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I will see her again while drinking a melancholic martini

Sometimes I make mixes that are only for friends and acquaintances.
This was one of them.
Alas, what the hell, here it is.

August 29, 2008 in MP3, playlist | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

32 flavors and then some

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I wanted to pick my 32 favorite posts but I couldn't do it. Here's 32 and then some....

: sneaking into oblivion and other arbitrary choices I have not made           : scenes from a rooftop party       : The best Friday Night Lights DVD Endorsement ever              : By Jane Hirshfield       : Love is Hell       : Joyce       : Women...       : Curiosities: signed books       : [ Willie Nelson - Lonely Nights ]       : mark z. danielewski       : July was hot       : Robin Quivers asks "What's a blog?"       : Next to the Wound..       : Dear Dominique       : The Face...       : [ Books Written for Girls ]       : K. A.       : Sober Hemingway       : [ I came so far for beauty ]       : Year One       : a starlet then and now       : words they said       : [ A Face In The Crowd ]       : [ Woke Up In A Strange Place ]       : [ I've Loved You All Over The World ]       : //paper moon       : Her name sprang to my lips       : Silliman + Poetry       : Gotcha ! ! !       : Rooms       : Lolita 1990       : [ It's A Long Life To Always Be Longing ]       : You Take Away the Sun       : [ Some Kinda Love ]       : sex for depressives       : Your Cloud       : ..Mug A Yuppie       : LIT Limited Book + CD       : Write Again       : [ Starting Over ]       : [ Neglekted ]       : Pacific Purr vs the Atlantic Ache       : [ Underwear ]       : 2005 + Songs       : [ So Tight_going to town ]       : This hole in my heart...       : [ Ode To A Friend ]       : She sat down at the piano...       : I wish women would hurry up and take over       : [ Marrow ]       : [ I Keep A Close Watch ]       : ..in three moves flat..       : [ Every Time I Try ]       : Era Lo, sencillamente Lo...       : last 30 days of the 20's       : Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out       : Romantic Desires As Inconveniences       : [ Why Don't You Try ]       : [ ('Til) I Kissed You ]       : [ Thinking About You ]       : Last Year's Man       : downtowntrain       : Commenting       : //mystery        : hope                            : Love generally...       : .a catalog of increasing disasters.       : .Terminal Loneliness and other stories.       : "Love at First Sight" by Wislawa Szymborska       : Ennis       : The Only Poem       : [ Nabokov ] reads from "Lolita"       : My Portable Gaming History       : ODE TO A MODEL       : POETRY...       : match the blog with its muse       : Once I Knew a Hot Girl       : "Some Men fight...       : [ Stateless - U2 ]       : Bootleg       : Wojnarowicz       : Federico García Lorca      : Neruda

+ ani difranco: 32 flavors live
[ Previously....."one flavor short of 32" ]

August 28, 2008 in Life, Miscellany | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Any Frank Miller game will do

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+ Screw Comic Book Movies, Where Are Our Comic Book Games?

Hello Fables game! ( for the Whimsical Wii of course). Who wouldn't want a game box with art by James Jean? P.S. He's not going to do the covers for Fables anymore :(

+ Coming soon-ish: Ghost World: Special Edition ( YES!!), Check out the video preview
+ Meet The Superman You Almost Knew

August 27, 2008 in Art, Comics, Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

2AM is my new Midnight

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U2| Lemon

Midnight is where the day begins

Lightspeed Champion | Midnight Surprise

Warm nights and the chill
Creeping down my bones
Reminds me I'm alone

Willie Nelson | These Lonely Nights

I just lie awake and weep

The Cure | At Night

I sink in the night

Hawksley Workman | Kissing Girls (You Shouldn't Kiss)

The city sleeps but what time will lovers keep

Tom  Waits | Midnight Lullaby

Stare out at the moon upon the windowsill, and dream...

Elvis Costello | Upon a Veil of Midnight Blue

There hung a crescent moon
To light the view

Cyndi Lauper | I Drove All Night

When the night is cold and dark
No one can move me
The way that you do

Melody Gardot | Goodnite

Close your eyes and just sleep tight

Grant Lee Phillips | Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me

Last night I felt
Real arms around me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm

Amanda Palmer | Have To Drive

I suffer mornings most of all

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kill the butterfly

August 25, 2008 in MP3, playlist, Videos | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure

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Sharon Robinson: Alexandra Leaving

August 24, 2008 in MP3, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Through the mirror of my mind

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Scott Kiernan | Memory Holes

The Supremes: Reflections

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
Juan Ramón Jiménez

August 20, 2008 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

I remember every instance, when you stung me

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twaddle by ~foom

+ Okkervil River - 'Calling And Not Calling My Ex'

August 19, 2008 in Letters, MP3 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Watching Alice

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`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe...

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds | Watching Alice /live/
David Bowie | Little Wonder /live/
+ Tom Waits: Alice

August 18, 2008 in Eisley, MP3 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

remembering that night. September's coming soon.

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marta kochanek | last night

"The ones that work days in cities and the ones that work nights in cities, they live in different cities. The cities have the same name but they are different cities. As different as night and day. There's something wild in the country that only the night people know...."
Tennessee Williams

+ REM - NIGHTSWIMMING (Live/Italy/2008)

August 18, 2008 in Quotes, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

I’ve been dreaming of you, that’s all I do, but it’s driving me insane

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Bob Dylan: Dreaming Of You

+ Bob Dylan Revisits The Recent Vaults For Vol. 8 Of The Bootleg Series

August 16, 2008 in MP3 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack