October 2011
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“I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds...”
– Colin Nissan at McSweeney’s
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“Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation...”
– Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life
Stream Wild Flag live at the Black Cat, DC →
Wild Flag managed to arc barely over the high bar of expectations at the Black Cat last night. The band plays loosely, alternating songs that feature Mary Timony’s beat-poetry cadences (Oh Yeah) with those that focus on Carrie Brownstein’s aggression and guitar god stage presence (Racehorse). It’s inevitable to compare Wild Flag to their old bands, but they’re quickly...
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“Homer: Oh, there’s that movie script I wrote! Where did you find it?...”
– The Simpsons, When You Dish upon a Star
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“You know the world has passed you by when your newspaper carries a page one...”
– Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes, the week Cobain died. This is a pretty well-known segment; it got a lot of attention when it aired, although it doesn’t seem to be available online. You could argue that if replay-on-demand had been available at the time, the clip might have threatened his career...
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“There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something...”
– Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
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WatchVideo the WSJ did on a guy at the boxing gym I go to in DC. Focuses more on this one guy rather than the gym, but still cool to see the place professionally shot. It’s a wonderfully dirty hole of a gym.
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“They are pronounced overhauls.
Try — I cannot write of it here —...”
– James Agee/Walker Evans on overalls in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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