even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

(there was a misspelling in the books section that left me sad; but my own are so frequent nowadays that I don't wonder; but where are the copy editors?)

I like that piece on classical distractions! He owns up to his privilege, is frank, personal, funny… More music writing should be like that!

classical music culture is a fucking disgrace and I can't believe it's not dead yet

sir please stop breathing your life is disturbing our patrons

lol

But a steady, inescapable rhythm that is out of rhythm with everything else going on, even amid Stravinsky’s syncopations, totally compromises a meaningful experience of the music.

That sounds kinda cool tbh.

it's cosmic. the beat goes on man

classical nerds really hate the body and anything that reminds them too much of corporality (including any kind of beat or groove)

Coughing, breathing, medical apparatuses, what are you gonna do?

On the other hand, I will continue to complain about snack culture at cinemas until the day I die.

Unless you're Tár. xpost

or mozart I guess

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/style/teens-social-media.html

After the club members gathered logs to form a circle, they sat and withdrew into a bubble of serenity.

Some drew in sketchbooks. Others painted with a watercolor kit. One of them closed their eyes to listen to the wind. Many read intently — the books in their satchels included Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” Art Spiegelman’s “Maus II” and “The Consolation of Philosophy” by Boethius. The club members cite libertine writers like Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac as heroes, and they have a fondness for works condemning technology, like “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut. Arthur, the bespectacled PBS aardvark, is their mascot.

Jealous tbh

nothing wrong any of that really but the article firmly belongs in this thread

i think i was reading thompson, vonnegut, spiegelman and dostoevsky as a teen too; stop copying off my paper

https://i.imgur.com/xDOBbI3.jpg

sophia money-coutts

Belongs equally well on the Great Real Names thread.

what the fuck is an "explorer" in 2023 I call bullshit

Sophia Money-Counts

https://www.thecut.com/2023/02/the-fleishman-is-in-trouble-effect.html

This one caught my eye a couple days ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/business/david-solomon-dj-goldman-sachs.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/arts/design/art-labor-child-care.html

The ad, seeking a full-time “Executive/Personal Assistant” with “a high level of discretion,” had been posted by an anonymous but high-profile “Art World Family.” It was that phrase that first caught Colucci’s eye: “I thought it might have been a child-care service,” she explained. But the ad itself combined a tone so blithe with a detailed list of tasks so unreasonable that Colucci quickly posted it to the blog she co-founded, Filthy Dreams, under the title “I Found It: The Worst Art Job Listing Ever Created.”

And what made the blog post immediately catch fire across the internet was that it was only slightly crazier than the sorts of jobs many young people — the overeducated assistants, the underemployed M.F.A.s, all the well-dressed hordes of the exploited — already put up with to get a toehold in what looks like the glamour of the art world.

For starters, the lucky candidate would expect to work “in a dynamic, unstructured environment and possess flexibility to change course at a moment’s notice.”
Among many other domestic chores, the aspiring subordinate would “serve as the central point of communication to household staff (includes chef, nannies, landscapers, dog walkers, housekeeper, contractors, and building managers),” but also be left alone with the couple’s 4-year-old. Clothes would need to be picked up from “high end” stores, and one could expect to “coordinate all cleaning, repairs, and guest stays.” Do you have a green thumb? You’ll need one: The post requires “apartment rooftop garden maintenance.”

He or she would make restaurant reservations, R.S.V.P. to events, and “create detailed travel itineraries for family to follow” for domestic or international excursions — passports to hotels to airport escorts. (Oh, and manage travel bookings for members of the artist’s studio, too.)

But the point that really stayed with Colucci was the ad’s one-sentence synopsis of the job requirements: “The ideal candidate must be dedicated to a simple goal: make life easier for the couple in every way possible.”

“It’s just a total lack of self-awareness,” she said. “So of course I saw it and I laughed, ‘cause it’s hilarious.”

Apparently Tom Sachs

Introducing the Tom Sachs Store: https://store.tomsachs.org/

Wait til they see who shows up for the interview

I've seen this horror movie at least twice

See you soon @nft_paris !@tsrocketfactory pic.twitter.com/PaooayyxA0

— Tom Sachs (@tom_sachs) February 23, 2023

can't believe this guy is into NFTs!

I have those Tom sacks Nikes and now I feel like a schmuck

*Sucks

Inside David Harbour and Lily Allen's 'Weird and Wonderful' Brooklyn Town House
The Stranger Things actor and British singer-actor created a family oasis with AD100 designer Billy Cotton and architect Ben Bischoff of MADE

They could double date with Kate Nash and Ron Perlman

I genuinely couldn't live more than a few days in a house/apartment that was furnished and decorated like that. It isn't really meant to be lived in, like every other living space that gets featured in Architectural Digest.

Michael Imperioli's apartment is a nightmare

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/inside-white-lotus-star-michael-imperiolis-little-slice-of-history-in-new-york-city

Yeah, that looks like an upmarket episode of Storage Wars. I couldn't spend the night in someplace that crowded with shit, never mind get any work done.

The video is nightmare-inducing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHAvgEBnsk

"as moderns" wtf !

I have a feeling that since all these celebs have multiple homes, the ones they show AD or the Times are the ones they never actually live in.

One of the publishing world's quiddities is that Architectural Digest is not about architecture. Nor even interior design. It's about decorating.

What is the style of the Imperiolis' house? Late Restoration Throwup?

Villa N’asty

Imperioli looks so big in those photos and he’s not a big guy

Doctor, my eyes!

Kind of surprised that's to Imperioli's taste tbrh! I thought this guy was an old indiepunk. Isnt he into like My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteaus and shit? Why is he living in a Palazzo Versace resort.

he married an interior decorator

And whats going on here in his "study"? A painting, hanging in front of several shelves of the bookcase?! Who is working in this room? I see no laptop, no phones, no papers.

https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/63d020858f41ccd2536b05f3/master/w_1920%2Cc_limit/2022_AD_Imperioli9698_edit.jpg

That room would make me too dizzy to work.

He says he runs meditation sessions in there! with all that distracting clutter!

I mean I like clutter, you should see my house, every wall has something on it/against it/in front of it... but yeesh.

the thing about david harbour and lily allen's home is funnier if you'd seen harbour's previous AD feature before they got married - his old loft had a completely different style! and actually seemed really cozy - lots of white space, plants, and books. guess the new house was decorated mostly to lily allen's taste.

they say that repeatedly in the feature

Oh wow yeah that loft/warehouse space is great. I love the moroccan souk feel of that bathroom, i want one. I could not go from that to the overfussy barfarama townhouse. That cloth frill round the kitchen island is giving me anxiety hives.

...you know, apparently hammam was the word I wanted there and not souk. Thats embarrasing.