Everybody pants now. Pants, pants pants.
Are mp3 mix tapes out of date? Do we all just listen to Pandora all the time, like my brother who doesn't even own an mp3? Let's pretend that's not true, so I can post these badass tunes.
Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks - Thanks to interminable for turning me onto this awesome Icelandic band.
Of Monsters and Men - From Finner - we are far from home but we're so happy
The Very Best (feat. Ezra Koenig) - Warm Heart of Africa - I'll just be over here dancing my ass off.
Boy - Little Numbers - Because cheapmetaphor always knows what I need.
Lana Del Rey - Video Games - I have this whole thing in my head about how this song's intentionally about the naiveté of a first relationship, b-but I should probably stop overthinking it and just enjoy how gorgeous it is. Also the video gets me like Don Draper narrating about nostalgia, because I'm an easy mark.
Lana Del Rey - Kinda Outta Luck - So camp, so catchy. (The video.)
Oh Land - Rainbow
Tarkio - Keeping Me Awake - The Decemberist guy's old band.
How sad about Steve Jobs, eh? I know being sad over a dead celebrity (who was apparently kind of a jerk) is silly, but I remember the day we got our Apple IIGS with the clarity of a major life event: I was six and it had dust covers for each part, and that's really how everything began. (I … have the same kind of memory of the first time I saw an iPhone ad. ::coughNERD::) I feel like I did when Diana Wynne Jones died earlier this year; no more wonderful things from your brain? Really?
Other things: we signed the contract on a wedding site! Holy cow this is actually happening. We did a whirlwind visit of sites in Atlanta back in August, saw garden after expensive garden (and one antebellum house sadly mourning the fallen glory of the Confederacy: veto!), and as our very last stop found a super cool contemporary art museum that rents out their space. It's perfect: way more our speed, with lots of indoor and outdoor space so we can plan to be outside but have a backup in case of rain. I love it so much! And we finally managed to pick a date after navigating the unpleasant waters of extended family Bat Mitzvahs/Jewish holidays/Catholic holidays/my school schedule/my internship schedule. Everything's going down at the end of May. I am really excited, and really nervous.
School has been absolutely kicking my ass; the work load is unreal, far heavier than anywhere else I've gone. Luckily, I'm doing all right with the content in most of my classes. The exception is Trade, which is going to be the death of me. Having to spend, say, three full days on one problem set is not a good way to keep up on anything else. The water is up to my chin and midterms are coming. LUCKILY:
Magically and fantastically I have a four day weekend, which I know is going to fly by, but I am so unbelievably excited to have this time to catch up on homework-and-everything-else. The weather is amazing, finally, after a month of rain: warm and fall-crisp all at once. This morning I got some reading done in a sun-drenched coffee shop window, then -- I can't tell you how decadent this felt! -- went grocery shopping and did laundry and cleaned the kitchen. How very old I've become. Maybe I'll bake something. Before the two parties I've agreed to go to tonight, oh lord.
Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks - Thanks to interminable for turning me onto this awesome Icelandic band.
Of Monsters and Men - From Finner - we are far from home but we're so happy
The Very Best (feat. Ezra Koenig) - Warm Heart of Africa - I'll just be over here dancing my ass off.
Boy - Little Numbers - Because cheapmetaphor always knows what I need.
Lana Del Rey - Video Games - I have this whole thing in my head about how this song's intentionally about the naiveté of a first relationship, b-but I should probably stop overthinking it and just enjoy how gorgeous it is. Also the video gets me like Don Draper narrating about nostalgia, because I'm an easy mark.
Lana Del Rey - Kinda Outta Luck - So camp, so catchy. (The video.)
Oh Land - Rainbow
Tarkio - Keeping Me Awake - The Decemberist guy's old band.
How sad about Steve Jobs, eh? I know being sad over a dead celebrity (who was apparently kind of a jerk) is silly, but I remember the day we got our Apple IIGS with the clarity of a major life event: I was six and it had dust covers for each part, and that's really how everything began. (I … have the same kind of memory of the first time I saw an iPhone ad. ::coughNERD::) I feel like I did when Diana Wynne Jones died earlier this year; no more wonderful things from your brain? Really?
Other things: we signed the contract on a wedding site! Holy cow this is actually happening. We did a whirlwind visit of sites in Atlanta back in August, saw garden after expensive garden (and one antebellum house sadly mourning the fallen glory of the Confederacy: veto!), and as our very last stop found a super cool contemporary art museum that rents out their space. It's perfect: way more our speed, with lots of indoor and outdoor space so we can plan to be outside but have a backup in case of rain. I love it so much! And we finally managed to pick a date after navigating the unpleasant waters of extended family Bat Mitzvahs/Jewish holidays/Catholic holidays/my school schedule/my internship schedule. Everything's going down at the end of May. I am really excited, and really nervous.
School has been absolutely kicking my ass; the work load is unreal, far heavier than anywhere else I've gone. Luckily, I'm doing all right with the content in most of my classes. The exception is Trade, which is going to be the death of me. Having to spend, say, three full days on one problem set is not a good way to keep up on anything else. The water is up to my chin and midterms are coming. LUCKILY:
Magically and fantastically I have a four day weekend, which I know is going to fly by, but I am so unbelievably excited to have this time to catch up on homework-and-everything-else. The weather is amazing, finally, after a month of rain: warm and fall-crisp all at once. This morning I got some reading done in a sun-drenched coffee shop window, then -- I can't tell you how decadent this felt! -- went grocery shopping and did laundry and cleaned the kitchen. How very old I've become. Maybe I'll bake something. Before the two parties I've agreed to go to tonight, oh lord.