December 2010
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Okkervil River, Song of Our So-Called Friend
So...
things i don't understand (and definitely am not...
DC is home now and Tampa feels very foreign.
My mother’s best friend asked me when I was going to grad school.
She also asked how I was feeling about turning 25 in May.
2010 has only 12 hours left.
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” - Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
The books in Oprah’s book club are not...
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“It’s more like a situation where I would hate the absence of the thing but...”
– Richard Katz, Freedom
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“But here’s the secret. The smartest people on the radio are dumb. Or not dumb...”
– Give In To Your Inner Dummy: Jonathan Menjivar, who used to work here at Fresh Air and now works as a producer at This American Life, explaining one of public radio’s deepest, darkest secrets. (via nprfreshair)
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why mike is one of my best friends
wiredalchemy: i had a funny idea for a sesame street bit
wiredalchemy: it's cookie monster singing "all me want for christmas is you" to a cookie
wiredalchemy: and then at the end he eats the cookie
gjdsalinger: i think this is a wonderful idea
wiredalchemy: thanks
wiredalchemy: i should clarify
wiredalchemy: he eats the cookie because it is christmas
wiredalchemy: like kermit runs in and says "merry christmas everyone!"
wiredalchemy: and then cookie monster is all "it christmas?!?!"
wiredalchemy: "OM NOM NOM"
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a bright wall in a dark room.: Christmas Week: The... →
brightwalldarkroom:
by Andrew Root
Jim Henson was dead, to begin with. A freak bout of pneumonia had taken away the man who was at the centre of countless projects and characters; the very voice of Kermit himself. Richard Hunt—who performed Beaker, Scooter, Sweetums, and Statler, among many others—had also died,…
This is wonderful.
the secret Radiohead album →
There’s a way to combine the tracks from OK Computer (hereinafter referred to as 01) and In Rainbows (hereinafter referred to as 10), to form one huge mega-album. As Puddlegum explains, “To create the 01 and 10 playlist, begin with OK Computer’s track one, “Airbag,” and follow this with In Rainbow’s track one, “15 Step.” Alternate the albums, track by track, until you reach “Karma Police”...
fancyismymiddlename:
“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news, you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.”
-Haruki Murakami “Kafka on...
Ask Mefi: French-language holiday music... →
Mix/class it up a bit this year.
xo
“Selvet er ikke bare en gave, det er også en opgave”
– “The self is not just a gift, it is also a task”
Søren Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death
(via pyrrhosrepublic)
ZOOEY'S MISCELLANY: BESTIE DAY: →
zooeydeschanel:
BESTIE DAY:
A few years ago I was in Tokyo on Valentine’s day with the husby and while there, I learned that Valentine’s day is just the beginning of a cluster of holidays! A trifecta of confectionary-as-symbol-of-affection-or-ambivalence holidays begins on Valentine’s day, when the girls give…
I am thankful and almost embarrassed to admit that I have four wonderful people...
