February 2012
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Things to listen to:
Veronica Falls, “My Heart Beats” (yeah, still on that tip)
Travis Morrison Hellfighters, “Moneytown” (Gavin Holland remix)
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“For so-called third-place businesses like cafés and coffee shops that encourage...”
– How Did Counter Culture Coffee Take Over D.C.? Freebies
Ayo. I’m in the paper this week. Read my column online or pick up tomorrow’s issue—which is also our awesome, balls-to-the-wall excessive spring arts guide. YOU CAN’T GO WRONG.
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rhizombie asked: Hey I just wanted to say, re: the Freja thing, that while I agree partly with contemplatingchicken's original response (though not at all the way they responded), I really REALLY appreciate that you were willing to respond publicly and in an honest manner. People are so reactionary on tumblr, it's refreshing to see you engage in a thoughtful way that was willing to concede some ground...
contemplatingchicken replied to your post: Look, I imagine you meant that last picture of Freja Beha as a joke. But it’s hateful on a lot of levels, and your humor doesn’t excuse that. Your personal fantasy — of looking like a thin white woman with straight hair — is completely unattainable for a huge number of people, and suggesting that it should be desirable (even in fucking ironic hipster...
contemplatingchicken asked: Look, I imagine you meant that last picture of Freja Beha as a joke. But it's hateful on a lot of levels, and your humor doesn't excuse that. Your personal fantasy -- of looking like a thin white woman with straight hair -- is completely unattainable for a huge number of people, and suggesting that it should be desirable (even in fucking ironic hipster jest) for /everyone/ is all kinds...
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“Reading things like this make me want to put my balls in the microwave and set...”
– A comment on Tom Scocca’s Childbirth Is A Precious Rite Of Passage, If You Enjoy Agony, Terror, And Flying Jets Of Blood (oh, come on, Dadspin).
I want to high-five this commenter because, look, I don’t have balls, but this is how I feel about the prospective of having kids, which is to...
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Tuesday things:
I’ve scheduled doctor, dentist, eye doctor, and dermatologist appointments because I’ve got health care and I’m going to use it to unfuck my health, vision, and skin, goddammit.
I still have a cold.
Because I still have a cold, I haven’t ran in over a week. Nonetheless, I registered for the second annual Met Branch Trail 5K, which I ran last year. If you’re in...
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“Our love is like Byzantium
must have been
on the last evening. There must have...”
– “Our Love is Like Byzantium,” Henrik Nordbrandt (available only in Spanish, apparently, in hard-copy form—but, seriously, good fucking lord)
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Bluebrain - “The Pull”
Come back to...
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Jets to Brazil - “Lemon Yellow...
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Friday things:
Bought a chickfactor ticket (Saturday night, duh)
I spent most of yesterday afternoon on my bike and it was glorious until the wind, you know, started.
The Artist was mad enjoyable.
I want to kick this sore throat so I can run again.
This weekend is going to blow, work-wise.
I feel sort of reduced into my job. That’s fine. I love my job. But I also feel like I’m not doing enough...
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The Jealous Sound - “Your Eyes Were...
January 2012
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“And climactically, “This Is What Makes Us Girls,” whose title alone...”
– Rob Harvilla, Lana Del Rey, ‘Born to Die’
This review is brilliant and this is now a Lana Del Rey blog, wall-to-wall GTFO.
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Things to listen to:
Buildings’ Everything in Parallel
Yes, that’s all.
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Monday things:
Places I have gone in the past few days: Carmine’s, Arena Stage, Eola, Black Cat, brunch, Cap City Diner, Velvet Lounge.
All my problems with waking up in the middle of the night have been erased by the procurement of a new, not-broken bed frame.
Yesterday involved both waffles and hardcore and, Jesus Christ, I would’ve written something like that on my MySpace in 2003 but...
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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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