August 2009
18 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
Quasi (27)
Joanna Newsom (15)
Violent Femmes (11)
Elliott Smith (10)
Leonard Cohen (10)
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My new occupational aspiration is: Mayor of Boston
Only so that one day I can close off a section of the subway tunnels and dedicate it to a massive laser gun fight.
Holy shit that would be kick ass.
I will sleep above the covers. I will love you like no other. I will be your dad...
– “I’ll Keep The Bad Things From You” by The Damnwells
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
Chuck Berry (15)
Elliott Smith (14)
Andrew Bird (8)
Grizzly Bear (6)
Leonard Cohen (5)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-16) →
Janis Joplin (7)
Donovan (3)
Camera Obscura (2)
Jefferson Airplane (2)
Neutral Milk Hotel (2)
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Blubbering Castaway.
I’ve grown content to ride the waves, float at the surface and not think about anything lurking underneath. I’ve forgotten about the wind, how it too can be either pleasant or torrential. I’ve neglected the expanses beneath me; although I needn’t submerge myself anymore there are still splashes of it, made unavoidable by the rush of airs and my shaky balance. It’s tempting, too, to take a dive— to...
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Hiding in levity
is starting to lose its efficacy.
Tumblr’s good for capturing the tips of ideas, the faces of them in one or two sentences, without risking confusion by way of expansion— expanding the expression of your thoughts results dichotomously in both clarification and obscuration. The further you have to define each word, the further you have to define your definitions, and you get lost in...
Live each season as it passes; breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit,...
– Henry David Thoreau, and the card my mom mailed me. :-)
[The entire August 10th episode.]
– The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is...
– The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-9) →
Sufjan Stevens (9)
Elliott Smith (7)
Arcade Fire (6)
Andrew Bird (4)
Stéphane Grappelli (3)
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Strawberries contain more vitamin C then oranges.
fuckyeahfacts:
snapple fact #64
Submitted by freebirdd
You gotta be shitting me man.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-2) →
Grizzly Bear (17)
The Beatles (13)
Elliott Smith (12)
Regina Spektor (9)
Harry Belafonte (5)
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Achoo!
Sneezes are so stereotypical.