He blogs about a sweater

[imomus]

If this were a normal day, I'd no doubt be chattering away here about how I'd dined on Sunday with the fascinating Susan Surface, or lunched on Monday with the charismatic Bob Stein (who founded the excellent Voyager multimedia company) and his associates at the Institute for the Future of the Book.

But since today is my "write the next Wired column day" and I'm right in the middle of churning out a thousand words about something life-shatteringly important before heading up to Bushwick to see Rusty Santos' studio and do some vocals on a new track he's made, I'm just going to be lazy and show you a picture of a new green sweater I bought when I visited Beacon's Closet in Williamsburg yesterday with my friend Junko. Oh blogging, thou art fickle!

Comments

[lucaskrech.livejournal.com]

How bloggish of you. Sweater looks good with the blue.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Yes, "It is only the superficial who believe that blue and green should not be seen", as Oscar Wilde put it (perhaps).

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

is that a hood protruding from your yarns or perhaps a bit of superhero attire you neglected to tuck away....or a cover for a deflated second head?
hmm. painting. i've lost faith in painting, even with the modfern tacked on.

anyway, yout hair looks soft.

that is a nice sweater indeed.

[violetshuraka.livejournal.com]

went to the whitney on saturday.
you were certainly my favorite "exhibition."
i heard two young indian ladies complaining to the security guard about you, outside of the duchamp room... they thought you were just an insane person who happened to sneak a megaphone into the exhibit. it was pretty funny to hear him explaining to them that you were, in fact, part of the exhibit!
i think you confused A LOT of people...
HA.

and like the typical blogg "friend" I respond...

[svenskasfinx.livejournal.com]

Nice jumper! Ooooh Cute! I want one too! :P

[tundraboy.livejournal.com]

That, sir, is one exquisite sweater.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Is there somekind of connection between your dressing style and what to be found in that magazine?

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Well then, you're probably going to like my new suit cut from blackwatch tartan, with delicious lavender lining.

Sorry we missed one another las night,
W

[thebestweapon.livejournal.com]

feel free to disregard, but on the off chance you have any thoughts on team japan's win at the inaugural world baseball classic, please do share them.

[lucaskrech.livejournal.com]

I am moving into the "look at the surface and you will see everything there is to know about me" camp. And I like blue and green, almost as much as purple and green.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

And here's an update: me and Rusty recording a track called "The Comet" for his next album, due in May, at his studio in Bed-Sty (not Bushwick, in fact it's me that lives in Bushwick):

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

What kind of pants is that now again? They look fairly close to thaiwanese fishing pants except they seem to be made by synthetic materials.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

They're plastic pants from an Osaka uniform store, probably used by Japanese tradesmen who have to get wet. Plasterers? Dolphin-plumbers?

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

For those who trade ice in the middle of the summer? "I-only-sell-stuff-when-a-rainstorm-arrive"?
Or.... Fish... Traders?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Fish traders, that sounds about right.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

I started reading before I looked at the pic, so the bottom half of it was absent; my brain filled in the blanks, putting you on the potty with a good book. *juvenile snicker*

Re: that is a nice sweater indeed.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! The more people who complain, the better. That way the Whitney will reduce my hours and I can wander about the city shopping for secondhand clothes rather than being a living sculpture.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

If fish trader's pants is wrong then the pants are hiding a secret yet to be revealed!(Not to be meant as a double entendre).

You've just reminded me

[iamcoreyd.livejournal.com]

I need more tea. What kind are you having there?

[pintele.livejournal.com]

Forget about the sweater; check out those pants!

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

i like Rusty's sweater too.

V vs U [necks]

and...nice watch.

Re: You've just reminded me

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Hikari sencha, the fastest tea in Shizuoka Prefecture.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Rusty's sweater has strategically-placed holes in it. It looks like very good quality, yet it has these holes. I wondered, when I noticed them, if he'd actually taken a very good cashmere sweater and cut holes in it deliberately, to give the impression of being a charming preppy fellow down on his luck, or whether his house is merely infested with moths.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

i often wondered that about fellow Columbia students wearing classy jackets with elbow patches. These sorts were particularly plentiful at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on Amsterdam. Down-on-your-luck/humble-pie chic, I suppose, though I found it a triffle annoying.

[madge-pastiche.livejournal.com]

That's a seriously great sweater. I knit, and from what I can see that sweater is knit in the round, as opposed to in pieces, which makes it really cool as a piece of construction. I think it's all knit on circular needles, which are needles that are joined at the ends so you can knit a tube- it was probably made by someone who hates beyond hate the part of knitting where you have to laboriously sew all the pieces of your pattern all together. People like that invent really neat ways to construct everything out of tubes. Wicked. (Or it was some fancy designer getting snooty on the knitting crowd- but it looks handmade.) Your sweater is architecture!

[(Anonymous)]

I went to Omotesando Hills yesterday. Dull and expensive stores. One thing intrested me though. It was not the avarage shopping muzak streaming but the sounds of WATER DROPS! Then I came to think about a post you wrote some weeks ago about kimonos over t-shirts and drones rather than music.

Yah, and I went to Office after wards. Super place!

-hugo

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It has a little label on it saying... no, I'm not going to tell you, it's too embarrassing, I'm just going to cut the label off and let people think an artist or architect made it. It was... it was Vito Acconci, and he... he just made one of them, um, yeah.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

goshdarn that Vito....i was planning a comically large mallet for whacking the side of my Russian comrade/housemate's head each time he sneezed [as art, you know], but my boyfriend tells me "Vito did it." or something to that effect. sigh.

Re: that is a nice sweater indeed.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you already getting a bit bored with your Whitney gig?

[madge-pastiche.livejournal.com]

Aaah! Tell, tell! French connection? Versace? What, what?

[viispury.livejournal.com]

Cup from ikea

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Er, Ted Baker (http://www.tedbaker.co.uk/icat/womensknitwear).

[madge-pastiche.livejournal.com]

Close friend of Vito. Probably his secret lover.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Quite.