I made this playlist full of songs about love (or something like that) for all you loveless nerds out there. Coincidentally, it features no songs from Loveless.
(Source: 8tracks.com)
The most remarkable thing about coming home to you is the feeling of being in motion again. It's the most extraordinary thing in the world.
Why am I the Arkadelphian? Ask me anything (provided what you're asking isn't lame).
Why am I the Arkadelphian? Ask me anything (provided what you're asking isn't lame).
February 14, 2013
January 22, 2013
Fugazi — “Waiting Room.”
But I don’t sit by idly
I’m planning a big surprise
I’m gonna fight for what I want to be
I won’t make the same mistakes
Because I know how much time that wastes
Function is the key
January 11, 2013
my top 10 albums of fiscal year 2012.
As some of you know, I almost didn’t do a list for the first time in seven (!) years. What were the top albums of those years, you ask?
2011: Nebraska, by Bruce Springsteen
2010: Alligator, by The National
2009: Remain in Light, by Talking Heads
2008: OK Computer, by Radiohead
2007: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, by Neutral Milk Hotel
2006: Foxtrot, by Genesis (whoopsie-doodle)
Top 5 reasons I almost didn’t make a Top Ten list:
- I got a got-danged job
- I haven’t had a stereo since May
- My laptop’s speakers are garbage
- I’m more content than I’ve been in ages, so I don’t quite need music as much
- I spent half the year listening to just one record (spoilers)
We can thank the efforts of a kindly, filth-covered urchin boy named AJ for showing me the magic of Top Ten lists again. A Festivus miracle!
I listened to plenty of great music this year, to be sure, especially toward the top of my list. But unlike years past, I neither made a consolidated effort to expose myself to the classics of each genre, nor did I luxuriate in all of these albums and consider them at their own speed. All of these records are wonderful in their own way, but we’ll just say that these are the least hard-and-fast rankings since my 2009 list, a similarly top-heavy group.
Yes, I’ve got some doubts, and I’d like to (and will) spend more time with all these records. But when I think about what my life was like in 2012, this is what I’ll hear:
January 8, 2013
November 27, 2012
Belle & Sebastian — “Seeing Other People.”
You’re kissing your elbow
You’re kissing your reflection
And you can’t understand why all the other boys
Are going for the new, tall, elegant rich kids
You can bet it is a bitch, kid
But if they don’t see the quality then it is apparent that
You’re going to have to change
Or you’re going to have to go with girls
You might be better off
At least they know what they are doing
It’s been one of those cartoonishly ugly days out, all gray violence and wintry gloom, but here’s a pretty song for you anyhow.
In his The Anatomy of Criticism, the great Northrop Frye doesn’t associate winter with tragedy, as you might expect, but rather with satire and irony. Sort of instinctively, that makes a lot of sense to me; there’s nothing tragic about being dead, it’s getting there that’s the hard part. If you think of winter as a time to come up with a shield for the grimness around you, this should be the perfect winter pop song, wistful and deliciously snide all at once.
November 20, 2012
"I did maybe three records with Modest Mouse. Isaac Brock is cool, man, like cowboy cool. He showed me how to make a bong out of an apple and shit. For real."
— Big Boi (via thegrandarchives)
(Source: pitchfork, via thegrandarchives)
November 19, 2012
Fake Plastic Print by César Moreno
Radiohead tribute poster for MadinSpain 2008, featuring references to 32 Radiohead and Thom Yorke songs, can you find them all? Glow in the dark print available for purchase at eltacodeojo.
November 3, 2012
October 29, 2012
Move along, nothing to see here except for a perfect, beautiful alien.
(Source: languagesofsaints, via theadventuresofmichaelpawlak)
October 10, 2012
"Can’t Touch This” was pretty big at the time and “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred. But then you still had your classics like “What I Like About You.” It was always good to start a set out of a slow dance with “In the Mood” by Glenn Miller, because then you get the grandparents up and dancing. You don’t throw MC Hammer at them right out of the gate. These are the tricks of the trade."
— Paul Rudd was once a bar mitzvah DJ. These are his “tricks of the trade.” (via newsweek)
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