In the past 24 hours I have become addicted to Los Campesinos! (exclamation point is part of the band name, not my own enthusiastic punctuation). They are quite juvenile and they remind me a lot of The Go! Team (are exclamation points in the band name becoming standard in this latest Indie Pop craze?). It sounds like it would have been a fun ( Read more... )

Last night I saw my dear friend give birth, without any drugs...she is so effing tough. I have never seen a baby being born, it was a pretty wild experience, and I have never held a baby that new until last night. I have mentioned before that I feel there is societal pressure for women to lose it over babies, and I was curious to see how I would ( Read more... )

I emailed one of my professors some questions about an assignment and I asked "How old can a source be for this project before you consider it outdated? Are sources from 2004-2006 too old?"

This was his response:
How old can the sources be? I would rather it be, like, today... but ( Read more... )

Good grief, the sound of the postman's car, erm, whatever you call the strange cargo-van/truck vehicle that he drives, is Pavlov's bell for me these days. I am only home during "mail delivery time" on Saturdays, and the occasional Friday, which makes waiting for the postman (and the grad notifications I hope he delivers) a bit of a novelty. I just ( Read more... )

Vice Magazine has an online TV site, that features short (usually 3-7 minute) videos in series that cover art/music/culture. The travel guides they have are actually quite interesting if you can get passed the fact that it is Vice Magazine. They have one now on North Korea, which we know very little about. It seemed like a pretty scary journey. ( Read more... )

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Swiss hotel ledger shows Freud "and wife" signed in for a two week vacation in the Swiss Alps. Naughty naughty.

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i got an ihome for christmas, and i can plug my ipod into it and use it as an alarm clock. so i finally decided to make myself a morning playlist to wake up to. so far ive just been setting it to shuffle or whatever seems the least annoying. but i think this will be pleasant enough to make me want to get out of bed ( Read more... )