January 2011
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“7.37pm: Jonny Mac has a lament for Torres: “Now he’s gone,...”
– Transfer window deadline day - live! | Barney Ronay, Barry Glendenning and Rob Bagchi | Football | guardian.co.uk
J, exposing our Christmas traditions to the Guardian. (You can see the tree we named after the ex-Liverpool player here.)
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Duh.
Me: I'm going to go get my blood pressure taken tomorrow at the pharmacy.
J: We should get one of those for the home, but they kind of freak me out.
Me: Really?
J: Yeah, they go all tight.
Me: I like to play with them at the doctor's office while I wait in the boring bit.
J: I like to lick the tongue suppressors.
Me: Suppressors?
J: Yeah, tongue suppressors.
Me: You mean "depressors."
J: No, suppressors. Because they're happy, but trapped in a jar. So they're suppressed.
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“If you are a man, putting a picture of yourself on the cover implies some...”
– In Which We Pay Mind to Author Photographs and Facebook: This Recording
More brilliance from Molly Lambert.
(via doree)
Joan/Patti/Susan trifecta autoreblog. For the record, I think this should be my author photo. You know, for when I actually write something.
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Numbed by the realization that I now know adults who, based on their age at the time of its release, might have the same relationship with Beck’s “Loser” that I have with Irene Cara’s “What A Feeling.”
“Good literature is simpler, not more complex or more artificial, than life.”
– Dzintars Sodums (via Nora Ikstena)
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“During this time the individual will have several windows open, generally...”
– Five Emotions Invented By The Internet « Thought Catalog (via)
the call is coming from inside the house
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The Very Special Episode (Reprise)
Alex: Do you ever think about it, Jen? Life, death, infinity? Jen: Well, sometimes I do. But… but sometimes I just want tickets to a Van Halen concert.
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The Very Special Episode
Mallory: Nobody ever dies, Alex! Don’t be silly! Greg’s coming back in another life. We all are. Alex: Nobody ever dies? Mallory: No. Alex: Boy I wish I could believe that. I mean wouldn’t it be great if that were true? Mallory: It is true, Alex. You just have to accept it. You just have to believe. Read Shirley MacLaine. (laughter) Alex: Multiple lives. I could come back as me.
“I was both scattered and stymied, surrounded by unfinished songs and abandoned...”
– Patti Smith, from Just Kids
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“All it is is defending your own record collection. Which is all anyone has ever...”
– Danny Baker on The Word (episode 115), on why people contend, erroneously, that there was nothing happening in the mid-seventies music scene, and try to use “the lull” to explain why punk broke.
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“Staff Picks: Faust, Ibsen, and Bananas”
– At first glance, I totally thought this Paris Review headline was just a bunch of dirty words.
Inside the Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders →
I just bought three of these on ebay. I’m kind of shaking with excitement over the fact that these appear to be the best mixtapes ever, and they’re ON VINYL.
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Record Haul No. 7
Wham - Music From the Edge Of Heaven* Chicago Transit Authority - s/t Al Caiola and Orchestra - Guitars Woodwinds & Bongos The Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits Rod Stewart - Sing It Again Rod** Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again
* With a Madonna/Herb Ritts True Blue poster tucked inside. ** Shaped like a lowball glass of Scotch on the rocks; the inner sleeve is the same...
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“If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck...”
– Fran Lebowitz
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“Ah, this is the era where everybody creates.”
– Patti Smith, “So You Wanna Be A Rock n Roll Star”
Genius →
sarahb:
Especially the Flaming Lips one
Lordy yes. Favorite:
Joni Mitchell: girls who harmonize with the radio, “casually” putting a flower/feather behind your ear, idolizing summer camp counselors, the universal smell of health food stores, not showering to maintain a tan, elaborate ball point pen drawings of eyes, sleeping in the car on someone’s shoulder, homemade/crafty envelopes, ...
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The Library Card
I decided that I would do my best in 2011 to spend less money on books. I’m not talking about pulling back on supporting authors and local bookstores I love; I’m talking about not coming back from the Strand with five used books I may or may not get around to reading at some point in the next few years. Part of this endeavor involved finally getting myself a library card.
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