dreams and inspirations

Mar 12

ambition

At work yesterday there was a brief interlude in which I was privileged to experience a small taste of what may well be my ideal job: getting paid to restart my computer and talk crap with co-workers.

At least now I have a goal to aim for.

Mar 09

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) -

  1. The Mountain Goats (161)
  2. Shearwater (88)
  3. Clogs (45)
  4. The Antlers (25)
  5. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions (14)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Mar 07

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, everpresent perils of life.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Mar 05

fuckyeahthemountaingoats: (via valerie2776) This is going to be weird, but here goes anyway. When I saw this photo I flipped out. You could say it set a switch off in my brain. I went to Flickr, downloaded the photo, and put it straight onto my phone as desktop wallpaper. (How crazy is it that telephones have desktop wallpaper now? And how long is it since “desktop wallpaper” was a completely meaningless concept? Living in the future is amazing.) Now every time I go to use my phone it reminds me to be awesome and also makes me grin a big stupid grin. And all those split seconds of joy really add up over the course of a day. There’s not really a conclusion here. I’m just happy.

fuckyeahthemountaingoats:

(via valerie2776)

This is going to be weird, but here goes anyway.

When I saw this photo I flipped out. You could say it set a switch off in my brain. I went to Flickr, downloaded the photo, and put it straight onto my phone as desktop wallpaper.

(How crazy is it that telephones have desktop wallpaper now? And how long is it since “desktop wallpaper” was a completely meaningless concept? Living in the future is amazing.)

Now every time I go to use my phone it reminds me to be awesome and also makes me grin a big stupid grin. And all those split seconds of joy really add up over the course of a day.

There’s not really a conclusion here. I’m just happy.

Mar 03

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) -

  1. Shearwater (88)
  2. Clogs (73)
  3. The Mountain Goats (68)
  4. The Brian Jonestown Massacre (26)
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel (22)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 23

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) -

  1. The Mountain Goats (51)
  2. The National (36)
  3. Ani DiFranco (30)
  4. Slowdive (24)
  5. The Antlers (20)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 16

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) -

  1. The Mountain Goats (141)
  2. Windmill (20)
  3. The National (17)
  4. The Acorn (16)
  5. Blur (15)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 11

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) -

  1. The Mountain Goats (98)
  2. Cloud Cult (72)
  3. The National (24)
  4. Mission of Burma (21)
  5. Autumn Gray (21)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 03

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31) -

  1. The National (73)
  2. Autumn Gray (45)
  3. The Antlers (30)
  4. The Mountain Goats (28)
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel (12)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 29

Then, suddenly, almost ecstatically, he felt sleepy.

I don’t understand why people are leaping about and crowing that Salinger’s work and/or mythos are overrated. Or maybe I do understand, and that’s why it makes me so sad.

He wrote things that people, including me, loved reading. Then he stopped, because that was what he wanted to do, and I like to imagine that that made him happy.

A Perfect Day for Bananafish and For Esmé, with Love and Squalor, in particular, packed the kind of gutpunch that leads me to flail around and use the word “perfect”. Thank you, J.D. Salinger.