December 2010
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“But the world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Notebooks (via ontheborderland) — This might be true in the sense that garnering “mystique” makes people interesting, but making yourself inaccessible is a terrible way to live your life.  In fact, I am always amazed by the people who ward off all attempts...
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I am full of birthday tacos.
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Every Music Critics's Year-End Top Ten List... →
This is probably the only appropriate preamble to the posts I’m going to make this week.  Buckle your seat belts for my Top Five Albums of the Year.
Dec 27th
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Salem's "Trap Door" one of the worst songs of the...
I found this enjoyable bit of snark by following a link that artcreep posted.  It gives a good summation of why I can’t believe people think this group has any merit whatsoever: 2. It’s embarrassingly easy to do what they do. Hey, look what I made! 3. They are the living, breathing, American-Apparel-clad definition of white privilege. Because I’m seconds away from throwing my...
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Dec 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Kim Boekbinder (19) Death in June (17) Lycia (12) Sxip Shirey (9) Ex Reverie (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Isobel Campbell, “No Place to Fall” A friend of mine turned me on to Isobel Campbell’s post-Belle & Sebastian albums, for which I am very grateful! 
Dec 20th
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Last.fm
I keep forgetting that I have a Last.fm account over here.  Feel free to add me there if you so wish!  Bonus points if you can tell me exactly what I’m supposed to be doing on that site.
Dec 19th
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One last She & Him video for today: here they are performing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” with Conan O’Brien.
Dec 16th
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I’m generally lukewarm on She & Him, but I have to admit I like their version of “I Put a Spell on You.”  Here they are performing it on Conan.
Dec 16th
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“The Milk-Eyed Mender proved to have legs…strong, smooth legs, from ankle...”
– from the playbill to a Joanna Newsom performance, in which the writer comes off as vaguely creepy
Dec 16th
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“Jack, What is that scent you’re wearing? Hopeless Romantic Purse Atomizer...”
– subject line of an email from the Victorian Trading Co., which apparently either believes that it has no male customers or that I am a transvestite.
Dec 14th