January 2011
December 2010
Steven Millhauser: “Getting Closer" →
bthny:
But now, as he stands at the end of waiting, something is wrong. He’s shaken deep down, as though he’ll lose something if the day begins. If he goes into the river he’ll lose the excitement, the feeling that everything matters because he’s getting closer and closer to the moment he’s been waiting for. When you have that feeling, everything’s full of life, every leaf, every pebble. But...
Shuffle Mix 12.10 →
Asobi Seksu /// “Counterglow”
ceo /// “Halo”
Crystal Stilts /// “Magnetic Moon”
Diddy Dirty Money /// “Coming Home (feat. Skylar Grey)”
Games /// “Strawberry Skies”
The Go! Team /// “Buy Nothing Day”
Gypsy Death And You /// “Sound Of The Sun”
Hudson Bell /// “Win Or Lose The Day”
Hurts ///...
Trying to decide how chilling it is that iTunes shuffle played Joy Division’s “Atmosphere” and New Order’s “Your Silent Face” back-to-back.
Trying to decide how chilling it is that iTunes shuffle played Joy Division’s “Atmosphere” and New Order’s “Your Silent Face” back-to-back.
Loomer /// “Ceiling” /// Ceiling
A...
“What did she say?”
“That if she had her way, there’d be no plants.”
“…”
“They’re unprofessional.”
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Ride /// “Leave Them All Behind” ///...
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Now that we’re somewhat distanced from this abhorrent series of events, I thought I might offer my probably tasteless observation that if life were a Hitchcock film, Tyler Clementi would have faked his suicide to completely ruin the lives of his tormentors and then lammed it in San Francisco for a few years while waiting for them to get out of prison or otherwise resume their public...
I was already five minutes late for work when I woke, meaning I had to rush out the door and hail a cab to speed me downtown via the West Side Highway, which was moving sluggishly enough that I considered bashing my brains out on the window, at least until we saw the reason for the holdup, a guy that the cabbie laughed long and hard about because he was standing on the guard rail and wearing a...
americanroulette:
Galaxie 500 — “Blue Thunder”
...
dpdsprings:
In a state of diminished intellectual capacity, at the gym, I heard Radiohead’s “Creep” and was like, Wow, that children’s choir song from earlier this year must have been a really huge hit if a rock band is covering it.
A diverting game to play while in miserable...
fallingandlaughing:
Earlier this week I found myself in an extremely interior circle of hell. I speak of the Comcast Customer Service Center in Chicago, where I thought I was just stopping by to pick up some self-install equipment. This stopping-by turned into over an hour of queueing followed by one of the most angrymaking customer service interactions I’ve ever had. I resurrected my...
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James Blake /// “Unluck” /// James...
“Where did these cookies come from?”
“…”
“Well that was nice of someone.”
“…”
“Who brought these cookies in?”
“I don’t know.”
Top 10 Tracks Of 2010 →
(According my Pazz & Jop ballot.)
10. Scissor Sisters /// “Skin Tight”
9. The National /// “Lemonworld”
8. LCD Soundsystem /// “Dance Yrself Clean”
7. The Tallest Man On Earth /// “The Wild Hunt”
6. The-Dream /// “Yamaha”
5. Cloud Nothings /// “Even If It Worked Out”
4. Gil Scott-Heron /// “Me And The...
“Hello!”
“Hi.”
“How are you? We have a special deal today on Heineken.”
“I’m sorry?”
“We have a special today on Heineken beer. If you buy a six-pack, you also get a key chain and a T-shirt.”
“How much is a six-pack?”
“$10.50.”
“Ah, I don’t really like Heineken.”
“Why not? We...
Let me know if this is completely uninformed thing to ask, but are “Wikileaks continues to expose geopolitical secrets” and “Julian Assange stands trial” mutually exclusive events?
Over here in the newsroom, presumably because it is full of alcoholic journalists and none of them would ever consider socializing outside of a work environment, the holiday booze has been flowing since 1:00. I will have to work until 6:00 and meet my beer quota within that same time frame. Challenge accepted.
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My Bloody Valentine /// “Paint A...
I have this theory that all band names are terrible.
“So, funny.”
“Well.”
“That was sort of funny.”