August 2011
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“It’s appalling; in living people, one is dealing with unknown and...”
– Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
July 2011
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“The noble candidate who will bind up our wounds, love his wife and children,...”
– Alyssa Rosenberg on why I will never watch The West Wing, so shut up and stop trying to get me to do it already.
andyhutchins asked: 98 Degrees. 400 Degreez.
girlboymusic asked: 47,527 82.5 933,427,653 ∞
annotations asked: I'm on a professional activity-related trip in Maryland for a week. Is it just me, or is it really sad to talk to a hotel clerk through a protective pane of thick glass?
katherinestasaph asked: 4, 9, 16, 25, 27.
seriouslyflippant-deactivated20 asked: 1.6180
If anyone wants to put some numbers in my box I'll... →
t33j asked: I need some bootyshaking pop jams, like B's "Countdown" or idk... "Lo Hecho Está Hecho". Can you assist?
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Aristide Bruant “Nini, Peau...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
Joanna Newsom (17)
Brian Eno (4)
Belf’s Rumanian Orchestra (3)
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (1)
Sonny Boy Williamson (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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girlboymusic replied to your post:
Okay, what’s a landscape that would evoke a life story for you the way blue-sky-and-bridge did for me?
(image from this lady’s Flickr)
For years, whenever I have to attend a getting-to-know-you function — as an employee, as an intern, as a youth leader — and we play some variant of the two truths and a lie game, I’ve used “my...
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davidmanque replied to your photoset: So I finally got off my ass and put Paul F….
wtfpod.libsyn.com/episo… - I know you said you’re not an obsessive, but if you missed his interview with Marc Maron you should really give it a listen. A lot of personal background that sheds light on his comedy.
I am an obsessive! That was the first Maron I’d listened to in ages, and boy was it worth...
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Billy Murray & Chorus “I’m Awfully...
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“Denis did not dance, but when ragtime came squirting out of the pianola in...”
– I’m reading Crome Yellow now, by Aldous Huxley. Published 1921, not exactly modernism in the strict sense, perhaps — more like a skeptical eye cast over the conditions that produced modernism, even a satire of muddled would-be modernists.
Huxley can write, definitely, but there’s...
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This will be my only post on the weather.
Oh hi, rest of the country, glad you could join us.
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I think that most of all what I respond to in Wodehouse is the essential longing for security, safety, an untroubled existence. It’s played for comedy, because the image of a grown man running like a frightened hare from marriage (Bertie Wooster) or social responsibility (Lord Emsworth) is such a patently ridiculous spectacle in the marketplace of masculinity which forms the presumptive backdrop...
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IX: 1909
justonesongmore:
On the Clumsiness of Sentiment, the Destabilization of the Conventions, and the Striving Pinnacle of Getting Paid.
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To close out my morning Tumbl-spam, here’s the latest entry in my songs of the twentieth century blog: nine for ‘09. Check the next post on the blog for a link to the actual songs, and let me know what you think!
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katherinestasaph replied to your post: talk about Party Rock Anthem.
Because you are not me! Additional perspectives, etc.
Less flippantly/brown-nosingly, I really just don’t think there’s much there to talk about. It’s boring, boring, boring, and I’ve heard it more than enough times; now I switch the station when it comes on.
girlboymusic asked: I couldn't find any videos of Scott Joplin or similar saying "You're the best!" either.
What life story would YOU tell based on that blue-sky-and-bridge picture? How is Dirk Gently so far? When did you first grow a beard, and why?
What life story would YOU tell based on that blue-sky-and-bridge picture? How is Dirk Gently so far? When did you first grow a beard, and why?
bisutun asked: Pick one: a clean, well lighted brain; a brain with well designed traffic patterns.
katherinestasaph asked: talk about Party Rock Anthem.
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teenageart asked: Think about the things you wish you could change that happened in the last year. And then write about the third thing from the top.
bisutun asked: I'm looking for new (to me) music. I would like to be seized/racked with delight. Can you help?
I know that every time I have a block it feels... →
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Complete text of an email I just sent:
Any idea why your email address was being used to log into an iTunes account on my computer?
Either check for ID theft, or get better at hacking.
Awesome. Posting from my phone, even when I’ve previously saved a carefully-edited draft, strips out all the formatting. Thanks, Tumblr app!
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So I made a Spotify playlist. →
Out of a hundred songs from the 1930s, they didn’t have ten. Which is a pretty good ratio.
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nickminichino:
jonathanbogart:
I know it’s getting pretty late for most of Tumblland, but if anyone else wants to join in, I’ll be spinning 78rpm discs at my Turntable.fm room while trying to dislodge some thoughts into an open document.
Believe it or not, this is popping off right now—if you consider pre-war gospel and pachuco “popping off,” which, obviously, I do.
This was great!...
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I know it’s getting pretty late for most of Tumblland, but if anyone else wants to join in, I’ll be spinning 78rpm discs at my Turntable.fm room while trying to dislodge some thoughts into an open document.
EDIT: Apparently I need at least one more person so that I can even hear it. I could just make a playlist, you know.
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The concept of fandom actually bothers me a bit —... →
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Miss Ray Cox, “The Baseball Girl”...
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"It is only that people are far more different...
Finally completed Howards End tonight, because part of being depressed is being unable to make myself do things that give me deep pleasure, like reading or writing. Surface pleasures only — iphone games, certain kinds of pop music, comedy, television, the internet — have touched me. Which isn’t entirely true, either. Other kinds of pop music have also touched me, because that’s my...
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Everyone who said how horrible Paul McCartney’s contribution to Rave On Buddy Holly was: congratulations, you are old. Rock & roll is minstrelsy, and anyone who says differently is trying to deny their own complicity. Through evil comes good: that’s the fundamental equation of human grace.
Anyway I’d rather hear Macca gibber embarrassingly for an hour than listen to She...
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Okay, fine, if anyone’s got any Spotify invitations cough cough.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10) →
Jen Kirkman (27)
Beyoncé (14)
The Sklar Brothers (13)
Eddie Palmieri (7)
Cuarteto Coculense (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oh huh. I guess this is still working. But now no one else can start doing it, and none of us can stop.
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Wait a second, does that mean I'm Falstaff?
I’ll take it.
“My mind is such that, in the absence of Real Problems, it will create Imaginary...”
– GPOYW
