December 2009
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werewolves with manners
Tomorrow, New Years Eve, is a blue moon. This does not bode well for sanity. As long as I keep all etiquette intact and stop at a diner somewhere, I’m good.
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new hampshire vs cellphones
Me: I’ll get nothing because there’s no signal then boom I’ll get 6 texts at once.
Amanda (cousin): It’s kind of exciting.
Reblog if you're going to see Bess Rogers & The...
Plus 4 others not on tumblr. This will probably be the calmest part of the evening aka not calm at all but I’ll still be somewhat alert.
allisonweiss:
Just tryin’ to get a head count, yall.
Oh Christmas Song, Oh Christmas Song: Take 2! by...
stereogum: stereotyping people by their favorite... →
this is so mean and awesome. and i like half the bands on there so i guess i’m officially conflicted, glad that’s solved.
REAL (AWFUL) NAMES FROM HISTORY
The roll call:
Saved from Captivity Jones
Wigglesworth Sweetser
Fathergone Dingly
Preserved Fish
Bachelor Hussy
Freeaky Kitchen
Birdseye Stingleybinsen
(These come from one of my favorite history professors at UMD Dr. Len Travers who has a habit of diverging from the topic at hand with bizarre anecdotes and photos of people afflicted with smallpox because “otherwise you won’t...
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“Long, Long Time” by Linda Ronstadt...
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“Song of Purple Summer” from Spring...
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he idolized it all out of proportion
opening credits of Manhattan
and i’m watching Coyote Ugly.
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“Bernstein always told me that a composer spends his entire life writing the same...”
– Marin Aslop
I talked to a banjo player named Banjo Joe Crow Ryan last night at Sidewalk cafe who I’ve watched many a 2 am night post-gig at the Bedford Ave stop, who said sometimes when he listens to music it’s a proof of God moment. That means some musicians are prophets. Since...
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Watch(via getglucky)
I accidentally discovered Holly’s music one of those magical summer nights where I was broke as anything but working a show for Oxfam at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. She sort of sauntered in and did a sound check that made me stop a rousing conversation with a bartender about PBR and limes and go listen. I hear a lot of soundchecks. I usually want to talk to the...
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Read this book.
. Strength in What Remains. This is a non-fiction account of a medical student who escapes the genocide in Burundi, how he recreates his life in New York City, and how he returns. It’s brilliant. Tracy Kidder wins again. (Read the New York Times Book Review)
Try The Oath as well. This is by a war surgeon during the never ending war in Chechnya. You might not think Chechnya is relevant...
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WatchSunitha Krishnan’s fight against sexual slavery of children. “When we found her on the railroad tracks, raped by many many men, I don’t know how many, but the indications of that on her body were that her intestines were outside her body, and when we took her to the hospital, she needed 32 stitches to put her intestines back.”
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St. Vincent - Shredding to the Wizard of Oz. →
Speaking of St. Vincent, look at this gem of a look into a songwriter’s head. Yesssss.
She wants to be in a Woody Allen movie. PLEASE WOODY?? DUMP SCARLETT!
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subterraneans:
7. St. Vincent - Actor
Song:...
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index to the 1853 diary of eliza brock
Choice excerpts from Eliza Brock’s Journal on the Ship Lexington, May 21, 1853 - June 25, 1856
-Death: Sailor found torn to pieces on the beach, most likely by a bear, Shanter
Island, 8/3/54
-Desertion: Lewis Phillis jumped overboard. Police returned him, New
Zealand, 2/22/55.
-Dreams: Of departed friends, 2/18/54; of being home with my children, 1/1/55; of
home, 6/20/55; of home,...
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“The Lakes of Canada” by Innocence...
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Go Forth commercial by Levi's. That I didn't fast... →
It’s awkward getting so inspired by a commercial, but whoever directed this needs to quit pronto and go film On the Road. And Walt Whitman’s O Pioneers? HOLLA.
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“Ms. Schenkar is convinced that if Highsmith had not become a writer, she would...”
– - “The Haunts of Miss Highsmith” The New York Times. Dec 11, 2009.
Highsmith at age 21. Fascinating.
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“A Case of You” by Joni Mitchell
aka...
the weapons of mass Bundy
Tonight, a clean cut looking guy in a fleece vest and jeans was walking down W. 75th street by his lonesome, massaging his hairline with his fingers and exclaiming something in hoarse barks. “We’ll just arm and disable the world with Ted Bundy.” And as I rounded behind him, there was no cellphone to be found. Yay.
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“There’s more, it gets worse. I always knew the Cherokee owned slaves, that...”
– Sarah Vowell This American Life ep. 107 “The Trail of Tears” rediscovering her ancestor’s footsteps, in the meanwhile discovering the Chatanooga Choochoo and dancing on gravestones of dead enemies aka Andrew Jackson.
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
True that. As an impressionable child in Southern California I kept waiting for the day my mom would say I was Mexican, it never came, but everyone thinks I am anyways.
kate will you be my professor
puppyalert:
mercybell:
The Abbey in the Oakwood by Caspar David Friedrich
puppyalert: Abbey in the Oakwoods is my favorite 19th century painting, EVER!! Friedrich picks the most interesting spaces to paint. His representations of German landscapes are so romantic, spiritual, and eerie! The entire Romanticism movement is like an engrossing dream antagonized by the sublime and supernatural....
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Bon Iver & St. Vincent -...
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“Sister Winter” by Sufjan Stevens
I...
“I mean…this was very handed to me. I really just used my Barnacle arm.”
– text from Jess Hodge
On how she FOUND a D-SLR camera, which no one claimed, after I drooled over her music photography. But did you really have to use barnacle in a sentence pertaining to human flesh?
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