March 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
She & Him (33)
The Rentals (24)
Grizzly Bear (13)
Elliott Smith (7)
Christina Aguilera (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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My book review was published today!
Get yo ass over to an educational institution with access to Journal of Gender Studies to read the book review I wrote back in July.
It’s only a book review. But it’s an exciting start!
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Times it's acceptable to see the use of Comic...
On a slurry tanker reading:
“We’re the number one company in the number two business”
Because my sister had a baby this week and I...
I just bought myself and baby (almost) matching mustard yellow dresses from eBay.
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The Rentals - I’m Waiting.
Just waiting on...
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Second rant of the (early) morning
“Emerging trend alert: Almost all of the great bands I’ve seen at this year’s SXSW are, in one way or another, punk rock bands with at least one female member”
- That’s cool and all, Tom Breihan from Pitchfork, but I’d rather being in a band and presenting as female wasn’t considered a ‘trend’.
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Save up two weeks of Law and Order: SVU because...
CRUEL WORLD. CRUEL, CRUEL WORLD.
shelbyconqueso:
“He knew that I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”
-Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
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My lumbar support can seriously not get here quick...
My back is slowly turning into one massive knot.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-13) →
The Elected (25)
Arcade Fire (16)
Sufjan Stevens (12)
Adele (8)
Elliott Smith (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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SPELLCHECK HATES MY PHD.
Student: “[referring to the reading] hang on, is that even a word?”
Me: “Probably not, but to be honest, it doesn’t really matter, Sociologists make up words all over the shop [pause]… it’s pretty much the only way we feel we have any power”
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I just realised that Jerry O'Connell played Vern...
MIND=BLOWN.
Sincerely.
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Song that are relevant to my life:
The Beatles -...
Fucking shit sucks.
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Songs that are relevant to my life:
The Motors -...
My problems vs. The World's problems.
I am Mopy McMoperson because my boyfriend has gone off to be a sound engineer for the next week or so in North America and I miss him already.
Meanwhile the Pacific is dealing with:
Happy International Women's Day Motherlovers!
It’s the centenary and everything.
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“Sometimes when you’re not feeling good, you have to listen to really sad...”
– - Conor Oberst about Elliott Smith in a 2003 All Things Considered interview.
He went on to say that he liked to “listen to Elliott Smith’s songs when he [couldn’t] find anyone to talk to on the phone” and thought that it was sad that, “through his music, [Smith]...
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The Royal Festival Hall/Southbank Centre can go...
Edit: HAR HAR HAR. You’re not getting my money. I decided to give it to Manchester, who happens to not be a dick.
Going to see Sufjan. WOO!
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So the Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' video has been... →
I think for me I’m torn between lots of things that all centre around whether or not I think this whole thing for Gaga is ‘visibility signals a change in ideology’ or if it’s a case of perpetuating the ‘otherness’ of particular communities. I’m going with the latter. Born this way implies that there is something fundamentally different with people from...
