I fell in love with a friend 3000 miles away, and eventually married them. It wasn't easy (the marriage was easy; quick trip to VT and done). Cost me a few good jobs to keep it going but I did. Not saying this is necessarily going somewhere but you never know. And if you both come away from it feeling like hot…

Can I adjust my monocle at least? But seriously though, pass.

She was fucking amazing in Last Exit to Brooklyn. She wore vulnerability like armor. I had just finished the book and was completely satisfied with her version of Georgette.

I'm fine with that.

Joanna Newsom - Autumn
Uakti - Mapa
Suzuki violin practise disk 1 - Etude
The Pogues - Waltzing Matilda
Joni Mitchell - People's Parties
Love & Rockets - Rain Bird
Arnaldo Antunes - Pare o Crime
Luiz Gonzaga w/ Milton Nascimento - Luar do Sertão
Anonymous 4 - Nicholae Presulum
The Cure - Catch
Magnetic Fields - A Pretty Girl is…

Just starting Colorless Tsukaru Tazaki. Too soon for comments, though I'm kind of on a roll with Murakami so I'm optimistic.

I've managed a dozen or so wins, half of them with the full 15 runes, plus beaten all the Sprint games, but I still felt like an amateur watching players like Yermak and Charly. It's been diminishing returns for a while, and I decided it was time to be satisfied.

Related, but I have quit playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's a good game but demands too much time, at least for me. Now I'm reading.

Allen Toussant - Southern Nights
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
O Melhor do Luiz Gonzaga
The Magic Square

It's like watching 120 Minutes turn into a reality show.

Medicinal masturbation, so to speak.

Maybe rather than put pressure on yourself to perform, just set aside some time for idle fantasy. It won't require any real-world action on your part (especially if you fantasize about impossible things), but it may help get you used to the idea of being frisky again.

I think this might be the first time I've heard Against Me but I'm kind of feeling it. If they had formed 10 years earlier they would have been my music.

Disingenuous headline.

You've done enough. Rest now.

I've kind of skimmed what's on Youtube and gone deeper into the ones that grabbed me. I like Coquelicot and plan to spend some time with it. It has the same type of qualities I like about Olivia Tremor Control.

He's just trying to reclaim some time for getting things done, and AVclub comments are a major time-sinkhole for him. Not that I have any idea what that's like.

Then you can replace "elf" with "space" and turn it into a scifi parody.

My Own Private Idaho is a bizarre thing; alternating between beautiful and godawful. For me it's just the Shakepeare stuff that drags it into the dirt every time. There is no character or story point I wouldn't have enjoyed if it had been played honestly all the way through.

Still getting acquainted with Of Montreal's albums. My friend raves about Skeletal Lamping and I keep trying it, but I don't really like it. I have come to accept that there are two kinds of Of Montreal album: those which feature the fake soul voice and those which do not. I like the ones which do not, Sunlandic…