October 2009
32 posts
1 tag
My newest RECord on HitRECord It’s called...
gatekeeper:
bitchville: Karen O And The Kids - ...
“Have you ever felt more fresh or wonderful
Than on a warm fall night under a...”
– Excerpt from Cowboy Junkies, “Anniversary Song”
“If I was the heart and you were the head,
Would you think me very foolish
If...”
– Excerpt from Cowboy Junkies, “If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man”
2 tags
“Baptists celebrating with praises to the Lord,
Rednecks doing it with gin
Me...”
– Excerpt from Cowboy Junkies, “Oregon Hill”
WatchThose Darlins, “Whole Damn Thing” - one of my favorite new bands playing in my favorite record store, Grimey’s.
hamandheroin:
Song of the day: “Hideaway” by...
1 tag
The Life of a Lead Scientist: My Room
And furthermore, as the lead scientist on one of the most successful science teams in this neighborhood, I think my ideas should be viewed as legitimate hypotheses and not as the insane ramblings of a low-grade moron. So please take that into consideration the next time you come barging into my room, Mom.
WatchThe First Days of Spring, a short film by Noah and the Whale. The record of the same name was just released in the US this month. It is AMAZING. I would dearly love to see the film.
“Up your nose with a rubber hose.”
– Vinnie Barbarino, Welcome Back, Kotter
2 tags
“I hope you are on your rooftop now,
In the sun, in the middle of five hundred...”
– excerpt from Rooftop by The Innocence Mission
iamthecrime:
The Sundays - “Here’s Where The Story...
2 tags
WatchOne week until Venture Brothers season 4 begins.
2 tags
“I pull up to a light, next to a bunch of young black kids. Maybe they’ll...”
– From Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Upon reading this paragraph in the first Eggers book I ever read, I instantly became a fan. For the first 267 pages of the book I was fairly undecided. But on page 268 my journey to finding my favorite living author began. The...
1 tag
Intro to LOL Betty
(LOL Betty is my imaginary friend. At first her name was just Betty, but I laugh out loud so much at the funny things she says that I was always saying LOL Betty. So that's her name now. But when I laugh out loud at her I don't say LOL LOL Betty. That would just be stupid.)
Me: Autumn is here at last! I love the change in weather.
LOL Betty: It's already colder than a hug from Ingmar Bergman.
Me: LOL Betty!
LOL Betty: Hush! I'm trying to watch The Today Show.
Me: Oh OK. Are his hugs cold because he's dead?
LOL Betty: It ain't helping.
Me: LOL Betty!
LOL Betty: Hush! Today Show!
“So I go up Poughkeepsie / Look out o’er the Hudson / And I cast my worries...”
– Over The Rhine, “Poughkeepsie”
“So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear / And your tears cannot bind me...”
– Tom Waits, “Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards)”
Do you know what you're worth?
There’s a world full of people who don’t know what they’re worth. Sometimes people who do know forget. Sometimes I forget. Sometimes I doubt. This is for all of us.
Do you know what you’re worth? You’re worth the tears The blood The harm The pain The sacrifice The misery The anguish The toil The prayer You’re worth the effort The agony The risk The battle...
