December 2011
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“I love this song so much, I spent months wondering if I actually hated it.”
– The Top 25 Songs of 2011 | Rob Sheffield | Rolling Stone
Look out Kurty* Vile: the more I listen, the more this Don Henley Bon Iver song is becoming my favorite song of the year.
*Typo, left there because it felt like an appropriately affectionate diminutive for the guy.
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Photo Booth Photos Always Make You Look Super Vain →
(Related to the previous post.)
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So simple?
Sooooo sick of the either/or conversations surrounding everything in publishing. It doesn’t have to be either Amazon OR the indies. It doesn’t have to be either ebooks OR paper books. Who is holding a gun to your head?
Here’s what you do: get yourself a tablet with the Kindle app (sure! why not? sometimes this will make sense) and another e-reading app that reads epub files...
“Amazon suggests books based on others you’ve read; your local store recommends...”
– A confused tech blogger
Better yet, why bother reading more than one book? It is very inefficient.
(via osmium)
The best book I read in the past ten years was recommended to me by a bookstore employee. And even though the analogy is dumb (and incorrect: this guy has obviously never developed a...
“You don’t have to spotify and twatter up your rhapsody to be last eff em,...”
– J, social media aficionado
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2011 Best: New & Old →
I couldn’t choose between Dan Fogelberg and Yuck, so you get both of them and everything in between.
(I’m not sure I’m even done with this playlist yet, but it’s a start.)
Damn, Gina: A letter to 14 year old me about... →
camplittlewolf:
sarahb:
Dear 14 year old me,
Hey. What page are you at in No One Here Gets Out Alive? Cool. Anyway. I know you’re weirded out by the idea of marriage, and have some concerns about exactly what it might entail, so now that I’ve been married for exactly one year, I thought I’d give you a rundown of…
I love this, and not just for the Madeline Stowe Nightgown reference.
Still...
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“I’m a backwards horse. I’m a demented whale. I’m a pessimistic...”
– J, waiting for “60 Minutes” to load.
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A Room Of One's Own
“Can you hear my football in there?”
“A little bit, but not really. Can you hear my Steely Dan in there?”
“A little bit, but not really. […] And that’s Stoke fans booing, not me.”
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That time I went to Titus Oaks and the clerk made...
maura:
Obviously musical taste is a super-personal thing—music is the only artform that people can’t objectively describe to one another without at least some base of theoretical knowledge (in film even the novice can identify, say, the close-up; in visual art people can pick out colors, basic materials, etc). And It’s probably a fool’s game for me to get so bummed out when lazy writing that...
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“My grandfather used to say: “Life is astonishingly short. Now, in my memory, it...”
– Franz Kafka, ‘The Next Village’. This is the entire text of the story. It’s really a fragment rescued by his friend Max Brod, but like many of these it’s usually published on its own. As a paragraph in a larger work it could be funny; as a standalone piece it is haunting. (via mrgan)
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today is officially unruinable →
Asbury Park? Oh they best be talking about playing a hometown gig… unless Bruce Springsteen is planning a Cincinnati show as an exchange? That would be okay by me too.
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“Shots. Who does shots?”
[…]
“People.”
Unfinished
jessicaxmaria:
beca:
“Also, is Zooey Deschanel what Dave Eggers is to me to you? BRILLIANT SENTENCE, AMIRITE? WERE WRITERS.” — Jessica, who quite Heartbreaking halfway through
Dear Beca - I think you mean ‘quit’ (WERE WRITERS) and also, I finished Heartbreaking on Saturday. Just haven’t had time to write up my scathing review yet. Hearts!
PS Zan can attest to my inability to leave a book...
“Joni Mitchell has too much personality. Which isn’t a bad thing. But it...”
– Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia on TV Glamour and Putting Birds on It | The Hairpin
I was just wondering yesterday if anyone was still using Turntable.fm…
FLUXBLOG 2011 SURVEY MIX →
Yesssssssssssssssssssss
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tonythaxton:
Listen to our cover of “Here...
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New Music
This might seem like a lame-wrong-side-of-35 request, but being as stuck in the vinyl 70s as I’ve been over the past forever, I’m really, really, REALLY behind on new music. Rather than letting Fitchpork do all the thinking for me, I thought I’d ask you guys. What are some amazing bands/tracks you’ve heard in the past year? I’ve heard and liked the Bon Iver, the...