December 2011
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November 2011
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Watchfuckyeahbobdylan:
Bob Dylan ft. Emmylou Harris - Oh Sister
My favorite kind of wintertime tune. And while I love the associated music, this weather can certainly take a hike.
October 2011
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Call your girlfriend.
I mean, at the very least, call.
A capella Call Your Girlfriend and cup game percussion? Nice.
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Watchtwentyfourbit:
Ryan Adams, Jason Isbell: “Love in the First Degree”
“At the end of this song, we should both get a free toolbox,” Ryan Adams joked the other night in San Francisco as he and tour opener Jason Isbell’s cover of 1981 Alabama hit “Love in the First Degree” strayed from a faithful rendition into tongue-in-cheek territory toward the coda. Their take does justice to both Adams’...
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WatchGod, I love Willy Mason.
So great to see this new collaboration with Lianna La Havas. Read more here.
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Lana del Rey has some serious French tip nails.
Pretty enough to be a model, and yet became a Youtube sensation with two pretty cool songs and videos. Check it out.
“Blue Jeans” has a kind of Chris Isaak “Wicked Games” vibe to it if you ask me.
Also, shout out to The Band’s Last Waltz with that clip of the guy at the beginning.
Hat tip to Marcus’s Facebook feed. Here’s her website.
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“Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat....”
– my friend, John Patrick Shanley (via emphasisadded)
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“There’s no normal life, Wyatt, it’s just life. Get on with it.”
– Doc Holliday (via somucholderthen)
It’s about time I watch this again.
September 2011
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August 2011
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“Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to...”
– John Steinbeck, in a letter to his son Thom. Read it. It’s good for you.
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“Is this the cause of James Dillon’s agitated state of mind? Yes, I think...”
– Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander.
Brought back to my attention by a friend who added this: “I’m going to do everything I can to avoid this, because I often feel like I’ve stopped evolving and am descending into a caricature of myself.”
Word.
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“I hope when people ask what you’re going to do with your English and/or creative...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #72: The Future Has An Ancient Heart - The Rumpus.net (via bearbearpdx)
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You Are Welcome Here: A Letter to My Daughter →
lieslieslies:
Some days I fear I will never meet you. Some days I fear that you will never exist and that time, shhh, long ago, was the last chance. But other days I break apart completely thinking about your skin and if you’d smile with your eyes or with your entire face.
I just wanted to tell you some things incase, well, incase it doesn’t happen. Incase you never meet me or incase I forget...
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“I did my best for you, son. I gave you all I had. More than anything I wanted to...”
– (via frenchwelcome) Walker Percy, The Moviegoer. Of course.
July 2011
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“Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.”
– Good call, Bob Dylan.
June 2011
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and...”
– David Foster Wallace
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Song round up.
Years and miles are not what you deserve:
I love it when the boys go back to bluegrass. I can’t stop playing this song.
That little girl, so hot she’s scalding, ain’t gonna be nothing left of me:
Things I like about this
the dudes in the band, they are super nice and play requests for you
lanky men in flared jeans (what?)
mandolin jamming
beer
With a smile on...
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And then... silence. →
The creator of the amazing website/archive Letters of Note indeed takes a note from his idols and posts this hilarious missive to the trolls who made him close his comments section:
“In a move which thankfully won’t affect the vast majority of you, I have today disabled comments on Letters of Note. Permanently.
All complaints should be directed towards a section of society to whom...
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A Change is Gonna Come (Cover Battle).
Aloe Blacc, vs. Seth Avett, vs. (…throwback!) Gavin Degraw
He probably wins in the closest-to-the-real-deal department, and best falsetto.
Seth made this video to promote his piano, which he was auctioning off to benefit abused women and children. So, winning.
There isn’t a high quality live version of this, but he is pretty undeniable. I wonder what he is up to these...
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Black, white, style.
(I think that one is my favorite.)
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El Clasico.
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She was all angles and bones.
May 2011
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“My aim here is mainly to set up a contrast between the narcissistic tendencies...”
– From a Franzen op-ed.
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I'm on Pinterest. →
It is effectively pwning my desire to study.
Are pinterest and tumblr like, enemies?
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Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People
Room...
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Roll on.
Beach, lake, mtns, anywhere.
Is that person naked? Whatever.
Vamonos.
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Let's get our roll on.
Or at least make plans to.
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Introducing Man Eats Local →
My brother-in-law, a Denver dad of two and owner of In Season Local Markets, eats only from his own market and blogs about it at the link above. All of the food is from a 250-mile radius, it’s all ethically grown and traceable, most (all?) of it is organic, and a lot of it is gluten-free. Eating only seasonal food from the Denver area obviously poses some challenges.
Read because: His kids...
April 2011
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No therapy like this.
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WatchOH yeah, get it Taylor.
thedailywhat:
In Case You Missed It of the Day: As promised, Stephen Colbert, Taylor Hicks, and The Roots come together on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for the “Friday” performance to end all “Friday” performances. (Seriously, enough with the “Friday” performances.)
[lnwjf.]
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March 2011
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Some more good things.
Probably my favorite song of the new album, with a vid shot at Jack White’s record label? I like.
Kind of a sedate performance from them though.
If you can get past the old-timey schtick, these girls are good sangers.
They are from Alabama and backed by Jack White and T-Bone Burnett. Can’t go wrong. And this rules:
This girls are a bit rougher.
Back to the nice...
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Videooo post.
Tiny Desk brings the heat always:
I wonder if Local Natives are sooo freaking tired of playing those same 10 songs.
How, how have I never seen this?
Heart attack-ack-ack-ack:
Oh crackerfarm, you got me.
This song about coffee:
An ode to my caffeine withdrawal headaches.
This Heidi Klum lookalike is awesome:
Here’s more proof:
And more:
Basically...
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February 2011
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Shall we go?
Why, yes. Because I, like everyone else on tumblr, am a francophile.
Something to save for at least.
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thatkindofwoman:
robbyzworld:
Lykke Li | Love...