November 2008
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pica:
3. If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word “nerd.”
a game R. and I play:
s8d:
we look at book titles in the library and decide if they could cut it as a band name (or at least album title), and what type of music it’d suit. My favourites from yesterday:
- Twentieth Century Spiritual Letters (folksy, americana, alt-country ballads?)
- A Piece of Blue Sky (Soaring experimental symphonic instrumental breakdown)
- The Forever People (band must have 10+ members who aren’t afraid to play obscure instruments, and perferably have some sort of uniform)
- Footnotes & Headlines (electropop? or at least someone who loops a lot and builds many layers)
- The Rose-Garden Game (good ol college indie rock with a side of cello/violin)
- The New Enthusiasts (something uppity and twee pop like full of energy)
- Church & State (grungy fuzz rockyness?)
- You Are Promise (a band that does not speak English as their first language)
and of course, for the hardcore/metal fans (represent! they will melt your face)…
- Requiem For A Lost Piety
- Roads to Rome
- Penance & Absolution
- The Promise of Paradox
This makes me want to go to the library.
“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.” —
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.” —
Calvin & Hobbes (via captain-strangeperson) (via becausewhy) (via unicornology) (via amandasthoughts) (via amandoline)
Oh so true.
(via apsies)
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Sunset / Zombies sooooo freaking good.
“Some men watch porn, I watch men chopping pork.”
—Anthony Bourdain (via soupsoup)
“Serving egg nog without nutmeg is like serving turkey without a duck and a chicken inside it.”
—John Legend, in A Colbert Christmas (via thebusstop) (via apsies)
“Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (via thehotness) (via crazybeautiful) (via smile-darling)
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