So I'm still updating the Livejournal I started in high school ( Read more... )

I just lost the pool. Fucking Jets.

I saw Where the Wild Things Are last night. I agree with the Slate review that it doesn't need to be "glossed, analyzed, or expanded." The movie is just childhood - overwhelming emotions, feeling out of control, trying to compensate for powerlessness, being confused by problems that can't be solved with fun. Karen O was perfect, and the kid was ( Read more... )

I drove about 6600 miles this summer, not including air travel or city driving. I was kind of all over the place. So I spent a hundred-plus hours in a car in large chunks, listening to CDs through a 1994 Discman hooked up to a tape adapter. So I now consider myself an expert on driving music ( Read more... )

I am really sad about Ted Kennedy.

In other news, I am exhausted but excited about the move, and once I get into a new place (this weekend?) I'll tell all about it.

So today I was listening to the Interpol lead singer's solo project as Julian Plenti, and I really hate it. I know it's not cool to like Interpol anymore, but I still do, and I guess I always went for the bass player anyhow ( Read more... )

Okay, so I am about to finish The Golden Notebook and like almost all great novels, the end is going to let me down. I hate it when this happens. Because it leaves me with a bad taste in my mind and despite my avowals throughout the course of the book that I will re-read and analyze and enjoy, I will dread returning to this particular piece of ( Read more... )

New Liberal Arts as a guidebook for a new [and simpler and more harmonious] economy?

A PDF file just convinced me that I'll never go to grad school. At least, not taking it seriously. I'm so excited that I'm barely jealous that I'm not cool and clever enough to have been a part of this. I'm too excited to labor over this post for days; instead ( Read more... )

I worry more than I let on ( Read more... )

I have slept in my bed nine out of the last thirty-five days ( Read more... )