January 2010
85 posts
1 tag
let's ring in another year with some words about...
Even though I didn’t intend it to be so, my Tumblr has been a little bit of an explosion of my long pent-up desire to talk about music and write about music and share videos and songs.
You would think that, having been faffing about online for 17 1/2 years now, I might have found another outlet for this, but you would be wrong.
I think maybe it was a combination of outlet and...
December 2009
66 posts
Things You Should Make To Eat, No. 1
Once upon a time, I had a food blog.
Actually, I still have a food blog. It’s called Love & Butter. I just stopped updating it one day, when I realized I wasn’t meant to be a food blogger. Don’t get me wrong: I love food. Which sounds really stupid when you say it, because it’s like loving soft fluffy baby animals or original episodes of Sesame Street or Gilda Radner:...
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Do It Already
rinich:
You want to get something done. You want to write a novel, or make a movie, or make a video game. You want to be thin and beautiful, or maybe just rich and famous. Why haven’t you?
That’s not a rhetorical question. I’m not offering an excuse. If you want something done and it’s not done, there is no excuse. You haven’t done it. You probably ought to.
…
Remember also that nobody...
Watch“Ladytron” - Roxy Music (1972, TV)
Side note: Old Grey Whistle Test = The best. Times 100000.
facemeltingaction:
I like Thompson a lot, but mostly save this level of severe crush for David Byrne.
Speaking of which, here are the two playing ‘Dirty Old Town’, from a concert with a widely circulated bootleg I really need to track down.
Great song. Don’t have the bootleg either but does anyone have this? Because ooooh.
Doomsday or Desire: Do Humans Dream of Robotic... →
I may or may not regret this, but I think I’d like to give you all a little light reading for the holidays. My Masters thesis from Georgetown!
I wrote it because I was curious about the following question: Why do we feel so compelled to create machines that look and act like us, yet nearly every time we represent them in art or popular media, they want to hurt us - or even destroy us?
...
Upon cracking the code
I didn’t know Richard Thompson did a version of my favorite Left Banke song and I didn’t read carefully earlier. But here I am listening to it (do not ask how many times already) in my new favorite cafe in the Inner Richmond and it’s warm’n’sunny out and there are perfect snacks here and if I do the “math,” it looks like this:
(RT + LBe)^3 + cafe!! +...
merlin:
Any chance you like that English guitar playing, singing guy I keep raving about? Even hypothetically? Yeah, I figured not. Still.
Read More
What, like I wasn’t gonna reblog this one?
IF YOU HAVE ANY TASTE AND SENSE YOU WILL READ THIS.
Of course I’m rushing out the door right now and can’t hypothetically download what hypothetically might not even be there but if I...
Conversations With My Mother, #1
Or, why I am the way I am.
Me: I had a zit right here that was pretty spectacular. I don't think I've ever had one in my life that was quite like it. My skin was clear for months and them whammo, there it was. Can't figure out what caused it but wow, SO MUCH GROSS STUFF came out.
Mom: Ooooh, lucky!
Me: It was pretty awesome.
Mom: Yeah. Well, I had a patient come in with a 4-INCH-ACROSS CYST. ON HER BUTT CHEEK. YES!!!! (punches both fists into the air toward the steering wheel, while the car is in motion)
Me: OH MY FUCKING GOD, 4 INCHES!?!?! IN DIAMETER?!?! ON THE BUTT?!?!!?! HOLY SHIT
Mom: See you and raise you.
“It’s strange, sad, and indefensible that 95% of image Tumblrs do not credit,...”
– and unforgivable. Twitter / Atley G. Kasky (via nevver)
Places You Should Go Eat, No. 1
There are few things in this world I like as much as telling people what I think they should do. Not because I’m bossy - well, maybe just a little - but because I am FIRMLY and WHOLEHEARTEDLY CONVINCED they are going to LOVE whatever it is I have in mind.
But one thing I love slightly more than telling people what to do is telling them about food I love and restaurants in which they can...
