December 2009
26 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
The Mountain Goats (130)
Eyedea & Abilities (34)
The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice (25)
The National (17)
The Smashing Pumpkins (15)
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“I normally hate period pieces. I hate them because they are always about the...”
– Miranda of “we recommend things to you”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
The Mountain Goats (95)
Eyedea & Abilities (68)
Bright Eyes (27)
Belle and Sebastian (16)
The Magnetic Fields (15)
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“Empathy is the poor man’s cocaine,
and love is just a chemical by any...”
– Eyedea & Abilities, “Burn Fetish”
“World Consciousness can sometimes be a cover for the most fundamental...”
– Ben Greenman
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
The Mountain Goats (90)
Shearwater (61)
Windmill (16)
Minor Technicality (14)
65daysofstatic (7)
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dinner party dream
A few friends and I are waiting to have dinner with some amazing guests: Jon Wurster, Peter Hughes, John and Lalitree Darnielle, Jonathan Meiburg, and Jonathan Meiburg’s kitten. People are jockeying for prime position at the table, but it seems impossible to sit in a bad spot, considering the expected company.
After they arrive and everybody is eating, someone goes to have a shower....
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metro dream
After defending them for an unspecified length of time, I have begun to protest against the new train operators like everybody else. I am standing on a precarious platform high above Flinders Street station, hanging onto a railing, while someone tries to arrest me. I laugh at them.
Then I am swinging on a rope above the Yarra River. A woman and her daughter are playing on a beach where a...
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a dream I did not understand at all
I am in a convenience store looking for something to buy. There is a very short, disgruntled ex-employee hiding behind a display and mixing up all the foods in the salad bar. (This convenience store has a salad bar.) When the staff notice they say I have to take her to hospital, but we negotiate and they settle for taking her to the nearest police station.
On the way outside she says she needs...
New social networking rule
mrgan:
dwineman:
No one, under any circumstances, for any reason, is ever obligated to defend his or her “following” list to anybody.*
*Especially people who aren’t on it.
I don’t know what people expect to hear when they ask me why I don’t follow them on whatever website. The answer is simple and obvious: I don’t find what they’re saying interesting.
Reblogging this would be a great...
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prophetic refrigerator dream
I am cleaning out a fridge with the girl from work. We talk about what we think about things and it is impossible to convince her that I am happy.
(The next day in the real world there was a sign on the fridge at work saying it was going to be cleaned out.)
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these dreams were not about you
After a few painful seconds of indecision, I chased after you. I caught up just as you started down the escalator. “What kind of music do you like?” I asked, and I practically felt myself levelling up.
***
I waited at the side of my old high school’s hall, long after everyone had gone home. You showed up, walking like you happened to be passing by on your way somewhere else....
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backlogged dreams: undecipherable
I often write notes about a dream in a brief period of wakefulness before I go back to sleep. Usually this helps me remember the dream in plenty of detail when I wake up properly, and if I have trouble looking at the notes almost never fails to jog my memory.
Two recent, notable failures:
1. “Weird airline slash female band thing”
2. “Not yet rendered, pencil,...
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backlogged dream: will smith
I am friends with Will Smith. We are hanging out at his place, but then someone shows up unexpectedly and things get awkward. He doesn’t want his other friends to know that we are friends, but he also doesn’t want to tell me to leave or hide or something because that would make it obvious.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
The Mountain Goats (133)
The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice (24)
Neutral Milk Hotel (22)
Arcade Fire (21)
Shearwater (17)
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this is why I could never be a hipster
This morning I woke up and it was raining and all I wanted to do was listen to Champagne Supernova on repeat while getting ready for work. So I did.
And I’m not going to pretend that irony had anything to do with it.
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backlogged dream: birthday
It is my birthday, and my friends from high school are having a large party that is also a picnic. There are a lot of cakes. I am feeling slightly awkward about being vegan when nobody else is, and most of the food has been provided by other people. I ask somebody about what I can eat.
“There are eggs in the cakes, but there’s only one egg in your birthday cake!” is the reply....
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back-to-school dream
I am shopping for new school clothes with my mother and my sister. There is an entire wall of socks, and my mother tells my sister off for wanting the socks that cost $3 a pair when with a little bit of hunting she could find the socks that cost $1 a pair.
I am very sad after we have finished shopping. My mother asks me to open up the hatch beside the front seat and put together the mechanism...
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backlogged dream: art gallery
My friends and I are at an art gallery. There is an opening event for a new exhibition; it is not clear how, but we have somehow been involved in putting it together. We are all sitting around a large table, wearing party hats and drinking wine. Someone is being loudly opinionated about something trivial, and everybody else is laughing.
A snooty woman comes over and says that we are making too...
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some gripes are too long for twitter
I know that tomorrow when I look at this half-written piece I will despair of myself, but just now it seems impossible to do without at least twice as many adjectives as I’ve already squeezed in there.
Writing about music is hard when one has a tendency to indulge one’s inner blithering idiot.
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“What’s the recipe?” you ask the weary pro chef, and he gives you a...”
– Adam Gopnik
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
The National (47)
The Mountain Goats (43)
Slowdive (37)
Spoonboy (14)
Soul Coughing (14)
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backlogged dream: bus guru
Somebody near my house asks me what bus he should catch to get to Brunswick. I am pleased because I get to display my local knowledge and be useful to somebody. It is possible that I get a little bit carried away with enumerating all the possibilities, but the guy does not seem to mind.
The optimal route to his destination turns out to be through my house. What’s more, he has a big group...
November 2009
31 posts
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Multiculturalism
mrgan:
A vague and overgeneralized observation too long for Twitter:
19th century: other cultures are funny!
20th century: cultures’ understanding of other cultures is funny!
21st century: it being funny that cultures’ understanding of other cultures is funny is funny?
This reminds me of The Adventures of Chifley.
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backlogged dream: zoo
My favourite team leader from work is making a speech at the zoo about being vegan. Lots of people are standing around and listening even though she is just standing on a path and not even near any cute animals.
The coworker who thinks I am gay is also at the zoo, although she was not listening to the team leader’s speech. We go to look at the baby hippopotamus, which looks like a shiny,...