January 2012
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“Del Rey, after all, isn’t the first to take more than one shot at finding...”
– Tom Ewing, Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet Since the Lana Del Rey kerfuffle has been a Thing, and since having opinions on Del Rey has been a Thing, I’ve stayed out of all of it. I have a pretty significant academic grounding in popular culture theory, which is something that sounds...
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“Trisha and I now have to consider what will happen if Daddy outlives us both....”
– Doug Monroe, The Long Goodbye Read this. Read all of this, and feel totally fucking helpless.
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Things to listen to:
Cloud Nothings, “No Future/No Past” A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s album teasers Hume, “Phasing” Saint Etienne, “Tonight” (warning: this is a blissed-out banger and you will put it on repeat)
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“Let me just tell you this, Watanabe,” said Midori, pressing her cheek...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood Ninety percent of Norwegian Wood is trite and overdone (including this quote) and Murakami’s raging misogyny is stupidly apparent throughout the whole thing, but Midori may or may not be an accurate representation of alternate-universe me.
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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And I feel nothing, not brave.
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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ListenThe Cars - “Drive”
Jan 23rd
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Monday things:
The vending machine has six-packs of Oreos. The vending machine is redeemed of all its previous failures. I’m about to give journalism the fuck up and go study Russian in Siberia. The worst thing about Pandora, by far, is how it lulls you into a false sense of listening to deep cuts; after about 45 minutes, generic shit starts coming up. I changed my The Fall station after...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Sunday things:
I don’t usually listen to the radio on Sunday nights, but I don’t feel like flipping records so I’ve got The Big Broadcast going. When I lived in College Park, I didn’t have air conditioning; on really hot Sunday nights I’d sit in my car and run the air conditioning for a few minutes. The Big Broadcast reminds me of that. For dinner, a protein shake and a really...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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ListenCass McCombs - “Lionkiller”
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Things to listen to:
This Beauty Pill track This song about a dog, which may remind you of a certain other track of the same name This visually appealing, clickable compilation of the top tracks of 2011, which is perfect if you, like me, listened to zero new music last year and couldn’t be bothered to read any year-end lists
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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(via thecallup): Honestly, somewhere along the way cycling culture has taken a frightening and unfortunate turn.  A fairly simple mechanical tool, the bike, has now been twisted into a toy of the super-serious and super-elite.  Either you’re a bike obsessive of the urban kind with $400 rims on your fixed gear and too much grease under your nails busily dodging taxis without a helmet; or you’re...
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Wednesday things
There’s $22 in my checking account, which means I totally cannot order chana masala for lunch, but I’m so tired of eating apples.
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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““…although Georgetown residents did oppose a transit station, their...”
– A reminder from Zachary M. Schrag’s The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro that Georgetown doesn’t have a Metro because it didn’t make sense, not because Georgetown residents were racist NIMBYs. (Even though most of them probably were.) But, but! Guess which...
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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