January 2012
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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...
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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.
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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)
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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.
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And I feel nothing, not brave.
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The Cars - “Drive”
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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...
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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...
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Cass McCombs - “Lionkiller”
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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
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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...
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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.
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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...
