February 2012
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“the boys from the other side of AU’s drug culture.”
– had a long and very good conversation about drug culture, and our respective drug histories today. there is a very clear but not always obvious delineation between those who do drugs recreationally versus those who do drugs to self-medicate and cope with (or avoid coping with) life. I always had...
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25 songs of the 2000s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade, not in any particular order. this as part of my “intricate lists chris makes on kratom” series. 90s, 80s, 70s, and 60s were in previous posts.
Come Saturday - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse - Of Montreal
Jenny - The Mountain Goats
The Con - Tegan & Sara
Shiller - Ratatat
You Know I’m...
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25 songs of the 1990s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade. see the rest of the series, 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine (1991)
Triumph - Wu-Tang Clan (1997)
The State I Am In - Belle and Sebastian (1996)
Naomi - Neutral Milk Hotel (1995)
Everyday Struggle - Notorious B.I.G. (1994)
Zombie - The Cranberries (1994)
Summer Romance (Antigravity Love Song) - Incubus (1997)
Under the...
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whiiiiitnee:
A cover of The XX - VCR
Because...
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25 songs of the 1980s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade. see parts 1 and 2.
The Waiting - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1981)
My Philosophy - Boogie Down Productions (1988)
Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma (1981)
Paid In Full - Eric B & Rakim (1987)
Like a Prayer - Madonna (1989)
No Sleep Til Brooklyn - The Beastie Boys (1986)
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (1985)
About a Girl - Nirvana...
more things I have to read about at my job
an affluent yuppie couple battling over children, with the ex-wife saying his 1-bedroom apartment in friendship heights is cause for her to have full custody. on the other side of the city, a man claiming the children should spent more time with him, since his ex-wife’s neighborhood is extremely unsafe for children to walk around and play outside in, due to serious drug problems
a...
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25 songs of the 1970s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade. no particular order. see previous post on the 60s.
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones (1971)
Let’s Stay Together - Al Green (1971)
Killer Queen - Queen (1974)
Meeting Across the River - Bruce Springsteen (1975)
Friend of the Devil - The Grateful Dead (1970)
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix (1970)
L.A. Woman - The Doors (1970)
Sunday...
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25 songs of the 1960s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade, not in any ranked order. this is the first in my current series of “random and very prone-to-change lists of chris’ favorite _____s that he makes when he is on kratom”
And Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals (1963)
Penny Lane - The Beatles (1967)
Long Black Veil - The Band (1969)
Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground (1969)
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“Kierkegaard may shout in warning: ‘If there were no eternal consciousness in a...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via absurdreasoning)
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“And I’ll bet he needs a shower cause hes just like me,
and the soldiers...”
– this song is always close to my heart
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On struggling with mortality.
dearcoketalk:
Dear Coquette,
I struggle to accept my own morality and have become obsessed with the work of Aubrey de Grey. I am even counting on his research succeeding within my lifetime, and I think this expectation is unhealthy. I know you just recently covered mortality, and while I’m not having panic attacks, I’m still terrified. I’m in complete denial of death, and I’m having trouble...
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1 year ago / 2 years ago
(my freshman year journal is home on my laptop, I’d include 3 years ago if that were possible right now)
17 february 2010
today was ash wednesday, and me and cash were deep in the midst of our one true fight that we ever had. on the first day of february of that year I had become engaged in a sudden and intimate romance with a girl I was very fond of. she has gone off in her own way to...
some tracks I've been fukkin with lately
zombie - the cranberries
heimdalsgate like a promethean curse - of montreal
promises - nero
coastal brake - tycho
tikwid - animal collective
hard to handle - otis redding
polish girl - neon indian
whenever I begin to think I’ve already heard and explored and discovered all the music I will ever love, I realize just how incredibly wrong I am within approximately two (2) hours
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things I have to read about at my job
a shit ton of child abuse, child neglect, custody battles, domestic violence, and bitter and rancorous divorce proceedings.
a father from southeast claiming his ex-wife is abusing the child - the girl has asthma but the mom spokes around her, and the girl comes home with burns from “soup” and chipped teeth and bruises from “falling down.” the father lost a kidney after...
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Fascinating suggestions from Yelp's "What Should I...
borninflames:
“Not much in NY for me like the way the NewYorkers brag all the time. There’s a nice church there I can’t remember it’s nice.”
“Museum of Natural History or Metropolitan Museum of Art are cool if you’re into that sort of thing.”
“Someone said Williamsburg is starting to pop as a trendy place.”
“It’s gray due to its “concrete jungle” towers as famously sang by Alicia Keys. In...
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“Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon,...”
– In August 1865, Col. P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tenn., wrote to his former slave Jourdon Anderson, now emancipated in Ohio, and asked him to return to work on his farm. Anderson dictated this letter in response.
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vegangirls:
If you’re a “nice guy” to a girl up until you realize she doesn’t want to date you, then go on about how she’s a cold shrew that friendzoned you and how no girls date nice guys, like, nah mate, girls do date nice guys. You just aren’t a nice guy. You’re a passive aggressive beta with internalized misogyny and a serious victim complex.
some of my least favorite people are...