November 2011
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This is today's "please read." →
Lots of stuff to grab onto in here.
October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
18 posts
extremelyy-loud asked: Hi, I follow your Twitter. I think you should make more music because you're awesome.
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“Being naked, warm and squirming with someone in a bed has nothing to do with the...”
– http://www.observer.com/print/140710
Ka-BAM!
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To Whom It May Concern:
I recently purchased a pair of Nike [ACG product #], as I was looking for a stylish and effective option for walking in New York City during our many rainy and snowy days. I am an enthusiastic fan of the Nike brand, and I own several pairs of Dunks, Blazers, and have owned Nike running shoes in the past.
I was shocked and dismayed to find that my new Nike...
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A Letter from Bruce Springsteen to his Landlord,... →
Holy crap. Sometimes I feel like my band is THIIIIISSSS close to the next big step, and all we have to do is keep on the path we’re traveling. To think he wrote this letter just a few months before Born to Run was released…man. It just starts. And then it doesn’t stop.
The P.P.S. kills me: “I’m practicing my autograph. Whadya think?”
“He walked down Broadway to 72nd Street, turned east to Central Park West, and...”
– Paul Auster, City of Glass
Still probably my favorite passage from any book.
June 2011
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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In... →
youmightfindyourself:
30. Gustave Flaubert on George Sand “A great cow full of ink.”
29. Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman “…like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.”
28. Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri “A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.”
27. Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling (2000) “How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s...
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Dear Coke Talk: On higher standards. →
dearcoketalk:
But don’t you think that political officials should be held to a higher standard? They know when they take their jobs that their moves, personal and political, will be in the spotlight. The same goes for athletes, actors, etc. It’s practically part of the job description.
Fuck no. Only idiots…
Let’s amend that to include “a higher OR LOWER standard than...
May 2011
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April 2011
4 posts
PRES: Non-Limitations →
presco:
Recently a blogger sent me an interview email asking me about being a ‘Retro’ artist. He wanted to know if being this type of artist limits me, and what I thought of (what was inferred to be my ‘peers’ in) the retro soul revival, how it is a gimmick, and how this ‘affects’ my work. I don’t write…
Some thoughts on music culture. Well worth a read.
Facebook iPhone App Now Supports Mobile... →
So we’re all at the diner and Haley says something SUPER-BITCHY and UNTRUE about Mike who she KNOWS I’m totally in like with since FOREVER, like since January when I saw him on the bench outside Hollister when he was singing “Billionaire” with Tyler, and I didn’t even KNOW he could play guitar but he sounded even BETTER than Sam on Glee..whatever, Haley TOTALLY KNEW...
March 2011
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PHOTOS: Atomic Tom @ Irving Plaza, NYC →
The band does its thing. :-)
atomictom:
courtesy of Rachel Esterday
“Great music wasn’t created by the first people to grab an electric guitar...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/bring-me-stuff-thats-dead-please.html
“Don’t worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security...”
– Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones (via merlin)
5ives is BACK!!!!!!! →
Woohoo!
Five terrible fake panics obsessing parents of teens
Posted on March 9, 2011 by Merlin
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