Blog: Lizzyville

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This Swedish band, headed by Annika Norlin, is lovely. Here's a sample so you can understand. Hello Saferide - "If I Dont Write This Song Someone I Love Will Die" And their website. Sounds-like clues: Bettie Serveert Camera Obscura Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis Bruce Springsteen (I'm serious)

• Hello Saferide - If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die

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"Killer Parties"

• The Hold Steady - Killer Parties

1. Iron shingle entrails. 2. Crap magazine got there first. 3. Nerds in cycling jackets. 4. 'Please' often sounds rude. 5. Buffoon narrator is forgiven like unreliable narrator. 6. Is this Third Eye Blind or TV On The Radio? 7. I never liked Kanye West anyway. 8. I treat novels with great respect. I treat my life like a novel, ergo ... 9. Yesterday was a You-Free Day. 10. It's a close tie between you and almonds.

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The end is nigh, if not already passé. Exhibit A Canada's venerable Cokemachineglow interviews Edward Droste, lead singer of fuzz-rock boys Grizzly Bear, Nov 3, 2006. CMG: Do you read a lot of your reviews or do you try and avoid it? ED: I read Cokemachine and Pitchfork and Stylus [woohoo!] and I don’t pick up Spin [...]

Like pregaming, but not quite as fun. Premarathoning involves ritualistic behavior, like the consumption of only "good" foods, a lot of sleep or sedentary activity, lifting very light weights very slowly, to the confusion of gym onlookers, very low-key runs with iPods on, and a trip to the Javits Center, in the middle of nowhere (11th Ave/38th St) to pick up the race number and goodie bag components of the experience. The photo to the left was hung up somewhere in the Javits Center and when I saw it I got chills up and [...]

"Never talk to your dog about me." "Jealousy is like bad magic--you hope there is, you expect there to be some ornate and mysterious explanation at the back of it all, but there rarely is, and in the end, you are fooling yourself more than the magician is." "I'm a Republican, shredding documents."

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Reading this blog for the first time was, for me, "a splash of cold water to the face," as Zadie Smith has described Slaughterhouse 5. Hey, it's the 21st century. Splash of cold water to the face.

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"Nobody who’s ever been within grasp of that, IT, whatever you wish to call it, knows they have to return to it again or lose out on almost everything that’s significant to them. Falling in love, just the experience, is the predictor of that need in and of itself; you don’t have it, lose it, and never seek it out again." --Derek Miller

"In the moment itself, I could not appreciate the value of these new pleasures. They were given, not by the girl I loved, to me who loved her, but by the other, the one I played with, to my other self who possessed neither the memory of the true Gilberte, nor the inalienable heart which alone could have known the price of such a happiness, because it alone had desired it. Even after returning home I did not savor them, for, each day, the same need which made me hope that the next day I would [...]

I came across Darius Harris's blog during some research at work. I can't stop reading it. It's x-rated, it's disgusting, it's enlightening, it's hilarious.

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Parliament Hill Fields, London 1. My life used to salivate over the mere scent of love in chaos. And this has tasted of old patterns made more important by new human entries into the field; lapsed lovers in my party, in my backyard. There are no more chancesâ€"â€"for free at leastâ€"â€"for that ease. I've been thinking of that swing in the open arena of ten backyards the school's now selling off to real residents interested in homemaking. Really, I was there for longer than I've lived anywhere. If [...]