February 2012
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Slow Club did a song last night that I hadn't...
It had the words “2” and “luv” in it, which I remember because Rebecca joked that they were trying to be cool by using text speak. In any event, it was really different from their usual indie pop stuff. It was actually kind of some straight-up “Dark End of the Street”-style soul, and I really need to hear it again.
Anyone have any ideas what it was?
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“This one is also off our seminal sophomore album, Paradise, available to...”
– Rebecca from Slow Club knows how these things work.
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Do I still need to write a response essay tonight?...
Am I currently at the Empty Bottle for Slow Club? Also yes.
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“Two more liquor drinks, and we turn into historians.”
– Disciplinary burn.
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My friend has instituted adult study hall.
This involves going over schoolwork, drinking a beer, and watching the first few episodes of Friday Night Lights.
My friend is a wise man.
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“Tell your Goodreads to stop filling my brain with qualitative propaganda. Stata...”
– My friend Ashley is a quantitative sociologist.
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My brother's location on his Twitter account is...
Me: I didn't realize you were going to Houston tomorrow until today
I thought it was all going to be part of one trip, which is why I was surprised you were leaving tomorrow
My brother: Understandable
I'm a boss
I make serious moves
Not many people can keep up
Me: That's true
I posted your Birdman retweet today
And then I saw you had put "where the cash at" as part of your profile
And I wanted to post that, too
My brother: Yeah man
Me: But decided to save it for later
My brother: That's my location
Because I can't put like, "Winston-Salem"
Because I'm never here
Me: Ha ha ha ha
Oh my God
I didn't realize it was your location
Now I'm definitely posting this conversation
My brother: ::kanyeshrug::
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“David Brooks is an alien, and not a particularly bright or humble one.”
– The Worst Column Written About Sports Ever Published
Frankly, I’ve come across less convincing explanations for David Brooks’ columns.
(h/t SMA)
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Fuck yeah, A$AP Rocky for your comments on...
touristfashion:
Never said enough.
http://pitchfork.com/news/45477-echo-chamber-aap-rocky/
In which certain rappers have way more enlightened views on the basic humanity of other people than certain elected officials.
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Veronica Falls
Like if Pains of Being Pure at Heart were any good live.
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Guess who I get to see in Austin
Me: Portland is wearing jerseys that just say Rip City. They're kind of awesome.
My brother: #swag. You get my email about Austin?!
Me: I did. About to go to a show. We'll talk tomorrow.
My brother: Swag swag swag swag swag
Also: I've missed you so much, Feed
Chicken, macaroni and cheese, and fried green tomatoes. Banana pudding to go. Now: Veronica Falls at the Empty Bottle. Life is pretty alright.
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Three days, three different visits to three...
YOU DON’T WORK, YOU DON’T EAT / YOU DON’T GRIND, YOU DON’T SHINE
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“Marriage in fact does make for some sort of selection among the population at...”
– Happy Valentine’s Day from Emile Durkheim!
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HATERS TO THE LEFT
(In this case, Natface to the left)
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Just want to put it out there that Taylor Swift...
I mean, yes, I could write an entire dissertation about the construction of authenticity in popular music based entirely on the set they used, but still.
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So that Jeff Mangum concert
I finally have some time to put down something in writing about this, and it’s probably for the best that it’s almost a week later, because if I had written it immediately afterwards it would have been even less coherent than this is going to be.
So.
I went up the show by myself on the CTA. I had planned to go with friends, but no one else I know had been able to get tickets, so I...
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This summer my brother and I were at a pizza place...
And “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” came on. And it was really bizarre because we were still really jetlagged and were at a pizza place outside a train station in fucking Milan, and all of the sudden Whitney Houston was blaring over all the conversations that we only partially understood. So we just looked at each other in silence for a second.
“This song rules,” I said.
...
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“A heartwarming tale of teamwork and determination about a ragtag group that...”
– Review of The Grey, as written by a wolf.
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Man, Jukka Savolainen just totally critiqued the...
Seriously.
And by just, I mean in 1994.
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“You can yell at me, too. You don’t have to be so nice.”
– It must be weird to be Jeff Mangum. More on this when I don’t have a 500-page book to read and three responses to write in the next twelve hours.
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That said, a short preview of my thoughts on the...
Oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God.
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Reading The Fabrication of Labor while I wait for...
Grad school!
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Jeff Mangum in a few hours.
Jeff Mangum in a few hours.
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“Worst child character ever.”
– Gregtron’s 100% totally appropriate response
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I don't really care much about the NFL, but...
So, ha ha.
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“Now, the method of philosophizing which may be termed chemical, overlooks this...”
– Look, John Stuart Mill is sick of your shit. “Why can’t you be chill, bro?” he asks.
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“It’s basically like the mom gives the dad the embryos, and then is like,...”
– Katie, talking about seahorses again. Her boyfriend was reportedly thrilled upon hearing this explanation.
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The Royal Tenenbaums just went through technical...
It’s taken way longer to fix it than the amount of time left in the movie, but no one is leaving.
As they shouldn’t.
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“I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles...”
– David Fucking Brooks. I think he’s just trolling us at this point.
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“At the threshold of this inquiry we are met by an objection, which, if not...”
– I wonder what the answer is going to be, you guys.
Psych, Mill is totally going to reduce human conduct to a series of interacting variables through deductive reasoning. Like a boss.
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I have extensive readings from A System of Logic,...
This weekend is about to get wild.