March 2011
1 post
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...
January 2011
2 posts
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”
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...
that’s an angel
satori
structure
fabric and character
torn wings and teenage dreams
and things long remembered
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...
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…
Chasing the wrong dreams
Saying the wrong things
Space heaters and screen doors
Lissie - Little Lovin' →
fun tune
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...
September 2010
4 posts
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…
Miike Snow – Animal →
Now I’m pulling your disguise up. Are you free or are you tied up?
August 2010
2 posts
Peter Bjorn And John – Young Folks →
We could stick around and see this night through
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...
July 2010
1 post
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)
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)
1 tag
“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can...”
June 2010
8 posts
Tonight, Tonight – Passion Pit →
PP covering Smashing Pumpkins. Surely better live, I’d wager. Makes me sleepy somehow. Or maybe that’s the rain.
May 2010
5 posts
Why? – Close to Me (The Cure cover) →
I never thought tonight could ever be this close to me
Caribou – Odessa →
ting ting ting tring tring ting
listening to "Caribou - Odessa" →
ting ting ting tring tring ting
March 2010
5 posts
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:...
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.
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.
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
2 posts
December 2009
6 posts
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.” -...
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.” -...
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...”
– ~Oscar Wilde (via sumfight)
Thinking: I feel awake when I feel alive, but not always the other way around.
November 2009
8 posts
I’m thinking: We are all born w/ different strengths. But it’s our values that define us.
lavendar dream fields and falling into and outside, shadowless and shining stars
Why? – These Few Presidents →
a beautiful and violent work