October 2009
11 posts
Wine tips from David Rees:
- can you have guests over just for wine (i.e. no dinner)? Umm … only if you want everyone to love you and think you’re the greatest genius of all time! Next! - can you serve red and white wine together (in the same glass)? Yes, this can be done. It’s called “Sex on the Beach.”
“Every thousand years, this metal sphere ten times the size of Jupiter floats...”
– Built to Spill, “Randy Described Eternity”
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This was easily my favorite song from The Hold Steady’s Stay Positive. It’s a typical Hold Steady song in that it’s about a girl with a fucked up history played out against a backdrop of casual sex and drinking. But I had always heard it as being 100% earnest. Until I heard it in this stripped down, singer-songwriteresque arrangement, punctuated by the insufferable laughter—the...
John swims with delight
Not that your whole critique isn’t perfectly caustic, but as a former practitioner of yearbookery, this caricature in particular made me cringe with glee.
merlin:
“Flipping the Wang Chung cassette in his Fiero, Douglas plucks at the pastel tee clinging like a crazy girlfriend to the sherbet Don Johnson blazer blazing in the blazing Dade City sun.”
Science des rêves
Stephanie: I'm not sure I should accept this gift. Why do I deserve a present anyway?
Stephane: Because...for the occasion that you are pretty.
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people...”
– Philip Roth, American Pastoral
fireland:
David Cross / Fitter, Happier