your hanging parenthetical makes me worry that you were murdered mid-question
portland is actually really, really amazing so far, and even manages to live up to the weird, abstract ideal i constructed of this place when i was 16 and listening to sleater-kinney on humid nights in suburban texas. nine years later, i finally visited and here i am
i came here with a job (i work full-time remotely), so i’m pretty lucky that way. (actually i’m really, really lucky that way)
i love the size of the city. it’s very dense with Cool Stuff…pretty much every block between any given here and there has at least 5 things on it to like, at least 3 of which are amazing restaurants or bars that have delicious local beers on tap
i like that i ride my bike every single day and that there are tall fir trees and that people talk about wool and kombucha a lot
I’m pretty into arrowheads. You know, for modern day aesthetic purposes and also for like, killing wooly mammoths and stuff. We’re talking literal Stone Age, right? I’m taking this question at face value.
We still don’t know which culture originally invented the wheel. Isn’t that crazy?
The Ecuadorian government has shut down about 30 abusive ex-gay clinics, but over 200 remain.
my whole life
i felt like i’d relate to everyone*
more than i’d ever relate to someone or anyone
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with “Got to Get You Off My Mind”, but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and…oh, there are loads of rules.
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via ohheygrace)
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“High Fidelity” is a rare example of a thing where I love the movie and I love the book equally. I recommend both. Each is special in its own way.
I think doing anything just to keep the peace is a good way to build resentment and I hate resentment. It’s the number one reason I say All The Things — I don’t want a single unchecked negative thought swimming around in there. Tiny negative thoughtfish turn into giant angry thoughtsharks and then they eat you and then you die. Simple as that.
yes yes yes
bigger, brighter and different
i mean seriously either we’re gonna come back atcha
with something that’ll blow your mind
or not.
but option a is what we’re hoping for.
you should tell them
you should follow brandy @SexoPharmacia
and tell her WE MISS YOU ON AUTOSTRADDLE
tell her that a lot
swear a lot
try to say something really offensive
like the most offensive thing you can think of
mmk?
<3
i am 30 years old
i used to go to nation on saturday nights
does that still exist?
i suggest throwing a party in your pants
it’s when you eat food together, smash your sexy parts into their sexy parts and then leave your socks at their house.
