January 2010
54 posts
“…you’re going to start getting closer and closer - that is, if you want to, and...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via sometimesagreatnotion)
Jan 28th
91 notes
Jan 28th
“You know what drives me crazy? It’s all these people talking about how...”
– Food for thought from Before Sunrise. I’ll never tire of that film.
Jan 23rd
7 notes
1 tag
Jan 21st
Jan 21st
3 tags
ListenGeorge Harrison - I Live For You I have no idea...
Jan 19th
4 notes
1 tag
Jan 18th
Jan 17th
ListenMazzy Star - Ride It On Is there anything in this...
Jan 17th
Jan 17th
28 notes
WatchWatch
Sally Seltmann – Harmony To My Heartbeat. Great song, beautiful video. /via Rawkblog
Jan 16th
2 notes
1 tag
Jan 14th
14 notes
1 tag
Jan 14th
3 notes
Jan 14th
225 notes
Jan 14th
1 note
Jan 13th
163 notes
Jan 12th
1 note
1 tag
Jan 12th
1 note
Jan 12th
Jan 12th
1,427 notes
Jan 11th
'Youth' by Joseph Conrad
“I have known its fascination since: I have seen the mysterious shores, the still water, the lands of brown nations, where a stealthy Nemesis lies in wait, pursues, overtakes so many of the conquering race, who are proud of their wisdom, of their knowledge, of their strength. But for me all the East is contained in that vision of my youth. It is all in that moment when I opened my young eyes...
Jan 11th
1 note
Jan 11th
Jan 11th
Jan 11th
Jan 11th
Jan 11th
Jan 10th
Jan 10th
1 note
Jan 10th
2 notes
1 tag
Jan 9th
8 notes
Jan 9th
1 note
Jan 8th
2 notes
“Do you want to do normal blogs – or do you want to do it in the dark and have...”
– … -  what a completely surreal tale of what must have been a very weird meeting. Tom DeLonge of Blink182 pitches his website to Vampire Weekend. (But actually - who doesn’t? You listening, Tumblr?? Give us lasers, now!) /via sarahspy
Jan 8th
ListenDaniel Johnston - The Sun Shines Down On Me I’m...
Jan 8th
What does the return of the single mean for music? →
rocketsandrayguns: tomewing: My first regular column for the Guardian. As an intro to the kind of stuff I worry about I think it’s pretty good but I need to get used to the 700 word limit! Good Pop writing by Tom Ewing, as always. I will be adding this column to my RSS feed and bookmarking it on the Guardian iPhone app. Same here. Congrats!
Jan 7th
Jan 7th
Britain's cold snap does not prove climate science... →
The ability to distinguish trends from complex random events is one of the traits that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. It is also the basis of all science; detecting patterns, distinguishing between signal and noise, and the means by which the laws of physics, chemistry and biology are determined. Now we are being asked to commit ourselves to the wilful stupidity of...
Jan 7th
NYTimes: The Naked and the Conflicted - Sex and...
The younger writers are so self- conscious, so steeped in a certain kind of liberal education, that their characters can’t condone even their own sexual impulses; they are, in short, too cool for sex. Even the mildest display of male aggression is a sign of being overly hopeful, overly earnest or politically un toward. For a character to feel himself, even fleetingly, a conquering hero is...
Jan 7th
3 tags
Jan 7th
Jan 7th
Jan 6th
2 tags
ListenBig Star - Blue Moon Let me be your one light...
Jan 6th
2 notes
2 tags
Jan 6th
Jan 6th
Jan 5th
Jan 5th
ListenBilly Bragg - A New England I saw two shooting...
Jan 5th
3 notes
Jan 5th
The Stylus Decade →
tomewing: The format I want to read this in is print. And not just any print, late 80s music weekly newsprint. A special edition 32-page end of decade supplement giveaway. One that’s sat in the bottom of a cardboard box since I bought it and gone yellow and I rediscover during a clearout years later and spend an hour reading and get pins and needles. I suspect that’s not an option though so...
Jan 5th