January 2010
17 posts
“You would rather have a Lexus or justice?
A dream or some substance?
A Beemer...”
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist, “A World of Hits”, Nov. 26, 2009
See also: Nickelback
Paris, 1962 →
Thanks, ColinMeloy.
I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone
by Richard Brautigan
I was trying to describe you to someone a few days ago. You don’t look like any girl I’ve ever seen before.
I couldn’t say “Well she looks just like Jane Fonda, except that she’s got red hair, and her mouth is different and of course, she’s not a movie star…”
I couldn’t say that because you don’t look like Jane Fonda at all.
I finally ended up describing...
Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?
Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.
WatchAnd that’s where ideas come from. I normally don’t post two videos in a row, but this Animal Collective one is pretty, pretty good.
Favorite part: mongoose snapping to the beat.
Ethnic clashes in Sudan kill 140 →
This article, published today on the BBC, ties in with another book I just started called What is the What by Dave Eggers. It’s the fictional autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, a real-life refugee and survivor of the Second Sudanese Civil War. I’m not yet convinced it wouldn’t have been better as a biography but from what I’ve read of Eggers (this is the only book of...
And now I've started this
Thanks, sis!
9 for 09 (belated)
1. Animal Collective—Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Andrew Bird—Noble Beast
3. The Decemberists—The Hazards of Love
4. The Avett Brothers—I and Love and You
5. Ben Gibbard & Jay Farrar—One Fast Move Or I’m Gone
6. The Mountain Goats—The Life of the World to Come
7. Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band—Outer South
8....
Just got back from Florida
It was like Lord of the Rings down there.