February 2012
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Yay for editing some silly late night video I did on the fly the other night wrapped in a blanket talking blandly about Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. These whims don’t always work out, but I figure I’ll just put it up and see what happens.
You know it’s good to be health conscious, but the CBS network needs to draw it back a little when it comes to their love for the colonoscopy ads. First the creepy one around Valentine’s Day, now the one where you can win a trip somewhere where you’ll have fun…. and have a full colonoscopy.
And it features Ozzy Osbourne no less, which is a real coup for the man who once...
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“Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent...”
– Nick Hornby, Songbook (via huesofraindrops)
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“I want him to show the rest of us that it is possible to maintain a happy...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via cassiescupoftea)
What’s that 12 AM? It’s time for an unexpected shot of caffeine that is largely impractical but delicious anyway? Why don’t mind if I do!
Starbucks frappucino, you are my Achilles heel.
July, 2008
Interviewer: There's a lyric off one of your new songs, “Moab,” that has been puzzling me a bit. It's "They say the sun won't burn forever/ But that's a science too exact/ I'll prove it, watch we're crossing the state line/ See the headlights coming towards us?/ That's someone going back/ To a town they said they'd never, yeah, they swore it on their lives/ But you can't break out of a circle/ That you never thought you were in." What'd you mean by that?
ConorOberst: I guess that's just about things that are so embedded in your blood and your DNA that you just can't escape. Like the idea of becoming your father, really. So many people swear off their hometown and think they're never going back and they find themselves back there.
Interviewer: So you think the sun coming up and setting all the time, is kind of one of those things that's embedded in us?
ConorOberst: Yeah exactly, I think it's just those things that are just so much a part of you that you just can't escape them, even if that's all you want to do.
mapcrunch2: how to play
crowry:
take your friends for a drive,
leave them on the road,
yell: ”OK NOW FIND THE AIRPORT”
drive away
laugh
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Aaaaand my pre-order for next month’s Justin Townes Earle album is set in stone with the vinyl and t-shirt headed my way. Add this on to seeing him live in May and I couldn’t be more excited; frankly they just need to release the album already and not have it be almost a month away.
Though I still have to think about pre-orders for The Shins, Bowerbirds, and so on…..
Yaaaaay for getting a sickening head rush just from standing up. Thanks asthma, you really know how to screw with me when it’s allergy attack time.
Folding laundry….. like a pro people, like a pro.
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thevinylcornerblog:
http://soundcloud.com/robin-pecknold/
Anyone who’s a fan of the Fleet Foxes should go check out this link. I’m not sure what the exact story of this song is, but from all appearances it’s a new song he’s put out there solo?
It’s beautiful of course, and it comes as no surprise given how these songs he puts out from time to time are of the greatest quality. Very cool.
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I enjoy taking photos on my computer that looks as though I just got caught stealing food by National Geographic. Got that sort of hunched posture, that furtive gaze, I really do have all the makings of some kind of sophisticated wilderness dweller.
My college is ridiculous. Not only do they send me graduation information when I still have a couple of credits left to go, they also include things involving a PUBLIC GRADUATION.
NO THANK YOU. NO NEVER EVER GOING TO HAPPEN. First of all the t-shirt is enough to remind me I went to a community college for a few years, and secondly I get in cap and gown for no one at any time. At least not for...
Going to get back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but in the meantime I’m going to try and sleep this headache off in the never-ending quest to ever be well-rested again.
Yeah, being alone just about constantly is very….. wearying in a way. The sad thing is it’s sort of gotten worse, and I could see living a lot of life in this manner. Not that I don’t love the time that I get(because I do), but in a world with so many people in it I know it can’t all be about living life this way.
There are so many interesting and lovely people with...
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I have to decide this weekend if I want to pre-order the forthcoming Bowerbirds album on vinyl, or just wait for something more interesting to come along. I’m definitely going to be all in on the Justin Townes Earle vinyl when it comes time, but that seems pretty cut and dry so far which is slightly disappointing.
I’m not sure why I care that much, but the coolest looking thing up...
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It’s now past 2 AM, and here I am still rocking the house all to myself for at least a few more minutes. This will be part of my forever bachelorhood I imagine, a couple of dogs, plenty of music, critiques of things via the blog format, a good dinner, a very necessary cup of after-dinner tea, playing an instrument of some sort and of course staying up into the late of the evening.
Very...
And the time when I was a small-time partner with Google/Youtube is funny to me, because it was my rather unfulfilling cheap period of selling out. I changed the way I did things and constructed crappy formats that were okay at the time, but sucked looking back when I barely made a few cents for doing it.
But I’m glad for two things: one that I never begged for ad revenue clicks or brought...
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It’s oddly riveting to watch my own video output on Youtube and to see how much it changed and shifted itself several times since the time I stopped making it a channel about random things I found funny and went in a musical direction.
I’m no musician but it’s interesting to see how I managed to develop my own technique and confidence in front of the camera. I’m still not...
Nothing like odd timing and a chance for the willies when you get a call from an unknown number at 12:30 at night when you’re home alone in a large and very dark house.
Why this doesn’t happen at any other time and chooses to occur now is beyond me, but I don’t care for this(and neither does my easily swayed paranoia). Time for lots of noise and lights please!
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thetreesweremistaken:
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You know what’s insanely crazy? That of all the guitar tabs in the world that are available online without doing anything illegal, all the ones that are of Sufjan Stevens songs have been pulled because of some kind of “infringement”.
I’d love to know the story behind this, because as far as I can tell my favorite guitar tab website doesn’t have a...
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Girl With Four Eyes: swordfish-trombones: You know... →
swordfish-trombones:
You know what’s insanely crazy? That of all the guitar tabs in the world that are available online without doing anything illegal, all the ones that are of Sufjan Stevens songs have been pulled because of some kind of “infringement”.
I’d love to know the story behind…
http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/s/sufjan_stevens/jacksonville_crd.htm
Perhaps that’s the...
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You know what’s insanely crazy? That of all the guitar tabs in the world that are available online without doing anything illegal, all the ones that are of Sufjan Stevens songs have been pulled because of some kind of “infringement”.
I’d love to know the story behind this, because as far as I can tell my favorite guitar tab website doesn’t have a single one of his...
Get beaten in Words with Friends, begin scheming hard on just how to crush the person who narrowly won…..
So far, it’s going according to plan.
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Sort of another quiet week for music releases I’m noticing, though I did pick up the new Josh Ritter EP and I’m considering looking at The Chieftain’s compilation….
Really hoping I’m not too burned out on making videos, cause there’s still so much to review…..