March 2010
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lafix:
In the Evening // Led Zeppelin
I love...
Led Zeppelin, “The Immigrant Song”...
Journey, “Stone In Love” (live)
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piscesinpurple:
I’m Not Okay (I Promise) // My...
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Hanging Up the Cleats
(Throwback Thursday — July 2005)
“Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.”
— Lou Gehrig, farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, July 4, 1939
“Fuck me! Fuck me! Fuck!”
— me, farewell speech at Northbrook Softball Field #28, July 13, 2005
One farewell speech is considerably less eloquent and heartwrenching...
My Chemical Romance, “Disenchanted.”
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An apology is in order.
Earlier today, lafix...
debshock-deactivated20110123-de asked: Would you like a silly question or a real question? Or a combination of both? *These questions may or may not be the actual questions.
lafix asked: What song are you playing in your avatar?
“Any World (That I’m Welcome...
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lafix:
In the Street // Big Star
At schlovin’s...
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Census Snapshot
1970: I’m three. We’re in Chicago, near Marquette Park, living in a 3-flat. One flat had my parents, my newborn sister, and me. Another had my grandparents (mom’s folks) and my aunt and uncle who were about 25, and the flat in the basement was rented out to a flamboyantly gay man and his lesbian sister. Diversity, I had it early.
1980: Southwest suburban Oak Lawn: me, my...
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My take:
A.M. > (Σ all other Wilco albums)
As soon as an artist reads a positive review of himself containing the word “soundscape” it’s all over. Same thing happened to Radiohead around Kid A, incidentally.
Another rule of thumb:
Beatles using white noise in “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”: genius, groundbreaking.
All other uses of white noise in pop...
aimee-b-loved:
[Last] Song of the Day:
The...
I got the first payment this week for the business I sold last year.
I managed to take the check to the bank without skipping, dancing, singing out loud, or kissing random passersby.
Both of these things are amazing.
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Quite an Odyssey
…As he spoke he handed her the cup. Minerva thought it very right and proper of him to have given it to herself first; she accordingly began praying heartily to Neptune. “O thou,” she cried, “that encirclest the earth, vouchsafe to grant the prayers of thy servants that call upon thee. More especially we pray thee send down thy grace on Nestor and on his sons; thereafter...
Important Tumblr Question
I am creating a text post with inline images. Is there a way to be sure that when it publishes, the images will be rendered for real on dashboards instead of as those stupid little “I’m a gray box, maybe you’ll click on me” things?
You know — is there a way to make this blog software make things that look like, um, blogs?
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I love these memes.
Where everybody is shouting out to someone I don’t know.
About a thing I didn’t see.
SO PUT THOSE GUMMI BEARS DOWN, PERSEPHONE.
(How’d I do?)
