January 2010
39 posts
Yep, just sayin'
totes have a tumblr crush on her (I think it’s a her?) and you should follow.
Last.Fm plays, 1000 at a time since 30 Jan 2005.
1000th track: Van Morrison - Gloria 14 Feb 2005 2000th track: The Beatles - I Want You (She’s So Heavy) 05 Mar 2005 3000th track: Garbage - As Heaven Is Wide 04 Apr 2005 4000th track: Björk - Heirloom 26 Apr 2005 5000th track: The Smashing Pumpkins - Tristessa 13 May 2005 6000th track: Madonna - Take a Bow 18 Jun 2005 7000th track: Common - Chi City 23 Jul 2005 8000th track: Modest Mouse -...
A colleague I love dearly, who I consider a great friend, quit work today. I’m bummed out in a strange way because clearly, it’s good for my (ex-?) colleague’s mental health and life in general but damn it, I am selfish.
Never fails
Whenever I feel sick is when I wish I had a partner. “Baby would you make me some grilled cheese, bring me a ginger ale and kiss my forehead?” I’d say.
The Four Tops, “It’s The Same Old...
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos, “Aurora...
“I’m trying to tell you I love you
In each and every way
I’m trying...”
– Someone ought to have told Lynyrd Skynyrd just because you can rhyme something, doesn’t mean you should.
Otherwise “I Need You” is a pretty bitchin’ song.
Disclaimer: I can not be held responsible for your... →
lowindustrial:
I prefer to think of myself as “emotionally unavoidable.”
Ha! Let’s start a club.
Outkast ft. Norah Jones, “Take Off Your...
Finally.
I’ve started thinking in earnest about what it is I want instead of what I think I need. I am in a position in life where I’m not committed to anything or anyone. I mean, yes I have responsibilities, but I could decide this year to be somewhere else entirely doing something else in 2011.
So, to start my brain a’cookin’, my question to you is: if you could do anything you...
“When heirs decide to bury a web creator’s body of work by shuttering sites and...”
– Why Leslie Harpold’s Sites Disappeared (via trenchant) (via kfan)
Fruits of coastal conversation
NY: Be somebody.
LA: Be anybody.
Used to have all the answers.
I feel as though I’m deep underwater or snug inside a womb, listening to vibrations through layers of flesh and bone and blood, breathing with gills…
Therapy tonight was a few megaton bombs. Good good good. More later if I can put it into words. Now, sleep.
“Closure is bullshit, and I would love to find the man who invented closure and...”
– James Ellroy, in his characteristic style iterating Faulkner’s assertion that “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” The psychological idea of closure has become such a banal component of every tragic story that it’s now impossible to read a politician’s speech on the pettiest moral lapse...
Consider this my good deed of the day.
Random channel flipping this evening ended up with me landing on IFC and seeing a bit of Wonder Boys. And something occurred to me that first moment of watching Michael Douglas’ character in his (nearly) ex-wife’s dressing gown.
I was instantly connected to a repressed memory that I think ought to be shared; an experience I’d like to impart so as to save you some trouble. If you...
By the by
Among other things on a general tour of the southeastern United States, Paul and I will be going to Mardi Gras. Have you been? Do you recommend getting entirely smashed or just smashed enough so you don’t fall asleep in an alley somewhere?
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down...”
– W.B. Yeats
That one time I talked too long about the one...
I know it’s odd to reblog an entire post of a complete stranger, especially one you just started following, but yep. I get all of this. And the great thing is I don’t have to say it again… this pretty much sums up 2009 for me, too. Hard but great.
monsterbeard:
So I wrote a bunch of stuff to comment on my year, I guess. I don’t know if any of it makes any sense. My year was...