GROUND UP AND IN THE FREEZER: Archive

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Dec 31st

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Dec 30th

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“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to...”

– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Dec 30th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Watch

this is what I imagine the entire USA to be right now

Dec 29th

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“there is a sign in the hall that reads ‘Quiet’— it waits for...”

– Bob Dylan (Tarantula, which I just found on the bookshelf to my left, in an old converted farmhouse in the middle of nowhere Switzerland, while it snows)

Dec 28th

Places Not To Be (At Least Not Right Now)

Online Memory Lane (Actually, I revise previous sentiment. Places to never be, ever again, never to return to, and never to look back on. “It is all one to me where I start I arrive there again soon enough.” —The Internet, 2010)

Dec 26th

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“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve...”

– Robert Frost (IT IS SO COLD OUTSIDE)

Dec 26th

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Dec 25th

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Dec 25th

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“so ingenious are the arrangements of the state of flux we call our moral history...”

– —Anne Carson (for a while I hoped the state of flux wasn’t permanent, BUT IT IS BUT IT IS)

Dec 24th

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Dec 22nd

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Things I Hate

1) Clueless Christmas shopping. (“But Grandma, you’ve always LOVED lavender!”) 2) “her eyes are like champagne” (how can you ever compare??) 3) Peas, cauliflower, Nickelback, the far end of long bars, and long-distance phonecalls. 4) Best-of best-of best-of lists. How long do you have to boil anything down until it finally just equals ZERO?

Dec 22nd

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NYT montage of musicians who died in 2010—new mashup idea for Girl Talk?

Dec 22nd

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“Por qué es tan dura la dulzura Del corazón de la cereza? Es porque tiene que...”

– Pablo Neruda

Dec 22nd

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“One day you’ll move heaven and earth to have me here, but I’ll have...”

– —Alan Jenkins I think that’s just Murphy’s law.

Dec 21st

Yeah yeah. Christmas in Paris. And this morning... →

Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

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Sufjan Stevens + The National — Silent...

Dec 20th

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“To go from hardcore to rap is like chugging orange juice after you brush your...”

– “How To Make The Perfect Mixtape” (plus the best songs of 2010—about a third of those songs are on my list as well, just another reason to love Platform)

Dec 19th

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Dec 18th

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“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more...”

– —Sylvia Plath On an only tangentially related note to the above (true) statement, I wish somebody would use Little Red Caboose in a mash-up.

Dec 18th

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Dec 17th

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Dec 17th

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This Guy (I Like This Guy)

A university English professor came up with ”a list of paper topics I would be quite happy never to read again” today (ALL Y’ALL STUDENTS TAKE NOTES, and I highlighted my favorite parts): 1) The Great Gatsby and a) the American Dream; b) color imagery; or c) homosexuality. 2) Macbeth and witchcraft 3) Was Shakespeare Really the Author of His Plays (really, who cares?) 4)...

Dec 16th

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Dead Man’s Bones — My Body’s A...

Dec 16th

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I Made You A Mixtape 38

Oh GODDDDDD. Oh god. Anyway. 1. Arcade Fire — Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) 2. Gorillaz — Crystalized (The XX cover) 3. Peder — Daylight 4. PS I Love You — Starlight 5. The Pixies — Where Is My Mind (Bassnectar Remix) 6. Eternal Summers — Bully in Disguise 7. The Morning Benders — Mother and Child Reunion (Paul Simon) 8. Ariel Pink’s...

Dec 15th

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