Picture by Chiara Tocci.

This looks terrific.

Bang, Zoom. Cheap laffs on a Monday morning. (Thanks to Diane for hipping me to this site.)

Alexandra does Tabbouleh.

“Long Island Degrees”–De La Soul

[Photo Via: Film is God]

“Still Life with Fruit and Vessels on a Red Background” by Pierre Skira (1985)

From A Continuous Lean: New Balance Kicks.

[Drawing Via: Alexandra 1]

Rollin”…

[Photo Via: Bygone America]

From our boy Eric Nusbaum.

Cinephilia and Beyond gives us this dope post on Chinatown.

Sweatin’.

[Photo Credit: Joakim Eskildsen]

Smitten Kitchen gives pickled vegetable sandwich slaw. Sign me up.

Over at Newsweek, Andrew Romano interviews Rick Rubin:

Your taste—your ear—has been spot-on again and again, across genres. What’s the secret?

I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being good is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we’re carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what’s happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better. But it’s not the voice in your head. It’s a different voice. It’s not intellect. It’s not a brain function. It’s a body function, like running from a tiger.

Instinct.

Yes. But being open to using your instincts instead of going, “Oh, that’s not going to work.” Or listening to the part of your brain that goes, “Oh, that’s out of tune.” Or the part of your brain that says, “That’s too loud.” You have to shut off all of those voices and look for these special moments—these moments that you accept you have no control over. So much of my job is to not think—to be open to what’s there, and then use my intuition to see where it takes me.

Photograph by David Walter Banks.

Cool Out:

[Painting by Antoni Tapies]

Via the essential Cinephilia and Beyond, here’s a good, long interview with Brian De Palma:

Louis:

Appetite for China gives Kung Pao Bacon: Sure!

Over at audible, you can download the essay, “In Memory of a Friend, Teacher and Mentor” by Phillip Roth for free. Here’s more on the story at the Paris Review.

[Photo Credit: Dan Burn-Forti]