a sea black with ink

So necessary.

Oct 30th

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Consequence of Sounds - Regina Spektor

Oct 30th

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hunterbriley: awesome. Agreed.

Oct 30th

Note To Self:

Oct 30th

I finally got a Halloween costume! Thanks to Value Village!...

Oct 29th

There are a lot of these in a notebook I just found. This...

Oct 29th

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Wires and Waves - Rilo Kiley

Oct 29th

allisonweiss: Central Kansas Wildlife Club? or aging indie...

Oct 29th

Mannerisms I have adopted from Kim:

referring to good-looking men as “babes” referring to good-looking women as...

Oct 29th

“What Charlotte just did, is classify an entire nationality...”
— I might have. Good times on...

Oct 29th

For whatever reason, I agreed to co-host with the incorrigible Jack Slattery on his show, Morning...

Oct 29th

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Side Projects Are Never Sucessful - Bomb the Music Industry! A favorite from last night. Bliss in a...

Oct 29th

“Cause if I wasn’t a fat kid in high school, I would have never listened to punk rock, and if...

Oct 27th

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Watch for Born Ruffian Luke’s reaction to Crazy Drunk Bitch. What a babe. What a fuckin’...

Oct 26th

My Days

The first three days were bad days, but today was okay, and it got me thinking. Maybe if today was...

Oct 26th

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly, man got to sit and...”
—  Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s...

Oct 25th

(via allisonweiss and thresca)

Oct 25th

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FM Radio - Joshua James One of a select few songs that can make me cry, on command.

Oct 24th

I’m good at loving him. I’m gonna keep at it, you know? I don’t know how to stop,...

Oct 24th

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I Need A Life - Born Ruffians In a completely awesome turn of events, I’m seeing them at Rock...

Oct 24th

It’s not a party if it happens every night.

Oct 24th

Someone reblogged my poem from The Dust Jacket Project. Someone read it and smiled. Someone...

Oct 22nd

The Temptation of Adam - Josh Ritter

I have a thing for apopacylptic love songs. This is a personal favorite, and I’ve been on a...

Oct 22nd

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Sam put this song on a tape for me. Not the Jack-White-heavy first tape, and not the tape with the...

Oct 22nd

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(via azizisbored) With Love from a lazy anti-American bitch in PG County, The Capital of Fake...

Oct 21st

Re: My Last Post

Linz: i think i play takadant a lot, anyway.
Me: i think that it is the coolest thing
Linz: YOU ARE THINKING THAT IS THE COOLEST THING!
Linz: TAKADANT CHAMPION!

Oct 21st

Traditional Games of the Tuareg People

Can I just play some of these? Instead of researching the entire culture? Melgha a game where...

Oct 21st

Library glee!

Oct 21st

virginiaisforzombies: aseablackwithink: BTMI! IS PLAYING A HOUSE SHOW IN DC NEXT MONDAY OHMYGOD. ...

Oct 20th

BTMI! IS PLAYING A HOUSE SHOW IN DC NEXT MONDAY OHMYGOD.

Oct 20th

(via roads2roam and allisonweiss) I may be a “High...

Oct 20th

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motionsensorsoundtrack: Blah-blah-blah! I’m Greg! Look at me, I am more authentic than...

Oct 20th

(via ryanluikens)

Oct 20th

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Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up In Books

Oct 20th

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motionsensorsoundtrack: What belle and sebastien are trying to re-write with every song and every...

Oct 20th

(via eatsleepdraw)

Oct 20th

motionsensorsoundtrack: My top 5 reasons I hate top 5 artists for a week… It’s...

Oct 20th

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I was trying to think of who else Josh Ritter reminds me of in that song, when it finally hit me:...

Oct 20th

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To The Dogs or Whoever - Josh Ritter Always reminds me of Dylan. Not in a derivative kinda way. In a...

Oct 20th

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Candyfloss - Wilco Every one in awhile, I find a song that describes one person in my life so...

Oct 20th

Oct 19th

In case they come off my arm...

I am transferring the list of funny things people said tonight onto tumblr. As I explained to everyone who asked me tonight, "My arm is full of good times."
Steven: I masturbate much more often than there are floods!
Charlie: I would contract AIDS just to give it to him.
Lindsay: That's a tampon. That's not a cigarette.
Lindsay: Drinking naked juice.
Me: You're too high to be there? I'm not high enough to be there.

Oct 19th

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The Book of Love - Magnetic Fields

Oct 18th

This picture was taken nearly two years ago. But I...

Oct 18th

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As I Rise - The Decemberists Ladybird, ladybird, you’re the prettiest song I’ve heard...

Oct 16th

My Father

… is ridiculous. He just woke me up — at nearly one o’clock— yelling excitedly while...

Oct 16th

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All Bad Ends All - The Books. Yes, more of The Books. Great fuckin’ study music. I don’t...

Oct 14th

“My other half isn’t other and he isn’t half; he...”

Oct 14th

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Fuck it, I love The Books! They should show this video in hospitals. Pure therapy.

Oct 14th

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I’ll Be Yr Bird - M. Ward. Short, sweet, haunting. I’m not the tiger you never had....

Oct 13th

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I heard these guys breifly in a friend’s dorm room last week, lying on a carpet, full of chai...

Oct 13th

Something I Am Good At: Beating a Dead...

(watching Dead Poet's society)
Dude: Wait - they had making out in the 50's?
Me: No, they just moved straight on from holding hands to having sex. "Oh look honey, we're married. Let me put my penis inside of you. Please don't touch me anywhere else."
Dude: I just meant—
Me: No, no, when making out was invented in 1968, it was a very big deal.
Dude: Like I was just surprised—
Me: That they had sex drives in the 50's? You're right, they didn't.

Oct 12th

“That guy’s a republican, isn’t he? You can tell by the way...”
— Allison Weiss. (via...

Oct 11th

No, thank you, Allison! For making beautiful music, and for...

Oct 11th

Again, I find myself pondering that age-old question, the quandry recurring throughout the history...

Oct 11th

Erika Somogyi.

Oct 10th

Woah.

Oct 10th

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Some they saw in me innocent poetry, Some say they’ll never be certain. But still it’s been...

Oct 9th

I know it’s for my own safety, but I hate the crime alerts that campus police send out via...

Oct 9th

kateoplis: Starlings. I don’t think these birds know...

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(via motionsensorsoundtrack aka my new best internet friend) Coolest nerd alive. This reminds me...

Oct 8th

Greg will write a song for you.

Oct 8th

roads2roam: Just a sincere compliment. And compliments, sincere or otherwise, are always...

Oct 8th

The fact that I have mitochondria just really weirds me out. Because, listen, what if they are...

Oct 8th

Yeah, I’m studying. Sure. First Cultural Rubican or...

Oct 8th

A Song For Something Small.

Oct 8th

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Color in the Lines - Little Red String. It’s that opening that really gets me. And the fact...

Oct 7th

Mom: Why did you post on my facebook at 2:30 in the morning?
Me: I took a break from studying. I figure I'm just going to sleep all day on Thursday.
Mom: Charlotte, sleep is not like, some kind of, uh, bank or something. You can't just like withdraw all the time and then make this one big deposit and expect to break even and not like— go bankrupt. You should deposit 8 dollars every day. You should get eight hours of sleep a night.
Me: Wow. Thanks for that, Senator Stevens.

Oct 7th

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motionsensorsoundtrack: I know it may be stupid, but I get a kick out of it when some one follows...

Oct 7th

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Nina Simone, Feeling Good (via motionsensorsoundtrack and tracks and sparklingpants) Eels do a...

Oct 7th

Pink Couch Sessions

Oct 7th

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Oct 7th

“Jonathan: I am looking for my voice. Alex: It is in your...”
— Everything is Illuminated,...

Oct 6th

squashed: But suddenly [Obama]’s giving a speech saying there is one country, the United States of...

Oct 6th

This morning, I woke up in a room I’ve started calling “home.” My clothes are in...

Oct 5th

I have never thought of myself as a bad person. I am not sure whether what I did makes me a bad...

Oct 4th

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Yelle is coming to WMUC this month. I forsee a return to my previous obsession.

Oct 4th

When did I become the kind of person...

… drops a class just because she can’t handle the workload? … can’t wake up...

Oct 3rd

The Exciting Lives of College Students,...

Kaitlyn: Do you have any nail polish remover?
Me: It's two in the morning.
Kaitlyn: So? I'm painting my nails. What're you doing?
Me: I'm writing a pa —
(Kaitlyn grabs my laptop.)
Me: — watching My So Called Life.
Kaitlyn: (displays nails)

Oct 3rd

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The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle and Sebastian Do you think anyone would be super mad if I played...

Oct 3rd

Anti-Intellectualism and the Debate

mills: In American anti-intellectualism, dramatically on display tonight during the VP debate, we...

Oct 3rd