January 2012
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Halo of Gold - Beck
Saturday afternoon, Beck...
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book ideas
- a phonebook that, based on conversations overheard in public places, just guesses people’s cell phone numbers
- The Bee Reader, an e-reader that emits an extremely loud, bee-like buzzing whenever it is in use, to alert other people that you have a lot of thoughts going on in your head because you’re really concentrating on your Bee Reader, just like a good little drone
- all the...
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Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood - Nina...
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"country noir"
I watched Winter’s Bone last night. The film’s takeaway is that there is nothing—spoiler alert—quite like holding out the arms of your father’s watery corpse so someone else can chainsaw his hands off in order to provide you with evidence that he is actually dead, allowing you to get the police off your back and save your home from confiscation. It’s not quite...
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Angel in the Snow - Elliott Smith
Sometimes...
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title sequence
I’ve been taking a break from all the forms of writing that usually preoccupy me. It’s been a superb holiday so far. But I’ve been writing songs instead, and I haven’t done that in years. This all started because I’ve been playing guitar obsessively with one of my friends over the past few months, and then he and I did a show. I wrote two songs for the show, and the...
