December 2010
48 posts
mayaFISH: Last New Years →
mayafish:
Another year of losing friends, living at home, and being broke.
At least I didn’t get divorced this year!
Love you too, 2009.
2009 sucked. I lived at my mom’s house for the whole year. It was brutal. I worked at Prada (yeah it was just like the stupid movie), and then at a…
I gotta get to bed so I can wake up and read this a thousand more times.
iPad magazine sales numbers show steep decline... →
Shocking!
“Of course in those days as now there were…clever young men who made a...”
– Raymond Chandler
Monument - Goes Canoeing →
If you are a fan of late 90’s emo ala Promise Ring/American Football/Cap’n Jazz, this album by Clinton’s cousin’s band is going to knock your fucking socks off. I’m impatiently waiting for my vinyl preorder link.
Click through to listen to the album in its entirety. Repeatedly.
First Aid Kit - When I Grow Up (Fever Ray Cover)
Help fund Strand of Oaks "Pope Killdragon" Vinyl... →
If you pledge $500 or more, he’ll PLAY A SHOW AT YOUR HOUSE.
A character on The Office mentions Liquid Paper.
Erik: You know, that lowly typist who invented Liquid Paper went on to have a son--one Mr. Mike Nesmith, founding member of The Monkees.
Maya: Oh...
Erik: And the only one with any musical ability.
Maya: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Have you heard Davy sing? Have you heard Mickey play the tambourine?
(silence)
Both: Who was the fourth one?
(silence)
Maya: Oh my god. We have to start hanging out with other people. I can't do this anymore.
(silence)
Erik: Peter Tork. It was Peter Tork.
Corpses on Everest →
Am I Fat Jared Leto? →
Oh great, I'm overweight. →
Right on time, midlife crisis.
“And you didn’t just do it for fun and you didn’t just do it for money. That was...”
– Aaron Sorkin responds to an episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska in which she hunts & kills a Caribou in his editorial “In Her Defense, I’m Sure the Moose Had it Coming.” (via invalidreply)
Best thing I’ve read all day. It’s a short one. Click through.
“When the Wyoming Valley caves in, I’ll be the first in the river and the...”
– Strand of Oaks - “Last to Swim”
Jeff Mangum Live at The Schoolhouse →
In case you didn’t hear, Jeff Mangum played a bunch of Neutral Milk Hotel songs for a bunch of people here in Brooklyn the other day. Nope, I wasn’t there.
Watchsasharappaport:
putthison:
After an offhand remark by Tim Gunn two nights ago that men’s jeggings exist, Conan O’Brien donned them for all of last night’s show.
this is why conan wins
This is pretty much what I look like in the jeans I’m wearing right now.
“I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at....”
– The Iron by Hank the Crank
“Willow, finally, my 16 year old, she had had it up to here with somebody saying...”
– Sarah Palin in a response to her daughter’s use of homophobic slurs on Facebook.
I’m usually too bored to comment on any of this kind of stuff, but her lack of awareness is unreal. It borders on performance art. Is she trying to blow my mind? Because she is. Wide open.
“Firefighters who responded to a hotel blaze stumbled upon a blood-spattered...”
– Police investigate murder before discovering bloody scene was horror movie set