March 2011
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"Thursday Night Preference Rankings" →
In my ongoing quest to have more opinions, I’ve started what I hope will be a somewhat ramble-y forum where I dump my thoughts on the NBC Thursday night comedies that I watch (the same four that everyone else watches). This first one is quite ramble-y, but I think I stumble on a couple thoughts I’m proud of (and I’m most proud of myself for calling this “preference...
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the...”
– Former MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti, “The Green Fields of the Mind”.
One. More. Day.
(via langer)
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
(via maura)
“A lot of indie music these days is about not having a position, not having...”
– Pitchfork: Articles: You Were There: The Complete LCD Soundsystem
Ding ding ding! Scott Plagenhoef absolutely nails it — and by it, I mean an entire decade of indie culture — at the end of Pitchfork’s epic LCD Soundsystem send-off.
(via perpetua)
Great line from Murphy in the next paragraph:...
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Thanks Tumblr for reminding me that I probably... →
perpetua replied to your quote: At its best, Collapse Into Now evokes R.E.M.’s…
This album is weird in that it’s so much stronger as an album than as individual songs for the most part. They gain something from being a group.
I’ll defer to you on this one, Matthew, because you’ve lived with this album a lot longer than I have. I basically listened to it on the NPR stream once...
“At its best, Collapse Into Now evokes R.E.M.’s best work while...”
– Pitchfork: Album Reviews: R.E.M.: Collapse Into Now
As a two sentence summary of the new R.E.M. album, this is pretty spot on. I suppose the discussion becomes where to file each of the songs.
(I like the record as a whole, but so far I’ve really liked certain parts of it more than others.)
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In search of somewhere to write free of Tumbeasts,... →
I’ve found that I’m mainly using Tumblr in a conversational way. I’m far more likely to reply or reblog someone’s post then I am to write something, and even then it’s basically been clipped quotes from interesting things I’ve read.
So in an effort to write a little more frequently (and to get acquainted with some of the things that Wordpress has changed since...
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Ken Jennings answering questions on Reddit is one... →
Among other things (and I haven’t scratched the surface) - he likes the new Destroyer album an insinuates that were circumstances different, he would marry Dan Bejar.
Also: “I have a big vault full of coins like Scrooge McDuck.”
Also ALSO: “Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Harry Reid (D-NV) both called me back personally in 2004 to try to get me to run for Orrin Hatch’s...
