2000 Miles – The Pretenders Sidekick – Lisa Mitchell Life in a Northern Town – Dream Academy Jackson – Hem I Gaer – Sigur Rós S utra shël sneg – Akvarium My Girls – Animal Collective Lonesome Swan – Glasvegas My Sister – Leatherbag Twice – Little Dragon The Orthodox Church around here doesn’t celebrateContinue reading “Monday music felt like Christmas time”
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My friends do cool things: link round-up
Michael Forster Rothbart, who’s really cool and whom I interviewed earlier this year, has a new site dedicated to his photography, After Chernobyl. It’s interactive. A couple of people I adore have just created an equally adorable — and convenient — app: Pushme.to. Even as a stubborn, pedantic, even illogically hysterical anti-iPhoner, I can recognizeContinue reading “My friends do cool things: link round-up”
Monday music: blacklist
When you still have hundreds of kilometers to go, and you’re propping up your eyelids with your free hand, snowflakes that come at the windshield through the dark begin to look like falling stars after a while. Here are the songs I can’t listen to right now, but do anyway: Don’t Look Back in AngerContinue reading “Monday music: blacklist”
Comfort food: WP Inman, Enya
I only really like Jude Law in “Cold Mountain,” where he’s mostly bleeding from bullet holes: Maybe I’m secretly a sadist. “Cold Mountain” wasn’t that terrific of a movie, so I’m not sure why it is that I always come back to it. Pathos? Rednecks? Your guess is as good as mine. My other comfortContinue reading “Comfort food: WP Inman, Enya”
Monday music: you’re the reason I’m traveling on
Skinny Love – Bon Iver Abel – the National The Time of Times – Badly Drawn Boy Grace Kelly – Mika Your Labios as Tulips – Pascal Comelade All I Need – Radiohead Dancing Barefoot – Patti Smith Under My Thumb – the Rolling Stones Hey Jupiter – Tori Amos Don’t Think Twice, It’s AllContinue reading “Monday music: you’re the reason I’m traveling on”