Plants and Animals - Control Me I'm sitting on a plastic chair at a bunch of hawker stalls drinking Heineken. It's almost 5 bucks for the bottle, but it's 640 mL. I guess that's a fair price, it just feels like a lot since nothing else is more than $2 here. I don't want to go home. There, camped in the living room, is Nida. She's Nick's Thai girlfriend. Kind of. She decided to surprise him with a visit, except he decided to move to America permanently without [...]
Rufus Wainwright - In A Graveyard The playfulness of the Smiths' "Cemetry Gates" aside, the many homes of the dead (the breaking of bread in the resting places) sit rather uneasy amongst any three minute stationed pop song, yet, in weakening the mould, "In A Graveyard" proposes a truth and then a possibility, that in death we all belong and that within this are extremes of beauty to be unearthed, so to speak. However close to universal wishfulness this may thread upon, it's Wainwright's clarity of voice that devises and executes the certainty of [...]
M83 - You Appearing The eerie emptiness of an apartment, freshly vacated by a soured roommate who spent the last two days of his tenure throwing an almighty temper-tantrum, the most passive-aggressive of strops – slamming doors at odd intervals, blaring Hindi Internet radio from his laptop speakers with the door open at 4 a.m., leaving a note about the smell of your sandals as pitifully childish revenge because a few months back you had to confront him about leaving sweaty socks in the living room – leaving behind not so much a lifting [...]
Wye Oak - Take It In There's one cigarette I miss above all. Months after quitting, I'm still bumping into smokes I miss: the drunk-at-2-a.m.-out-on-the-bal cony cig, the fuck-my-job-end-of-shift cig, the I'm-feeling-emotionally-insecu re-but-bet-a-cig-would-make-me -look-cool cig. But the return of MLS reminded me of my favorite: the I-filed-three-times-at-that-ga me cig. Brown-papered cloves would wait in the cup holder of my Civic. I would sit down at the steering wheel and sigh, exhausted but fulfilled. I liked to dangle the cig in my mouth for a few minutes, winding down, tasting the sugar-sweetness of the filter, staring into the dark [...]
Twin Shadow - Forget I was typing on Skype to someone I've met in person twice when the screen started to sway. Then the ground dragged my feet back and forth and the whole apartment was lurching. I lived in California for a while so I'm used to earthquakes. I remember once letting a tame one rock me back to sleep during a sunny mid-afternoon nap. But this one just kept going. On and on it rolled. My nocturnal roommates woke up, screamed "earthquake!" and filmed the [...]
Carey Mulligan - New York, New York This game is cruel; but its cruelty is sensual and stirs George into hot excitement. He feels a thrill of pleasure to find the senses so eager in their response; too often, now, they seem sadly jaded. From his heart, he thanks these young animals for their beauty. And they will never know what they have done to make this moment marvellous to him, and life itself less hateful - [ Words / Art: Josh Henkins / Music .]
Starfucker - Mystery Cloud Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death. To observe scowls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Ever. That is a very gloomy thing for contemplation, but it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative for creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that. Our brains create [...]
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely A second finding is that adult TCKs are also somewhat out of synch in aspects of their lives outside of education. Throughout their lifetimes there are subtle differences between them and the American generation that came into adulthood in the same historical period. Not being like their peers is usually of great import (and sometimes extremely painful) in the late teens and twenties, but it is of lessening centrality with increasing age. How long does it take for TCKs to become adjusted to American life? The [...]
Flicker on, flicker on like a train at night. [ The Jigsaw Jam .]
Craig Finn - Not Much Left Of Us I saw my sixth grade teacher today. She has cancer now. Has for a while. I haven't seen or talked to her for a decade and a half. She was shuffling through the mall, green shawl tied around her bald head, leaning heavily on her husband. He's some 10 years her junior and has always carried a boyish energy. Now graying, face drooping, his gait still bounces - heels eager to leave the earth. He was smiling oddly. Like he was proud to [...]
Beach House - Myth Swag is a particular performance of masculinity, a style of cockiness that can be traced back to the classic, white masculine swagger of someone like John Wayne. In modern times however, swag is more associated with the dominant pose of urban black men, who, through hip-hop and other cultural forms, have influenced expressions of masculinity amongst non-blacks as well. Swag, in other words, is the product of a deeply American merry-go-round of racial posturing and borrowing. It's also a defining but contested attribute of the modern NBA. When [...]
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