January 2009
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel) (via thresca) (via passthrufire)
sixteendays:
lazystar:
Ryan Adams - WW24
...
buyhercandy:
“Everyone’s got an opinion about the poem read yesterday, the vast majority of them (at least in print) seem to say it was too prosey for the occasion. There seems to be two schools of thought here: one, by people who have no investment or background in poetry: the fact that there was a poet at all shows Obama’s renewed focus on the arts as an instrument of change; and two, by those...
“There is a generation of eighties semiotics students who wish that Barnes had...”
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Logic of Excess
Sasha Frere-Jones’ piece on of Montreal in The New Yorker is relentlessly on point, and strongly recommended, particularly if you’re the type of person who is not yet sold on the brilliance of Kevin Barnes. I’m especially glad that SFJ made this point: “After a dozen listens,...
The Gaslight Anthem - Miles Davis & The Cool.
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It's like I'm the goddamn white witch or...
Right Now for Chicago, IL (60622)
-9°F Feels Like -29°F
(-23°C Feels Like -34°C)
As I walked from my office to the train stop, I breathed on a strand of hair that happened to fall in front of my face, and then I watched it freeze, right in front of my eyes.
“This all-girl fantasy I’ve had my whole life, of you know…I’m going to...”
– Courtney Love, interview in Heeb magazine.
This quote is begging me to write my “why rock and roll needs Courtney Love” piece, the one that’s been living in my head for a good ten years. It’s also making me want to dedicate more of my time and support to Girls Rock!...
March 3rd.
sixteendays:
My mom bought me a ticket to see FLEETWOOD MAC.
ENVY!!! Have a fantastic time.
(related: a few weeks ago I threatened to tear out a dude’s weave for talking shit about Stevie Nicks.)
“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of...”
– Richard Brautigan
