Love of the Common Zan: Archive

bluishorange:

zzzan:

tanya77:

yvynyl:

Whoa boy.

This is a huge bummer. In the wake of losing WOXY (which should have helped me see this coming), watching another great web resource for music lovers fold just doesn’t feel fair.

I KNOW. LaLa is where I go listen to albums to make sure I want to buy them, so now I don’t know what I’m going to do. Without LaLa I’d have bought “Hermit of Mink Hollow.”

(Sorry, Zan.)

I use it the same way. Which I guess makes me part of the problem as I’ve never actually purchased anything from them?

“Hermit Of Mink Hollow” is not for everyone. I like to think of Todd Rundgren fans as a special elite, but in reality we probably just ended up here because of too much caffeine or too many blows to the head.

Apr 30, 201029 notes

A Little Respect Erasure

thingsiatethatilove:

Erasure, A Little Respect

This is the gayest song Bennett has ever sung at karaoke. One of Bennett’s standards is “I’m Still Here,” so that’s saying something. (He is amazing at both).

I think we must be drinking the same water.

Apr 30, 201017 notes

Apr 30, 2010

#cleaningoutmycomputer

tanya77:

yvynyl:

Whoa boy.

This is a huge bummer. In the wake of losing WOXY (which should have helped me see this coming), watching another great web resource for music lovers fold just doesn’t feel fair.

Apr 30, 201029 notes

Hold Me Fleetwood Mac

kellydeal:

hman:

Fleetwood Mac - “Hold Me”

How old is this song? Never knew the name of it and just now realized what they were singing.

I know. I said I KNOW.

I still love this song, and, yes, I am turning into exactly the kind of woman you think I’m turning into.

Apr 29, 201029 notes

“So here’s the truth about the writing lifestyle: it sucks.” —

Charlie Stross, to which commenter #2 and I both ask, “Charlie, why are you still writing?” and to which I also say, “It sucks if you’re doing it wrong.” (via @DRMabuse) (via austinkleon)

(zan’s comments start here…) I’ve been thinking a lot about this, lately. For me, the excitement in writing is that it’s what I escape to on my down time, it’s what I do to relax. I always worry that if I were to let go of my day job and become a full-time writer, I’d be dragging my feet when it came time to write, because it would be my job.

At the moment, I write because I love to write, I’m passionate about the words I put on a page (for the most part). Would that change? Do I have it in me to keep my passion for writing even when it’s all I do?

Apr 29, 20103 notes

Apr 28, 2010

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Apr 28, 20106 notes

#conversations we had last night

Sooooooo on last night’s Parenthood there is a scene that takes place on the campus of UC Berkeley at some literary gathering. Lauren Graham’s character is there cater-waitering with her daughter, trying to show her that it’s good to go to college. She overhears a conversation at the bar about McSweeney’s, interjects that she reads McSweeney’s, and the young poet guy turns to her and said “YOU read McSWEENEY’S?” as if it was a mark of intelligence or some sort of literary awareness whether or not you read McSweeney’s. My best guess is that they had to use something a majority of the American population may have heard of, but not too many, instead of, say, The Paris Review? Were they trying to be hip? Then why not The Believer?

Does anyone else find this usage odd, or am I spending too much time dissecting cultural references in prime time television?

By the way, I have nothing against McSweeney’s, who publish some very great books. I just thought it was an interesting choice of publication to use for this purpose. Also: I love Parenthood. I haven’t related this much to a television family since the Keatons.

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doree:
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I also enjoyed this! (Heh). I spoke to personal heroes Curtis and Meghan from the one square foot in my boyfriend’s dad’s MA backyard that gets cell phone reception, and at one point had to run an extension cord outside to plug in my phone charger. Also somehow during the interview a…

Another apparent miscommunication:

Who do you think will read your books?
M.D.: People with a sense of humor.
E.G.: Twenty-three-year-old girls who have Tumblr accounts.

I think you meant to say “THIRTY-three-year-old girls who have Tumblr accounts” maybe? Anyhow, pre-ordered.

(And reading Meghan Daum’s old essays as a warm-up.)

Apr 26, 201032 notes

Apr 25, 201029 notes

#ohio

My sickday go-to gal, apparently.

Apr 23, 2010

Apr 23, 20103 notes

#ohio

Listening to The National’s new album is making me want to be in Ohio RIGHT NOW. Which is strange, as it’s mostly about trying to get out of Ohio.

I have no idea if they know it, but they’ve made an album that sounds just like a southwestern Ohio summer. I mean… EXACTLY.

Apr 23, 2010

#ohio

Bloodbuzz Ohio The National

osmium:

turtalia:

thematerialreview:

Bloodbuzz Ohio — The National

sigh.

I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees… I never thought about love when I thought about home

So very, very different from my experience of Ohio. But still, what a beautiful Friday song. Also, from the NY Times feature on The National:

Cincinnati gave him a narrative edge. “Ohio is a very common American experience,” Matt says. “It’s much closer than New York to the typical American perspective. It’s right in the middle, and there are unbelievable tensions there — social, racial, political. The Robert Mapplethorpe and Larry Flynt obscenity trials, the race riots — it’s a crucible there for some reason.”

Apr 23, 201012 notes

#ohio

Apr 22, 201018 notes

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