it's supposed to rain basically for the next week straight. yuck ( Read more... )

ps, i have lost ALL TRACK of how much money i'm spending. like whoa. ditto with the calories i'm intaking.

I came back to the office tonight after a reading I went to (a free PEN panel with Neil Gaiman, a delightful Dutch woman, and Shaun Tan, the author of the arrival; i left really wanting to read both shaun tan and neil gaiman's stuff, even more than i previously wanted to; i almost bought books of theirs, but remembered the library. by the way, i ( Read more... )

you'd have to know just how much time i've spent listening to his program lately and how much respect i have for him and that whole little band to understand how amazing it was to get this in my inbox after i friended him (they tell you to!) with a quick one-sentence note ( Read more... )

http://free.napster.com/player/tracks/21455460

Aw. Really lovely. And short! I recommend y'all give it a listen.

Two I read and liked today: one from Knopf, one from my friend Reid. The second I am fuzzy on the details, but the sound! And the Gilbert just starts with such a down to earth, quasi-bittersweet, quasi-reconciled summary of what it can be to live ( Read more... )

It is so bizarre for me to come across things like the following in my work life here in New York, far from my childhood ( Read more... )

Music I'm pretty sure I WON'T be sharing: the new Conor Oberst album (it's streaming via NPR). It's like poor man's Wilco ( Read more... )

http://free.napster.com/player/tracks/20226032

More new music.

AND i've already made good friends with the guy at the 24 hour deli/bodega/market on the corner! that relationship is key. and i got my haircut a block away from my apartment, did i mention that? and it was affordable. and i slept wet on it last night and it looks cute today! it's very kicky, where my old haircut was boring and had no personality/ ( Read more... )