January 2010
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Jeff walks by.
There is a middle-aged woman carrying three grocery bags and heading up the steps to her apartment door.
Jeff sees this and wants to assist her, is tugged at the heartstrings to rain unto this world kindness and demonstrative promulgations of the golden rule, but no, no, see he can’t because there are so many obstacles thickening the viscosity of the space between her apartment door and his...
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SG VII
There is no way to get to the roof of my building. The door to it is shut tight with a giant padlock. You’d need a bolt-cutter. At least that was my assessment of the situation until one recent night.
She smokes to look cool. I know this because she said so once when I asked her why she did. It’s effective, with the drags and little licks, with the postured blasé hand pulling forth...
tropicanastasia asked: holy shit! you know devotchka?! aren't they only in russian..? and they have a song about a cucumber? or a pickle? shit, maybe I'm confusing them....
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
DeVotchKa (23)
Karen Dalton (12)
Blind Pilot (9)
Sleater-Kinney (7)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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We are weird and wonderful.
For no new reasons this occurs to me now and often, at times when I remember to stay awake. I go outside not preoccupied with a destination and notice what beautiful stupid animals we are, flocking this way and that, nest to nest, tree to tree.
We form our small colonies, carry the loads on our backs, follow pheromones, pick the lint out of each other’s hair, pucker up and kiss. We are...
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At any given point throughout the day,
when you are secluded away with a book with the windows and blinds shut or
when you are taking notes in class with strangers as the professor empties out his mind for the several-hundredth time in his life or
when you are looking someone straight in the eye, listening or talking about what neither of you are really thinking about, navigating through pleasantries or
when you sleep,
there is...
Everybody (according to my music)...
…is changing,
…is gonna be happy,
…has got something to hide except me and my monkey,
…is happy nowadays,
…is trying to be my baby,
…cares, understands,
…here wants you,
…hurts,
…knows,
…knows this is nowhere,
…must get stoned,
…needs love,
…needs somebody to love,
…saw you,
…wants you.
CHORUS 1: E D A But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for, E D A But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.
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I thought I was sad
but it turned out I just wasn’t listening to enough music.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
DeVotchKa (12)
The Knife (11)
The Beatles (11)
The Raconteurs (7)
Grizzly Bear (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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I don't know what happens next.
Tomorrow is a day that hasn’t happened yet.
But it feels as though it’s sitting there waiting for us to act it out, to say and do what we are meant to say and do.
It does not feel like anything can unexpectedly happen tomorrow.
Instead, it feels like we are on a fixed track because given all the variables, the permutations ironically add up to one determinate future history.
Yes, I...
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Hooray!
Today seems to be a rare surprise of a day marked with unprecedented self-assurance and care-free spirit. What to thank?
An unpredictable flux of hormones or neurotransmitters? Recent life events? Lack of current pressing responsibilities? The ever-building culmination of an incorrigibly positive identity? Aspiring optimism? A god or the universe? The ease at which words seem to approach...
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These emotions are infinitely regenerative.
Daily, they are either expelled through expression or soaked away by consumption.
They either cover surfaces with my color inks or bleed out of me into the photographs I see of the world, or on livelier days into the world itself with its snow, wind, roads and bricks.
They either travel from my mouth to someone’s ears, threading and bonding, or evaporate through stupor as I sit appeased by...
M.I.A. Writes Song Inspired by Three-Hour Verizon... →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Yann Tiersen (6)
Maurice Ravel (5)
Neutral Milk Hotel (5)
Joanna Newsom (5)
The Beatles (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Three websites that should never ever be linked...
Nic Cage as Everyone
People Talking on Bananas
(and of course) Crying, While Eating
—because everyone should already secretly know about them.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Pixies (14)
Violent Femmes (9)
Regina Spektor (5)
Yann Tiersen (4)
The Magnetic Fields (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Strange.
It does feel like a whole new decade, like a time that’s yet to unfold. It does feel like it has that impossible quality called potential.
—even if none of us have really changed at all— even though, if anything, we’ve only become more and more like ourselves.
To the future.