January 2009
118 posts
Pavement - “Flux = Rad”
I will...
Best Albums I Discovered in 2008 That Did Not Come...
Pavement - Wowee Zowee. Where have you been all my life and why did I tell myself I was satisfied with Crooked Rain Crooked Rain before?
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat. Something close to salvation.
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark. For some reason when I heard it in college I thought it was cheesy. I also liked electroclash a lot at the time, so this didn’t fit in...
December 2008
86 posts
Fuck you, Star Tribune. I thought that "wintry... →
Everyone knows that the Strib could benefit from more cocktail recipes and less about the weather.
I made a Boston Cream Pie tonight →
I have made neither sponge cake nor custard before tonight, so here’s hoping I didn’t fuck anything up.
It was really really fun to make, by the way. I enjoy complicating baking.
I finished Slouching Towards Bethlehem a couple...
I am big into “identifying” and have been since my high school English teacher told me I shouldn’t like something just because I identify with the characters. My fascination with identification, and whether readers do or should identify, is a big reason why I study women’s media. Slouching Towards Bethlehem set itself apart from anything literary (read: anything not related...
Radiohead - “Blow Out”
Doubt
I went to Catholic school for twelve years, and it never made me feel like a child of God, even when I crowned the statue of Mary with flowers in the eighth grade. I was only taught by nuns twice, and both of those in my large high school rather than in my parish school, so I was never really curious about their lifestyle, but when you’re around the Church for so long you start to think you...
snuh:protzik:
Candy Says - The Velvet...
My mother's mix cd
I made my mom a mix because I last gave her a mix nearly 10 years ago and it was filled with Rainer Maria and Tori Amos. So, choosing songs for this mix was difficult because my mom likes Simon and Garfunkel, Billy Joel, and musicals like Spring Awakening but not anything electronic, or with lots of guitars (unless it is “Hotel California,” which is my number 3 song I would like to...
Billy Joel - “Leningrad”
I attribute...
Just found my pre-Minnesota cd collection.
I have SO MUCH bad electronic music from when I used to want to go to raves SO MUCH.
Traditions
Since high school, I have bought a David Bowie record during the last week of every odd year, and a couple years ago I extended that to also buying a Stones record in even years. So, this year is a Rolling Stones year, and last year was a Bowie year, but I failed to buy a Bowie record last year, which may have been why this year sucked.
(Psych, I don’t really believe that my failure to...
Benjamin Button
was not great and was not bad. It was conventional but heartwarming and got me thinking about the collections of people in my life in an amorphous way (which Synecdoche also did, but Benjamin Button didn’t make me want to stab every person I’ve ever known). The script was a little bit horrible, but it was pretty and well directed. The best part of the movie was Brad Pitt’s...
My brother read today's newspaper bridge game...
Here is the best part.
I never knew shepherds are a devious breed, but the story is that one took his flock to a skating rink and ventured onto the surface with a sheep on a leash: He wanted to see if he could pull the wool over someone’s ice.
By Frank Stewart in the (Wilmington) News Journal.
One day I will be smart enough to understand the bridge puzzles in the paper. (This also...
Watchthe great wonders of my parents’ house! merry christmas!
Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers - “With Bells...
"Boffo": the wave of the future
Mom: There’s a word you don’t see too much: “boffo.”
Me: I was just thinking about that.
Mom: We should bring it back.
Me: Ok, I’ll write it on my blog.
WatchMoustache twirl. One day I will meet you there.
Since I will likely be stuck in MSP for a good...
Neko Case - “Christmas Card from a Hooker in...
One of my favorite things about Elf— which wins my award for Best Comedy of the Aughts— is its exposé of the seedy underbelly of children’s book publishing.
“I’m gonna be hanging in a classroom someday, and I want to make sure that...”
– Woody Allen, Manhattan
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Fifteen songs I really liked this year that came...
“Acid Tongue” - Jenny Lewis
“American Boy” - Estelle featuring Kanye West
“California Dreamer” - Wolf Parade
“Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came from an Angel)” - Ponytail
“Deep Water” - Portishead
“Ice Cream” - Muscles
“Lost Coastlines” - Okkervil River
“Love Lockdown” - Kanye West
“No...
"Since HuffPo Chicago is the model Ben Eason wants... →
(via maura)
Sad.
When you search for “Cosby” in the creative commons on flickr, you find an overwhelming number of white people in “Cosby sweaters” and very few actual pictures of Bill Cosby.
Thursday's There. I said it.
Just because I am a grad student does not mean I am a dick. I know that you knew that grad student once who really liked Finnegans Wake and thought he knew everything and was a dick. I am not that grad student. Please do not treat me like that grad student. I am not a dick.
There. I said it.
Also, I realize that I have been particularly potty-mouthed this week. I will try harder to use more...
Sleater-Kinney - “#1 Must Have”
Maybe...
Learn how to use butter, you fucking idiots →
would have been a better headline. I’d like to see anything else in the news beat this story out for useful knowledge today.
This rivals the story I saw in the WSJ three years ago about marmalade for best food writing of the decade.
Also, it ends with an anecdote about a woman who will literally bite into your margarine-made christmas cookies and put them down because they taste so bad....
Dumb dogs.
I’ve never been a dog person, largely due to fears developed as a toddler of things that are bigger than me that like to jump on me. However, in the years since then I’ve grown to appreciate a nice dog that will play and be adorable and love you when you are sad and snuggle with you and all that nice dog stuff. I’ve never lived with a dog, though, and I’ve maintained that...
Spoon - “Rhthm & Soul”
Winter...
“Favorite books: Non-fiction books about residents of Minneapolis shoveling...”
– From the Minneapolis Snow Emergency Facebook page, which is really precious. Someone spent a long afternoon thinking of all that fucking adorable text about making snow emergencies fun.
Bob Dylan - “Ballad of a Thin Man”
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