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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →

Dec 30th

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Last week...

I was at Urban Outfitters shopping for Christmas presents for my brothers and their girlfriends (ended up not getting anything there). All of a sudden, an iPhone started to ring with the default iPhone ringtone (Marimba, as I believe it’s called). Me and four hipsters nearby went for our phones at the same time. And we all noticed each other doing so, too. I felt embarassed. But I’m...

Dec 23rd

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Dec 23rd

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Books

Finished Juliet, Naked today. Nick Hornby is not really a *great* writer, but he does know how to tell some entertaining stories about characters I care about. This was no exception. I still think High Fidelity and About A Boy are his best works. Started reading Eating Animals. Jonathan Safran Foer is a *great* writer. I only read the first chapter so far, but I’d say I’m hooked....

Dec 22nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →

Dec 21st

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Dec 19th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →

Dec 17th

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Dec 17th

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I resisted the temptation of calling this post Juliet on the Tracks or something like that. That’s why it doesn’t have a title. I’m 50 pages into Juliet, Naked; which is quite good for me, considering I’m a slow reader who just started reading it yesterday. So far I’m enjoying it. I think it’s funny how I’ve been listening to Dylan’s Blood on the...

Dec 16th

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“The sage is full of anxiety and indecision in undertaking anything, and so he is...”

– Book XXVI, The Texts of Chuang-Tzu (but I really got it from Seymour, an Introduction)

Dec 14th

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Dec 14th

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He's back! →

Thanks for sharing, Isabelle.

Dec 14th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →

Dec 13th

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Wilco - Love and Mercy (Brian Wilson cover) Is...

Dec 13th

Dec 12th

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An alternative Blood on the Tracks →

While I was looking for a link to the song in my previous post I found this interesting blog post with different artists covering every song on Blood on the Tracks (which is my favorite Dylan album, btw). Thought I’d share it. I’ve always wanted to put something like this together for The Beatles’ The Beatles (aka White Album).

Dec 11th

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And here’s another example. One of my...

Dec 11th

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spectorama: Versão demo de Ladies and Gentlemen...

Dec 11th

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Dec 11th

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Stereogum's 50 best albums of the decade →

We all know lists like this mean next to nothing, but we all love them as well. This is the best one I’ve seen so far on the subject. I’d still drop a few of those albums, though.

Dec 11th

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sylvysparrow: sunshinesong: West Coast -...

Dec 11th

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Dec 11th

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Seymour

“When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion. Never. I’m a little over-excited now. Since it is your religion, do you know what you will be asked when you die? But let me tell you first what you won’t be asked. You won’t be asked if you were working on a wonderful, moving piece of writing when you died. You won’t be asked...

Dec 10th

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