December 2011
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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.
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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,...