August 2011
July 2011
Vacation over. Work tomorrow. Life goes on.
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“I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing...”
– David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”
LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS ARE SO HARD!
I mean, I have more wordy, cleverer ways of saying that, but instead of making you read paragraphs tonight, I’m giving you the main thrust of my argument and leaving it at that.
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The nightingales are sobbing in
The orchards of our mothers,
And hearts that we broke long ago
Have long been breaking others;
Tears are round, the sea is deep:
Roll them overboard and sleep.
- W.H. Auden
Well done, Friday Night Lights. Well done.
a bright wall in a dark room.: Reader Request... →
brightwalldarkroom:
BWDR TURNS TWO!
This month marks the official SECOND ANNIVERSARY of this fine site, known in its first several months as Filmosophy, until somebody threatened to sue us for copyright violations and/or shut down the site altogether (remember that?), and known ever since as A Bright…
My little site turns two next week! In honor of the anniversary, we’re letting readers...
An Oral History of Friday Night Lights - Grantland →
peterwknox:
Very comprehensive.
This is a great read for any FNL fan. I still can’t believe this show will be over forever after tomorrow night.
Does He Love You? - Rilo Kiley
Civilian - Wye Oak
I’ve only just been...
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: Everyone please STFU about Netflix →
branduponthebrain:
Netflix has been dirt cheap for the amount of content offered and has given everyone an undeserved sense of entitlement. I’ve been a member since 2004 and started with the 3 disc plan and was essentially paying more at that time for less content before streaming was incorporated. Now as Netflix…
Yes, this. I’ve been a member since 2002, and it’s been worth...
I’ve always been a night person, but having kids, especially young ones that get up early in the morning, doesn’t really allow you to be. So, begrudgingly, I’ve given it up and am no longer the person racing through the night with a thousand and one ideas, writing and reading and watching films and finally heading to bed around 2 or 3 in the morning. I’m much more...
“How Sweet is Emma’s Love” - Bon...
The internet is crazy because you can read emails you sent ten years ago and realize what a completely different person you were, even though it always seems that as you’re going through life that you’re the same person. You’re not. You change. You learn. You grow. And while some things remain the same - the absolute overwhelmingness of right now (whether you’re 23 or 33)...
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Two years ago today, right around this time of the day in fact, my wife called me at work and told me she thought she might have started to go into labor. She wasn’t entirely sure, but thought she was starting to feel what might be contractions, and would keep an eye on it and let me know. It was past the due date, so I was going to work every day with the idea that I could be leaving at...
