December 2008
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WatchRemember this game? Everyone crushes into a tight circle and grabs hands with one another randomly and then attempts to untangle and form a wide open circle. Composing this group here are my siblings and I, one husband, and various friends and allies.
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The Tallest Man on Earth - I Won’t Be...
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nugget
i am
a modern man
cloaked
in thickening blankets
of self-awareness
and daggered
by lengthening commercial insight
i am
a modern man
authentic
to what extent i can afford
and cheapened
by the quickest thrill that thrills
but broadened by
those that care to know me
i am
a simple man
hopeless when sprinting
breathless when jogging
and as fearless as the still nugget of quiet that...
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Headlights - Get Your Head Around It
Can’t...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Andrew Bird (58)
Chicago Public Radio (44)
Frightened Rabbit (42)
Wilco (32)
The National (26)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
No doubt where this plane is headed. All i see is messenger bags and macbooks, skinny jeans and funky hats, beards, earth tones and BOOKS.
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ever mind, a poem
Nothing like home to stir into action whats become motionless.
I’m out of my ever-loving mind with ideas.
Dear family: there’s no one like you.
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Yea. Still...
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“You know… I guess my dad could identify as black. I never really asked...”
– Myself,
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“Do you… not get sunburned easily… uh…. cause your dad...”
– Raffyn Reynolds, Christmas Eve
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“Well folks, it usually takes 35 to 40 minutes to clear the tracks and get an...”
– Red Line train engineer, reporting to his passengers the state of a car stuck on the MAX tracks.
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The Cloud Machine →
Here’s one for the tots. Its not too late!
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“The day started out with some of the strangest, densest fog I think I even seen...”
– -Myself.
I’d like to get back to that mental space, and I will, but not yet.
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WatchI found some old footage of my mom and her friend strolling around Laurelhurst Park during the last big snow storm here, almost 40 years ago! The song is new, and it doesn’t sound from quite the right era, but I think it totally works. No?
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cranking
This weather is making me cranky. For one thing, walking anywhere has become a real trial. Stomp-stomp-stomping through the thick, heavy snow on the sidewalks is one option. The other is to take the road, but its not much easier. The buses are lost and untimely, though today I got lucky going to and from work. And work… ugh. Certainly can’t be out delivering, so I’m back in...
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Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms Vs. Bad Arms
And...
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rambling
I’ve got this strange compulsion to ramble on, to avoid punctuation at all costs, and to just generally disregard my audience, such as it is, and to instead puke radioactive blah blah and to see what sticks.
I’m also sick of cheating by posting photos, music, and links to other folks’ finds.
‘Bout to get real!
Probably.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Andrew Bird (58)
Chicago Public Radio (44)
Frightened Rabbit (30)
Wilco (16)
Chairlift (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Top 10 Albums of 2008
The selections are picked mostly by the number of listens I gave them each over the course of the year. They are ranked, however, by my passion for the artistry therein sonified.
Its a tad too predictable for my liking, but here you go:
Lykke Li - Youth Novel
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Vampire Weekend - S/T
Beach House - Devotion
Titus Andronicus...
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Brilliant Facebook Scam →
So clever.
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“Nothing says Christmas like a power vein.”
– Alex Creecy, as only Alex Creecy can.
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“Natalie, come help me paint this penis.”
– Emma Bardigy, speaking as the Christmas spirit moves her
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sometimes the whole world happens in lowercase letters and without punctuation across the faces of the people that surround you and the clarity there is fleeting and blinking by in snapshots that look like ! and ! and ! and ! forever
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Bon Iver - Babys
Another slow jam, ha! But at...
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Ageless, Guiltless →
The second-most-influential psychotherapist of the twentieth century, by the reckoning of the American Psychological Association, turned ninety last month. His name is Albert Ellis, and, in case you didn’t know, he is the founder of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy, or rebt, and the author of more than seventy books, including “Sex Without Guilt,” “Sex and the Liberated Man,” “The Case for...
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Jolie Holland - You’re not Satisfied
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this is me being obtuse →
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love
this town. Man, I really do. Someone tagged a bus stop on Belmont in big, flowery script, “Tis the season of love and peace.” It was corny and I loved it, I really did.
I missed my stop for work (7th and Morrison) this morning, so I yanked the Stop Request cable before we got to the river and leaped out of my seat. The young woman standing by the back door was startled, then...
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Joe Firstman - Introduction to the War of Women
...
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“I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.”
– Toni Morrison, encouraging me from afar to rise early and do something about it.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →
Radiohead (19)
Animal Collective (16)
Chris Whitley (14)
Feist (13)
Conor Oberst (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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So much great music.
Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, Animal Collective, Antony & the Johnsons… so much great music coming at me all at once. Whew!
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Drink and Compute →