March 2011
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The wind in my teeth The guns at your side We built it up to be scalable Not a one stop shop But it was never meant to be You seemed lost, waiting on your friends Smoking a Dunhill and needing a light But it was still too dark The thunder rolls over Tokyo The lightning from the hills to the sky I never wanted to have to ask you why I just knew You’d never find it again And I believe...
Mar 22nd
January 2011
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Frederick Douglass on 2011
“celebrating it with plenty of gunpowder and bad brandy, but as yet no balls, except those where perfumed ladies and gentlemen move their feet to the inspiring notes of the fiddle”
Jan 11th
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December 2010
8 posts
staying up very late only because we are in Chicago we can pretend we are home we invented huddling together smoking cigarettes in the snow and debating the validity of the hipster lifestyle as a protest or a movement because we are all too lonely to go home, to listen to acoustic balladeers in the digital wireless, vinyl wilderness when I am empty you fill me up or at the least we both lose...
Dec 19th
that’s an angel satori structure fabric and character torn wings and teenage dreams and things long remembered
Dec 19th
The pace quickens and it’s a little late to run away It’s like having a fever and craving the snow, the wind in your face Maybe because it’s a biting thing, polar opposite from other kinds of pain That’s why you can’t feel it Which way is freedom? Which way is relief? Your fever will break by morning The madness will leave you This longing you feel This...
Dec 19th
now i'm fluttering.: The New Rock-Star Paradigm →
caitibeth: By Damian Kulash Jr. of OK Go for The Wall Street Journal My rock band has leapt across treadmills, camouflaged ourselves in wallpaper, performed with the Notre Dame marching band, danced with a dozen trained dogs, made an animation with 2,300 pieces of toast, crammed a day-long…
Dec 17th
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Chasing the wrong dreams Saying the wrong things Space heaters and screen doors
Dec 17th
Lissie - Little Lovin' →
fun tune
Dec 15th
when I feel like I might be getting sick, I know more truth and I see it in pictures only when I allow myself to let the whole world go every piece of stone and rust and dirt and then I know it too well what is enlightenment? mindfulness? even these concepts are meaningless ideas what is the world, then really, except the real weight of itself? the world is just a picture of a dream that...
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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September 2010
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Liz Blood: E.B. White on youth and going to Alaska →
lizzywing: There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place. My entry for June 15, 1923, begins, ‘A man must have something to cling to. Without that he…
Sep 18th
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Miike Snow – Animal →
Now I’m pulling your disguise up. Are you free or are you tied up?
Sep 14th
Sep 12th
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Sep 6th
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August 2010
2 posts
Peter Bjorn And John – Young Folks →
We could stick around and see this night through
Aug 18th
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cleversimon: Many of the conservative Baptists among whom I grew up believe that dancing is a sin. I have never heard any of them suggest that weddings are invalid if there is dancing at the reception. Nor did any of them argue that professional dancers ought to be relegated to second-class citizenship — forbidden to marry, to adopt children, to serve openly in the military. They didn’t argue...
Aug 16th
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July 2010
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Swell season + Daniel Johnston – Life in vain -... →
Daniel Johnston’s guest spot on The Swell Season Austin City Limits show, doing ‘Life in Vain’ (recorded September 28, 2008)
Jul 17th
Jul 1st
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Interweb...tube.....web
Are we still saying Interwebs? I have been a LOT lately. I’m thinking of updating it. Perhaps, TimeSuckDevice(non-TV version)™ or TSDNTVV™ (pic not related, but if you think about it really hard it’ll waste some time too)
Jul 1st
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“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can...”
Jul 1st
June 2010
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Jun 25th
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Jun 25th
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Jun 25th
Tonight, Tonight – Passion Pit →
PP covering Smashing Pumpkins. Surely better live, I’d wager. Makes me sleepy somehow. Or maybe that’s the rain.
Jun 24th
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May 2010
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May 29th
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May 29th
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Why? – Close to Me (The Cure cover) →
I never thought tonight could ever be this close to me
May 19th
Caribou – Odessa →
ting ting ting tring tring ting
May 3rd
listening to "Caribou - Odessa" →
ting ting ting tring tring ting
May 2nd
March 2010
5 posts
Mar 26th
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Downtown Sound 2010 lineup leaked
seaofstatic: Monday nights spent on the great lawn of the Pritzker Pavillion have become a favorite summer traditions. Free and BYOB. It doesnt get much better than that! May 24: The Besnard Lakes + The Ponys May 31: Hum + Volcano! June 7: She & Him +  Hollows June 14: Tony Allen + Great Lake Swimmers June 21: The Books + Via Tania June 28: Huntsville + On Fillmore + Nels Cline July 5:...
Mar 19th
Mash Up – Gold Mahna Mahna (Kanye West Vs. The... →
Need to put a smile on yo face this Friday? Introducing Kanye and the Muppets. Mahna Mahna.
Mar 6th
listening to "Mash Up - Gold Mahna Mahna (Kanye... →
Need to put a smile on yo face this Friday? Introducing Kanye and the Muppets. Mahna Mahna.
Mar 6th
Mar 4th
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February 2010
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Feb 27th
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January 2010
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Jan 1st
December 2009
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Dec 24th
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Which ESOM lyrics are better?
(A) “Cruisin’ down 8th St., off white Lexus drivin’ so slow, but BK is from Texas… yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back.” - Jay-Z (B) “Ticket to the Lion King, that show is fantastic Leave a half an hour early so I can beat the traffic I can get home really fast, driver rocks an E-Z Pass Land at [something] gas, and the upper middle class.” -...
Dec 22nd
Which ESOM Lyrics are better?
(A) “Cruisin’ down 8th St., off white Lexus drivin’ so slow, but BK is from Texas… yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back.” - Jay-Z (B) “Ticket to the Lion King, that show is fantastic Leave a half an hour early so I can beat the traffic I can get home really fast, driver rocks an E-Z Pass Land at [something] gas, and the upper middle class.” -...
Dec 22nd
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...”
– ~Oscar Wilde (via sumfight)
Dec 9th
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Thinking: I feel awake when I feel alive, but not always the other way around.
Dec 6th
November 2009
8 posts
I’m thinking: We are all born w/ different strengths. But it’s our values that define us.
Nov 28th
Nov 21st
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Nov 17th
lavendar dream fields and falling into and outside, shadowless and shining stars
Nov 4th
Why? – These Few Presidents →
a beautiful and violent work
Nov 4th