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I had this professor last year who really loved to talk about blogs. BLOGS BLOGS BLOGS! Write a paper about how blogs are changing our lives! Read this book about blogs! Blogs are the wave of the future! And we were all like, Yeah lady, we see that you're up your technology buzzwords. Good for you. Well, at some point in the past few months, I had ( Read more... )

A definitive declaration, for once: Tallahassee is my favorite record of all time. I want to spend an entire lifetime listening to Tallahassee. I want to become a Tallahassee scholar. I want to scan the syllables of every line and draw maps of the house and publish scholarly articles about repeated imagery and plot holes. And on my deathbed, I will ( Read more... )

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"You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why ( Read more... )

I wish that people didn't use the word "whore" as much as they do, not because of the whole feminist thing, but more because I wish people were a lot nicer to each other. I wish people were better able to figure out their own definitions of what is "cool."

I have been in the most vile mood ever since I left New York.

See me age 19 with some dumb haircut from nineteen-sixty, moving to New York City. I'll live with my friends there, we're all taking the same steps. We're foolish now.

Yeah, I know I talk a good talk about this music thing, but up until today I had never heard "Girl From the North Country." And now I have. A harmonica is used to its best and fullest effect when it actually causes physical pain. Bonus points if it can actually make your soul hurt.

Last night I saw Wilco for the first time.

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Dear friends,

I am home for the weekend. I would like to see you.