January 2010
62 posts
“darling, i think i just put my hand on something we’re going to see a lot...”
– David Bowie, on the internet.
“You know, when you hear something you love so much and you feel like...”
– Matt Berninger, of The National, talking about writing songs. THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT! Listening to “Reckoner” on repeat in ‘07 did not help me out much, nor does listening to “Walk In a Park” now.
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listening to "OMD - Genetic Engineering" →
i managed to steal from this song a full year before hearing it. also: babies mother scissors hospital creature judgement butcher engineer.
listening to "Peter Gabriel - Flume" →
who knew it’d be so goo(d)?
listening to "David Bowie →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
David Bowie (148)
Stereolab (54)
Lake (19)
Spoon (19)
Patrick Wolf (13)
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How To Make a Sandwich on the Island
fyamnky:
Jack 1. Gather ingredients 2. Point gun at ingredients and shout “HOW DO I MAKE A SANDWICH OUT OF YOU?!?!?” 3. Breathe heavily through your nose as though you were about to hit ingredients 4. Give up and make the sandwich yourself, and eat it bitterly
Kate 1. Make separate sandwiches, one with peanut butter and one with jelly 2. Take a bite of the peanut butter sandwich, declaring it...
I find this trailer for “the lovely bones” playing between ad-breaks on Fringe funny.
Funny because it makes the movie seem like a whodunit thriller about Mark Wahlberg’s quest for paternal justice, and that it’s only quirk is that this whodunit thriller is narrated by a dead girl.
Honestly, if that were the movie, it would be so much better! Sorry, y’all, but that...
“I just love the Grizzly Bear. That project was great. It sounds like these...”
– JAY Z
“Have you ever seen Dune? You’ve seen Dune. You remember in Dune how the...”
– via
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Neu! (98)
Spoon (33)
Stereolab (29)
Lou Reed (28)
The Smashing Pumpkins (23)
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Late on the Bandwagon! →
Hey y’all, Ian’s personal 2009 faves!
Stereolab "Glass Pop Chrome Tubby"
perpetua:
DOWNLOAD IT!
This is a mix I made for this site over a year ago, and I’ve decided to re-up it because the audience is a bit different now and I really wish more people listened to Stereolab. This is for people who’ve never heard their distinct brand of groovy intellectual semi-Francophone pop music before, but also for everyone who maybe sorta liked a Stereolab song or two but were...
Watchveraville:
tothemaxxx:
St. Vincent does a bossa nova style acoustic version of “Actor Out Of Work” (complete with Dirty Projector’s style vocalizations). Swoony. (via biglive)
#1crush.
“A curse on childhood, lifted on the flipside.”
– Greil Marcus, on The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever”/”Penny Lane” single.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
David Bowie (406)
Brian Eno (112)
Cut Copy (28)
Lou Reed (27)
The Collectors (17)
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http://garfieldthecat.tumblr.com →
In case y’all haven’t heard, I have, in fact, started a Garfield blog. I’m quite serious about it, and I promise you all that the writing in it is no joke. I honestly read Garfield in the way I write about it. Learn a bit, won’t you, then, about the Bon Vivant of Cats…
“there is a sacredness in tears. they are not the mark of weakness, but of power....”
– washington irving.
miss you. one year.
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I’m a crier. I leak like a faucet sometimes.
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miaou.
Dave Eggers on his favorite things about... →
lullabinary:
thanks for mentioning me Dave! all kinds of giddiness
fantastic! raisin’ the bar for our grade 4 rllz. :D
ITS BEGUN →
GUYZ I JUST STARTED MY GARFIELD BLOG> PLZ FOLLOW.