November 2009
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October 2009
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A Halloween Memory
knobthrough:
When I was a kid, my sister and I weren’t allowed to buy Halloween costumes. Certain small things could be purchased at the store, namely face paint, but everything else we had to make our selves. This might seem like something my parents did as an exercise in creativity or an effort to instill some kind self reliance, but in reality it was just a way to save money.
All the the...
The xx - Islands
I like to listen to The xx when...
“H.R.Giger is still working to this day because he’s got a lot of weird...”
– Dave Shumka
“I hate pee dreams that aren’t.”
– Discarded Tweet #3. I liked it, but didn’t want people to think I have actually pissed myself. I am sure I have at some point, but I don’t ever remember doing it. And even though I am nothing but a random handle and avatar followed by practically no one, I couldn’t let that avatar...
Watchsaucyjack:
Hundreds of years of unconscious musical training has led us to this. This pentatonic scale is so embedded in our musical expectations that with a little prompting, a “non-musical” audience will correctly and in unison sing an entire scale. They also seem so surprised that they could do it. If someone started saying the opening lines to the pledge of allegiance (Go USA!) and the...
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The Water Jet Cilice - Andrew Bird
