December 2010
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Songs of the Years, via The New Yorker
Posted by Ben Greenman
Here at the New Yorker office, we spend lots of time listening to music, but not very much time listening to Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians’ hit song “Collegiate.” That’s easy to explain, since the song was a hit all the way back in 1925. But it’s also a shame, in a way: 1925 was the year that The New Yorkerpublished its first issue, and in all the years since, as...
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things i could sit with and enjoy, all day long.
thunderstorms
black coffee
acoustic guitar arrangements, on repeat
my kindle
down comforters
writing on the blank unlined pages of my moleskin
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past...
– Marcel Pagnol (via kari-shma)
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...
– Oscar Wilde