I’ve been reading through David Foster Wallace’s (wiki, fan site) book of collected essays Consider the Lobster (wiki) and am currently in the middle of the essay “Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think” re John Updike’s “Toward the End of Time”. I haven’t read any Updike [...]
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Certainly the end of something or other
September 1st, 2009 · No Comments
No one belongs here more than you.
August 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I was browsing through somebody else’s bookshelf when I noticed one authored by Miranda July, titled No one belongs here more than you. (book site, amazon). I asked if it was the same Miranda July (wiki) who made that one movie I liked a lot, and then struggled to remember the name.
She [...]
bizarre love triangle
February 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Occasionally when I hear a song I haven’t heard before, I’ll make a mental note of some of the lyrics so I can go look it up later. When I do this, sometimes I’ll find the lyrics on some blog or other kind of site with comments and even though I know that internet [...]
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context? what context?
April 21st, 2007 · No Comments
I thought this was pretty funny in, but it might be funnier out.
as far as the amount of spread, my personal opinion is that asshole ibankers and/or brits spread it too much, but that middle america spreads it too little
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Bus Stop Boxer – Eels
April 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
The opening lines of a song I listened to on the train today:
I don’t miss where I came from
But each night I dream about being back home
When I wake up in the morning
I’m too tired, tired of being alone