December 2009
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Honorable Mentions etc.
Honorable Mentions: Middle Cyclone by Neko Case, Illinoize by Tor/Sufjan Stevens, Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
Never Gave a Good Listen to: Hold Time by M. Ward, Noble Beast by Andrew Bird, Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Couldn’t Get Into (sorry, Hutch): Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
“Annan Water” by The Decemberists
“Isaiah 45:23” by The Mountain...
“Cabbage Town” by Conor Oberst and the...
“Say Please” by Monsters of Folk...
“God Made the Automobile” by Iron...
A Vague, Hastily Assembled List of my Top 25...
“Isaiah 45:23” by The Mountain Goats (The Life of the World to Come)
“The Trapeze Swinger” by Iron & Wine [(Around the Well) technically this track was released several years ago on the In Good Company soundtrack, but this is the first album release of this version of the song (there was a live version released on Iron & Wine’s iTunes exclusive)]
“Romans 10:9” by The Mountain Goats (The...
“Kick Drum Heart” by The Avett...
“Folding Chair” by Regina Spektor...
Foxtrot
Peter: Why the grouchy face?
Jason: Mom says I have to read all of the Valentine's day cards I got.
Peter: You don't normally read them?
Jason: Heck no! I don't want to expose myself to a bunch of girly flirtation. I mean, look at some of these..."Dear Jason, Happy Valentine's Day, you nerdy twit."
Peter: Calling you a "nerdy twit" is flirting?
Jason: It's an anagram of "trendy wit."
“A Conversation about Cancer” by The...
"Top" Ten Albums of 2009
I’m about to begin the countdown of my favorite albums of 2009. A brief statement: I don’t pretend to be objective, here. These are my favorite albums of the year, but I realize that there are some gems I missed and that my particular tastes may not match those of a trained and thoughtful music critic. And I’m okay with that.
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“If you ask about your change, the shopkeeper philosophizes to you about the...”
– Gregory of Nyssa, describing daily life in Constantinople during Late Antiquity (qtd. in Justinians’s Flea by William Rosen)
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“During the heyday of communism in Russia, conservative commentators criticized...”
– Walter Block, The Privatization of Roads and Highways
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Music
iTunes How many songs total: 5222 How many hours or days of music: 15.2 days Sort By Song Title First Song: “A-Punk” by Vampire Weekend Last Song: “1983 … (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience Sort By Time Shortest Song: “One Last “Whoo-Hoo!” for the Pullman” by Sufjan Stevens (0:07) Longest Song (excluding speech files): “Marais La Nuit” by...
“If a State is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are...”
– Confucius (h/t Ben Z, who adds, “If only China had listened to him as much as the China in my head does…”)
“I have listened to Blood Bank nonstop for over an hour.”
– Rachel
Just downloaded this on your recommendation. Hope I don’t regret it. Doubt I will.
“Lo! How a Rose E’er Blooming” -...
Hebrew 12:7-11
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and...
“The people most affected by [the War on Drugs] are black and brown and poor....”
– David Simon (Do click. This discussion is incredible. Part II has fantastic insight into the collapse of newspapers.) (via syntheticpubes) (via electronicalrattlebag) (via wireporn) (via unburyingthelead) (via danielholter) (via buffleheadcabin) (via poortaste)
Things I am good at focusing on doing for extended...
Watching Arrested Development
Sleeping
Reading Wikipedia
Debate
Writing papers
“Despite its crudity and simplicity, ‘Twist and Shout’ sounds good - in...”
– Nick Hornby (via andrewmcclain)
By reblogging this, I do not imply a tacit endorsement of the author’s philosophy. I am intrigued by it, but doubt that I could defend it in an argument with my musically wiser little brother.
“[Edward Cullen is] the most ridiculous person who’s so amazing at...”
– Robert Pattinson
Can I just put my dirty dishes in the laundry with my clothes and they’ll get clean that way?
“If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen,...”
– Edward Abbey (via cosmic-dust) (via poortaste)
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