January 2010
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Oh, you know..New Years and stuff
So I moved today. It was pretty painless, largely helped by my little brother who came down to help me. I guess when you’re 21, someone calling you their little brother isn’t all that cool. But that’s what he is and I can’t help it.
It’s the stranger of my New Year’s excursions I might add. I think I decade ago I was probably married. I don’t remember...
December 2009
97 posts
So am I supposed to put out a Twitter APB asking people to hire me? If I could write a resume of close calls, it’d be pretty extensive…and interesting.
I hate to be all emo, but I’m starting to have a lot of regrets about umm…well, every decision I’ve made this year. It’s clear I was suffering from a bit of delusion and thought my skills would translate better....
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Ping Pong has problems
Story
At 15, Landers is the youngest player to win the men’s national singles championship. He overcame a three-games-to-one deficit in the best-of-seven final on Dec. 19 in Las Vegas, where controversy almost derailed his bid. Six of the eight quarterfinalists defaulted after protesting what they considered to be insufficient prize money. Landers was ushered straight to the final, where...
Ok, I give up
I had to dump the album cover collages. As fun as they were, I was having a hard time reading my own stuff. So poof, they’re gone like magic. I do have one over at Twitter, but it’s not nearly as cool.
Oh well.
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A conference realignment note
So when the Big 10 expands and takes Rutgers, the Big East will need to replace them. Watching this masterpiece of a bowl game </joke> between Temple and UCLA, where Temple is actually leading in the 4th quarter means the Big East must do the following:
1. Induce Villanova to upgrade their 1-AA programs to FBS. They’re already in the league as an all-sport member, that plays FCS...
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Projects, new year resolutions and all that...
I created this because 1) I had a somewhat cool domain I was wasting and 2) I wanted a personal blog that wasn’t really tied to my professional life completely. It’s not that big a deal, but…I just knew I was filtering to the point of being uninteresting.
This might not be interesting to anyone else, but it’s a stream of consciousness collection of thoughts and more...
The reason...
I wanted a place where it was okay to admit I was wrong. To say what’s on my mind in the moment, to talk about precisely what’s happened and how it might not have gone right. But more importantly, what I learned from it.
I haven’t quite figured out how to separate my personas, because the two are so intertwined. But like many people, I think so much of knowing me is about...
Since no one reads this blog
I don’t have to worry if my new album covers background prevents you from reading the words.
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On people and their choices...
It’s so interesting watching people make choices. Because while you’re wrestling with your own decisions and the weight of them, there are people out there making significant choices that throw their lives into the balance.
I don’t know if it’s just the collective mythology of positive thinking that makes people go and make hard choices without much of a second thought; or...
Jersey Shore...well, sorta.
Over Christmas, my brother and I watched it once. We spent summers on the Shore as kids, so you know, in a strange way the sights of home when you’re in the hinterland were worth it. But golly, that show is a trainwreck. That said, this kiddie version is a decent reprisal of the shenanigans on MTV.
I suppose it’s all about the scrilla, right? Forget shaming the family name, so...
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Listening to the Battle of Land and Sea
It’s the right sort of music for the whole post-holiday meh
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Friday Night Light →
Read this. No really. Read it.
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Post Holiday something or other
I always think the day after Christmas is a bit strange. For all of the buildup of the holiday, the day after is like…the biggest buzzkill ever.
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I didn't realize there was a POW in Afghanistan →
I totally missed this. Must’ve been all of that coverage about Tiger Woods.
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DJ Skeet Skeet has taken Sky Ferreira’s...
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I think the reason I like baseball so much, especially pitching, is because baseball is a game of perspective. I don’t have any real context for working the mound because I’ve never spent much there. But I can relate to serving in tennis because I’ve done that a ton.
There’s no better than feeling than being able to muster up your best stuff when you absolutely need it. No...
Popular With Me, the Decade: 50 songs I remembered... →
A good list. I only added this blog back in the day because it just so happens the author shares my last name. But he lists solid stuff and has introduced me to some great bands this year, so…it’s a worthwhile blog to check out.
Fumbling towards your goals....
me: i've been thinking a lot about my new project but I don't know where to start. This is an inevitable deal with me. I try to get my brain started and it feels like older things that haven't worked. So I spook out. I'll start to put stuff together, but...I guess I'm having a hard time distinguishing (in my own mind) what makes this time different
someone else: right, I see
you start new projects as much as people try to stop an addiction
me: thanks
someone else: and I mean that in the kindest way
it's like, what makes this time the real time
me: well...it's just trying to find the right thing
it's not a penchant for wanting to start new stuff
it's a willingness to try stuff to find what works
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Cover Songs
Darius Rucker - Purple Rain (Prince cover)
Devendra Banhart - Don’t Look Back In Anger (Oasis cover)
Antony and the Johnsons - Crazy In Love (Beyonce Cover)
Joe - Before He Cheats (Carrie Underwood)
Fanfarlo - Aeroplane Over The Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)
More stuff I missed in 2009 that I'm just checking...
The Roadside Graves - My Son’s Home
The Maldives - Listen To The Thunder
Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free
The Low Anthem - Oh My God Charlie Darwin
The Love Language
A.A. Bondy - When The Devil’s Loose
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Indie Winter Playlist
It’s not long, because lala is missing many key songs. But…nonetheless, here ya are:
Winter Wonderland
“This year has been filled with people in B movies thinking they’re stars....”
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So I came up with this super sweet idea for a new...
Ever since the days of Johnny Panic & The Bible of Dreams, I’ve wanted to start a new band. But I wanted to be an actual band this time. There are a few hitches with this want, most notably that I don’t play any instruments that would get me into a rock band.
In any case, I was driving back from some strange hinterland and came up with what I believed to be just sheer brilliance.
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“Let’s face it, Facebook just isn’t the tool it used to be. The old...”
– Why you should dump Facebook in 2010
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To Deal With Obsession, Some Unfriend Facebook →
I have all sorts of random stuff on my brain that would be worthwhile to get out. But I don’t know where to start. And whether it matters. And even if it does matter, whether this is the right venue for it.
It’s the holidays, the end of the year and coupled together, these make for an absolutely horrible combination for me. Notwithstanding, the absolute absurdity of the past few...
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I think 2010 will be a better
without Facebook. I got started early. We’ll see if it lasts, but given its lack of utility, I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t.
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Best albums of 2009
It seems that just when I thought there was “no good music” this year, I ran into a bunch of albums that were well below the mainstream or even the indie mainstream that I missed until now. So it went from a pretty meh musical year to one that I actually am pretty happy with.
Here’s the list I’ve come up with:
BEST ALBUMS
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
The Wooden Sky - If...
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Frankel →
It’s like Elliott Smith, without the death and causing you to want to do something drastic with your life. It’s beautifully narrated music. More uptempo, but still haunting in good ways.
Listen to him, seriously.
On selling out
At the point you’ve given up any semblance of what’s worthwhile to work or live for, if you’re not going to get every morning to do what you actually want, there’s absolutely no point in living at all.
I’ve already gone too far on this trip to turn back now. I don’t really know how to get where I want to be, but I’ve learned enough this year to know that...
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“To speak is to have too much consideration for others. Both fish and Oscar Wilde...”
– Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
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Playing to a sparsley populated coffee shop where...
I guess I feel like that person, when I think of my stupid ideas that don’t get me anyplace, other than more broke than I was before, no closer than I was yesterday to where I supposedly wanted to be.
Except worse, because I don’t know how to fucking play guitar.
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“I loved you once: perhaps that love has yet
To die down thoroughly within my...”
– Pushkin - I loved you once…
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Snoop on Tiger
I’m convinced all of these entertainers and athletes riffing their opinions/advice for Tiger are a series of mixtapes. It’s like the pop culture equivalent of people heading to the booth and spitting rhymes over “A Milli” or “Paper Planes” or something.
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Rap Exegesis →
Finally, get all those answers to your burning lyrical questions.
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Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters →
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Danger Mouse > You →
First came the announcement that Shins frontman James Mercer and superproducer Danger Mouse had teamed up to form a duo called Broken Bells. Then came the viral mind-games. And now we have concrete news of a Broken Bells album: Columbia will release the self-titled LP on March 9.
Ron Artest's Open Letter to Tiger →
katiebakes:
hifiny:
“I have known my wife for 16 years– since I was 14 years old. … She was my first.”
This is tremendous.