At the tender age of two she curiously shoved cardboard up her nose just to see what would happen. Thus began a life-long fascination with the world around her.
The following is the result of residual cardboard still lodged in her brain cavity. Please peruse.
Here are some book and album reviews I just wrote to Erin Swanson in an e-mail. I wrote them kind of buzzed. Cold red wine in the evening makes things beautiful. I particularly like these reviews. So I’m putting them in a public place.
Books:
(Neither of these are new. But books don’t have to be new to be good, ya know? I don’t care if you’ve read them already. Read them again. They’ll probably be better than when you read them last).
1. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman (Why I think you will like this: Because he’ll take 2 random things that have nothing to do with each other, and make a point about how they have everything to do with each other. and how together they tell the story of the human condition. Put quite simply, I think this is what advertising is.)
2. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway ( Why I think you will like this: Because the narrator, Jake Barnes, a writer, has an interesting way of being hyper-self-aware in that he tells the story of the human condition through his own mental processes. But not just that. He has an amazing way of saying so much with the simplest little dialogue. It’s like, he doesn’t develop his characters with descriptions or adjectives, he develops them with these little nuances. The way they say something to someone. Or the body language they use. And it’s brilliant.)
Albums:
1. EMA - past life martyred saints — (why i think you will like this: Man, just one of those albums that hit the experience of being a fucked up girl on the head. But it’s rawer than Kate Nash or Rilo Kiley or Regina Spektor. It’s closer to Ani Difranco. But not so folksey. It’s much more indie/new wave.) It’s hot.
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues — (Why I think you will like this: It’s beautifully reminiscent. But the kind of remincence (not a word) that is about moving forward. It feels like a journey in a desert. It feels like learning about your future by contemplating your past. With tambourines and shit.)
3. Cults - Cults — (Why I think you will like this: I just started listening to this one. So I can’t tell you much. But it’s celebratory and desperate at the same time. It’s laughing and it’s crying. It’s drunk and it’s high. If you mix blue and yellow together it makes green. And I like that.
