January 2012
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What Your Favorite Video Game (Series) Says About... →
“Monkey Island: You joke about your useless liberal arts degree, but you’re proud of it.”
Spot on!
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LeeSun - Prime →
Ahh, now I remember what my blog was primarily for! Linking to stuff I’ve written elsewhere! Here we go. Nice album, this. Worth checking out if you’re in need of something calm and fluffy to ease you back into the working week.
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December 2011
24 posts
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IT’S ALL ABOUT AWARENESS.
TO LOOK AT OUR MOTIVES AT LIFE AND FIND OUR...
– Film Crit Hulk asks: just what is it about Batman that we like so much? And hits a pop culture home run yet again.
(If you can’t see past the all-caps, try using this)
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Limited edition Justin Bieber vinyl →
The thing that’s most recently made me blow a gasket and resort to the online equivalent of actual violence (which is to say, borderline passive-aggressive facebook updates) is an apparently harmless list of “12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music” on Buzzfeed. What the hell am I doing on Buzzfeed? Well, like every news source I now largely access it through the medium of...
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In the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that...
– Philip K Dick (via neil-gaiman)
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November 2011
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Neotropics - Make Sure EP →
It’s the records that are neither good nor bad that are the hardest to write about. If this one comes off as more of a stream-of-consciousness rant than a review, that how I ended up writing it: in a panic after putting it off for three weeks. I bashed out 400 words, when all I really wanted to write was “meh”.
Having said that, I’m quite fond of the phrase ‘neon...
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Trails - Trails EP →
I’ll admit that I perhaps wasn’t the best person to review this release. It came out a little more sarcastic than I anticipated, but I think I managed to keep it on point (mostly).
And besides, it was fun to write once I got going.
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In which everything comes up Milhouse
Allow me to warn you in advance: the following post is a round-up of all the stuff that has happened to me in the past couple of months. A lot of it (hell, pretty much all of it) is positive and exciting to me and potentially boring to someone who might not know me on a personal level.
I mean, I guess I’ll try to pepper it with jokes and whatnot, but I’m making any promises that...