liminal screeds

another adage

Ξ January 27th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ screeds |

“…that is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.”
– Margaret Atwood

No things are more costly than mistakes about what you need.

love poets

Ξ January 17th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ gratitude, lists, screeds |

andre dubus
e.e. cummings
mark sandman
raymond carver in a way
richard brautigan, in a sad way
morrisey
rilke
gabriel garcia marquez

spelled in bones

Ξ January 9th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ screeds |

“Its not written in the stars, it’s spelled in bones.”

-Fruit Bats

songs

Ξ January 8th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ screeds |

“There are special songs, and there are special memories, but if you’re one of those nostalgia-bitten people for whom neither seem quite vivid enough on their own, nothing matches what happens when the two dovetail. The beauty of these moments is they refuse to be architected– we can’t force them any more than we can explain them.”

- Mark Pytlik
Pitchfork Media

1 adage

Ξ January 7th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ screeds |

People can’t be expected to handle sorrow otherwise than poorly, sometimes.

2 more mini album reviews

Ξ January 6th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ mini album reviews, screeds |

DJ Shadow – The Outsider

Sometimes it is dazzling. Sometimes it is just cool.

Phoenix – It’s never Been Like That

Better than Broken Social Scene

Ξ January 6th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ screeds |

“Only a sadistic God would create millions of humans as gay with no choice in the matter and no hope of changing and then deny them the right to express their gayness in a loving relationship for the rest of their lives under threat of eternal damnation.”
                                        
– John J McNeil

what marcus told me

Ξ January 3rd, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ screeds |

“….that’s what you need, you need three songs that make you wanna dance in the morning, and then play them every morning….you’ll be fine….”

best albums of 2006 – no particular order

Ξ January 1st, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ screeds |

Beck – The Information
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor
Califone – Roots & Crowns
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
DJ Shadow – The Outsider
The Black Keys – Magic Potion
Eagles of Death Metal – Death By Sexy
Built to Spill – You in Reverse
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain