Keep Calm and Carry On

Currently Pushing: Paris Review's Culture Diaries. I've been following this for a second, dating back to Maud Newton's week. I've also been following New York magazine's Sex Diaries, because of this article, but you know, I like the culture one better.I like to know what people do every day -- not the actual quotidian stuff, more the what's on their mind and what they're thinking about bits. The Culture Diaries make references to things I know nothing...

4 Seasons of Loneliness

Listening to: Relentless Miracles, "Your Consolation Prize: A (Late) Mix for Valentine’s Day." This is my friend's annual mix and this time around it's "inspired by Xavier Dolan's The Heartbeats, 2046, In the Mood for Love, patterned wiggle dresses on Etsy, and snowfall in Trinity Cemetery, love over distance, and heavy bang-ed girls." What else you need to know? Go download it now.Over this sure to be rainy weekend, there will be a Girl Talk...

Sonic Boom

Listening to: Tegan and Sara, "Call It Off." I lean toward being a Sara person, but this track is Tegan. If you can't tell them apart, NPR is here to help. I didn't need the primer because I just knew.The first day back in San Francisco, I spent the better part of a work day listening to my CD for testing audio, a task Ameer had set before me earlier in the week. He said that I needed to pick a few songs and use them exclusively for testing speaker...

Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon

Currently Pushing: Katie Baker, "Sweet Valley High, the Great Retweening, and Why Boys Won't Read." I didn't know who Ms. Baker was until I found out she was one of Bill Simmons' first recruits for his new sports and pop culture website.Since then I've been catching up on her stuff, such as The Confessions Of A Former Adolescent Puck Tease and other articles. Frankly, you should like Katie based on just her bio from the Sweet Valley High article:...

Never Together Never

Listening to: The Beatles, "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" A large portion of my Saturday night was spent playing Rock Band: Beatles. My knowledge of the Fab Four is pretty slim but now I realize their genius. This track is now my theme song. Well, I'd prefer if it was named "Do You Want to Tell Me a Secret? Yes You Do," but it's still pretty good like this. I may be sixty years late on Beatles-mania but hey I'm here.So for a long time, my friend...