RUSSIAN CIRCLES WHOOOO (and…KENmode I guess…)

Nine Inch Nails - Everything
Kanye West - I'm In It
Eyedea & Abilities - Spin Cycle
Tom Waits - Midtown (Instrumental)
Titus Andronicus - The Battle of Hampton Roads

RE: In A World, was it Marino's clumsy attempt at humility at the award ceremony? I don't remember the specific line, but I do remember laughing at that a lot.

I really wanted to love Byzantium, but it never rose beyond being sort of good with some pretty cool ideas. Maybe I expected something campier.

Ha, I don't know if I could muster the gumption to poke! When the guy very slowly gathered his concessions and left the theater (the woman left before him), he did tell us to have a good night, and then stared at us at the bottom of the stairs before making his effort. It was kind of hard not to be worried about being…

This couple was laughing their asses off at every curse word in the film, but I didn't include that in my complaints because you know, different strokes. Although when other people laughed at a joke later one of them said "ooh, don't laugh, we'll get yelled at." They were truly the whole package!

An… interesting weekend. I had my first confrontation with a rude movie theater patron. My girlfriend and I went to see August: Osage County, which I didn't really care for regardless of everything else that went on, and a couple behind us was not only eating their various concessions in the most obnoxious way (kind…

Daisy was good, but it's also kind of exhausting, like they streamlined Devil and God into the bluntest sound they could get. So I hope their next one (if it ever happens) is a little mellower, maybe more like Fork and Knife.

This! I can never figure out if a lot of people just slept on that record (which, full disclosure, is my favorite), or like it but don't trumpet it because of the dreaded 'emo' label.

I finished "The Good War" by Studs Terkel, which was fantastic and horrifying. Now working through The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor.