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June 2013

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Jun 18, 201312 notes
#a.t. grant #collected alex
The Salad (that I wrote a story about)

Word Riot has been kind enough to publish a short story of mine, “The Salad.” If you have an interest in reading about a person struggling to make a salad in an increasingly hostile environment with minimal companionship or know-how and a creeping sense of home invasion, then perhaps, well, whatever. Here’s to _____________.

(Also, I should say thanks to Word Riot’s fiction editor, Kevin O’Cuinn!)

Jun 17, 201318 notes
#the salad #mh rowe #word riot
Jun 15, 20134 notes
Jun 15, 20138 notes
Jun 15, 201326 notes
#a lot of things are not mountains haloed by a rainbow
Jun 13, 201313 notes
#steven millhauser
Play
Jun 10, 20131 note
#dayvan cowboy #boards of canada
Pictures of Success Rilo Kiley

woadandmadder:

Please tell me what song this song reminds me of; also, good god goddamn.

What I like about everyone is different from person to person, depending on the person.

Jun 8, 20137 notes
#saturday morning
ratios

I feel like the weather for the last week has been “implied rain” even when it wasn’t raining. I’ve had the opportunity to wear my hoodie more often than I would have expected. I did not sit around trying to expect some sort of ratio for that. I am reading this Steven Millhauser book, Little Kingdoms, which is a collection of three novellas, and I have decided as I always do that I need to keep reading more Steven Millhauser. You should do so as well, for both health and safety. I also read Miranda July’s short story collection and that book has little rocket ships in its blood. I mean, maybe it gets a little tiresome to read first-person story after first-person story, but even alienation comes in, like, one really good flavor. Or laughter. Whichever it is. I think living forever would be pretty terrible.

The level of construction at the University of Minnesota has reached such a point of fanatical overload that I’m not even sure anyone is in charge. I think construction crews are just showing up and saying, “This would be a good place for fucking train tracks.” It’s like campus is some sort of cultural center for ambitious, self-starting construction crews that just happen to be wandering the country seeking perfect locations to make a shit load of unpleasant noise.

Jun 7, 201316 notes
#summer
Jun 2, 2013167,454 notes
#fuck

May 2013

13 posts

It's Real Real Estate

It’s Real - Real Estate

As always, this is me raising my glass to you. 

May 31, 20137 notes
#real estate
May 31, 201320 notes
#...
May 29, 201330 notes
#planet earth
Before I Move Off Mount Kimbie

Before I Move Off - Mount Kimbie

Some songs are weather. Though there’s no reliable way to predict that you will listen to them the day before they happen to you. Suddenly you’re just outside or whatever.

May 29, 20134 notes
#mount kimbie #before i move off
Lucky One Pure Bathing Culture

Lucky One - Pure Bathing Culture

This is an extremely silly band name. But we live in a world of incalculable chaos and thus demand music. So.

May 25, 20137 notes
#pure bathing culture #lucky one
Slow Jam Four Tet

Slow Jam - Four Tet

I can’t believe—as this Pitchfork “best new reissue” review informs me—that Four Tet’s album Rounds has been re-released for its 10th anniversary. Not that I’ve lived with the album saddled in my ear the whole time. It’s always been a favorite, but the kind you forget and return to. Anyway, I obsessed over this album when it came out at the end of my sophmore year of college, and I wonder if I was shorter then. I was 20. And people are still growing physically at 20, right? I wonder how much shorter I was. I wonder how my shorter stature affected how I heard this song. Did it fill me with the feeling I get now, the kind of feeling that feels like sitting up straighter? If so, and given that I am probably taller now, and given that the song definitely gives me a spine-straightening feeling now, then I suppose I am taller at this exact moment than I have ever been. Boy, did you want/need to know that, or what?

May 24, 201311 notes
#four tet #slow jam #rounds
1992

I’m teaching Moby Dick in my summer class. That’s a given. My summer class is supposed to cover American literature from the “discovery” of the Americas to 1850, roughly. So, fine. I am excited by the prospect of teaching Moby Dick. It’s so long and weird and, I think, oddly lean-feeling for such a tome-y tome. Whatever, you get it. Okay. 

BUT.

I was just looking, for no particular reason, at the copyright page of my edition of Moby Dick. It says, “Published in Penguin Books 1992.” And it just strikes me as hilarious.

Like, what if this giant stupid book had originally been published in 1992? Seriously, what if Moby Dick had been written in the late 1980s and published in 1992? I’m not asking you to imagine how different the book would be. I’m saying the exact same book—with its consideration of a dying American whaling industry, its philosophical huffings and puffings, its poetic whatevers—published in 1992.

I’m seriously laughing out loud to myself just thinking of this. Which is perhaps the sign of some early-onset drunkenness. Except that I haven’t been drinking. It’s just the kind of sunny that feels like drinking. And there’s a lawnmower somewhere going hrrrrr—one of the most “somewhere” sounds I can think of.

I hope you enjoy a light, refreshing drink this evening, toasting your—let’s hope—relatively stable planetary and professional standing. Your place among people. And also Moby Dick was first published in 1992.

May 23, 201329 notes
#moby dick #summer
Gagging Order Radiohead

Gagging Order - Radiohead

May 20, 20131 note
#no annotations
Listen

Never forget.

May 16, 20135 notes
#the cure
Just North of Something Important: A side note about the whole Angelina Jolie thing is that until a few... → barthel.tumblr.com

barthel:

A side note about the whole Angelina Jolie thing is that until a few years ago there was a really strong economic disincentive for women to get tested for the gene. If it was found, it would be part of their official medical history, and they could be charged much higher insurance rates. They had…

That is cool, and I didn’t know that. I mean, that particular detail.

May 14, 201378 notes
#cool
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