March 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
The Strokes (19)
Michelle Branch (15)
Death Cab for Cutie (14)
Fergie (13)
Mae (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Music Daily: Manchester Orchestra's "Mean...
Manchester Orchetra’s Mean Everything to Nothing
Years ago, there was wonderful thing called M.O.S.T. (Manchester Orchestra Street Team). In addition to developing a street team core for the team, the site was pretty much the world’s most active forum board where I made quite a few good friends. The ability to make friends on a band forum that continue beyond that is not just a...
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Losing Weight - Still Not Easy
Losing weight is still hard. I know we’ve talked about this before on this blog and that it’s pretty much always been a New Year’s Resolution for me but that doesn’t make it easier. People can pretend all they want that losing weight is a matter of simple mathematics: take in less than you need and exert more than you are. But it isn’t that simple. See, much like...
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Music Daily: Taking Back Sunday's "Tell All Your...
Taking Back Sunday’s Tell All Your Friends
I hate what this band has become - I really do. Louder Now on was just horrible. Just horrible. I don’t even know what they released since then but…I think somewhere around their second album that “sellout” word that became hip for awhile was applied to TBS and with meaning.
That being said, I love this album. Sophomore...
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Book Review: Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr
Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr
See, I really wanted to like this book. I wanted to read it and feel inspired to live a health life - much like I did after reading The Kind Diet. I wanted motivation, direction and a bit of uplifting. However, Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr didn’t do that for me. It just presented more questions.
While Carr’s own story is inspirational (turning her life...
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Music Daily: Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The...
Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
I feel like such a loser writing about this album as it is perhaps one of the more hipster things one can do. Moving past that, I can’t help but write about this album. Anyone who can listen - and I mean really listen to “Oh Comely” or “Two Headed Boy” and not feel moved is clearly devoid of sentiment. Or Lady...
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Music Daily: Portishead's "Dummy"
Portishead’s Dummy
At some point in college (I want to say the summer before senior year but I’m not quite sure as it could have also been interim sophomore year…), I grew briefly obsessed with trip hop. And by briefly obsessed I mean “would not listen to anything else in the world.” One of the first bands I really gravitated towards at that time was Portishead and...
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Don’t Panic -...
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Wedding Dress I'm Obsessed With!
Okay, so…too many episodes of Say Yes to the Dress has made me start looking like…kinda for real…for wedding dresses on the Internet. And I’ve also come to the conclusion that I hate wedding dresses. Seriously, what is wrong with women? Fluffy-as-fudge ugly dresses, these constraining things tight and boxy, everything strapless (I guess if you are without breasts) and ugly....
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Poppytalk: Marie Claire Idees Photos
I’m loving these photos Poppytalk posted from Marie Claire Idees. Very serene, wood-y and whimsical at the same time.
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Book Review: House M.D. by Ian Jackman
House M.D. by Ian Jackman
So, in January when I first got my Nook Color, I had a grand ole’ time taking books from the Ohio eBook Project. It was a lot of fun and I got to read so many things. Unfortunately, I have yet to review a good portion of those books mostly because…I forgot about them. Oops! This would be one of them. We were at the Barnes & Nobles at Newport on the...
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10 Things I Can't "Live" Without
Taking a cue from Kerli (who I haven’t seen live or chatted with since my Island days when her album dropped. Boo!), I’ve got my own list of 10 things I “can’t” live without. I’ve got a bit of trouble saying “can’t” live without as there are plenty of things I can live without - I just would really be unhappy doing so. So I guess this is my...
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Currently Reading - 3/26/11
Just a few on today’s agenda. Always much, much more.
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Death Cab For Cutie // The Sound of Settling...
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Music Daily: Jets to Brazil's "Orange Rhyming...
Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
When I was in high school, I was dating this one guy for about two years. I don’t even remember why I ended things but then one of my best friends at the time went on to secretly sleep with him. Unnecessary story, however, that’s always one of the first two things I think of when I think of Orange Rhyming Dictionary as he was the one who...
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Book Review: Urban Vegan by Dynise Balcavage
Urban Vegan by Dynise Balcavage
Putting to rest the rumor that people don’t “test” books out by getting them from the library, I had this book for several months care of the Cincinnati Public Library system. I took it out for the full amount of renewals, put it on hold and took it out again until someone else put a hold on the book. Then, a few weeks ago, I broke down with my...
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Music Daily: Elliot Smith's "Elliot Smith"
Fun fact: I graduated college a year early. Of course, in doing that, I lacked all direction as to the next step. I moved on to start a PhD program split between two schools that just wasn’t right for me. I also had a prerequisite that required me to take an 8:30PM night course. That first semester, I was quite desolate. I’d throw on a hoodie, put on a Kevin Devine album and walk to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-20) →
J Mascis (13)
Anathallo (10)
Sugarcult (7)
The Starting Line (7)
Motion City Soundtrack (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Music Daily: Transalanticism by Death Cab for...
For awhile now, I’ve wanted to start a feature here that highlights a different album every day or so. Hey, I make no promises: if this turns into a weekly thing, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The reasons for this are dual in nature. On the one hand, I need to incorporate more music into this blog. On the other hand, it gives me a chance and a need to re-experience (or...
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I Am An SEO GEEK - And you spend your whole life...
So, looking through my Google Analytics for this blog, I found out that one of my big organic keywords is “And you spend your whole life looking for the adult that you are.” To make it that much better, I rank for this keyword because of this post of a Kevin Devine and Jesse Lacey cover. Combing four of my loves: Kevin Devine, Brand New, Modest Mouse and organic search rankings!
Fuck...
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Serendipitwaddle: A Thousand Posts Later (My 1,000...
This blog now has 1,000 posts. Ironically, I am also 100 pages of posts deep right now (well, not ironic but also interesting…). Yay! Truth be told, when I started this blog…I really didn’t know if I would be able to keep this or any blog going. In fact, it was my resolution for 2009 to aim to do so.
My first post was a cute little web cartoon. I followed that up with a few...
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The Rapture “Whoo! Alright, Yeah … Uh Huh!”...