December 2010
50 posts
Pictureplane — “Goth Star”
More beatz...
New Year's Resolution
“One should never tell anyone anything. Telling is almost always done as a gift, even when the story contains and injects some poison, it is also a bond, a granting of trust, and rare is the trust or confidence that is not sooner or later betrayed, rare is the close bond that does not grow twisted or knotted and, in the end, become so tangled that a razor or knife is needed to cut it. How...
“Upon a time when Burbage played Richard the Third there was a citizen grew so far in liking with him, that before she went from the play she appointed him to come that night unto her by the name of Richard the Third. Shakespeare, overhearing their conclusion, went before, was entertained and at his game ere Burbage came. Then, message being brought that Richard the Third was at the door,...
American Roulette's Top Eleven Albums Of 2010
It’s been a great year for music. In no particular order after #1:
Arcade Fire — The Suburbs
jj — Kills
Kids & Explosions — Shit Computer
The National — High Violet
Tanlines — Settings
Girls — Broken Dreams Club
Sleigh Bells — Treats
LCD Soundsystem — This Is Happening
Das Racist — Sit Down, Man
Yeasayer — Odd Blood
Fang Island — Fang Island
Honorable mentions for El...
A Trade Union For Lonely Rattlesnakes
“Think about this: If God has ordained whatever happens and always knows what will happen, how can a human being commit a sin? It’s an old question, but it’s still as good as new. What kind of trickster God would it be who sets us up to commit offenses against him, with his own prior knowledge and consent? He doesn’t merely know in advance what we are likely to do: there...
Corner store cashier: “It’s snowing out, eh?”
Me: “Yep. It’s Christmas, I guess.”
Corner store cashier: “Nothing for you! Heh heh heh.”
Me: “…”
Merry Christmas
The following text exchange is the closest I will ever come to getting a compliment on my intelligence from my younger brother, currently a PhD student at MIT.
Me: How’s Maine? Miss me?
Nick: Yep i wish i could kick your ass at trivial pursuit. Jacob and dad are too easy.
Fang Island — “Careful Crossers”
Turn...
Galaxie 500 — “Blue Thunder”
Ever...
Sterne and Vico, or, Where We Are Headed
“Thus,—-thus my fellow labourers and associates in this great harvest of our learning, now ripening before our very eyes; thus it is, by slow steps of casual increase, that our knowledge physical, metaphysical, physiological, polemical, nautical, mathematical, œnigmatical, technical, biographical, romantical, chemical, and obstetrical, with fifty other branches of it, (most of...
*nods*
“Again they both fell silent, staring out the window together, into something that could have been a night in October, a night in January, a woolen blanket, sorrow, or joy, though they didn’t attempt to define it.”
—Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
Band of Horses — “The General...
Personality v. Mind
“He noted with distaste his own trick of appealing for sympathy. A personality had its own ways. A mind might observe them without approval. Herzog did not care for his own personality, and at the moment there was apparently nothing he could do about its impulses.”
—Saul Bellow, Herzog
Watchjusky:
Spose - I’m Awesome
Okay, I’m from Maine. This rapper is from Maine. Listen to this song. Trust me, it fucking rules.
GROWING UP REASONABLY INTELLIGENT IN MAINE CAN NOT BE DESCRIBED ANY MORE ACCURATELY THAN THIS, BOTH LYRICALLY AND (PERHAPS ESPECIALLY) VISUALLY. Also, Sea Dogs cap, wha-what!
Dirty Projectors — “The Bride”
an...
Ocean's Disc
“His days were bound by the disc of the ocean. In the morning he climbed to the top of her island and sat clutching his knees to his chest against the wind, scanning the horizon for white sails. She left him alone while the sun shone but at dusk she approached out of the gloom, touched his face, took his hand and made to draw him back toward her cave. He pushed her roughly away. ‘Stay,...
White Denim — “If You’re...
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“He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you within an irresistible prejudice in your favour. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be...
Penelope's Elegy
“Odysseus set foot on Ithaca trembling with wrath, his spear poised to fly through the heart of the first man unwise enough to cross him. He passed unopposed up to his old hall where instead of enemies he found his kinsmen turning to face him with wide eyes, exclaiming in wonder—he first thought it was a war-cry and nearly slew them. They drew him in among them, touching and praising...
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The Hopeless Glimmer of the Hopeful
Time heals all wounds, sure. But we always forget that it’s Time that creates the very wounds it’s supposed to heal. Time, it turns out, is a murderous doctor who still believes he’s following the Hippocratic Oath, who sees every single one of his patients die on his table, worrying away with a scalpel with his weak hand following along with the other trying to stitch up the...
from How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional...
convenience, particular sadness of
Services available in the city include
Ex-Girlfriend Hologram
Pay-per-minute Alternate History Viewing Booth
Products available in the city include
False Memories of Home (chewing gum)
Aerosol Essence of Nostalgia for Summers Past
Nearly six thousand varieties of sexbots
Drinking buddy bots
Friendbots, of varying humanness
The Arcade Fire — “Wasted Hours”
“I find it absurd that a man of his intelligence should suffer over a person of...”
– Swann in Love from Swann’s Way
Truth.
“What a sorry, almost absurd thing it is, how annoyingly it chafes the mind, to observe and register quite by accident how someone believes herself to be thinking and acting cunningly on her own, without her noticing that it is merely a shameful repetition of a general pattern.”
Thomas Mann — Joseph and his Brothers
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18 ninja squirrels were introduced to the Washington, D.C. area when they escaped at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park near the beginning of the 20th century during President Theodore Roosevelt’s administration. Since their introduction, the population of ninja squirrels in Washington, Northern Virginia, and the surrounding communities of Washington D.C. in Maryland have slowly but...
