April 2010
16 posts
Bands that are just fine for listening to on my...
An incomplete list:
Beat Happening
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Mountain Goats (especially pre-4AD Mountain Goats)
Things that are Great, 4 of X
Watching bats flee from the approaching lightning storm during an impromptu trip to the supermarket for tea and apples.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Autumn Gray (74)
The Mountain Goats (48)
Band of Horses (30)
At the Drive-In (28)
Annuals (24)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Things that are Great, 3 of X
Occasionally seeing minor news stories about the latest awesome thing that guy you played 500 with once or twice at university, when you were playing cards all day most days en route to dropping out, has been doing.
Idiots parrot “Beckett is a great writer.” He isn’t. With the exception of...
– Colin Wilson
Half an hour’s roaming about a street or village or railway-station shows...
– Rupert Brooke
god damn you walt whitman
I hope your total victory makes you happy
out there...
– John Darnielle
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
The Mountain Goats (104)
Low (26)
Bark Psychosis (25)
Aesop Rock (14)
Air (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-11) →
The Mountain Goats (103)
The National (62)
Autumn Gray (45)
Talk Talk (20)
Bark Psychosis (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Maybe the school district and the NAACP are afraid that allowing kids to...
– Lee Wind
Things that are Great, 2 of X
Discovering that something you have been vaguely interested in for ages has a name, that other people are also interested in it, and that all sorts of resources and ideas and projects already exist.
Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you...
– Harriet Jacobs
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-4) →
The Mountain Goats (126)
The Boo Radleys (61)
The Antlers (30)
The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice (29)
Shearwater (25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
So what if you can’t make iPad programs on an iPad. I don’t complain...
– Joel Johnson