I loved him. But sometimes people who really love each other, well, they have an uncanny knack for making each other miserable. And now I’m happy. Course I’m happy. Yeah, I am. Sometimes I long for a little misery, though. It can be terribly romantic. My ex-husband made me deliriously miserable.
These days, there are a lot of moments I wonder whether I’m regressing, but it’s hard to tell when our social landscape is an ever new frontier. Maturity is easier to assess when decorum had definite lines. Even our ink is electronic now, so nothing’s really black and white anymore, is it? I guess there’s always a price to pay for freedom.
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grizzly bear+feist.
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i could die to this song. “two doves” by the dirty projectors.
—we need a contemporary neuropsychological poem
oh, how you awaken my evolutionary instinct to propagate my genes!
how my mirror neurons fire when you are hurt!
driving on yale street listening to warpaint when it dawned on me my feelings lack the traction for permanence.
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Pitchfork: The band was just the focus of a commercial for Google. Was that weird for you? MB: They just contacted us. Our manager said, “Hey, you guys have an offer for a Google ad.” And at first, we saw dollar signs. We were like, “Google?” I have a kid and stuff, and we’ll sell a song to a movie or a TV show or an ad if the money’s good enough. And the Google thing, we were interested because we thought it would just be a ton of money. Turns out it was hardly any money, but then we saw the ad that they were talking about, it’s basically just an ad for our band. So it seemed like a smart thing to do. I’ll be honest; I think we all debate that whole thing. Having your songs in movies or TV or commercials, does that hurt your band, or does that hurt the music? We debate that all the time. But the Google thing is an example where it’s like, well, it supports us, and it’s about us, so we were OK with it. And to be honest, we were excited about it. But yeah, we didn’t get rich off it.
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Local Natives. “Beards and harmonies were the themes of the night”. The last photo of Local Natives with The Union Line and The Love Language closing with “Sun Hands” is courtesy of Rose Kuo.
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The National
—There are two types of people out there: those who are intrinsically motivated to achieve and those who fear failure. Oh, you clever locusts of control.
i write .It cleanses &
keeps me sane.
(relatively)
