February 2012
12 posts
i am really at a loss wondering how many more things, small or great, can go wrong this year, and how exactly i am supposed to balance all of them without losing my damn mind.
in which neko case achieves everything i've ever...
http://www.countryliving.com/homes/house-tours/neko-case-vermont-farmhouse#slide-1
i love it, i want it, she’s the coolest, do you think she’d hang out with me?
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via womanhouse)
poetbabble:
armenotti:
“Only poetry isn’t shit.”
- Roberto Bolaño
Every really amazing prose/fiction writer I’ve ever known has imparted some version of this to me. Prose may illuminate the questions, but it’s poetry that discloses the answers.
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neutral milk hotel - naomi
“Our wedding was about much, much more than a certificate and a platinum band. It...”
– Newsweek & The Daily Beast editor David Jefferson writes on his four gay marriages—and the significance of his one wedding, a human rite of passage. (via newsweek)
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diamonds on my neck, diamonds on my grill.
January 2012
19 posts
newsweek:
apsies:
“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.”
—
Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful...
i feel like writing is always like wrestling yourself. i can’t pin that bastard long enough to know if i’m doing anything right.
things i can't stand:
- unrinsed dishes
- Lana Del Rey’s uncomfortable poses and movements during her unfortunate SNL performances
- unfinished poems where i have begun a line with the words “Now i am…”
- my superstitions, which are alternately maddening and hilarious, depending on how much perspective i have at the time
- distance
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- tattoo is oozing
- watching Downton Abbey; was calling it “Downtown Abbey” until about three days ago
- earl gray tea
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indierawk:
Fleet Foxes - Dancing On My Own...
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Venus Stop the Train - Wilco
20. I’m largely indifferent to my neighbors. Whenever I’m home alone, I’m glad they’re upstairs. It makes me feel less like a tiny female who has yet to buy pepper spray.
24. Going to bed. The routine of getting ready for bed and being curled up, reading and catching up on my Words With Friends games (i’m a 72 yr old woman. username: arielleannmary) - it’s...
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a small list of things that are frustrating
1. feeling like you’re getting a cold, but never actually getting the damn cold.
2. writing a music review and the feelings of douchebaggery that surround it.
3. lana del rey ‘played’ a sold-out show in NYC recently.
4. the general malaise of being unproductive and non-creative.
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"Nobody's going to do your life for you."
http://therumpus.net/2011/12/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-91-a-big-life/
December 2011
10 posts
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albums from 2011 that i enjoyed
1. wilco - the whole love
2. wild flag - s/t
3. fleet foxes - helplessness blues
4. tommy stinson - one man mutiny
5. jens lekman - an argument with myself
6. j mascis - several shades of why
7. css - la liberacion
8. cass mccombs - wit’s end
9. beastie boys - hot sauce committee pt. 2
10. the decemberists - the king is dead
11. tenement - napalm dream
12. thao & mirah - s/t...
something else entirely
i was brought up as one would raise an heirloom garden for which they had high hopes. my mother attacked parenting with a ferocity usually reserved for only the most intense hobbyists, viewing me, her child, as an assignment from God Himself. she planted, and watered, and attempted to grow something that would not be a selfish prodigal, but would instead be a Daniel, one who faced lions and...
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Surviving the Holiday Season
http://thehairpin.com/2011/12/do-this-no-6-festive-holiday-boundary-setting#more
wankers: exhibit a
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mumford-sons-second-album-is-black-sabbath-meets-nick-drake-20111213
“doom folk” just robbed you of what little scraps of credibility were still clinging to your derivative beards.
look, i know mumford and sons make lots of people happy, and that one song with all of the fucks in it is very nice, but no, nope, not a thing, you do not say your...
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Now that I am past the 12 page research paper on the use of visual rhetoric in modern “indie” album covers, done with this semester of French, and finished with my tutoring re-application portfolio, i responded the best way i knew how:
i took 45 minutes to do my hair.
Line Breaks & Other Violent Crimes: "Her my body,"... →
ecantwell:
The dog licks my hand as I worry about the left nipple of the woman in the bathroom. She is drying her hair, the woman whose left nipple is sore. We looked this evening for diagonal cuts or discoloration or bite marks from small insects that may be in our bed. It is a good bed, a faithful bed. A bed that won’t be hurt
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i am not Catholic, and thus my references to saints can only come from a woebegone and misguided place, but if i were to begin to pray to one, it would surely be Patti Smith.
last night i started reading Just Kids, Patti Smith’s memoir of her early years and the collaborative and loving relationship between her and the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. it’s a startlingly crisp read,...
November 2011
20 posts
i’m going to write a memoir about tutoring writing students called “lepreacon”, title inspired by tonight’s finest mis-spelling.
i’m thankful today for the following:
1. for my real family, with whom certain bonds are unbreakable. i may not be able to have open, communicative relationships with them, but we can play dominoes and enjoy each other’s company with ease. and they make a damn find thanksgiving meal.
2. for my friends, who are another family. for kristin, without whom i would be totally lost. for...
“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Tiger Beatdown (via pnasty)
This is so relevant to everything.
(via mindyshabibti)
THIS THIS THIS.
This is what rape culture looks like.
(via silverqueen)
And so many men fucking do not get this.
(via northerndownpour)
This. For real. Blows my mind how many people don’t get this. (via...
Newsweek: theweekmagazine: “I was there to take... →
theweekmagazine:
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing…
