February 2012
8 posts
'stranded on a desert isle' list
Naturally, I’ll drop the albums I am sure you already own/know I would choose as necessary for such a situation.
That having been said, in no particular order (and particularly attending the ‘silky, soulful, smooth’ request), I give you my desert island must-haves:
Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain. Seriously, this album is amazing, right from the opening line:...
"Listening to Lately" List
Widowspeak Son Lux “At War With Walls and Mazes” and “Rising” Pantha du Prince “This Bliss” Why? “Alopecia” Tame Impala “InnerSpeaker” Unknown Mortal Orchestra Naked and Famous “Passive Me, Aggressive You” The Ettes “Wicked Will”
January 2012
4 posts
Polica - Wandering Star
I like this. Not usually into auto tune, but I like it enough. I also enjoy the polka dot blouse paired with the big watch. I want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4hYT-mYzI4
headed West.
“I think early on I was just in some sense seized by a certain kind of terror that struck me as being at the heart of things human and a profound sadness sorrow that struck me as being at the core of the human condition. And so in reading Kierkegaard from the Bookmobile, and here was someone who was seriously and substantively wrestling with a certain level of melancholia, I was struck...
“…it’s much more a question of acknowledging anytime you’re...”
– Cornel West, “On My Intellectual Vocation,” The Cornel West Reader.
December 2011
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October 2011
3 posts
“When the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 6.5.
September 2011
2 posts
“Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar
July 2011
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May 2011
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What Marty brought back from Turkey for me. Yes,... →
April 2011
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December 2010
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This is what I hate about Portland. →
November 2010
4 posts
“All of life is a foreign country.”
– Jack Kerouac (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
October 2010
5 posts
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