May 2012
7 posts
I Will Show You Arcade Fire in a Handful of Dust →
Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet for ambitious songwriters. They rummage through his masterpiece’s treasure chest of arresting phrases: the “violet hour” and “bodies naked on the low damp ground” quoted in the Sisters of Mercy’s Floorshow,...
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Watchelizabethacason:
A video* from my five days in San Francisco. You won’t know what’s going on half the time. You’ll just have to trust me that in one part, we are dancing in a room filled floor to ceiling with balloons. Also, this is missing about 95% of the happenings, including having my coffee stolen by a woman in a yak-inspired sweater. I’m not the one crying at the end; I’d already done that...
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Things I Have Frantically Googled Recently...
Binking Bunny Videos
My roommate’s bunny does this crazy Gene Kelly heel-clicking leap. We thought he was having a stroke. It turns out it is just a common expression of an ecstatic rabbit called “binking.”
What is the Difference Between Clouds and Fog?
The subject of a heated debate in Dolores Park that ended in a man giving Abby the double-bird and yelling “Come back...
