Song of the day: The Mostar Diving Club - World’s Apart

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Mostly upbeat, guitar-driven and electro-inspired good times. [November 2012] I knew it was a bad idea, but you talked me into it Tracklist: The New Division - Start Over Lisa Mitchell - Spiritus The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Suburban Space Invader Wildlife Control - Analog or Digital Air Traffic Controller - Hurry Hurry Frivolous Life [...]

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In a fit of alcohol-related insomnia - I’m too old to drink anything with Redbull in it after 10pm - I finally got around to watching The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki o Kakeru Shojo) - the anime that was a loosely made sequel to the original novel of the same name. It was [...]

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Made for the birthday of a girl I used to know. Disc 1 - 15 Songs from Me The xx - Intro Faded Paper Figures - Small Talk Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind The Roots - The Seed (2.0) feat. Cody Chesnutt Alice Russell - Hurry on Now (feat. TM Juke) Doctor Flake [...]

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I have been writing the same stories in your absence. You already know this. I still think about that morning, tiptoeing by the foot of your bed, stepping over all those Cat Power albums that littered your floor. You always made such a pretty mess. Sometimes, I think about all the mornings we never had a chance [...]

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It was my birthday on Friday. I drove out to Montreal Friday night to hang out with an old flame. We ate honey garlic chicken wings, watched the Avengers, knocked back a 26er of Findlania, which led to many more terrible decisions thereafter. But at least they were fun terrible decisions. I haven’t slept in [...]

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It was my birthday on Friday. I drove out to Montreal Friday night to hang out with an old flame. We ate honey garlic chicken wings, watched the Avengers, knocked back a 26er of Findlania, which led to many more terrible decisions thereafter. But at least they were fun terrible decisions. I haven’t slept in [...]

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‘are we just friends?’ i asked her point blank. ‘i gotta make things weird here because i’m sleep-deprived and buzzing hard on coffee.’ it was the first time i had spoken to her in a few days. we had been busy, leading separate lives that refused to connect. i had been feeling something of a [...]

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she asked for an explanation. it was the hardest i had to think for a long time. she made it worse by sitting there, acting patient. of all the things should could have done - screamed, cried, throw a punch - she did her worst with a slow, measured, muted question. ‘why?’ a long time [...]

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song of the day:  Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s - Jen Is Bringin’ the Drugs And Jen is bringing the drugs. She’s gonna get me fucked up. Cause love is an inkless pen. It’s a tavern, it’s sin. It’s a horrible way to begin.

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