What Would Chuck Klosterman Do?

“I love how people like LCD Soundystem and Joanna Newsom are putting out these records that simply refuse to be absorbed in a week. Yet people still just write about them in the first week, then they feel afraid to go back and write about how these records sound different months later, like it would seem corny or out-of-touch to listen to a record you like for 6 months and hear something new in it.”

- With the latter’s new memoir out, Perpetua and Sheffield talk about music. I wish I could just fly on the wall and listen to these two forever.

"When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there’s nothing I’d be saved by more..."

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:04:22 +0100

“When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there’s nothing I’d be saved by
more than the time
you fell asleep in my arms
in a trust so gentle
I let the darkening room
drink up the evening, till
rest, or the new rain
lightly roused you awake.
I asked if you heard the rain in your dream
and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”

- RIP Edwin Morgan, via Beard

"This new part of my life wasn’t a woman who would seem attractive straight-on in a passport..."

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:00:55 +0100

“This new part of my life wasn’t a woman who would seem attractive straight-on in a passport photograph… But she was lovely because the round face with the straight dyed-blonde hair, which fell over her forehead and into her eyes, was open. Her face was constantly in motion, and this was the source of her beauty. Her face registered the slightest feeling, concealing little. Sometimes she became childlike and you could see her at eight or seventeen or twenty-five. The different ages of her life seemed to exist simultaneously, as if she could move from age to age according to how she felt. There was no cold maturity about her, thank Christ.”

- “The Buddha of Suburbia”, Hanif Kureshi

rockingliketwoolddrunkards: megpickard: An open and overdue...

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:16:07 +0100

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megpickard:

An open and overdue letter. « Brian Thomas Collins

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Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:54:49 +0100

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fuckyeahstanakatic: shewalksaway: “What if I told you my date...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:47:03 +0100

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shewalksaway:

“What if I told you my date was with your book?”

jennylewis: Spin: Who would win a tag team battle: Jenny & Johnny, She & Him, Matt &...

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:23:49 +0100

jennylewis:

Spin: Who would win a tag team battle: Jenny & Johnny, She & Him, Matt & Kim, or Sonny & Cher?

Johnathan: Whew. I don’t know. Jenny and I and Zooey [Deschanel] and Ben [Gibbard] have dinner dates together all the time, so that’s a hard one. But I guess that’s not She and Him, that’s She & Ben.

Jenny: Our answer is definitely She & Ben.

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Tak 135 - August 09, 2010-2 (by lexurian)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:36:21 +0100

Tak 135 - August 09, 2010-2 (by lexurian)

"I’ve been writing for a living for around 15 years now and whatever method I practise remains..."

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:29:59 +0100

“I’ve been writing for a living for around 15 years now and whatever method I practise remains a mystery. It’s random. Some days I’ll rapidly thump out an article in a steady daze, scarcely aware of my own breath. Other times it’s like slowly dragging individual letters of the alphabet from a mire of cold glue… To function efficiently as a writer, 95% of your brain has to teleport off into nowhere, taking its neuroses with it, leaving the confident, playful 5% alone to operate the controls. To put it another way: words are like cockroaches; only once the lights are off do they feel free to scuttle around on the kitchen floor.”

- Charlie Brooker | Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened | Comment is free | The Guardian

"In the 21st Century, we’ve heard a lot about the sanctity of marriage, as if that were..."

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:27:13 +0100

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In the 21st Century, we’ve heard a lot about the sanctity of marriage, as if that were something that has been around forever, but in reality the phrase was invented in 2004. Google it for yourself… The proverbial Sanctity of Marriage sprang into being because opponents of gay marriage needed a logical reason to overturn an established legal precedent. And the only thing that trumps the Constitution is God himself.

Unfortunately, God is still pretty new to the whole marriage game (or he might have made an honest woman out of the Virgin Mary, am I right? Try the veal!)

”

- This Is What I Think: Traditional Marriage Perverts the Tradition of Marriage

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15)

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:06:46 +0100

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30 Rock: Looking North… (by Matt Smith)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:09:54 +0100

30 Rock: Looking North… (by Matt Smith)

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Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:05:17 +0100

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