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The Decemberists - “January Hymn”

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The Head and the Heart performs “Rivers and Roads” in a tunnel.

See you in 2012.

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First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar

3 months agoNotes

An Open Letter to Writers of Open Letters to Concepts, Places, Theories and Inanimate Objects

Dear Writers of Open Letters to Concepts, Places, Theories and Inanimate Objects,

Please cut that shit out.

Thanks,

Nick

4 months ago2 notes

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis in brief

  • What time is it?
  • Oh shit, I’m a bug
  • Hope they don’t miss me at work today
  • Man, whatever — my job sucks
  • Wait, Mom! Don’t come in here! Goddd
  • My boss is pissed; guess I’ll get up
  • Oh, right — I’m a bug
  • Suddenly feeling apathetic
  • Opening a door with insect apparatus sure is tough
  • Mom, goddd, it’s just a phase; you act like you’ve ever seen a bug before
  • Goddd
  • Whoa, check it out — I’m totally Spider-Man up in here
  • Wheeeee
  • Suddenly feeling apathetic
  • Hey, guys? Guys? I’m getting kinda hungry
  • Oh, don’t play at that feigned-horror schtick with me
  • I don’t think they’re feigning anything, actually
  • Suddenly feeling apathetic
  • Better climb some more walls
  • Wheeeee
  • Fact: Human-size bugs love the violin
  • Fact: Human-size humans hate their deformed son
  • Gonna crawl over here and die if that’s ok with everyone
  • Family: “Sure, go right ahead”
  • This would be symbolically compelling if I wasn’t so dead

4 months agoNotes
Why No One Is Getting Laid →

Maybe Facebook and texting has turned us into a bunch of judgmental jerks who would say no to sex just because someone uses an emoticon or lists Dave Matthews Band under their favorite music. “Ugh, total dealbreaker!” Really? Well, have fun sleeping alone tonight next to your cool Beach House poster.

An awkward response to a reasonable question by Ryan O’Connell.

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"You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."

Steve Jobs, Stanford University class of 2005 commencement speech (YouTube)

More thoughts at my blog over here.

5 months ago6 notes

The National - “Runaway”

Director/Editor/Producer: Sophie van der Burg
Actress: Tara Richard

5 months ago12 notes
A Fat, Mad Baby →

The Economist:

America is a scooter-bound glutton who, when its continuously increasing mass finally overwhelms the doughtiest scooter’s capacities, shakes its fat fists like a mad baby and demands deliverance from the laws of physics. America needs an extreme makeover, a heavy dose of tough love. America needs to grow up and get real. But our politicians always only tell us how beautiful and brave we are here in the best country in the history of the world.

From The Economist’s blog Democracy in America

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