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I want to finish these four remaining abstracts, put on my jacket and headphones, and walk home in the sunshine while listening to Van Morrison. Will there ever come a day when I put on "Bright Side of the Road" and don't smile? -
Pod.
Random iPod 20. There are 1,100 songs on my iPod. My computer houses approximately 5,000 tunes. Thus, no chance of Britney Spears or Rick Astley popping up on this mix (I have one each of their songs on my home computer, and they were both on mixed cds given to me by other people).
01. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, "Let It Ride"
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"God bless Animal Collective, but they really have, in their own strange way, made indie rock a much more conservative place than it should be. If you can create intellectual distance from your work, then critics will feel clever for getting it and give you good marks; if you create music that fucked-up 13-year-old girls might enjoy, then critics ( Read more... ) -
Dept. of "I shouldn't have asked."
I was in Metro Center on Wednesday, on the escalator descending from street level to the Red Line platform, when I smelled this overwhelming stench of burning tires. I asked a Metro operator standing nearby if he knew what the smell was. He said, "Brake pads. They don't fit quite right."
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Great Expectations
Pip, to his friend Herbert:
"I know that Fortune alone has raised me, that is being very lucky. And yet, when I think of Estella--then, my dear Herbert, I cannot tell you how dependent and uncertain I feel. I may still say that on the constancy of one person (naming no person) all my expectations depend. And at the best, how indefinite and ( Read more... ) -
arms that are braceleted and white and bare
And I have known the eyes already, known them all-
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?
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"Ponzi."
'Twas strange the dream I had the other night. Apparently, Bernie and Ruth Madoff had an empty house in Washington, D.C. And my boss was given a key to the place to hold onto, so everyone in my office decided to go over there and crash. We weren't technically supposed to be there, but the mansion was still fully staffed, kind of like Camp David ( Read more... ) -
Common People
She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College
That's where I caught her eye
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said "In that case I'll have rum and coca-cola"
She said "fine"
And then in 30 seconds time she said
"I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
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