November 2011
9 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Bon Iver (19)
Dave Matthews Band (11)
Guster (11)
Arcade Fire (4)
The National (4)
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Essay due at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday
Currently 9:45 p.m. on Sunday.
How far along am I?
JUST starting to outline.
Everyone in my program has been posting for the last 10 days on our Facebook group page about all the work they’re doing.
Most of them are done right now.
Me? Not so much.
I will never like Joseph Conrad.
Dude needs to lighten.up.
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Also at tonight's pub quiz was a team called:...
1. Lame name.
2. It should have been “Better late than pregnant.”
—-
On a side—but related—note: Quizmaster Joe found our name offensive enough that he wouldn’t read it aloud.
Oh, for s*&t’s sake.
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My pub quiz team just got second place (by ONE...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Heather Headley (18)
Mitch Hedberg (17)
Sleigh Bells (10)
LMFAO (5)
Arcade Fire (4)
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October 2011
24 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Atmosphere (61)
Annie Lennox (29)
The National (12)
Bon Iver (11)
The Faint (9)
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Next week: seeing Ralph Fiennes in "The Tempest,"...
Love the fact that I am only paying 7 GBP for all of the above.
Thank goodness for having friends with money who want you to come along to stuff.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Atmosphere (38)
Bright Eyes (32)
Feist (22)
Florence + The Machine (14)
The National (12)
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Okay, I'm usually not one for poetry, but I do...
Under a vast gray sky, on a vast and dusty plain without paths, without grass, without a nettle or a thistle, I came upon several men bent double as they walked.
Each one carried on his back an enormous Chimera as heavy as a sack of flour, as a sack of coal, as the accoutrement of a Roman foot-soldier.
But the monstrous beast was no inanimate weight; on the contrary, it hugged and bore down...
“When someone says they are happy, my ass begins to twitch.”
– French Kiss, Kevin Kline
Just booked two tickets to see 'Anonymous' at the...
I LOVE living here.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
The National (73)
Muse (30)
Mumford & Sons (25)
The xx (20)
Northstar (20)
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It's Official: Obama Has Embraced Occupy Wall... →
joshsternberg:
Oh boy.
White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe embraced the Occupy Wall Street protests on behalf of President Barack Obama in an interview with Good Morning America on Tuesday.
“The protests you’re seeing are the same conversations people are having in living rooms and kitchens all across America,” Plouffe told George Stephanopoulos. “People are very frustrated by an...
“The Phantom Tollbooth” is not just a manifesto for learning; it is a manifesto...”
– Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at 50 : The New Yorker
This is just a really great article about a really great book.
(via ryeisenberg)
Is it sad that I just emailed a list of required...
Because I’ve already purchased over 20 books and printed off more than 200 pages worth of articles for the first four or five weeks of class…and really don’t feel like I can afford the remaining 20 or so books?
“Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in...”
– Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (via joemuto)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
The National (34)
Northstar (33)
Atmosphere (11)
The Civil Wars (9)
Sleigh Bells (8)
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This blog has been cracking my shit up. I need to... →
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Okay, I don't think London got the "It's FALL"...
And it’s looking like it will be close to that again today.
I WANT TO WEAR SCARVES. THIS IS WHAT I CAME TO THE UK FOR.
Geezus.
September 2011
109 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Nadia Ali (13)
Carefree (10)
Alex Metric (9)
M.I.A. (9)
SBTRKT (8)
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“The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but...”
– Glenn Gould, quoted in Geoffrey Payzant’s Glenn Gould: Music and Mind (via proustitute)
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So, I went and saw Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy...
All last week, I was like: how have I not heard of a movie with this fantastic British cast (I love British actors)? There were signs for it all over London.
And I just realized today that the U.S. release date is December 9.
Sorry to all the people I’ve been saying: “go see it” to. I’m not used to being in a place that gets something first.
Last year, I FINALLY found a...
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a...”
– Elizabeth Warren…Um…this. A thousand times this.
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BREAKING: State of Georgia delays execution of... →
YESSSSSSSSS.
I'm sorry, but as much as I love London:
how did people ever have the guts to move overseas before all this crazy technology and all these social networking sites?
Between email, Skype, Facebook, Tumblr, and now the Whatsapp application I downloaded, I really don’t feel like much will have changed—it’s just a little harder for people to come visit me now.
But I can still stay in a ridiculous amount of contact with the...
clancypantz said: right? maybe they shouldn’t social network so much if a little blue tab gets their panties in a bunch
Bahaha…This made me laugh when I got home. Thanks for that.
Okay, I just got the "new" Facebook...
and all I can say is: people are overreacting.
I don't have the changes to facebook on my account...
but I’m already tired of all the whining people are doing about it. It’s new—you’ll get used to it. Just like you got used to the 1,000,000 other changes since you first got your account.
Facebook’s benefits have far outweighed any slight irritation I have ever felt over something “new” being added or changed. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not...
Yogurt in Europe > > > yogurt in the U.S.
I already knew this, but I was reminded of it as I ate a “pot” of it here just a few minutes ago.
That is all.
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the...”
– Lewis Thomas (via joshuakaufman)
Finally going to get my cell phone tomorrow.
Bank account. Cell phone. A place to live.
I officially live here now.