December 2010
37 posts
“Because this is what you do when you’re a liar: you tell a lie, and then another one, and after a while you hope that the lies end up being less painful than the truth, or at least that is the lie you tell yourself.”
looking back
this past year i made a lot of mistakes and looking back it was good, because ultimately things could have turned out way worse than they did. as 2010 comes to a close i hope that these mistakes will help to make me avoid making the same mistakes in 2011.
the first three or four months of this year were very difficult for me but looking back, they were necessary because they made me realize what...
resolutions
the new year is upon us and this years resolution is to
1. be a better communicator
2. be less wasteful
3. take criticism better
top 10
my favorite records of the past year (in no particular order of course!)
the roots - how i got over
gorillaz - plastic beach
teebs - ardour
the arcade fire - the suburbs
caribou - swim
gonjasufi - a sufi & a killer
flying lotus - cosmogramma
the black keys - brothers
the xx - xx (it came out in 2009, closer to one year than two)
james pants - seven seals
strange
four years have passed and everyone has aged
why do i feel so strange
often i feel like nobody gets me
here or there
misunderstood my whole life
maybe its not that im strange
but instead a stranger
mending wall by robert frost
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I...
