thurston thursday

i want a range life so i can settle down

let me take you back to simpler times

i made a couple more spotify mixes this week.i'm on a roll.

you can pretend someone shoved a mixtape in your locker at lunch.cut class, put on your headphones and walk out to the school parking lot to sneak smoking some cigarettes while biding your time til you go to some shitty basement hardcore show tonight where you'll be drinking a 40 out of a paper bag that you snuck in your backpack.

fact

the best songs make me either want to make out or pick up a guitar.my *absolute favorite* songs make me want to do both.

case in point:


if i ever get married this is definitely getting played at my wedding.

mark's completely right

let's not waste time

boys and boots

and there's always music in the air

i started working on this playlist as soon as i heard the word that david lynch was in talks with the networks about bringing twin peaks back on the air.it's a little long but i got a bit ocd about it and meticulously chose tracks that both lyrically and atmospherically match david lynch and twin peaks.i also tried to make sure none of the songs i used were used in other lynch movies.i included songs about twin peaks as well.if nothing else i'm pretty thorough.

maybe he will hire me on as a music supervisor for his next shoot.or at least a stand-in or something.the fact that my friends think i look like laura palmer can't hurt right?...a girl can dream.

missing link

full moon

catholic love

pray

let's wrap it up,i've got some sinning to do

kind of excited to go see jim gaffigan tonight with my siblings.

winter blues

we're probably not getting enough snow for me to attempt this

have it your way

i would like a moment like this in the near future

winter is too long

sonic you

she'd be seen in and out of the sound

i had no idea that death cab for cutie did a julian cope cover. color me shocked.

"i am not strange.i am just not normal."

dali and alice cooper.i would have liked to have been a fly on the wall for that conversation.

on my way to a job interview

here goes nothin.

darling

quitting is hard

i haven't bought a pack of cigarettes since before the new year started.not that i haven't bummed some smokes from people but considering i would be smoking a pack almost every 1-2 days i've certainly cut way back at least. i don't have the gum or the electronic cigarettes to help.just willpower.

all of my vices have become more like treats in the new year rather than the norm.i think that's probably a good thing. being pretty broke right now certainly helps this cause.

today's menu

the saddest breakfast i've ever heard of.i'm gonna go with a pop tart instead.

6 am truths

permanently black and blue

my usual problem: bending over backwards for people i wind up getting bruised.
seems there's never anyone to catch me with frozen strawberries.



i must be feeling slightly lonely considering a lot of the music my subconscious is having me listen to lately.it seems to be seeking me out. too much time on my hands with nothing happening causes overthinking.

i can't afford to buy new clothes

i hadn't realized how much weight i had lost until i tried on some of my old "professional" looking clothes.my pants almost fell right off my ass.

the weather forecast

i don't want you to go either!

just spent the last half hour or so crying.

finally watched all of "the end of time" through tearing bleary eyes.at least since i'm so behind in the show the regeneration wasn't like a total shock or anything but still SOOOO sad.i had put it off because i didn't want to accept a new doctor.but i guess if i want to get back up to speed before the new episodes start on tv i'm going to have to give matt smith a chance....but like an insolent 5 year old i'm going to kick my heels in the dirt and yell "but i don't waaaaaanna!!!!"

i may need to take a break from doctor who to mourn tennant a bit before i start watching series 5.

the new highway hymnal

been diggin this band's whole album a LOT lately. really good shit.

the end of time

mentally preparing myself to watch this.somehow it's fitting that there's snow on the ground as i start this episode.

if i don't watch part two then david tennant gets to stay the doctor forever right?

....RIGHT?

dreamboat

not exactly lost in the supermarket

everyone's going gonzo over this snow we're having

(see what i did there?)

it's snowing and laying right now

my bloody valentine is always the perfect soundtrack to snow

i've been let down

i may be starting a band that pretty much sounds like this soon.

fits my mood lately at least.

puritanical society

birthday boy

saturday saviour

this whole album is one of my favorite albums of all-time.




this song (and album) is about heroin addiction but i think it also can pertain to one-sided relationships in general.

can we please just fast forward to spring already?

barriers

bernard butler's guitar parts are,as usual, pretty great but i can't decide if i really like this new suede song yet or not.i think i'll have to listen a few more times and see how it sits with me.

you probably forgot how goddamn good this song is

now and then it occurs to me

the field mice were almost kind of like a more twee version of the smiths but without the great johnny marr guitar hooks.still a good song though-especially if you're feeling a bit on the emo side.

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wild in our ways

been listening to this band a lot lately.i guess most of beach house's music has a slight melancholy,bittersweet edge to it in the first place but this video is honestly rather dire and depressing-like the bleakness you might feel after watching "requiem for a dream" or something like that.

bargain bin blasphemy

this tumblr which is amazing definitely falls under the "i-can't-believe-i never-thought-of-this!" category

flavor wrap 5

i love the website flavorwire.i was browsing around today and found quite a few articles i think are definitely worth sharing.




the velvet underground map of new york city

i wanted to suggest someone take a little daytrip up to nyc to check out the vu sites with me but it's a little depressing since most of the spots are now starbucks or parking lots.



notable music videos made by famous filmmakers

wow i genuinely forgot (or was unaware in some cases) of who directed some of these.




10 highbrow horror films to see instead of texas chainsaw 3d

the list is pretty great-you can't necessarily call all the films on the list strictly "horror" but they've all got some disturbing scenes.




real life stories behind 10 famous love songs

definitely quite a few facts i didn't know about some of my favorite songs.




the scariest scenes in cinema

they mention "cape fear" in this list and while that's scary i think i'd put "night of the hunter" above that as far as robert mitchum scary is involved.

maybe i'm dismayed

blissed out fatalists

this whole album is really really good and the whole thing is on youtube.i can't believe i had never heard of this band until now.if you threw together some 80s sonic youth with 80s-90s jesus and mary chain,a dash of the birthday party,a sprinkle of butthole surfers,a little bit of suicide to taste with a heap of 90s brian jonestown massacre on the side this is pretty much what you are gonna get.

positive rodents

a friend of mine played this song on his radio show last week and i really thought it was reminiscent of nirvana's "negative creep". in other words i liked it a lot.



and just for a little comparison

elementary

i've been watching so much british tv lately that my inner thoughts are now in a british accent.i'm pretty much okay with this.

and this is why communication is key

-kerouac

i'm convinced watching this show is only making me smarter in the long run

day of worship

silence is sexy

lebensmittel

naturally the risotto is black.

stay inside

for the record

jonathan fire*eater > the walkmen ....by like a ton.

and since when are the walkmen "local"? i was under the impression they were dc/nyc...






i'm fairly certain i've posted this exact same thing before but i guess i'm just always so incredulous as to why people like the walkmen soooo much every time they play here.i mean they aren't *bad*,they're just allright but for me to get hyped that the walkmen are playing would be like never having heard jefferson airplane but getting excited that jefferson starship is playing.well,maybe that's not exactly fair-jefferson starship is bloody awful...but i think you get the gist. jonathan fire*eater had this amazing energy at a special time and were unlike anything else out there.the walkmen just don't really stick out as anything different from any of their peers.

american idol

this is hardcore

wow,i feel like my days have been a complete waste now.

but playing guitar and drinking are so much cheaper...

with my sleeplessness and anxiety lately i probably ought to make myself an appointment.

fantastic!

i could listen to david lynch talk all day long

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zeroes and ones

shivers

i've been looking for this movie for a long,long,long time.last i looked for it, it was fetching over $150 for an out of print vhs or dvd.
lo and behold i randomly found it in full on youtube tonight.

tru luv 4-eva

i saw this on another blog today and cracked up for a while.

hoping the new job starts asap

your ticket to the gun show

am i supposed to be playing it cool?

i really don't know how to play it cool.i would think it should be to the point now where i could just casually say "hey what are you up to this weekend?" and hope the answer would be "i was hoping to hang out with you". but i don't know how to play it cool.i'm not cool.i'm awkward and get quiet when i actually like someone.

i guess this is growing up

betty black and blue

---that would have been my name had i joined the roller derby like i had planned to a few years ago.i was talked out of it since i didn't have health insurance.the name came about due to the fact that without doing anything at all i bruise incredibly easily to begin with and i was still sporting my bettie page haircut at the time.

supposedly my iron levels are good and according to my last doctor's visit i don't seem too anemic anymore but i still continue to bruise at the slightest bump.luckily the bruise on my head will finally be gone before the weekend even gets here.even more luckily i'm good enough at makeup that i've been able to cover it up for the most part for the last two weeks.my staircase is a danger zone.

nonetheless i completely relate to nancy here.

bowie birthday

he's 66 today and released a new single.i'll have to give it a couple more listens before i decide how i feel about it.

i'd like to be someone you could finally learn to love again

would you be my longtime baby?



i almost forgot how much i love this song

after you

it's hard not to be excited for this new year when a new pulp single is released. it's verrrrrryyyyyy disco.

no one's tall in hollyweird

forever lucy

nothin' but a...

jon spencer is the babeliest.

freaky eater? more like hero

i'm not usually into too much reality tv but i don't care what anyone says,"freaky eaters" and "my strange obsession" are pretty damn amazing.

the guy above was "addicted" to pizza at like 20 or 22.pretty sure that's just called normal life.

guitar zero

for some reason i accidentally picked this to play at guitar hero tonight* and can kill it at this song and sabbath "paranoid" but have me as the second player to beastie boys' "sabotage" and i suck ass.

i like playing guitar hero with my friends but i wish i were getting to play real guitar with friends more often.



*not that i wouldn't have played i,it was just me accidentally hitting select when i wasn't aware

which way to go

maybe i'll be a grown up this year instead of just faking it

current craving

i really feel like eating pizza and playing video games right now.

think carefully about your answer

i was talking to some friends about the movie survive style 5+ last night.it's been way too long since i've seen itbut it's so incredibly hard to find.i don't understand why,it's brilliant.