i've made a muxtape like everyone else (in new york & san francisco).
really awesome songs for the spring storms: LEBENSRAUM

featuring!
thao nguyen & the get down stay down
los campesinos!
these new puritans
tokyo police club
stars
patrick wolf
foals
small sins
beirut
bon iver
wye oak
cloud cult

i've been drinking a bottle of naked juice for breakfast every morning for the last few weeks. i assumed, for some reason, that it was extraordinarly healthy. but today, out of sheer boredom, i decided to look at the nutrition facts on the bottle (green machine). and man was i in for a shock! one bottle is actually two servings. this means ( Read more... )

i am such a bad worker. i spend a huge chunk of my workday looking at blogs, facebook, and online window shopping. i could at least use this time to write letters. bah. there are too many amazing t-shirts on threadless to be zoomed in on ( Read more... )

a while back, i went with erin and kev to be an extra in cloudcult's music video for their new single, everybody here is a cloud. the video makes winter look so mystical and charming. check it out, i'm sort of in it a lot for an extra! i'm wearing a turquoise coat and a black hoodie and i have really doofy short hair ( Read more... )

in her autobiography, living my life: part I, she notes:

america had declared war with spain. the news was not unexpected. for several months preceding, press and pulpit were filled with the call to arms in defense of the victims of spanish atrocities in cuba. i was profoundly in sympathy with the cuban and philippine rebels who were striving ( Read more... )

i spent new year's day reading rilke's the notebooks of malte laurids brigge. here is an excerpt i had written down on a receipt and only just rediscovered, i'm still sighing over it:

the city is full of people who are slowly sliding down to their level. most of them resist at first; but then there are these faded, aging girls who constantly let ( Read more... )

yesterday my mom told me, in her typically smug way, about this funny/sad phenomena in the bay area. many desi people who come to the US think that buying land in this country will somehow make them a "part" of america. and so, one of the first things that many of them try to do is acquire property as early as possible. this was true even in my ( Read more... )

alright. i am finally bored enough to write in this thing. i don't know why, but i have been in an anti-journal slump ever since i returned from india. a few weeks ago i was walking out to my car when i was doubled over by a terrible longing for hyderabad. for a few short minutes, the suburban minnesota sky was cloaked by that same heavy blue ( Read more... )

the indian government's steady departure from its previous "moral high ground" foreign policy is really disturbing. it is clear that india's first diplomatic priority has become, above all else, to cultivate economic relationships. first it remained silent during the burmese agitations, and now it has actively collaborated with china to repress ( Read more... )

the pew forum on religion and public life recently released a study on the "u.s. religious landscape." the study aims to trace the various trends currently present in american attitudes toward religion and their intersections with various sociological demographics like race, class, gender, etc. it was a broad survey of 35,000 people, of whom ( Read more... )