July 2009
17 posts
i know i know (SMR09.01)
I feel very much like I should be writing this summer down, at least a little. Its as nonstop as they come, there’ve been some fine surprises, a surplus of wonderful people and tiny nuggets of super-awesome. Here’s the first item of a list to go with this ice ice cold, and really rather stiff, bloody mary I’m working on:
1.) Camping. Spontaneous, delightful, weekly (or...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-26) →
The Rural Alberta Advantage (87)
Dark Was the Night Volume 1 (60)
Dirty Projectors (55)
The Love Language (36)
Jens Lekman (34)
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everyday
i think of 12 things, at least, that I’d like to blog about and by the time I get home, I’m so hungry I forget them.
“On all sides I am surrounded by such wonders of fabrication, those of human...”
– John Updike, from Toward the End of Time. This passage follows a ruminating description of masterbation as an old man.
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Jens Lekman (59)
Broken Social Scene (24)
Sunset Rubdown (23)
Regina Spektor (23)
Dark Was the Night Volume 1 (18)
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“I feel like it’s …. A million o’clock.”
– Berenice Prado
“What ass do you taste?”
– Danny Woo, on gum.
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Despite mosquito bites too numerous to count, I remain utterly entranced by this recent bout of spontaneous camping trips.
I didn’t see the sunrise this morning with its reportedly understated orange and blues
didn’t see a lick of it
but I still feel like I kinda did
“i just love the idea / i’m scared of it too”
– Jade Koide, in the most succinct approximation of my thoughts on the modern world I’ve ever heard
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-12) →
Dirty Projectors (26)
Sunset Rubdown (24)
The Books (23)
Fanfarlo (22)
The Hold Steady (17)
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It all escapes me, slipping irretrievably beyond my senses, the loss then mechanizing me, hello hello hello’s snowballing until I’m a volume unread, moving through a frozen world.
Then a song comes around and the remnants of a recent conversation drifts in and nostalgia overflows and there it all is again: the gray day outside takes on peaks and valleys. It matures before my eyes...
draft folder release party
This post has been sitting in my draft folder since July 19th of last year. Whoops. Sam had only been in Portland for 2 weeks! And here we are, one full year later.
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Sunday was rainy, dark, gray and wonderful. In the evening Sam and I rode down to Backspace for the Willamette Week’s free monthly show. It was pretty good. Leaving,...
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