2008

Jul

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Deerhunter - These Hands
Jul 2nd
This grossed me out a little bit. But so far, so good with...
Jul 2nd
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The Proclaimers - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) I want to watch Benny & Joon.
Jul 1st
Pumping myself up for the 4th in this classy thirteen-dollar...
Jul 1st

Happy Tuesday!

I held the door for a woman behind me as I was leaving a coffee shop this morning on my way to work,...
Jul 1st

Jun

Actual Life Decision Made

As of today, June 27, 2008, I will no longer eat any meat except for fish. I’m sure my...
Jun 27th
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hot4discourse: Alkaline Trio - Stupid Kid hooray for high school
Jun 26th
TOO TIRED TO PEE
Jun 19th
TOO TIRED TO PEE
Jun 19th

i need a trip

designage: tell me where to go. the moon. with me.
Jun 19th
chetgulland: Honestly, I just didn’t feel like pulling out...
Jun 19th
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ericamay: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO SINGS THIS SONG SLASH WHAT IT’S CALLED??? You will have my undying...
Jun 18th
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Silver Jews - Candy Jail From their new album Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, which was released...
Jun 18th

Mmm

just found a caterpillar in my edamame we’re friends
Jun 17th
“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a...”
— Charles Bukowski In my dream...
Jun 16th
The Happening's original screenplay, called...
Jun 16th
I apparently loved wearing my dad’s cowboy boots.
Jun 15th
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The Exploding Hearts - Thorns in Roses
Jun 14th
I CAN’T WAIT. I haven’t visited since I moved...
Jun 13th
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Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover That band Black Kids did a version of this, but...
Jun 13th
Jun 12th
I Wonder How The Industry Feels About...
Jun 11th
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Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven (Cure cover)
Jun 11th

Careful What You Wish For

My friend and I were just sitting in the park listening to the Death Cab for Cutie show (cheap, I...
Jun 11th
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Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Jun 10th
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Bryan Adams - Summer of ‘69 I melted into the sidewalk today.
Jun 9th
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Cat Power and Karen Elson - I Love You (Me Either) This Serge Gainsbourg cover is so odd. And...
Jun 6th

CONSUMERS

K: you should try out for a mr. clean magic eraser commercial
me: i actually want to
i am serious
i want to be in a commercial
K: i know
me: you don't have to be that pretty
you just have to believe
K: you really do believe in that product
and as a plus, you are that pretty
me: you know what i recently have found to believe in more?
you are going to FLIP OUT when you use this product
K: enlighten me
is it dawn power dissolver?
me: no no
K: i'm really into that stuff
me: it's pledge multi surface spray
it's amazing
K: can you use it on anything?
me: ANYTHING
WOOD
METALS
ELECTRONICS
PEOPLE
BATHTUBS
ANIMALS
K: you are blowing my mind
Jun 6th

Have You Ever Seen a Manwich Commercial...

Who are these people? Seriously, how are Manwich commercials cast? How are Spam commercials cast?...
Jun 6th
“He looks like a snowman.”
— Jake Oliver, on John McCain
Jun 6th
filialpiety: I got to work this morning and this framed...
Jun 6th
It's almost like waiting for a bus in...
Jun 5th
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Bat for Lashes - I’m on Fire I post too many Springsteen covers. Sorry.
Jun 5th
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT?
Jun 5th
Jun 4th
Parallel Universe Theory
Jun 4th
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Cheap Time - People Talk Nashville peeps. I need to go there soon.
Jun 4th
Warch Watch
This is how I feel today.
Jun 4th
“This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no...”
— Hillary Clinton (Read:...
Jun 4th
THANK YOU, KATY!
Jun 3rd

I'm Stupid and I Need Someone to Help Me...

There are 8 surfaces that need to be covered in fabric. The surfaces are each 8x8 feet. The fabric...
Jun 3rd
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The Blow - Parentheses If something in the deli aisle makes you cry you know I’ll put my arm...
Jun 3rd

May

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Silver Jews - Trains Across the Sea Half hours on earth what are they worth? I don’t...
May 31st

If You Go See 'The Strangers'

Bring the following items: 1) A pacemaker 2) Diapers 3) A gun
May 31st
“Human reality, he was beginning to realize, was a series of...”
— Michel Houellebecq, The...
May 30th
onepointtwentyonegigawatts: My landlord owns the flag...
May 30th
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Earlimart - We Drink on the Job Luckily I’m off today.
May 30th

Top 5 Anti-heroes

In light of the recent trainwreck that was the fourth Indiana Jones, I’ve been thinking about...
May 29th
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Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers on a ferris wheel looking out on coney island under more...
May 29th
Jocelyn’s “actually busy” gmail status...
May 28th

CONFESSION

I have never seen The Wizard of Oz.
May 28th
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New Bloods - Oh, Deadly Nightshade! Saw these gals in a room that was approximately 800 degrees...
May 28th

No, I Haven't Been Beaten

…but I do have some mysterious bruises on my arm. Maybe I just watched too many reruns of...
May 27th
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Pavement - Harness Your Hopes I’m asking you to hold me just like the morning paper pinched...
May 24th

Actual Poem Received By Stranger on...

If I could I would build you a pedestal made out fo crystal to raise you high like a goddess in...
May 22nd
“So I left the ticket window and took a seat on one of the...”
— John Barth, The End of the...
May 22nd
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The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me This song makes me wish I was wearing a prom dress in the 60s. ...
May 22nd
LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME I GOT THE JOB EVERYTHING IS...
May 21st
bugis stairs, singapore photo by anne bryant
May 21st
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Computerization - 2010 You wanted eggplant/I want pastrami You wanted happiness/I wanted pain
May 21st

20 questions

1 can it fit on the bed 2 does it cost over $300 3 is it an electronic device 4 is it made of...
May 20th

Schizophrenic Thoughts While Watching...

These are awful people; do we really need a show like this? God, I love that dress. These...
May 20th
NPR Interview with Death Row Chaplain Carroll...
May 19th
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Salem - Brustreet Not sure how I feel about this, but it’s nicely hypnotic. (PS - Do I just...
May 19th
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Hayden - Bad As They Seem one of the saddest and sweetest songs ever written. (per j’s...
May 16th
“I hope ahh-nold makes a speech abaaht it.”
— bds, on the good news in...
May 15th
GENERATION SLAP:They're naive,...
May 15th
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Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy I heard this for the first time in years yesterday, and it made me feel...
May 14th
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD SPENDS $30,000 ON VIDEO...
May 14th

In Lighter News...

IT’S OFFICIALLY OK TO BELIEVE IN ALIENS (thanks, derek)
May 14th

Real Life

lovepuppy: The world is going through a major shakedown. You don’t have to pay attention to the...
May 14th
Dear July 18, Please hurry. Sincerely, Ashley
May 13th
'real world' takes over brooklyn
May 13th
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Helium - Pat’s Trick
May 13th
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Jay Reatard - It’s So Useless from the Hammer I Miss You EP
May 12th
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Melanie - Brand New Key I asked your mother if you were at home/She said yes, but you weren’t...
May 12th
designage: super cute, and of course sold out. guess we’ll...
May 10th
Warch Watch
Sad Kermit - Needle in the Hay
May 10th
Is this ethical?
May 9th
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Tom Petty - Don’t Come Around Here No More
May 9th
me: christian bale is going to be in terminator 4
ck: wait
they're making a terminator 4?
me: yep
ck: with christian bale?
me: yep
ck: i just got a t-1000boner
you just made my year
May 9th
An Average Consumer's Spending
May 9th
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Bob Dylan - Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine I’ll always have to...
May 8th
Notes on "Sweet Child O' Mine," As Delivered...
May 7th
Like Beulah?
May 6th
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Computerization - 1.14me I sing on this song! It’s about a computer in love with its user,...
May 5th

AUTOMATON

Thank you, Ashley, for expressing interest in job opportunities at NYU. We have successfully...
May 2nd
symptoms-of-stress: I don’t feel safe in this elevator.
May 2nd
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DNA featuring Suzanne Vega - Tom’s Diner Fortunately or unfortunately, this song will be...
May 2nd
“…so I highly recommend that you see feist live,...”
— bds
May 1st
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M83 - We Own the Sky pretty
May 1st
Warch Watch
May 1st

We Are All Inside the Laser Window

Derek: i think he's lost in grand theft auto world though
me: god i want to play that game so fucking badly
im so jealous
Derek: i'll bring it over after work tomorrow maybe
if i remember to get the shit
shi-yat
me: byee
omg for one second i thought "shi-yat" meant bye in another language
i'm drinking wine
yeah you have to bring it over
Derek: hahahaha
ha
me: ha
Derek: that's the most ha's i've ever done i actually didn't laugh at all though
me: i know you didn't
Derek: sorry :(
me: we are in the laser window
it doesn't matter
Derek: it was funny though
me: that's what the laser window is for
May 1st

Apr

“Businessmen can tell I’m not a businessman, but they don’t...”
— mills, who consistently posts...
Apr 30th
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The Cure - Doing The Unstuck LET’S GET HAPPY
Apr 30th
thelunasea: Here is a photo of a painting of mine that was...
Apr 30th
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Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, Or, Round of Applause for your Stepmother! buy me a banjo
Apr 29th
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Big Country - In a Big Country This was playing the last time I bowled a turkey.
Apr 28th
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Jets to Brazil - Sea Anemone
Apr 26th
filialpiety: Nothing makes me happier on a day-to-day basis than when I get home from work and shed...
Apr 25th

It All Comes Back to Shania Twain

A woman from a staffing agency I dealt with a long time ago just called me and said, “Hey,...
Apr 25th
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The Rooftop Singers - Walk Right In Do you want to lose your mind?
Apr 25th

Um

I’m not sure if I’m comfortable with the woman at Kinko’s calling me...
Apr 24th
view from my old apartment on king street in charleston...
Apr 24th
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Beulah - Gravity’s Bringing Us Down
Apr 23rd

My Highest Value Is Pizza

jakoblodwick: Are these things important because the health of the Earth itself is important, or...
Apr 23rd
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Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Salisbury Hill
Apr 22nd
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Cyndi Lauper - The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough
Apr 21st
NO THANKS
Apr 21st
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Asia - Heat of the Moment sorry…
Apr 19th
I HAS A SUNGLASS
Apr 19th
Warch Watch
Apr 18th
Warch Watch
thelunasea: Hey Ashley! I just watched this and cracked up. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it. I...
Apr 18th
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Beulah - Disco: The Secretaries Blues Handsome Western States is such an amazing album. This band...
Apr 18th
hey baby
Apr 18th
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Jason Anderson - O, Jac! “They’d say stop/I don’t want to”
Apr 17th
IT’S FUCKING GLORIOUS OUTSIDE
Apr 17th

ANAGRAMS

I know I posted about the anagram generator a long time ago, but I continue to be amazed that the...
Apr 16th
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