February 2009
97 posts
Teen dreams
Last night I was dancing to the Faint with Mark Renton, Troy Dyer, and Cliff Poncier or at least dudes who looked just like them.
(Is the knit cap back everywhere, or is that just an upper Midwest fashion?)
In any case, to keep with this theme of living my fantasies from when I was 18, I should probably head to see Elizabeth Peyton at the Walker pretty soon.
Also, when “Kids” comes...
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers -...
Arcade Fire - “Neighborhood #1...
GQ magazine has a minneapolis guide →
(via mediation)
Evidently, readers of GQ (like the readers of the New York Times) want to do very little of interest in Minneapolis and don’t know how to navigate without explicit instructions to use GPS.
Thursday's There. I Said It.
Stop complaining about the snow. It’s February. It’s not April. You live in Minnesota. I don’t understand the enormous amount of groans and complaints about the weather. The commute sucks; I get that. I fell twice on the way home, and it wasn’t fun. But the weather itself? Have fun with it.
Put the energy you use to complain about the weather into something productive. Or...
New Order - “True Faith”
Wednesday...
hungryghoast:
allisonweiss:
“Holding Out For A...
And your sister-- I think her name's...
When I was a kid, no one had my name except for moms and aunts. Now these supertrendy internet-only series about wayward twentysomethings seem to be picking up on how awesome Deb is.
See: Rockville, CA and Quarterlife. Oh, and also Showbizzle (which, unlike the other two, I like. Additionally, another Showbizzle character’s name is Carver, so it’s like the show is talking right to...
Beards for Babies →
One of many reasons to love South Carolina. Check out that lede. (moustache twirl Anne)
On a mostly unrelated note, I did not vote for Mark Sanford and I hate him with all my heart.
Today's Great Discovery from the Past
Reviewing an old manuscript from two years ago, which is about Haywood County, North Carolina.
The county seat of Haywood County is Waynesville.
This section of the ms is about the history of Waynesville, before it turned into a full-fledged city.
The section’s title: Little Waynesville.
The Chicago Tribune on cutbacks at Touch and Go →
“Women filmmakers have much, much more representation in the documentary...”
– Blogging about those Commie, Homo-Loving Sons of Guns at the Oscars | Bitch Magazine (via curate)
It was a little disappointing that only one woman won a non-gender-specific award.
The Long Blondes - “Lust in the...
but maybe they can't afford the ticket...
Craig: this is the part of the day where i objectify suffragettes: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5601 Craig: they might be so beautiful if they just smiled
On paper and research
In the past few years, I’ve largely been required to consume a lot of paper— you know, working in book publishing and going to grad school and all that. Like many people, I no longer get a daily newspaper because having a paper copy is annoying (and not because I think news should be free; I would pay for an online news subscription, hands down). I try to keep my paper consumption to a...
I am glad I did not get my hair cut Friday... →
Also note the fear-mongering kicker.
“MP3 has created an underground online culture in which hackers hang around in...”
– The Wall Street Journal, Mar. 8, 1999
Playing “I am the future” with books about the Internet never gets old.
Frightened Rabbit - “Old Old...
Neko Case - “Don’t Forget Me”
...
Aside from how horrible puppy mills are... →
I’d like to meet someone who thought it was a good idea to keep a tiger in America, outside of a zoo. I want to know the kind of person who wants to keep a pet that roars.
“On most winter days, Lulu Lamartine did not stir until the sun cast a patch of...”
– Louise Erdrich knows how to begin a novel: winter breakfast.
From The Bingo Palace.
Spoon - “Stay Don’t Go”
Good...
Like the Lord of the Rings, you think it's going... →
Now if only someone could record the audio component. Maybe James Murphy?
(Moustache twirl Hungryghoast.)
“The 1960s sexual revolution made illustrated sex scenes in periodicals like...”
– Ben Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly
Sometimes I wonder why I’m studying women’s media when I know it seems pointless to many of my colleagues. Luckily, paragraphs like this one exist to renew my fervor for the topic. The basic fact that women’s publications (or nonporn...
Look, I'm sick of the bacon trend too, but maybe... →
“Are you seriously glamorous or glamorously serious?”
– Cover line from The New Woman, May 23, 1988
So, readers, which are you? I consider myself glamorously serious, but I could be wrong.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Art Star”
Things I want when I'm in a bad mood
cigarettes
booze
naps
to indiscriminately call someone a pinhead
to split my infinitives
I woke up with "Shiny Happy People" stuck in my...
and it made me very angry. I wasn’t upset so much at the song, but that the song was coupled with a dream about the mall near my parents’ house. I spent a lot of time at that mall over the past 20 years, so of course I know exactly how it’s laid out and what stores are where, but I’m depressed that it’s in my subconscious. Why do I have to dream about the goddamn...
Sunset Rubdown - “Us Ones In Between”
Well, friends...
Today’s New York Times warns us that the Internet is broken and going to hell, we’re going to be attacked by terrorists, we’re probably being stalked, and the stimulus won’t help all that much or quickly or whatever.
So, I’ll just work on my little grant proposal and try not to feel insignificant.
Radiohead - “There There”
Happy...
If I believed in signs, this would mean something.
I made sure to not use the Happy Valentine’s Day mug all week so I could use it this morning, so when I poured my coffee into the holiday mug today it was super special.
I sat down to read tumblr and catch up on the news and all, like I do. I had made a big breakfast— bacon, eggs, and toast, y’know— and was enjoying it all on a calm Saturday morning. There were flurries...
