December 2009
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staceyjoy:
“As Tall As Cliffs” - Margot &...
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things & stuff
gennnna:
this is my last week freelancing at the ad agency i’ve been at since may ‘08. i start a new full time job (with benefits!) on monday. i had a seperate entry all written up but it was just a diatribe about how i was shafted in the last two years and unappreciated, so be happy i didn’t post it.
andy is selling the car today. we will be carless (except we have an i-go membership) and it...
“Some students end up at second-tier schools because they’re exactly like...”
– The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: an article by William Deresiewicz about how universities should exist to make minds, not careers | The American Scholar
Sounds exactly like my experience with higher education.
(via plainoljane)
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MY TOP TEN ALBUMS 2009
kristablogs:
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring
The Antlers - Hospice
St. Vincent - Actor
Monsters of Folk- Monsters of Folk
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
M Ward - Hold Time
Fun. - Aim and Ignite
The XX - 2.0
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Honorable Mentions:
Girls - Album
White Rabbits - It’s Frightening
Grizzly Bear...
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AS PREVIOUSLY THREATENED: THE 50 MOST OVERLOOKED...
Like many of you, I love lists: Reading them, dissecting them, and, occasionally, creating them. Recently a friend of mine solicited from me and a number of his other friends a list of “ten movies you hardly ever hear about,” the better to fill out his Netflix queue, I’d imagine. I tried to trim a quick list of about twenty down to ten, but then decided to go crazy with the...
“I didn’t get my letter to Hogwart’s. Now it’s too late.”
– My daughter, on her recent 11th birthday.
“[I want kids] so I can immediately send them off to boarding school where they...”
– Daniel Radcliffe
(fujiidom / eemmaa / malfoyy / saiorse)
(via yourfavoriteredhead)
thumbswithhands:
Guster—Keep It Together
“General opinion makes out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, I don’t...”
– Love Actually (via movieoftheday)
Best Albums of the Decade: 13. The Midnight Organ...
bibliotheque:
13. The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit, 2008
The last time I flew to New York I listened to this on my iPhone most of the way. The guy sitting next to me kept asking me what I was listening to and he was like, “You’re listening to the same band for two hours?” and I sort of just turned away. You can listen to Frightened Rabbit for ages. From the raw, earnest vocals to...
the top ten will be posted tomorrow. or maybe the...
bibliotheque:
or when santa decides to bring them to you. very soon, promise.
Dear Santa:
Please let bibliotheque bring me a few surprises in her top 10.
WITH MY FREEZE RAY I WILL STOP THE WORLD
