September 2010
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AJA: I understand someone is doing a master’s thesis on you.
WHA: Oh yes, Ken Lewars, at Columbia. Ken is married. He’s being psychoanalyzed now. He’s rather dull.
from The Table Talk of W.H. Auden.
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Guided by Voices
I just reblogged one of these Andrew Piccone photos and I added a real reference.
I realized, even though it had some ancient (4 yr) Internet Herstory behind it, and I meant it to be moving, that my reference could have easily been seen as snippy and dismissive and snarky.
I felt bad and exercised the option to delete my reblog.
If it’s not in stirrups, be kind.
Because I don’t...
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August 2010
138 posts
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Company Presses Your Ashes into Vinyl When you Die →
kswickk:
When I die, I want to be made into a record. This rules.
I want to be converted into a memory stick.
nineteenfiftysix:
Desaparecidos - Mañana /...
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Make no mistake: Protein and live bacteria-laden... →
How is 4 billion dollars even close to big business? Who hears the number “billion” anymore and thinks it is big business? And that’s not even an interesting growth number. I’ve grown from 300 million to 4.1 billion since 1980, too.
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Whimsical slop and searing licks →
Finally, a band has named themselves after DuPont’s most ubiq product, home-construction-wise, pre-crash.
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The Mountain Goats - Dilaudid
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“I’m very fond of King Christian. In Copenhagen before the war I used to...”
– Auden (Feb. 1947, the King died two months after.)
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But will there be hand claps? →
“Grief Point” is the first recording Bejar made after deciding never to record again. It is a one-time exploration of the self-explanatory world, recorded in an office and on the street. Inspired by the writings of Michael Herr and the production design of Dean Tavoularis, the words occasionally obsess over the need to make certain things that don’t need to be made, while the music—written,...
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This is probably an unfair entry for the Worst CD... →
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Maybe the Academy should ask Molly Ringwald →
“We’ve been attempting to reach him [Goddard] since 7 o’clock on Tuesday evening and we have as yet had no confirmation,” the Academy’s Bruce Davis has admitted. “We have tried by telephone, by fax, and by emails to various friends and associates. We have even sent him a formal letter by FedEx.” But Godard has yet to acknowledge the Academy.
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“I’m not trying to stump anybody… It’s the
beauty of the...”
– Buddy Holly
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I just can’t get this out of my head. It is...
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Garage rock retro Best Coast “Be My Little Baby”... →
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I feel like at some point in the mid 90s, rage and... →
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“I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now
Suppose I abused...”
– Eddie Vedder, Go.
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That'd be like dumping Laetitia Casta for Lauren...
With the Yankees in town this weekend, there are full page articles in the Sun Times about Joe Girardi becoming the manager of the Cubs.
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This is your land
Atlanta Bellevue Charlotte Dallas Garden State Honolulu Houston King of Prussia Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Nashville New York Newport Beach San Diego San Francisco Scottsdale Tysons.
Being cities with 7 for All Mankind stores.
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Sweat Equity
There are two important realities of social enterprise that must be acknowledged at the outset. First, social enterprises are at a comparative disadvantage to business. At its core, this is because the social impact these enterprises are seeking entails cost. In some cases, this may be because social enterprises pick the most difficult, not the most lucrative, markets in which to work. And if they...
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“Firbank is really very tough underneath. His father wasn’t Director of the...”
– Auden (Firbank)
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“A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores...”
– Auden
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“It used to be that people were more reluctant to tell than do. Now it’s...”
– Auden (in 1946)
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“English theater has declined since the abolition of subplots.”
– William Empson, as told by Auden.
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Herbivore's Dilemma
1. If you can move around in MS Word, people will notice.
2. On the Internet, form is more enticing than content.
2. Syracuse is a private university, not a SUNY.
3. The Barber Piano Sonata is one of the few pieces of non-swinging music I would describe as ill.
4. I have not recently converted to Christianity, but I bet it would be less difficult to explain that to a friend than explaining...
Power of Money
I just saw a TV near the commons and thought to myself: good, baseball season is soon.
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Copywrite, Ready, Aim….
In alphabetical and...
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Merriam Webster has updated its web site →
Hebephrenic has got to be one of the greatest accidentally racist words out there. It’s one of the things Adorno called Stravinsky along with ’psychotic’, ‘infantile’, ’depersonalized’ and politically reactionary.
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8, 10, 12, 13 →
(via goldenfiddle)
Wow, but somehow it missed the best of them all?
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Lice in the locks of medium-tempo alt-country →
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“In a high building there is so much to do.”
– Robert Smith 