Random Sequitur

Good Fucking Bye - Matt Skiba No. Not you.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:05:20 -0500

Good Fucking Bye - Matt Skiba

No. Not you.

If you have voices in your head telling you to kill Pepé Le Pew, and the voice sounds just like Pepé...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:25:35 -0500

If you have voices in your head telling you to kill Pepé Le Pew, and the voice sounds just like Pepé Le Pew, I don’t know about you, but I’d be suspicious that it’s some kind of prank.

The Get Up Kids - I’m a Loner Dottie, A Rebel Because, I...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:03:04 -0500

The Get Up Kids - I’m a Loner Dottie, A Rebel

Because, I am.

Iggida-iggida-inauspicious beginnings, Jay-Z.

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:47:04 -0500

Iggida-iggida-inauspicious beginnings, Jay-Z.

“FIRE!!!!!”

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:36:48 -0500

“FIRE!!!!!”

Maybe

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:10:36 -0500

Maybe I’m not wearing a Top Chef t-shirt, sitting here, waiting for my pizza rolls to finish cooking in the microwave.

Maybe.

Ladies.

Mannequin 3

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:40:35 -0500

It was mostly deserted in Junior Miss.

“This will be a good conversation piece for our dining room table,” he said, sawing the head off of the Sears mannequin.

“Hold still, you,” he whispered.

“Who - you know she can’t understand you anymore, right?” she asked.

“Of course,” he replied, and suppressed a laugh. He winked at the severed head, before putting it into a garbage bag for safekeeping.

Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:34:00 -0500

Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger

Alkaline Trio - San Francisco

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:00:00 -0500

Alkaline Trio - San Francisco

Paint Thinner and Techno Music

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:24:00 -0500

This place always felt like a graveyard, probably because it was where the neighbor kid murdered his hopes and dreams with paint thinner and techno music. He had no idea why the aliens would choose here for the rapture, but he put on the Farrah Fawcett wig and started digging.

The National - Fake Empire

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:45:00 -0500

The National - Fake Empire

nevver: Cover Designs

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:31:05 -0500

nevver:

Cover Designs

Important Things

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:30:00 -0500

Like his father and grandfather before him, Horace waited. But, not like them, on a barstool. He had more important things in mind, and he was standing there, with anticipation that made him feel mildly ill.

“Next”

He was next.

He wanted the withdrawal in small bills. Horace planned to take a twenty dollar bill and wrap it around 50 singles, just like the mob guys did in the movies.

“Withdrawal,” he said, along with the amount. As the teller counted it out, he stared. It isn’t much, but it’s mine, he thought. And, his daughter probably wasn’t going to college anyway, so what good is a college fund.

Horace took the money and walked away, a man confident in his purpose, to buy skin mags and fireworks.

There’s so much ahead / And so much regret.

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:04:22 -0500

There’s so much ahead / And so much regret.

Hemingway and a Semester Abroad

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:00:38 -0500

Don’t act all surprised that I spent my junior year abroad, in Northern England. That’s in the manual. But here’s the weird thing: in my six months studying in England, even though I consider it a formative part of my life, I was mostly sad and spent a lot of time thinking about Counting Crows lyrics. The weather didn’t agree with me; I was consistently sick. I didn’t understand a word the guy from Manchester said to me. He was all “footie” and drawls. There was the metric system and A4 paper. I missed home, even though I wouldn’t admit it to you, of all people.

So, I read, almost perversely. Mostly American classics: Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Vonnegut, Steinbeck, Salinger, Emerson. It didn’t make me feel better, but it made me feel smart, and less alone.

But I didn’t read any Hemingway. Instead, I got really drunk one night and acted like I imagined Ernest would act, and tried to punch a bull that was really a tree. The girl I was with was impressed, even though she pretended not to be.

Sometimes, when I’m walking through Babies-R-Us buying...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:22:45 -0500

Sometimes, when I’m walking through Babies-R-Us buying hypoallergenic diapers and “the right kind of organic milk this time please,” I hear this song in my head.

Because, even though it’s a show about mustachioed cops, this is some pimp shit, if there ever was.

This is a list of what I should have been, but I'm not.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:00:18 -0400

Part man, part rhinocerous
A cowboy that wields the ray gun of justice
A surfer who’s also a detective and can read minds
Spiderman
Telekinetic physicist
A college professor, who’s also a ninja

I like to imagine that this is really what Steve Zissou was...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:44:20 -0400

I like to imagine that this is really what Steve Zissou was referencing in The Life Aquatic when he said “I’m going to find it and I’m going to destroy it. I don’t know how yet. Possibly with dynamite.”

"Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something, I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo..."

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:12:41 -0400

“Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something, I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside.”

Ugly families need not apply.

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:31:00 -0400

Ugly families need not apply.