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New Releases Summer 2012

Waaaaa summer’s such a good time for music. Some heads up of new releases I’m way excited to lend an ear to:

The Temper Trap, self-titled (dang they gotta snazzy website)
Gossamer by Passion Pit
Glory Songs by AMP Movement (love the clever bits of wordplay, solid songwriting, and the lil quirks in the music too—a solid mix of nods to diff styles. and LOVE the bits where a chorus sings altogether!)

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#i mean come on #Thoreau me a bone here

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Play

such a good read. Jonathan Mak Long has such articulate and meaningful insights into the advertising industry (and at such a young age—20!).

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“The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for example, you’re going to find yourself in a hideous, screaming fight, and you’ll hear coming out of your mouth things that you yourself don’t like at all, things that shatter your self-image as a fair, kind, cool, attractive, in-control, funny, likable person. Something realer than likability has come out in you, and suddenly you’re having an actual life. Suddenly there’s a real choice to be made, not a fake consumer choice between a BlackBerry and an iPhone, but a question: Do I love this person? And, for the other person: Does this person love me? There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of. This is why a world of liking is ultimately a lie. But there is such a thing as a person whose real self you love every particle of. And this is why love is such an existential threat to the technoconsumerist order: it exposes the lie.” —

Jonathan Franzen, Pain Won’t Kill You - Kenyon College Commencement Address

(via sheandhercat)

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Favorite 45

where the sea meets the sand
where the waters reach out to quench dry land

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July 4

There’s a strange feeling of dissociation that comes with only hearing the crrrack! of fireworks racing across the sky over the last three nights, but not actually getting to see them because I’ve had to be in bed early every night. It might be disappointing to miss them, and yet, somehow I find that I’m unfazed by the brilliance of these exploding colors in the night sky because of the other fireworks that go off when you hold my hand.

by simplyesthr

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