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Le sigh.

Dec 30th

Dec 29th

When did we decide to start calling it a...

I’m someone who likes to use out-of-register words in social situations (eg. perambulate instead of walk). It however tends to be a technique to lighten the mood or a way of endearing myself to the people around me. Why in the US do you call it a “beverage” and not a “drink”? If I offer someone a “drink”, is it pre-loaded such that it becomes an...

Dec 29th

In this day and age of underpants bombers...

I’m concerned that the TSA will decide that the best way to check for explosives is a swift kick in the crotch. I wouldn’t put it past them. Good thing I’ll be home in a couple of days :)

Dec 29th

Hitting my last stop tomorrow...

Portland, last but not least, coming what seems to be altogether too soon.

Dec 28th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →

Sufjan Stevens (132) Winter Gloves (9) Whitley (6) Sigur Rós (6) The National (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 28th

Dec 23rd

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Radiohead goes back to the studio next month →

(via afghanibanani) Yes. Yes. Yes. Look forward to seeing what happens.

Dec 22nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →

Whitley (20) Winter Gloves (18) Sigur Rós (17) Beirut (16) Paul Dempsey (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 21st

Dec 20th

Dec 19th

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Please Do Not Tell Me Merry X-Mas

This is a repost from last year, but I was going through my archives, and think that the sentiment is still valid. missmlady: If you take Christ out of Christmas, then what’s the point? Right? Well, it’s really the next step, isn’t it? I mean really, Christmas has been so sanitised over the years. Am I really supposed to believe, as the carols suggest, that Jesus didn’t cry?...

Dec 18th

I have arrived in DC

And apparently a snowstorm is not far behind me… Fun.

Dec 18th

"I like your Christ, I do not like your...

-Mohandas Gandhi (via: moltingredleaves: bombhead) This is something I’ve been wrestling with as I’ve been reading over the last few days. I’m being challenged. I’m not sure quite what I’m being challenged to do.

Dec 18th

Dec 16th

Only two flights left to book.

I may just finish this trip without going into debt. This is a good thing.

Dec 16th

On writing

I don’t feel that I write enough. Actually, looking now at a screen which contains those words, I don’t feel that this is true. Perhaps, just perhaps, the problem is not that I do not write enough — it seems that I am always crafting prose in my head — but that I too seldom commit that prose to any sort of persistent form. The words end up being transient, lost in the torrent which is...

Dec 15th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →

Winter Gloves (18) Rush Coil (14) Whitley (14) Paul Dempsey (13) The National (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 14th

Last year I told Tumblr what I wanted for...

(See the original post here) Let’s see how they went. To see how many times I have liked and reblogged a certain user This has sort of been done, I now can see how many times I’ve liked the nine users I’ve liked most To see if a user reciprocates my following them on their posts on my dashboard To be honest, I don’t care anymore A better system of tagging so that...

Dec 12th

Dec 11th

Half way through sequencing this mix tape.

I take this seriously, yo.

Dec 11th

On being wrong (about carols)

So I’ve told a lot of people I don’t like most carols. That’s true. I then told people the only acceptable Christmassy music for me was Sufjan Stevens’ Christmas album. Then, 8-Bit Christmas came out, and is awesome. So then there were two. Today, after some muppet inspiration and some Weezer inspiration, I went looking for some other versions of carols that I might...

Dec 11th