Busy day today, lots of time on airplanes, Ohio -> Baltimore -> Long Island. Still can’t believe I grew up here, the accents seem so foreign to me. Spent a lot of time in the mall, bought a dumb headphone adapter for my iPhone and almost bought a 5×5 rubick’s cube. Sat in the bookshop [...]
Keep Reading » 1So for Cobain, as for most rock stars and fans today, real rock’n’roll must be shackled to the kind of primitivism that accompanied Leadbelly’s career, an idealization of “savage” simplicity. If Cobain had broadcast the facts of his own painful life in the wordy, sophisticated tradition of Loudon Wainwright III rather than the barebones tradition [...]
Keep Reading » 0I saw a Brazilian (one l?) wearing this shirt the other day, which is both awesome and brilliant. I’m pretty much over my sickness now, but my day is still broken up in weird chunks thanks to a terrible mattress, sunset at 5:30 pm and no real structure to my life. There is this Mike [...]
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