January 2009
35 posts
Just a quick note
jennicababylonia:
Mary Rambin makes me want to kill myself.
Getting botox for the first time at age 23 = everything that’s wrong with society. Lucky for her, she lives in her own “Non Society.”
[Beirut/Realpeople - “No Dice”]:
Zach...
“Eight rules for writing fiction:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1999), 9-10. (via ariah) (via davidmaddox) (via havent-got-a-prayer) (via ackb) (via inothernews) (via soupsoup)
!!!!!!
Yaaaay to my dad for winning the ALA Sibert Honor Award:
“Two Sibert Honor Books were named: “Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of The Past,” written by James M. Deem and published by Houghton Mifflin Company; and “What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!” written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
M. Ward (18)
Bishop Allen (14)
Matt & Kim (11)
My Bloody Valentine (8)
Matt and Kim (8)
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ryanluikens:
oiga: bishop allen, “oklahoma”.
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The twelve-year-old Nirvana fan inside me is sooo...
I’m going to Seattle/Portland for Valentine’s Day weekend with Rob! IN THREE WEEKS! Reblog with any recommendations for places I should visit while I’m there!
How come...
whenever I’m truly in the mood to write, it’s two-forty in the morning and I need to wake up in less than five hours? All I feel like doing right now is staying up all night and writing and screaming along to The Velvet Teen. Fuuuuuuck.
[The Ponys - “Fall Inn”]:
“Oh...
meredithturits:
Okay, perhaps it’s just me, but I’m a little sick of seeing my president as a ninja action figure, or on the face of Jesus as a dashboard bobble-head. Stand back and let the guy do his job, please.
Amen.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
Animal Collective (15)
Coconut Records (13)
Asobi Seksu (13)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (12)
Vetiver (12)
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“There isn’t much that I feel I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed...”
– Animal Collective - “My Girls,” which I’ve listened to probably six hundred times in the past three weeks. Can’t wait to hear it live on the 22nd!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Sunny Day Real Estate (10)
Animal Collective (9)
The Velvet Teen (8)
Les Savy Fav (7)
TV on the Radio (5)
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My 33 1/3 competitors. →
“Thank you for telling me what I already know. You should work for the Huffington...”
– Jack Donaghy (via soupsoup)
My Hopes For This Season of The Real World
soupsoup:
tesslynch:
1. Closeted Mormon Guy + Transgender Lady
2. Baya + Tattooed Former Lesbian
3. The war veteran keeps making those faces
4. Gay Dude with V Necks smashes table with object (*confirmed)
5. Hipsters invade loft
6. Muscular Guy + Closeted Mormon Guy
7. Muscular Guy freaks out, hooks up with Devin soon thereafter
8. Closeted Mormon Guy makes pass at Gay V Necks,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-4) →
At the Drive-In (33)
Animal Collective (23)
M. Ward (17)
No Age (13)
Andrew Bird (5)
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