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GPOYW - Possible Ridiculous New Year’s Shirt?

Dec 31st

Nothing quite so satisfying as a well-made dance party playlist.

Dec 31st

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A Long December (Live)- Counting Crows w/ Ben Folds It’s been a long December and...

Dec 31st

Mom: “If you keep dressing like Diane Keaton,...

Dec 30th

Awesome.

Dec 30th

I’m currently trying to figure out how many people will be in my house on New Year’s...

Dec 30th

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See-Line Woman - Nina Simone You did allright, Feist, but this is where it’s at.

Dec 30th

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I edited all my shitty digital camera video and what do you know— something pretty came out of it....

Dec 30th

Hey Mar, I don’t know you or anything, but I’d...

Dec 30th

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One of my favorite songs, done wonderfully. I will now move forward in my sleepness night, with a...

Dec 29th

Talkin’ shit about a pretty sunset.

Dec 29th

I nursed my loneliness tonight, driving through the silent streets of my hometown, chain smoking and...

Dec 29th

Taking Time

Walking behind my mom and Gilbert, on the bleached Sarasota sidewalk, I kept tumbling into them,...

Dec 27th

I got the best present on Christmas Eve.

Dec 27th

So, no tumblr for a good five days. I feel kind of free. I started a real journal. Less time...

Dec 27th

Leaving for Florida in a few hours! I’m not sure how I feel about the high of 79 on Christmas...

Dec 22nd

It is taking so long to leave.

I want to just pick up and go, but no, I can’t do that, I have to pack and clean and turn in...

Dec 20th

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Positive K - I Got A Man

Dec 20th

It’s not about the caffeine. It’s more about pouring gulp after gulp of scalding liquid...

Dec 20th

Some asshole left their alarm on in their room, still set, and locked it in there for the break. It...

Dec 20th

I have a final in three hours, and I just had a two-hour phone conversation. I was already planning...

Dec 20th

When I make mix CDs, I’m usually not trying not to send any particular message with my song...

Dec 20th

lalalinz: GIANT SNOWMAN OF D.C.! It took some coaxing to...

Dec 20th

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girlindc: I love this movie so much, and this scene is pretty much guaranteed to make me cry. I...

Dec 20th

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girlindc: The Mariner’s Revenge Song (live) - The Decemberists (2005) When you’re being...

Dec 20th

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Welcome To DC - Mambo Sauce All you tumblrs seem to be from L.A, New York, or Boston. I feel a...

Dec 19th

Smile Friday! Finals Week Delirium Edition.

Dec 19th

“We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move...”
— Dave Eggers, You Shall Know...

Dec 19th

When I have ideas like these, I have to follow them to their full conclusions. Even if I have...

Dec 19th

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lieslieslies: Biz Markie - Just A Friend This would be an appropriate time to mention that I once...

Dec 18th

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girlindc: From The Wire, season 1: Detectives Bunk & McNulty investigate a crime scene using...

Dec 18th

I can’t wait to see the silly face on the other side...

Dec 18th

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Little Garcon is stuck in my head fucking constantly. I don’t mind a bit.

Dec 18th

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virginiaisforzombies: Ben Folds & Regina Spektor + TI. It’s called “BF + TI” on the site. [Yo]U...

Dec 17th

After awhile, things in the past start to seem like parts of an elaborate dream. Everything is...

Dec 17th

GPOYW: Keepin’ My Roommate Up Edition.

Dec 17th

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Dec 17th

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Oasis - Amanda Palmer

Dec 17th

Like this one.

Dec 17th

lieslieslies: Dave Eggers? OK, so I know he got HUGE after AHWOSG and then ripped to shreds by a...

Dec 17th

Sometimes the best jewelry costs $5 from a sketched-out...

Dec 16th

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“Baby Blue” and “To Sing For You.” From Don’t Look Back. This scene...

Dec 16th

I just realized who was in my dream last night: John Reed. Or more accurately, Warren Beatty in...

Dec 16th

Oh, Cooley. From two summers ago at Ram’s Head.

Dec 15th

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Puttin’ People on the Moon - Drive-By Truckers If I died in Colbert County, Would it make...

Dec 15th

Goodbye for now, College Park weekends. I’ll see your...

Dec 15th

SPACEPANTS,

Where the hell did you come from? Are you the spirit of SPACESUMMER 08? Seriously, Lindsey and I...

Dec 15th

saintnate: I’m all about the traditional mating model, you know: dating before hooking-up....

Dec 15th

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thecount: Belle & Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher. It’s a B&S kind of night. It is...

Dec 15th

If it's past ten, click here.

Dec 15th

I think the beauty of Ted Leo’s songs is that they can be appreciated on both personal and...

Dec 14th

Innocence, it don’t come easy, in a sense it never will, Accidents mean no one’s guilty,...

Dec 14th

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Counting Down The Hours - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists.

Dec 14th

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capucha: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds & Donald O’Connor- “Good morning” Have a great Sunday...

Dec 14th

I should, by all rights, be in a terrible mood right now. What money I didn’t spend last night...

Dec 14th

Is today my five minutes of internet fame? This is...

Dec 12th

SMILE FRIDAY!

Dec 12th

FOLLOW US!

halvsies: We are trying to become internet sensations.  Is that so much to ask for? We would love...

Dec 12th

But behind closed doors, we were just a bunch of DABs.

Dec 12th

You know, we could look pretty damn professional.

Dec 12th

It’s about that time of year. I miss Model UN...

Dec 12th

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The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) - Weezer Yes, it’s as epic as...

Dec 12th

This is old. But I figure I better use it again before 2008...

Dec 12th

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Dec 11th

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INSTAHAPPY. Sly - The Cat Empire

Dec 11th

Oh hey, what’s up, Andrew Bird? Man, I miss this day....

Dec 10th

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jaimeleighfairbrother: Lull, Andrew Bird, Daytrotter Sessions (This song contains my favourite...

Dec 10th

I asked for it. He wrote back. Shit. He apologized. He’s good at that. I don’t care. He...

Dec 10th

Sleep Passes

2006. Still one of my favorites. I took their advice and I counted, Up and around, to a hundred and...

Dec 10th

Mini McKeldin! I’m unreasonably proud of this...

Dec 10th

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Dec 10th

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Gingerbread Extravaganza 2008! Starting in exactly two minutes.

Dec 10th

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Dec 9th

“Was being Cecilia just as vivid an affair as being Briony?...”
— Loving Atonement right now.

Dec 9th

So, I just found the “novel” I was writing when I was 14. It was based on the Japanese...

Dec 9th

A catastrophic chain of events: add an extra “m”...

Dec 8th

Speaking of adorable and un-hateable: Ben Lee. (via...

Dec 8th

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Two Weeks in Hawaii - Hellogoodbye As hard as I try, I can’t not like Hellogoodbye.

Dec 8th

I dated a guy who didn't know the word...

jaimeleighfairbrother: thewordunheard: That revelation was the beginning of the end. Anyone else...

Dec 8th

Does Facebook know something about the time-space continuum...

Dec 8th

Blair: see i'm all about the classical
Blair: and by classical i mean medieval shit
Blair: i have this kickass pandora station set up
Me: bitch you would have that station
Blair: bitch yes i would
Blair: medieval shit is the best shit ever
Blair: because it survived a fuckin plague to get to us modern types
Blair: try doing THAT with your pussy indie music
Me: wilco will survive nuclear war
Me: i am certain of it
Blair: wilco, twinkies, and cockroaches
Blair: sounds good to me!

Dec 8th

See what I wrote last night? This is what you people do to...

Dec 8th

It wasn’t the whiskey, I’m sure. I swear I never knew anyone so well as you. May I...

Dec 7th

I will. Thank you. I know. :]

Dec 6th

Dec 6th

I now own a typewriter. Best ten dollars I ever spent.

Dec 6th

“wait a second, STOP! don’t H I T snooze....

Dec 6th

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Sing-a-long time in Queen Anne’s.

Dec 6th

jaimeleighfairbrother: I regret nothing, least of all loving you. This post (there’s more, of...

Dec 5th

“We are in love,” you said, “but there are other things.” I could see these things form...

Dec 5th

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Merry Christmas I Don’t Wanna Fight - Helen Love Get in the spirit!

Dec 5th

Sup comments? Holly, this is mostly for you.

Dec 4th

Charlie Day, love of my life.

Dec 4th

To Do Tomorrow

- Get the fuck up by 11. You lazy asshole. - Immunization records? So you can… - Register! But...

Dec 3rd

Hey Tumblrverse! Wanna make me a mix for...

virginiaisforzombies: Then do it, motherfuckers! Write me for details. If I don’t know you, I won’t...

Dec 3rd

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Dec 2nd

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Patiently - Rilo Kiley (Live) “A thousand miles from who I’d like to be.” I...

Dec 2nd

“We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to...

Dec 2nd

Facebook Chat is The Devil's Invention

linz: i love the faces of cats with stupid costumes on them. they're like '...you know i used to be worshipped as a GOD by the egyptians, right? yea? JUST CHECKING. cause, you know, you've got me wearing fucking ANTLERS.'
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me: PS I JUST CRUSHED YOU
linz: ps youre lying, its not good to lie to yourself.
linz: what the fuck did you just do.
me: Q on a triple word score playaaa!
linz: you wordcrafting little bitch.
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me: for anthro
me: makin shit up about the "studies" i've done on the wmuc counter culture
me: aka attending hipster parties
linz: can we have an hro themed party?
linz: where you have to dress like one of the hro types
me: i want to be in the electro wars
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linz: we need some AZNs
me: my RA is an azn
me: but not the kind we need

Dec 2nd

Dec 2nd

“I’m not an alcoholic. I can quit anytime I want to. I just...”
— Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It...

Dec 2nd

Dec 2nd

People say that my mom and I are completely different. I say...

Dec 2nd

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Dec 2nd

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Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac cover) - Vampire Weekend (via tracks) Where was this two hours...

Dec 1st