• water for elephants - sara gruen
  • even though technically i read this in 2009 but i want to put it here anyways so i don't forget that it is one of my favourite books ever this year.
• six tales of the jazz age - f scott fitzgerald

• Obviously, it seems like a good thing to do. There’s a morality about it, about saying let’s just share this with everyone, let’s not just let this be a commercial good when in our eyes it’s a work of art. The whole comparison to shoplifting is absurd and a desperate attempt to hold onto this control that has been accumulated. I also think it’s just pragmatic from our position. We want people to hear the music. We don’t have the advertising dollars to be on TV and radio. It makes sense.

— Conor Oberst on advocating music downloads.

• "That night I started to think about belief. Maybe it’s not even advisable to be an optomist anymore. Maybe pessimism is something we have to apply daily, like moisturizer, otherwise how do you bounce ba...

this is a very rough and messy discography, copy&pasted from a variety of sources, chopped up, backspaced, etc. this is a pain in the ass and probably pointless, but i've been feeling the urge to do this for awhile, just for my own (in)sanity.

Bright Eyes:

• A Collection of Songs Recorded 1995-1997
  • ✔ cd
  • ✔ mp3
  • vinyl
• Letting Off the Happiness
  • cd
  • mp3
    • ✔ partial
  • vinyl
• Fevers and Mirrors

• felice brothers
• sun down - nik freitas
• tilly and the wall
• the sea and the beast - band marino

because there are simply too many beautiful asw comics, and i need somewhere to put them all. turns out i'm c&p'ing nearly all of them. but it simply must be done. there are too many times when i just absolutely have to read one of my absolute favourites, and cannot find it. this seems mighty pointless, but asw serves as #2 in 'things that inspire me the most in absolutely everything i do'.

• "In the caves behind my house, I found a...
• "I lost my whole family to the fire. I c...
• "There's a whole world down in the ocean...
• "There are people who believe a photogra...
• "I was so sure my search would end when ...
• "After the war, the fallout drove us und...
• "There's a whole world off this island. ...
• "Tourist season is the hardest for me. W...
• "I'm afraid to go on this mission, afrai...
• "When the moon is full I turn into a wer...
• "yes, i believe in love. yes, i'm a drea...

taking advantage of this "new year" thing to track movies i've seen because i can never seem to remember them

• Venus as a Boy
• Pictures of Dorian Grey
  • well, anything by sir wilde
• The Vampire Chronicles
• that goddamn How to Read Literature Like a Professor book
  • ):<

so to be continued.