• Bluish - Animal Collective (Merriweather Post Pavilion)

(The infatuated “Bluish” meanwhile manages to synthesise the dazzled awe of Mercury Rev circa “Carwash Hair”, the lucid languor of Primal Scream’s “Higher Than The Sun” and the sun-spangled melody of Brian Wilson. And yet listing references almost seems beside the point; there’s no sense of pastiche, everything feels utterly, unmistakeably absorbed into the Animal Collective universe.- slate)

Similarly out-of-time sentiments mark "Bluish"-- lines like "I'm getting lost in your curls," or, "Some kind of magic in the way you're lying there"-- and the music has the airy ease of 1970s soft-rock that weirdly winds up a little disconcerting. - pitchfork

may 4 2015 ∞
may 4 2015 +

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.

24/100 - Read

  • The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  • Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  • The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
dec 10 2010 ∞
may 4 2015 +
  • 27 Dresses
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Taken
  • Enchanted
  • Ugly Truth
  • Corpse Bride
  • Horton Hears a Who
  • Vantage Point
  • Batman Begins
  • Dark Knight
  • Emma
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Titanic
  • Avatar
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
  • Up
  • Ratatouille
  • Ella Enchanted
  • Princess Bride
mar 28 2010 ∞
may 1 2015 +
  • go to Pixar Animation Studios
  • work at Pixar animation Studios
  • live in New York City (at least for a while)
  • get a dog
  • finish high school
  • finish college
  • fall head over heels in love
  • go to an opera
  • write a novel
  • write my life in the form of a screenplay
  • write a screenplay
  • go to a Broadway Musical in New York
  • go on a road trip across the country
  • learn self defense
  • go to Edmonton, Alberta
  • go to Helsinki, Finland
  • dye my hair an unreasonable color
  • see Vampire Weekend / Modest Mouse / in concert
feb 21 2011 ∞
may 4 2015 +
  • Miyazaki's Spirited Away set to Hisaishi's score
  • Tonari no Totoro
  • Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's final performance in 2010 Olympics
  • L'Absinthe by Degas
  • The End of Something by Ernest Hemmingway
  • Bon Iver album
nov 4 2010 ∞
aug 27 2011 +
  • Phoenix
  • Vampire Weekend
  • Modest Mouse
  • Arcade Fire
  • Sufjan Stevens
  • Spoon
  • Black Keys
mar 26 2011 ∞
may 4 2015 +
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Matt Damon
  • J.K. Rowling
  • Winston Churchill
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Hayao Miyazaki
nov 5 2010 ∞
aug 27 2011 +