September 2009
145 posts
“Nothing springs instantly to my pen—no characters so all-consumingly...”
– from Michael Palin’s Diaries March 9, 1981
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“ALCS? Isn’t that what Lou Gehrig had?”
– My former boyfriend, when I tried to explain baseball’s playoff system to him.
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Last Night at the 40 Watt Club
Mike Mills took a turn at the mic during the Baseball Project, etc. show, Bill Berry sat behind the drum kit for the encore and Michael Stipe was in the audience. You know, while a regularly-scheduled Peter Buck alternated between guitar ‘n’ bass.
Read that paragraph again. You’ll understand why my jaw fell onto my Out of Time t-shirt.
—via
The Baseball Project: “Ted Fucking...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Nick Lowe (53)
Pulp (34)
Brian Eno & David Byrne (30)
Modest Mouse (27)
Lambchop (21)
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Oh Hey, New Gym Guy
It was really cool the way you stomped and sighed and went waaaay past “Baby With An Earache” on the fussy scale this evening, all because you thought I was monopolizing the pullup bar at the Y. Everyone could tell that you had Somewhere to be, like a film premiere or polo match or the Tidy Cat sale at Food Lion and—obviously—you were in such a hurry to Do Important Things...
Today's Internet Obsession
So on Saturday I saw The Minus 5/Baseball Project/Steve Wynn IV at the Cat’s Cradle. It was hands down—or hands up, over your head as you shout along to “Medicine Show”—one of the best concerts I’ve seen all year. Considering how many club logos I’ve had to scrub off my skin, that’s saying a lot.1
Anyway, Mr. Wynn has been writing about this tour...
“Using the word ‘weird’ implies that there is a norm.”
– Robyn Hitchcock
“The events of everyday life are by their nature unpredictable, not at all at...”
– —From the introduction to former Python Michael Palin’s Halfway to Hollywood, a collection of his own journals from 1980-1988. These eight years of his life—and 587 pages—are what I’ll tear through in the next week or so… just in case anyone wants to start a book...
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Nick Lowe: “Lately I’ve Let Things...
hellointernet:
Here’s a Beatle recording you may...
Oh, Syndicated SVU Episodes, What Would I Do...
Detective Benson: "Do you think there's a reason the killer sodomized your husband with a banana?"
Victim's Wife: "He was allergic to bananas."
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“There are more, like, shapeshifters than werewolves in this book but, um,...”
– And just like that, I start judging the woman beside me at the hair salon.
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“Mr. Tanner was a cleaner/From a town in the Midwest/And of all the cleaning...”
– I woke up this morning with a Harry Chapin song lodged in my brain, one I haven’t heard since I was in the eighth grade. I can’t wait to see what other middle school memories it’ll cough up as the day progresses.
R.E.M.: “First We Take Manhattan”
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“Woo hoo! Lupus!!!!!”
– My mother is excited for the House premiere. [via text]
I adore my mother. She’s so much awesomer than your mother.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Nick Lowe (68)
The Smiths (45)
The Kinks (44)
Morrissey (36)
Big Star (25)
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Massive Attack: “Teardrop”
Oh hey,...
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