Archive for July, 2009
Of all the bands and musicians I currently list among my favorites, I have had the longest standing relationship with Pete Yorn. And I think, until last night, that was something I sort of took for granted. His are the songs I never skip on shuffle, but they’re also the songs I pay the least [...]
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Tags: Cannery Ballroom, gigs, Nashville, Pete Yorn
This was the first year of many in recent memory that I hadn’t purchased a ticket to the midnight showing on release night of a Harry Potter film several days in advance. It honestly wasn’t even on my radar until yesterday morning, when I went searching for tickets and found that seemingly all the showings [...]
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Tags: acting, David Yates, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, movies, The Half-Blood Prince
a runaway american dream
First of all, I just want to point out the badassery that is my bff.
Now I would like to move on to something that is equally badass, but for a much different reason.
For once, I have actually arrived at the suggested reading quota for Infinite Summer on time. I made it to page 210 yesterday [...]
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Tags: David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Infinite Summer, literary crushes, literature
So I’ve had Pete Yorn’s new album, Back and Fourth for a couple weeks now, and only recently have I had the chance to sit down and really listen to it. I’ve been a fan of his for ages, even after I saw him wobble on stage, drunk out of his mind, at Bogarts when [...]
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Tags: Back & Fourth, David Foster Wallace, Hamlet, Infinite Jest, Infinite Summer, literature, Marah, Pete Yorn, Shakespeare
