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The Besnard Lakes’ anthemic new LP The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night, which was released yesterday, will be getting the deluxe reissue treatment later this week, according to their label Jagjaguar. The reissue, due out on March 18th, comes in a high-gloss digi-pack and will contain an extra insert page with youtube links [...]

Patsy and I decided to go on vacation at a small town in Washington state called Snoqualmie Falls. We chose to go here because we are nerds. Specifically, we are fans of the TV show Twin Peaks, and several of the exterior locations were shot here. More generally, we both espouse the theory that vacations [...]

After reading a Basho collection, I spent a week writing me some haiku.
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BRIDGE
a collection of haiku
1
Lunchtime
Car in strip mall lot
My reflection there
2
Morning mirror
Concerns in soft light before
Bathroom beard
3
Five highways
In dark morning, raining –
Car and myself
4
Freeway tunnel lights
Deposition papers piled
Passenger side
5
Dinner in styrophome
In my car –
Body moves home
6
Smoker in late evening
Under a light [...]

The secretaries in my office are notorious for being assiduously fussy about the temperature of the office. There are two reasons for this: (1) they are dumb; (2) they have very little to do all day. As such, minuscule variations in ambient temperature can cause massive upheavals that often persist throughout the day. [...]

Thus would I lie until morning, dreaming of the old days at Combray, of my melancholy and wakeful evenings there, of other days besides, the memory of which had been more recently restored to me by the taste of a cup of tea…. All these memories, superimposed upon one another, now formed a single [...]

The classic SNL skit, posted to Hulu for the first time– just in time for the holidays.

By the way, does anyone else think that Pottersville seems a lot cooler than Bedford Falls?
-Shark

It’s Thanksgiving weekend and I’m staying at my parents house in Arcadia. I like to go on walks when I’m home because the neighborhood is pretty and there’s nothing else to do. I went for a walk at about 9:45 this morning. The mid-day sun was just starting to replace the cool [...]

Now that it’s been two weeks, I guess I’ll write a post about what we did on Halloween this year…
The Crew made its way to Chicago for this year’s festivities, and it turned out to be even more of a party than (at least I) expected.
Ostensibly in town for Tello’s blow-out Chromeo/Crystal Castles/Boys [...]

There are two basic reasons why I playfully despise Burning Man despite having never attended:
1. People that go there a lot call themselves “Burners”.
2. I see Burning Man as a manufactured psychedelic experience. First off, I’m resistant to psychedelic experiences in general, which wikipedia defines in brief as follows:
Characterized by the perception of aspects [...]