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Ink has me hooked on the Metric, especially the song below. Listening with headphones on really makes it cool.. sound is pressed to your ears. Listening to the Metric led me to write my own trite ditty: Lord lord we need questions instead of answers Lord lord we're
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Since I am on a music kick (and am building back my collection one song at a time) -- Imma give a shout out to The National. Love love love their work on "Alligator", especially a track called Geese of Beverly Road. And! They're coming to
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Thank god for the weekend. I'm going to get sloshed like crazy. Mom just called to ask me, "Do you know what today is?" And I said, "Uh... Friday?". And she says, "It's Good Friday."
Twentysomething
I like nerdy bands for some reason, and in the case of JLC – who doesn't love an outfit that has a cellist, a harpischordist and a mellow guitarist?
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One of the greatest tragedies in my life is when for some reason, my parents cleaned house when I left for college. Along with the cleansing went all my books from first grade onwards to the half-price bookstore. Comic books, tattered and dog-eared pages of favorites -- companions on rainy
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To keep alive, sky high, floating up spring awakening moving – to keep moving, like back back, on the bus, drowsy, lidded eyes, fuzzy haze red and pink, sunlight bouncing off the shades – riding buses through China, Laos, Jordan, Cappaddoccia; rice fields and deserts, jungles and ruins – they gallop past, half
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A couple of shows that will pry me away from my magazines and blank screen (I hate that screen, staring at me sullenly, daring me to type something trite -- I'll show it!) History Channel: This is one of my favorite stations -- who doesn't like
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Guster's music was familiar, like the friend who agreed with all my dreams, through anxiety and vindication.
Twentysomething
Bụi đời – n. dust of the earth aka Vietnamese - American, Ameriasian. The Beautfiul Country – A haunting, subtle and evocative telling of one person's arduous journey to discover his background and ultimately, himself. I liked it because: Vietnam's sceneries reminds me of the vitality and struggles
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I saw the movie Born into Brothels a long time ago, but this site that I came across today jogged my memories – it's really well done documentary that follows the pitch: what happens when you put cameras into the hands of kids who have been born into the
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Two of the best films of 2006 involve sleight of hands, illusions, and pure movie wizardry. Yep – both dark, but vastly different in tone and plot.. but both deal with magicians. Christopher Nolan strikes again with The Prestige, a magic trick disguised as a movie, and the twists, turns, loops,
Twentysomething
Kelly Curran, my subleter, is touring the country in a production of Jane Eyre for The Acting Company. Check it out if you're in the area and say hello! Tell em' Josh sent ya. I always liked Shakespeare.. you can always drop random quotes and pretend to