December 2009
34 posts
A Brief Reflection on the Year Past
Since I have to leave for work in five minutes I want to make a statement on 2009.
It was a good year.
I spent the first half holed up in a little house on Brown Avenue watching movies, eating home cooked meals, and playing copious amounts of Rock Band.
The summer was interesting because I stayed in Athens and away from home. It’s strange to think that I have been practically permanently...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Paleo (18)
Iron & Wine (10)
Patience & Prudence (6)
Stuart Murdoch (6)
God Help The Girl (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the...”
– A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Indie Bands
Kimya Dawson Chicks who are described by their girlfriends as “sweet” and “really nice” when guys ask if their friend is hot.
I think this is accurate in my life.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Noah and the Whale (6)
Paleo (6)
Adam Franklin (5)
Grizzly Bear (5)
Belle and Sebastian (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Thank goodness for some time to myself these past...
Sometimes..
one of your professor’s sons (whom you have never met before) buys you a round of drinks.
Just sometimes.
Today living has been cold. There was no warm water for a shower this morning and our heat just went out.
Brrr
Stereotyping People By Their Favorite Author →
This website is too good and kind of accurate…
Margaret Atwood
Women whose favorite color is hunter green.
Sylvia Plath
Girls who keep journals (too easy).
Nick Hornby
Guys who wear skinny jeans and the girls that love them.
Vladimir Nabokov
Men who use words like ‘dubious’ and ‘tenacity’.
Alice Sebold
People who liked Gilmore Girls – even in the first season.
Is it any surprise...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
The Beatles (17)
The Shins (12)
Camera Obscura (10)
Iron & Wine (10)
1910 Fruitgum Company (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Me: you’re trouble
Boy-person: i’m the kind you need.
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Jill! this is straight out of a indie-young-adult-coming-to-age story. I love it! Love it love it!
Just be weary if he tells you to listen to The Shins because this song may change your life. If that happens, you may just be in Garden State.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Iron & Wine (4)
The 5th Dimension (3)
Nick Drake (2)
The Apples in Stereo (2)
The Cripple Lilies (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
This song sounds like some other song pt.2
Regina Spektor’s The Calculation and The Professor Brothers’ Prisoner Christmas
This song sounds like some other song pt.1
At the end of the year, all of us at ACRN try to wrangle up our top 10 albums of the year. For the past week I have been reviewing some 2009 releases. However, I keep finding that a lot of these songs remind me of other songs! So, I’m starting a series called “This song sounds like some other song.”
My first duo is Camera Obscura’s French Navy and S Club 7’s...
WatchI’m posting two of my favorite “marry me” songs. This one is from the Andrew Bird/St. Vincent show from October. The video was taken by ACRN’s own Jillian Mapes