Sarah A. McCarty

Este Haim flirting with David Letterman is perfect. I would expect nothing less from her. Also, I did an awesome interview with the band for Paste earlier this year and love these girls. Their music and their personalities rock. Read it here: http://samccarty.com/2013/01/23/haim-rocks/ .

“We love New York, but Nashville…Nashville is our town” —band on moving from Brooklyn to Nashville

say what you will about Kings of Leon, but they really did help create a thriving rock scene in Nashville…as a native Tennessean, i appreciate that. also… The Features rock. check them out. 

markrichardson: From a letter to a friend that I wrote on my Remington portable when I was 20, when my little mind was being blown on a daily basis.  i always feel this way about clouds. and none of my friends seem to get it. 

markrichardson:

From a letter to a friend that I wrote on my Remington portable when I was 20, when my little mind was being blown on a daily basis. 

i always feel this way about clouds. and none of my friends seem to get it. 

♦ 1 week ago

i just realized how much i really, really like this song.

Majical Cloudz - Turns Turns Turns (by arbutusrecords)

wittybanterism: Experimental jam from Friday. I want to do one of these big (and much cleaner). #experiments #painting #watercolor #workonpaper #contemporaryart #lines #stringtheory #folk #urbanfolk #doodles #drawing

wittybanterism:

Experimental jam from Friday. I want to do one of these big (and much cleaner). #experiments #painting #watercolor #workonpaper #contemporaryart #lines #stringtheory #folk #urbanfolk #doodles #drawing

♦ 2 weeks ago

OK Go performs one of the best Tiny Desk concerts as NPR moves to a new office —read more here.

› : Osaka!

annfriedman:

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An excellent travel magazine called AFAR is sending me to Japan tomorrow for a feature they call Spin the Globe. The editors do, in fact, spin a globe, stop it with a finger, and send a writer to that place. With just 24 hours notice.

I found out last night that I’m headed to Osaka….

more travel magazines should do this sort of thing…letting the journalist do whatever he or she wants and finding their own story

rachael-maddux: I watched the first episode of Top of the Lake while taking in a chambray button-up that had been sitting for too long, too big, in my closet. I did it by hand because I broke the replacement needle on my sewing machine in August 2008 and I haven’t yet brought myself around to figuring out how to fix it. I didn’t think I would watch the second episode because something about the first deeply bummed me out, almost in a chemically-altering way, like possibly the episode itself gave me SADS. The color palette is so dim, all grays and muted greens and blues, chambray itself, and that deep, deep black. When I wore the shirt I thought about the show all day and after a while I decided to watch the second episode just to see how it went, and then by last Thursday I was nearly catatonic on my couch, gasping/argh-ing every time the credits came up because I could not get Netflix to get me to the next episode soon enough. All through this time I was listening a lot to the new Laura Marling album, too, and just like the show attached itself to my shirt somehow it sewed itself together with the album, too. This didn’t wind up surfacing in the review of the record that I wound up writing, but I feel like the record and the show are very much of a piece. Part of this is just that I experienced them around the same time time, but also they share certain themes: water and beasts and woundedness, and lots of anger, particularly the anger of being a woman in this particular world, and then the anger that comes from expressing that anger and feeling as if you perhaps shouldn’t have. There’s a real sense of melancholy, too, the kind that comes from making the choice to do the work the way you know it needs to be done, even when the price is your dignity or your sanity or your basic sense of well-being in the world. “I won’t stare at water anymore.” I finished Top of the Lake about one week before I heard the Laura Marling album. I didn’t feel this connection but I think that’s because I sort of pushed Top of the Lake to the back of my mind as if it was some horrible trauma that happened to me and I needed to forget—not because it was a bad series but because it was that good, it affected me that much. But as soon I started reading this, on the first mention of Laura Marling, before any talk of themes etc., I immediately felt the connection. And now, I will always think of Top of the Lake when I hear this album.

rachael-maddux:

I watched the first episode of Top of the Lake while taking in a chambray button-up that had been sitting for too long, too big, in my closet. I did it by hand because I broke the replacement needle on my sewing machine in August 2008 and I haven’t yet brought myself around to figuring out how to fix it. I didn’t think I would watch the second episode because something about the first deeply bummed me out, almost in a chemically-altering way, like possibly the episode itself gave me SADS. The color palette is so dim, all grays and muted greens and blues, chambray itself, and that deep, deep black. When I wore the shirt I thought about the show all day and after a while I decided to watch the second episode just to see how it went, and then by last Thursday I was nearly catatonic on my couch, gasping/argh-ing every time the credits came up because I could not get Netflix to get me to the next episode soon enough. All through this time I was listening a lot to the new Laura Marling album, too, and just like the show attached itself to my shirt somehow it sewed itself together with the album, too. This didn’t wind up surfacing in the review of the record that I wound up writing, but I feel like the record and the show are very much of a piece. Part of this is just that I experienced them around the same time time, but also they share certain themes: water and beasts and woundedness, and lots of anger, particularly the anger of being a woman in this particular world, and then the anger that comes from expressing that anger and feeling as if you perhaps shouldn’t have. There’s a real sense of melancholy, too, the kind that comes from making the choice to do the work the way you know it needs to be done, even when the price is your dignity or your sanity or your basic sense of well-being in the world. “I won’t stare at water anymore.”

I finished Top of the Lake about one week before I heard the Laura Marling album. I didn’t feel this connection but I think that’s because I sort of pushed Top of the Lake to the back of my mind as if it was some horrible trauma that happened to me and I needed to forget—not because it was a bad series but because it was that good, it affected me that much. But as soon I started reading this, on the first mention of Laura Marling, before any talk of themes etc., I immediately felt the connection. And now, I will always think of Top of the Lake when I hear this album.

♦ 2 weeks ago