60 issues long. Jump on the train before the ride is over.

-Download the entire first issue here!
-Interview with Brian K. Vaughn at AV Club.
-Y: The Last Man Wikipedia page.
-blog for the most rad comic shop, rocketship.