Agggh, last day of 2007! Woo-hoo! Though I'm not excited for New Year's Eve tonight, I AM excited for the new year. I've got plans and resolutions and goals and unrealistic expectations and a clean medicine cabinet. Bring it on, 2008 ( Read more... )

All right, so now both Rachel and Jables' say I should definitely read Murakami ... which is something I keep, like, meaning to do, but then get distracted by shiny objects and plus there's too many books to pick from don't recommend a whole author recommend specific works people .... so I was just going to ask them, but then I thought I'd open ( Read more... )

You know you have the coolest (albeit criminal) friends when no less than three of them send you links to advance-release mp3 downloads of the new magnetic fields album (although Lynn's is the first link to work, so thanks Lynn!). I love having tech and music saavy friends; I barely have to try to be cool.

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The view from the Hotel On Rivington, Lower East Side, New York City


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Not only is Starbucks the evil overlords of price frou-frou coffee, they also HATE AMERICA, or something like that. ( Read more... )

Oh my god, I thought this song by the Plain White T's that I've been obsessed with since hearing it on Pandora 2 weeks ago was old, old, old ... it sounds vaguely 90s, but maybe I just think that b/c half of what comes up on Pandora is ... anyways, it's new, and it's on Time's best-songs-of-2007 list. Huh.

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It's apparently the week of publications putting out best books of 2007 lists. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (which I put on my amazon wish list earlier this week, before I read all this) is on all three of those lists linked above (Salon, Time, LA Times), And Then We Came To An End (which I read this summer) is on two out of three and No ( Read more... )

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