December 2009
45 posts
From an interview with Bradford Cox (of...
Pitchfork: What Neil Young records have you been most into?
BC: All of them. I mean, all of them. All of Neil. I bought Archives; I went all out, man. I probably spent $3,000 on Neil Young this year. I became a little bit shocked by how honest his music his and what a good man he makes you want to be, y’know? And there’s an American-ness about it that I really love— even though...
Here’s some songs from this cool website I found called Bandstand Busking which is similar to a French site I really like called La Blogotheque.
According to this I am a 30something who was cool when they were 20something (Johnathan Safran Foer), a liar (Mark Twain), a guys who is in the third coolest frat of a private college (Dave Eggers), a girl who can’t spell “leheim” (Shel Silverstein) , that kid in your philosophy class with the stupid tattoo (Hunter S. Thompson), a person who plays Creep by Radiohead while having sex or smoking pot...
Chris might draw Finnian’s Wig tomorrow.
Christmas! Wooooohoooooo!
Because everyone else is doing it…I’m sitting here in my Christmas colored cross country shirt listening to my Christmas playlist the whole way through reflecting on the awesome gifts I got.
Sennheiser noise-canceling headphones
A quilt my mom made from my old t-shirts cross country, my Cub/Boy Scouts uniforms and patches, soccer uniforms and patches, etc. (It’s super warm)
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A Blurb About Cats
Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
A cat’s brain is more similar to a man’s brain than that of a dog.
Cats’ hearing is much more sensitive than humans and dogs.
Cats respond most readily to names that end in an “ee” sound.
If a cat is frightened, put your hand over its eyes and forehead, or let him bury his head in...
A Christmas playlist for y'all!
Sitting up late last night I scrounged around my Itunes and the blogosphere for my favorite Christmas songs (and discovered some along the way). Of course there’s one Sufjan Stevens song but I didn’t use that as my jumping off point…some are a bit of a stretch by including snow in the title or something but with the 18 inches that got dumped on South Jersey last weekend I think...
I’m still reading the blog of Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox ad came across this and had to reblog it…simply hilarious.
so this may be the funiest thing to happen in 2008. true story— sweet bradford was insatnt messaging me the other day and i started sending him pics from icanhasacheezeburger.com and he had never see the website before, so was like, loling all over the place...
I have to brag...
fancypantsbabar:
my GPA this semester is going to be banging.
Samsies. :)
While perusing Bradford Cox’s blog (of Deerhunter and Atlas Sound) I found that he posted a video of baby hamsters. It’s funny because I post videos of cute animals semi-often and I also LOVE to experiment with home recording (also I am an avid doodler…see previous post). Am I turning into someone someone or are the artists I like rubbing off on me?
According to this I am a hopelessly patchy beard grower (Fleet Foxes) who thinks that world hunger could be assuaged with four part harmonies (Grizzly Bear), enjoy crying more than my girlfriend (The Antlers), am a self-actualized bro who grows pot (The Flaming Lips), believe in Jesus and Juno (Sufjan Stevens), have frequent transcendental experiences (Arcade Fire), and am an avid doodler...
“Till the Morning Comes” by Neil Young
Hey look, it's a cute little hampster.
So I listened to Neil Young on the (looong) drive home and I LOVED his songs. I think After the Gold Rush is one of the best albums I’ve ever heard. You can tell that his music comes from a deep place and a lot of the lines in his songs are powerful and poignant. I can’t wait until our wireless starts working again so I can torrent this tribute album as well as more songs of his.
“It’s like the Virginia who cried, ‘wolf’”
– My mom
Thank you Dan,
for inspiring me to write about my anger. I have been feelign pretty good lately. My survey went well, my Art History final went well, and I felt like I had enough time for it all this past weekend.
However,
this dumbass professor assigns a SEVEN PAGE PAPER on the LAST DAY I HAVE CLASS alongside all other SEVEN CLASSES I’M TAKING which are A FUCKLOAD MORE IMPORTANT. So I’ve been...
LOL →
Weird Pre-Sleep Dreams
Every night before I go to sleep (which is usually a long time of motionlessness, wow I’m surprised Firefox didn’t correct me on that retarded sounding thing) I have strange mini-dreams of me being severely hurt. Once I ran out of my dorm room hysterically crying and slipped and hit my head on the floor as I started bleeding. Last night I dreamed I was hanging up my Survey display and...
Warning: This Rant is About Poop.
Today is Survey. I woke up at 6 in the morning, tired and groggy, hung up my artwork and shit (as my fingers started to smell like metal cause I HAD to get the longer metal thumbtacks).
Then I ate breakfast in the cafeteria. You’d think I’d complain more about survey but NOOO. I asked for french toast, bacon, and what I thought was that warm gooey apple stuff but was actually some...
hairywhitethighs:
J: Barbies don’t have vaginas! C: The ones that I played with did.
This is why religious fundamentalists scare the... →
So I've been listening to Irish music lately.
http://jeffreybrowncomics.blogspot.com/2009/03/eggers.html
I’m convinced that every artist I’m interested in is somehow vaguely connected with each other.
http://symphonyofscience.com/index.html#remix →
“Is every country in a continent?”
– Dan Toy
Grassroots
I’m so thankful that I live in the 21st century, where artists are easily excessive and where it’s easier than ever to connect with other people who love the same things. This past weekend I talked to comic artist Dash Shaw, who at 22 yrs old wrote one of my favorite books Bottomless Bellybutton. I’ve also talked to the members of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin* at a show...
You: boobs!
Stranger: vagina
You: weener!
Stranger: do you have those things?
You: i has a weener
Stranger: boring
Stranger: me too
You: :/
Stranger: :(
Stranger: kbye
You: theyre pretty cool sometimes
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
“…my Midwestern, conservative parents really wanted to see Nick &...”
– comment on Videogum
“Looking at a cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don’t stare at it....”
– My friend Alex’s status
To contrast the steamy pile of collected animals...
