February 2009
79 posts
DEAR DESIGNERS: I HAVE SOME TOTALLY AWESOME NEW...
T.G.I. Futura Ennui Ivanhoe! Wingdings and Beer Chum Sooo Goth Filet O’ Bold Scat Gotti Extra Bold Arial Bold’s Drunk Brother Dick M.D. Script I Can’t Believe It’s Not Serif! Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Times New Roman
This fills my heart with emoticons. And also jealousy for not being this rad. But mainly emoticons.
—via kellydeal
Me: Um, Amazon just sent me a "recommended product", WATCHMEN Night Owl branded coffee. The hell?
Andrew: Sweet, that would go well with my Comedian toaster oven and my doomed decadent society.
“People find me enormously irritating. If you don’t have 100 percent...”
– Morrissey
“Like any northern girl, Maureen ensnared her man the northern way: by...”
– from Peter Brown’s The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles
“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser and the other part of me thinks...”
– John Lennon
“If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“I don’t know why people ever actually introduce songs because the song...”
– Robyn Hitchcock, introducing one of his songs in Storefront Hitchcock.
I adore this dude so much.
I may need to borrow someone else’s organs to help store all of my feelings.
Last night I spent four hours shoving Pop Tarts into my face, washing them down with Sunkist, and brushing the frosted crumbs off my keyboard long enough to bang out approximately 3,400 Academy Award-related jokes. My apologies to anyone whose Twitter feed choked on these already.
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Fact: Every time Barbara Walters makes someone cry with her first question, she gets an extra life. ...
“First of all, it would mean a great deal to me. It would be [a] tremendous...”
– —Mickey Rourke, on what winning an Oscar would mean to him.
Gawd, I’m pulling for him.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Robyn Hitchcock (333)
Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians (250)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 (173)
Syd Barrett (40)
Bob Dylan (40)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by …
UPDATE: HOLY CRAP does this make me look unhinged. I blame the sync-ing of my iPod for the first time since I spent a cumulative 17 hours on an airplane and, um, may or may not have listened to a lot of Robyn...
I’m procrastinating harder than Aesop’s grasshopper so I decided to sift through my iTunes library.
Number of Songs: 4,563 Number of Albums: 461 Most Recently Played Song: “My Wife & My Dead Wife [Live]”- Robyn Hitchcock Most Played Song: “The Wheel”- Jerry Garcia Most Recently Added Album: Give It To The Thoth Boys: Live Rarities, Robyn Hitchcock & The...
“You set up your life, you set up your friends, but you know it’s all gonna...”
– Robyn Hitchcock, in Hanspeter Kuenzler’s excellent MusicOMH interview.
Me: I'm so ready to move to England. I just need to find a British guy to marry.
Elizabeth: Do you know any British guys?
Me: No.
Elizabeth: What about that musician you go on about?
Me: Married.
Elizabeth: Hugh Laurie?
Me: Married.
Elizabeth: Paul McCartney?
Me: Sadly, he's started to look exactly like my grandmother.
D-Hamm: JESSE McCARTNEY!! I mean, I think he's legal now and--
Me: Not British.
D-Hamm: Oh. I got nothin' then.
If I was a hairless spinster/Covered in festering boils
Would you still make love to me/Or would you recoil?
Dip me in the custard/Cover me with mustard
As long as we are clustered/It’s alright/I’ve got a message for you
Though I’m not a piece of veal/Or a piece of ham
Can’t you get your teeth in me/Just the way I am?
—Robyn Hitchcock, “I Got a Message For...
Said the dentures to the peach ...