May 2011
“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had...”
– Raymond Carver
On Love and Technology →
A new essay by Jonathan Franzen, adapted from his commencement address last week at Kenyon College
“I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the...”
– Carl Jung
KEXP at Sasquatch 2011 →
KEXP is teaming up with NPR Music for a live broadcast from the Sasquatch Festival over Memorial Day Weekend. We are broadcasting live from the main stage and featuring performances from all four stages throughout the weekend.
(Bands performing at this year’s festival include Wilco, Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, The Head and The Heart, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for...
WatchBon Iver covering Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me”, which happens to be one of the greatest songs of all time by the way, on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Though he also starts the whole thing off with a verse from Donny Hathaway’s “A Song for You” and ends the song with Raitt’s “Nick of Time”. So I guess that makes this the...
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“I See a Darkness” - Bonnie ‘Prince’...
“A person isn’t just who they are during the last conversation you had with them;...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
First Listen: Death Cab For Cutie, 'Codes And... →
What I Understood - Katha Pollitt
When I was a child I understood everything about, for example, futility. Standing for hours on the hot asphalt outfield, trudging for balls I’d ask myself, how many times will I have to perform this pointless task, and all the others? I knew about snobbery, too, and cruelty—for children are snobbish and cruel—and loneliness: in restaurants the dignity and...
The Cure - Albert Huffstickler
We think we get over things. We don’t “get over” things. Or say, we get over the measles but not a broken heart. We need to make that distinction. The things that become part of our experience never become less a part of our experience. How can I say it? The way to “get over” a life is to die. Short of that, you move with it, let the pain be pain, not in the hope...
“Some few films evoke the wonderment of life’s experience, and those I consider a...”
– Roger Ebert, reviewing the new Terrence Malick film, The Tree of Life, which I absolutely can not wait to see.
Also, this is why I watch movies.
Apologia to My Second Child →
essayist:
by John Hodgman (stolen from LF)
Attention unnamed male child to come:
Greetings.
Do not be alarmed. I realize you do not know who I am.
Here is a hint: You are not born yet, and already I must apologize to you.
Can you guess? My name is John Hodgman, and I am your father. Feeling sorry, as I trust you will sadly learn, is something of a habit of mine. I am always apologizing,...
“Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
MitchHedberg.net is UP!!!! →
comedynerdsunited:
thecomedybureau:
It’s almost like a Mitch Hedberg Museum. Check it out right now!!!
this is awesome.
Fast Five (2011) →
brightwalldarkroom:
PUT ON YOUR THUNDERWEAR, IT’S TIME TO GET FURIOUS!
by Chris Cantoni
Reviewing Fast Five requires one to develop previously non-existent words and then introduce them into the English language…
“I recently began to wonder: What did the Kenyon grads think when they heard...”
– He Was Water: Kenyon Grads Remember David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech | The Millions
(via thefeeling)
Rider - Okkervil River
Day #2 with the new...
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Never Quite Free - The Mountain Goats
It’s so...
Time Travel Week: Bill and Ted's Excellent... →
brightwalldarkroom:
BE EXCELLENT TO ONE ANOTHER
by Chad Theodore Logan
It was a typically cold, overcast day in Seattle, and my father and I had a rather serious decision to make. We arrived at the movie theater a bit early and, after a quick stop at The Wherehouse to buy, I kid you not, a cassette…
Time Travel Week(s) comes to a close today over at BWDR with my essay on Bill...
