December 2010
“Return of the Mack” by Mark Morrison...
“Jungle Drum” by Emiliana Torrini (Jai...
Playing Favorites: 2010 Albums of the Year
Robyn is a multifaceted 21st-century sprite sent here to guide young adults through their emotions with a sick, slick beat. She has been my most consistently satisfying therapist, diagnosing my ills of the heart and the head with a metaphorical slap in the face. It’s okay to seethe with envy, to mourn that lost love, to live recklessly and stupidly. Every Robyn song is a reminder that...
Playing Favorites: 2010 Albums of the Year
Robyn is a multifaceted 21st-century sprite sent here to guide young adults through their emotions with a sick, slick beat. She has been my most consistently satisfying therapist, diagnosing my ills of the heart and the head with a metaphorical slap in the face. It’s okay to seethe with envy, to mourn that lost love, to live recklessly and stupidly. Every Robyn song is a reminder that...
Grown Up Talk
My senior year of college, I wrote an essay about how strange it seemed to me that my sister lived for the weekends, practically fetishized Saturday nights. How sad for her, I thought. That will never be me, I thought. Things will be better, more perfect for me, I thought. Last night I thought about deleting it, ashamed of my thought process back then, only two years ago, but I didn’t....
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“Blue Truth” by Jamie Woon
Thinking...
“Things Fall Apart” by Cristina
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Anonymous asked: What do you think about Björk's "Enjoy"?
Beautiful blog, mon ami ;)
Beautiful blog, mon ami ;)
“The Wilhelm Scream” by James Blake
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Anonymous asked: What do you think about Björk's "Enjoy"?
Beautiful blog, mon ami ;)
Beautiful blog, mon ami ;)
“Give Me My Month” by James Blake
In...
A Close Call
The moment you realize that even if you’re not exactly attracted to a man, that you would never even stand a chance in the first place. You don’t like him, but if you did, your heart would hurt so much because you know that he would not like the texture of your hair, or the way you wear that dress, or your smile. Maybe something would be off with your personality, but because...
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Watch90210 Christmas
The way Dylan says Christmas…
“The brutality of in-person social interaction is an artificial and hugely useful...”
– “In Defense of the Scene” by Helena Fitzgerald for The New Inquiry
“Night Air” by Jamie Woon
I swoon for...
“Not in Love” by Crystal Castles...
“The High Life” by Matt Longo
A...
Playing Favorites: 2010 Songs of the Year
(so foine)
This is the first year in which I couldn’t come up with my ten favorite songs of the year. There was so much new good music that my top ten turned into a top fifteen. Robyn, Twin Shadow, and (surprisingly) Arcade Fire make two appearances each. Anyway, these are my favorite songs of the year. Not necessarily the best, but certainly the ones I just couldn’t get enough of...
Playing Favorites: 2010 Songs of the Year
(so foine)
This is the first year in which I couldn’t come up with my ten favorite songs of the year. There was so much new good music that my top ten turned into a top fourteen. Robyn, Twin Shadow, and (surprisingly) Arcade Fire make two appearances each. Anyway, these are my favorite songs of the year. Not necessarily the best, but certainly the ones I just couldn’t get enough of...
Black Swan is the best Lifetime movie I've ever...
Watch“Miley Cyrus Salvia Cackle (Witch House Remix)” by Wildarms7000
So glad that Tumblr is back so I can share absurd things like this.
“Venus has been, at the very least, a great training ground and stepping stone...”
– John Dugan, Time Out Chicago
My editorial training began at Venus Zine. I was one of the last interns to work under Founder Amy Schroeder, which I consider a blessing. Although I worked on the newspaper staff in high school (in Arts and Entertainment, of course), my experience in factchecking and...
I celebrated the three-year anniversary of this...
My first post was written on December 7, 2007 as a junior in college. At the time, I also had a livejournal (which I promptly got rid of) and a squarespace blog, which I still keep to divulge my most embarrassing and heartbreaking of stories. At the time, I worked in the student housing office at my university and no sooner than a month later would I be fired from that job because of my bad...
“Paradise Circus” by Massive Attack
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Right Before: Kanye West
Sophomore year, Christiana and I ate in the cafe in the library. It was just us mostly, and for many months during the year, it was just me. She was infinitely more intelligent than I was or would ever be. She had the sort of intelligence that I could only quietly accept as something that would never be a part of my life. That year I didn’t eat a lot, and one day, as I continued to not eat,...
Anonymous asked: Comment. Yes, "Nowhere Girl", my teenage years deep in the south of France...
So crucial, still.
So crucial, still.
