January 2012
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New Year's Resolutions
Listen to more music, Read more books, Watch more films, See more concerts, Write more, Run more, Clean more, Drink less, Stay out of trouble.
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Other Songs I Really Like that were Released in...
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“Erica Western Teleport” by Emperor X from Western Teleport
“Santa Fe” by Beirut from The Rip Tide
“It’s Real” by Real Estate from Days
“The Glorious Land” by PJ Harvey from Let England Shake
“Think of You” by Bleached from the “Carter” 7”
“Bizness” by tUnE-yArDs from w h...
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I Only Like Four Songs Released in 2011, and They...
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“IMHO” by Wonder Wheel from Total Bundy
“Roce et Roule” by Black Elephant
“I Just Want You to Go Away” by Lovely Bad Things from New Ghost/Old Waves
“Searching Through the Past” by Bleached from the eponymous 7”
December 2011
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All I Want to Do Right Now Is, Pt. 1
Play soft tennis on the beach with rackets from the Jazz Age.
Pet a big dog.
Listen to “Elizabeth Montgomery’s Face” over and over again.
Eat Adolfo’s.
Pretend I am secret agents.
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“Before Bleached, the duo made up two of the five members of the punk band, Mika...”
– Matthew Schnipper in his piece on Bleached for The FADER WHOA Matthew Schnipper. Let’s really think for a sec before we say things we can’t take back.
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“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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“‘Caroline’ by itself is better than anything Galaxie 500 produced.”
– John Bush in his review of Low’s Long Division Whoa there, John Bush. Let’s think for a bit before we say things we can’t take back.
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“Silent Night” by Bing Crosby
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 28 “O...
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Euophrys omnisuperstes: The name of a species of jumping spider found at elevations as high as 22,000 feet on Mt. Everest. The name given to the species means “standing above everything.”
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Query
I want to know why Youtube doesn’t have the first portion of any episode of Salute Your Shorts. There are videos of the second and third parts of certain episodes, but I can’t locate any videos of “Episode __, Part 1.” Does anyone know why this may be the case? Does it have to do with the theme song?
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A Nomination for the Christmas Music Canon
Christmas Music 2011 Day 26 “Olive” by El Fog I hereby nominate the song “Olive” by El Fog to be included in the canon of Christmas music. The whole album is perfect for sitting cozy inside your house in a cold, winter night, but this song in particular has a Christmas-y feel to it. I don’t have an mp3 of this song (if someone does, could you send it to me?), but I...
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“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been...”
– Earl Wilson
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 22 “The Christmas...
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 21 “Baby,...
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“A thing so complete has its own beauty.”
– from Sherwood Anderson’s “Death in the Woods”
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“Yes! Yes! It’s true, it’s all true! The merriment, the peanut! The...”
– Me, when asked by my professor tomorrow morning whether I studied for the final or instead spent all day watching the Spongebob marathon.
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 20 “I Wish it Was...
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 19 “Rockin’...
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 18 “Jingle Bell...
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An Open Letter to All Christmas Light...
Look: I’m not an electrician. Nor do I claim to be someone that can construct a light bulb. I’m not even sure if I know how a light bulb works. But I do how unbelievably inconvenient it is when one bulb goes out and causes every other bulb on a string of bulbs to flicker and short. There has got to be a way to make a string of Christmas lights that aren’t all dependent on each other to work. If I...
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“Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.”
– from Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People”
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 17 “Christmas (Baby...
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“‘New Year’s Eve’ is a dreary plod through the sands of time...”
– Roger Ebert This movie made over $13,000,000 in the U.S. this weekend and also someone probably starved to death in New York City.
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Listverse's 15 Greatest Composers of All Time →
Some things are very, very impressive. For instance, “[Franz] Liszt sightread Grieg’s Piano Concerto, playing it perfectly the first time he saw the music.” However, some things are incredible: “Bach … improvised fugues for 2 hours at a stretch, and then wrote them down from memory afterward.” Of course there are a hundred other hyperbolic (but true) assertions and...
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This is a visual approximation of what I looked like for about 95% of the past two weeks.
I have finally finished my final research paper of my college career and now I can finally relax and start studying for finals (a cakewalk in comparison). While writing these dozens upon dozens of pages, I lost countless hours of sleep, worked myself into exhaustion,...
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imalreadyoverthis:
“I think ‘At Home With Owen’ is my favorite album of all time.”
“I don’t think I’ve heard it.”
“I don’t think it’s really your thing. It’s like…emo, not a bunch of weird nonsense.”
“I’m listening to Syrian wedding techno.”
“Exhibit A.”
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...and that's how Mat Towles wrote everything he...
Next up: Part II, in which Mat Towles desperately adds anything even remotely tangentially related to his topic into the paper, hoping the professor will somehow connect the dots.
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Yes, Please: David Milch and HBO Working on... →
HBO has had some problems adapting great works of fiction in the past (I, of course, am referring to this disaster), but I assume this will be great.
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 12 “It’s the...
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Who else wants to see Angus T. Jones playing a young Black Francis in a Pixies biopic?
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THIS JUST IN: In what is becoming an increasingly astonishing trend these past few months, Neon Trees have cured another local resident of his sickness. Local boy, Matthew Towles, age 22, had been sick since yesterday, battling a case of the flu he picked up over the weekend. “I think I just worked myself into exhaustion,” Towles said. “My body must have just shut itself down and the disease took...
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“I, uh, tried to be sexy. It just—got away from me.”
– Lindsay Bluth
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“And I’m going to see if I can get a wrench to strip my nuts.”
– Lindsay Bluth
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Christmas Music 2011 Day 9 “White...
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