February 2012
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Victoria Patterson on sexism in the literary world →
Unbelievable and enormously frustrating that essays like these still need to be written.
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January 2012
12 posts
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“There is beauty as well as hatred in ‘Cancer,’ and it deserves its...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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west coast romanticizing
The west has dominion over cars and front-yard fireworks.
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RuPaul is SPEAKING STRAIGHT TO ME →
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what is up with the ryan gosling thing?
Is it just about the pleasure of having somewhere to cast your collective desires, a locus for mass validation? A place to say, safely, Hey, I’ve got this amorphous yearning— have you got it, too?
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progress and other myths
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. -- Jim Rohn
For the last six months, I’ve been refusing to leave that hazy collegiate mindset where progress is the sweet and inevitable name of the game, where all it takes to “move forward” is to show up and do roughly what’s expected of you. Time for some personal...
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November 2011
17 posts
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BOOKS I WANT
Swamplandia!
Middlesex & The Virgin Suicides
The Keep
IQ84
The Pale King
The Brothers K
Chavs
take note, friendosss
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“I was not only twenty-three but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.”
– J.D. Salinger in ”Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters”
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“Sir Duke” by Stevie Wonder, that horn...
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“You came out from your register to help me get washing gloves during the p.m....”
– Oh lord, this missed connection is just not quite extreme enough to be a joke, right? Jesus Christ the world we live in.
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“L.A. is the apocalypse: it’s you and a bunch of parking lots. No...”
– BLDG BLOG
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how i waste my days off
Little kids talking about stuff in songs is way more effective / way less annoyingly precious when it’s not scripted.
Proof:
“A Ghost Story” by Atlas Sound— somewhat nonsensical, utterly charming.
“Aminals” by Baths — sweet, spontaneous musings re: animals. Does not get old.
“Raconte-Moi Une Histoire” by M83 — clearly written by an...
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"Tenth of December" by George Saunders →
A 52-year-old author just nailing the logic of a smart kid’s internal narrative. Not sentimental, not saccharine, just inventively and gracefully and satisfyingly detailed.
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“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty one and even twenty three...”
– Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That, 1968. (via xelvinn) [interview here] (via nprfreshair)
October 2011
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“As for measure and other technical apparatus, that’s just common sense: if...”
– Frank O’Hara
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Meanwhile
Driving, dogs barking, how you get used to it, how you make the new street yours. Trees outside the window and a big band sound that makes you feel like everything’s okay, a feeling that lasts for one song maybe, the parentheses all clicking shut behind you. ...
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Sometimes I wish I had named this blog..
stayheavystaycool:
“Could You Do Me A Solid? “
I miss Southern California and lazy burnouts.
god, who doesn’t.
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“Iko Iko” by the Dixie Cups
Toooooo...
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“…unlike a political campaign designed to get some person in office and...”
– Douglas Rushkoff
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“It is not the job of the protesters to draft legislation. That’s the job of the...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/opinion/sunday/protesters-against-wall-street.html
September 2011
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Getting it Right
Your ankles make me want to party, want to sit and beg and roll over under a pair of riding boots with your ankles hidden inside, sweating beneath the black tooled leather; they make me wish it was my birthday so I could blow out their candles, have them hung over my shoulders like two bags full of money. Your ankles are two monster-truck engines but smaller and lighter and sexier than a saucer...
August 2011
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