Ha! Truly majestic.

Rites of Spring - By Design
Outkast - Ms. Jackson
Generation X - Kiss Me Deadly
Husker Du - Newest Industry
Modern English - Melt With You
Fleetwood Mac - Sisters of the Moon
Joy Division - Shadowplay
Beach House - Space Song
Modest Mouse - Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
Buck 65 - Leftfielder

I had a horrific short-lived depressive episode last week and now feel amazing? I don't know what happened to switch it, but: I handled a really stressful work day yesterday really well, with no anxiety, and am really setting a lot of boundaries with stuff - not entertaining conversations I'm not into, not taking on…

I skipped out on an SNFU show the other day. I'm getting oooold.

Woo! Have an awesome birthday!

I'm back to doing yoga multiple times a week and want to up the difficulty level of my routine by the end of the month. I also want to start working more with my resistance bands! We'll see how it goes :D

How do you feel about reading them versus seeing them? I find them really pleasurable to read (though mileage varies, of course) but a really great production will remind you that, yeah, holy shit, this was meant to be performed.

I could probably listen to "Ride Wit Me" twice in a row. You're welcome, Nelly.

See all of them. Read all of them. Or don't. But it's one of my goals and I'm just past 2/3 of the canon (the apocrypha is something much more else).

Yeah, things can be enjoyable without being objectively good, y'know? "Barely Breathing" by Duncan Sheik and "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer are songs I enjoy listening to every once in awhile. They're not 'important' or complicated songs, but they're perfectly cromulent for what they do.

I am really really dreading it because it was The Actual Worst.

I think we're in this weird post-post-structuralist state where we can't escape history or reading against history but now it doesn't mean anything and that's why no one knows if they're being ironic or not, ever.

"The kids" have been into the 90s for awhile, mostly in the form of black lipstick and alien motifs and an inexplicable love for "Friends".

Psh, DeLillo said a lot of things.

I feel like literary fiction is in a really weird place right now. And not weird in a fun "artful, innovative new movement!" way.

I kind of don't believe that this is actually good.

What, you egg? Young book of treachery!

Alexis Arquette was one of the first trans public figures I became familiar with when I was a teenager. This is sad.

Combat Rock is my favorite Clash album and it was kind of hard not to pick every song (except "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" - endless commercials and radio play have pretty much ruined it for me).

There should be some sort of article on when punk died. It certainly did, but when in Green Day's career did it die?