The End Of The World
Thoughts?
why the fuck isn’t Carl Weathers on this list?
i hadn’t heard this song in like 20 years until today at the gym and it made me think back to my picture perfect childhood in the d.c. suburbs. i lived in reston, virginia for the first 10 years of my life, it is know for the reston town centre—one of the original planned communities—which at that time didnt know or care about, but i loved having the huge multiplex cinema so close to my home. anyway, that song made me think back to one summer when i was 7 or 8 my best friend and i listening to this radio station 107.1 WAVA out on my back porch as we danced around in our matching polka dot bikinis, willing the radio gods to play something off madonna’s immaculate collection or anything from michael jackson. our prayers were often answered as both of them were on fire in those days. i clearly remember my brother rolling his eyes at us when we got excited about it, sneakily trying to change the channel to something that would play janes addiction instead, and my mom smiling at our cuteness and snapping along to the beat from the other side of the porch as she baked in her bain de soleil tanning oil and hot pink bandeau suit. one day that summer, we were at the reston community pool, and i swear everyone in the town was there that day it was so packed and scorching hot outside. and all of a sudden this helicopter started hovering over the pool and it was blasting music, and it landed on the baseball field next to the pool—it was 107.1 WAVA!!!! we ran over to it and they gave us all this free stuff—kitchy things like lanyards and toys and free promo cassette tapes with their logo all over it, but we didnt care, we went apeshit for it! they stayed there for the rest of the day broadcasting live while we returned to the pool to play marco polo to our favorite pop songs. looking back, it is, without a doubt, one of the most carefree days of my life and one of my favorite days of my childhood.
i always wonder how my life would have turned out if my dad hadn’t left us and set off the chain of events that made the rest of our lives so difficult.
Brazilian Girls always recruit fans to be in their music videos. Here’s the lastest news on their next shoot if you’re interested in being a part of it:
“WANT TO BE IN OUR NEXT VIDEO? 27th is the date.
so we have two video shoots for our new record coming up.
and we need free and willing extras (no sexual services or nudity required :)
number one is on the 27th at nublu in NYC.
if you want to be in it, write to:
braziliangirlsvideo@redlightmanagement.com
hope to see some of your cute faces there!!!
ps
theres another shoot probably on the 30th, so if you cant make the 27th, …more details later.
kisses sabina”
(via ed209)
yum! ice cream sandwiches are my favorite food group!
lame
i just recalled part of a dream i had last night—it was about the Drudge Report. seriously, i am lame!
going to leave for Batman in IMAX at Lincoln Center soon. Mind you I’m seeing the 10 pm showing, and its quarter to 6 now…
hurrah!
my horoscope today—
Pisces: You’ve been complaining about how boring things are, but they are about to get more exciting than you want.
dear cosmic universe,
while you’re right about the boredom (ahem, bar exam), it would be impossible for things to be more exciting than i could ever want. there is nothing i love more than FUN and reckless destruction, so bring it on!
stupidity tries
Elliott Smith’s “Stupidity Tries” came up on shuffle yesterday while I was on the train, and I was overcome with this nostalgic feeling towards this boy I was in love with in college when I was 19 who I haven’t thought about in a long time. After a drunken failed attempt at hooking up our first semester he and I became very close friends on that kooky cosmic level that happens less and less as one gets older. There was still always sexual tension between us, but it definitely made the friendship more fun and even passionate. I remember one night sophomore year he came up to my dorm room and we laid in my twin extra-long bed for 7 hours, until 6am making each other laugh, playing 6 degrees of kevin bacon, and confessing “i swore i’d never tell anyone this” stories, my WinAmp playlist trudging through emo album after emo album (haha god…) and eventually landing on Elliott Smith’s Figure 8. And I don’t know what it was about “Stupidity Tries,” but we started kissing, and yeah, I just dont know what it was about that song! There’s nothing particularly sultry about it, and they lyrics arent provocative, but it’s just really when I hear it now, so evocative of that feeling. I had been so in love with him, and of all the playlists I had constructed throughout that past year hoping one of them would be the siren’s call, it ended up being some abstract war metaphor for life (err i think). Anyway, I started reflecting on other memorable make-out-song moments in my life and narrowed it down to my top 5. While the others make a little more sense—more romantic thematically—I’m glad that none of them ended up being “Lets Get It On” by Mr. Marvin Gaye.
So here it is, my top 5 memorable makeout list!
5. Modest Mouse- 3rd Planet (The Moon & Antarctica, 2000)
4. Bob Dylan- Just Like a Woman (Blonde on Blonde, 1966 and every best of/compilation since)
3. Spoon- I Summon You (Gimme Fiction, 2005)
2. Supergrass- St. Petersburg (Road to Rouen, 2005)
1. Elliott Smith- Stupidity Tries (Figure 8, 2000)
The epilogue to that story though, is a sad one. First, I should note that he and I had this ongoing banter about how he would always try to do the least amount work and get out of obligations in almost everything he did— always taking the easy way out. Months later, he broke my heart for some sassy Venezuelen troll with a man-voice. It was of course, short-lived, but our friendship never recovered, and the next semester I took a leave of absence and havent seen him since. The song that follows Stupidity Tries on Figure 8 is called Easy Way Out, and the lyrics were so spot on, that to this day, I still go “ugh” when it comes on.
i heard you found another audience to bore
a creative thinker who imagined you were more
a new body for you to push around and pose
it’s all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose
it’s all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose