January 2009
56 posts
of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean...
I just slept for eleven hours.
It was magical.
“As he set foot on O’Connell bridge a puffball of smoke plumed up from the...”
– James Joyce - Ulysses
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
On a chance we tried an important-looking door and walked into a high Gothic library, paneled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas.
A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of the great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly...
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy
and...
“Life seemed to him to be inexhaustible — the illusion was obstinate...”
– Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe
movieoftheweek:
Where Is My Mind?- The Pixies
I...
“West and east and south and suddenly there you were: in Dublin itself, its wet...”
– “Standard Time,” Judith Kitchen
I was following the pack all swallowed in their...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Robyn (43)
Lykke Li (28)
T.I. (19)
Katy Perry (14)
Beyoncé (11)
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Watch“At some point, you just have to be okay with your little head.”
Look Ma, I'm in the paper! →
Courtesy of the Evening Herald.
everybodycares:
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Robyn - Bum Like You
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
Girl Talk (17)
Rilo Kiley (5)
St. Vincent (4)
Tom Waits (3)
David Sedaris (3)
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The Crash of Flight 1549: Maybe the Best Metaphor... →
I thought the same thing.
La Valse d’Amélie (orchestra) by Yann Tiersen
WHAT ARE YOU READING?
everybodycares:
jaimeleighfairbrother:
betweennowandforever:
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage, Alice Munro
Since it’s always like a million books at once, I’ll mention the ones I’m at least several pages into and working on as of this week:
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
The Best American Short Stories 2008, edited...
Potentially Embarrassing Question: What was your...
everybodycares:
reneelilley:
cuckoocuckoo:
daieny:
fantasyaction:
stultaluna:
theprosaic:
dressedup-likedreams:
Paolo Nutini (grade 8)
The Wiggles (Kindergarten)
NSYNC (6th grade)
B2K (9th grade)
My Chemical Romance (6th grade).
cky (6th grade)
The Romantics (my dad manages them), probably around age 3 or 4.
New Kids on the Block, Puyallup Fair, 1989.
Blink-182....
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Death Cab for Cutie (17)
Robyn (9)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (5)
Rilo Kiley (5)
Adele (4)
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