Finley doesn’t know about Pandora and when we showed up to his house for Ultra Cute Movie Night, he was wearing a pair of white short-shorts WELL above the knee. The first cute movie night was a raving success and we had a blast. We watched an old movie starring a young Art Garfunkel, drank […]
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nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there
Like most of what I write about here, I can’t articulately explain the draw I feel towards abandoned buildings. Something about the contradiction, the decay. There’s a building on Frankfort Avenue that has been on my mind for months. First it was just abandoned, and I’d heard rumors that it was caught up in some […]
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… in which our heroine compares Creed to American Idol and, indirectly, monster-truck rallies. So it’s like this… this one time, I bought a Creed cd. I’m not going to bother defending this action, since the crux of my argument kind of lies in the ephemeral, simple beauty of not having to. A few weeks […]
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Several months ago when my dad asked me what I wanted for Christmas, without thinking, I blurted out: “a stereo system!” Not that I didn’t. I’ve wanted a nice stereo system, with speakers and a receiver and all for a long time now. No self-respecting music lover should have to listen to music out of […]
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Being a fan of indie music is incredibly time-consuming. It’s not just that you have to jump on the bandwagon (pun intended) before they gain mainstream notoriety—although that’s certainly a large part of it—it’s also the sheer volume of material you have to wade through to find music you actually enjoy. Indie music fanship requires […]
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Last night I went with mom and the twins to the Derby concert at Waterfront park. Brett Dennen, Mason Jennings, and some other guy. It was great—the weather was nice, everybody was sitting in the grass, very groovy. I loved Brett Dennen even before seeing him live (for free) but last night really solidified our […]
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