December 2010
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Top Albums for 2010
Sufjan Stevens: Age of Adz I listened to ‘Futile Devices’ and was like woah. man. This guy’s voice washes like acacia honey. There’s diversity in the album’s timbre, and a refreshing candor to his words. Each a musical sonnet crafted from tasty little sound bites that are testament to this guy’s prolific musical genius. Every song flows and wafts up quietly to my ear suffusing coloured...
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Listenvia evahall Florence + The Machine - Last...
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No, I’m not talking about the actual theory, which...
Oscar Moralde at The Hypermodern on why he hates The Big Bang Theory: The comedic template of BBT is usually “The nerds try to do something that normal people do but things get wacky Because They Are Nerds.” It’s also often more specifically “The nerds try to interact with women but things get wacky Because They Are Nerds.” This is not an entirely awful premise for a show, and in fact is the...
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“La música, los estados de felicidad, la mitología, las caras trabajadas por el...”
– Jorge Luis Borges - Otras inquisiciones (1052) Other inquisitions (1952) Translated by Ruth L. C. Simms
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“Efficiency efficiency they say Get to know the date and tell the time of day...”
– John Cale—Paris 1919
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Wes Anderson: Fiction from his undergraduate years
While organizing the shelves in our little office the other day, I got distracted by a retro-looking magazine with “Analecta XV” printed on the spine. Analecta 15 was published in 1989 (the year I was born!). When I cracked it open to the table of contents, I realized I had stumbled on the stuff of college literary journal lore — the first name on the page was Wes Anderson. Mr. ...
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Sad as Hell by Alice Gregory
I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human, you must both “keep up” with the internet and pursue more serious, analog interests. I blog about real life; I talk about the internet. It’s so exhausting to exist on both registers, especially while holding down a job. It feels like tedious work to be merely conversationally competent. I make myself...
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Stature
In 1968, Australian psychologist Paul R. Wilson took a visiting Englishman around to five different groups of Sydney students. He introduced the man differently to each group, and when the visitor had left, Wilson asked the students to estimate his height. Results: “Mr. England, a student from Cambridge”: 5 feet 9.8 inches “Mr. England, demonstrator in psychology from Cambridge”: 5 feet 10.39...
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