perfect contained burst of early 2000s indie pop. was my favorite burned CD in high school and I still feel transported and moved when I listen to it in my car even tho it skips a bunch now
Mar 9, 2024
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This song soothed me, made me cry, made me smile, made me feel everything !! Especially when I was in middle school. No matter what phase in life I’ve been in, this song has found me. I still listen to it from time to time almost six years later.
It’s usually found in spotify playlists I meticulously crafted from 2018-2019, wedged comfortably between other tracks like Engine by Neutral Milk Hotel and New Flesh by the Current Joys. Oh how I miss this music ! I don’t miss most of middle school, but I wish I could hear a lot of this music for the first time again.
Dec 30, 2024
such a tender and fun time... could just be looped in with that era of indie rock but there was something so distinct about it (twee? sparkly? childlike? maybe that's my own perception of its influence on me at the time?) someone still loves you boris yeltsin, freelance whales, clap your hands say yeah, midlake, islands, rogue wave, throw me the statue ETC!!!! i feel like i'm puking at homecoming bc my ex bf is grinding with my best friend and i am going home to burn a CD about it!!!!!
Dec 4, 2024
This was my favorite album throughout all of middle school and i still love it over a decade later, although I can’t really discern if it’s the nostalgia or if it’s really that good. This band was also my favorite until they disbanded at some point in the late 2010s, likely due to a lack of fan support and general popularity. I saw them open for Coldplay on their mylo xyloto tour, which was my first concert ever, and was hooked immediately.
Midnight dancers is still one of my favorite songs ever written, and I want it played at my wedding.
Important edit: this was when OFWGKTA was really big and I vividly remember being so frustrated because it was even harder to find stuff related to these guys because any searches with “wolf gang” were related to Tyler lol
Dec 11, 2024
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you need an account but soo many treasures. old scanned newspapers - search for people, buildings, events of the past, etc. found out that my grandma apparently crashed into a parked cop car in NJ in the 50s lol. so many ridiculous vintage advertisements on each page too
Feb 4, 2024
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Stunning memoir. Absolutely immersive. Precise and heartbreaking writing by and about a woman who suffered her whole life and ultimately caused others to as well. Felt like a thrill and a privilege to live in the honest minutia of a real daily life in 1920s-50s Copenhagen, a world that was entirely unfamiliar to me previously. Bleak yet somehow sharply funny and delightful too!
Apr 10, 2024
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I was sitting on the steps to my house with my friend Evan. We were about 2 or 3. There were hundreds of ants on the sidewalk below us. Evan reached down and started smushing them. I turned to him and told him to stop: “How would YOU feel if you were an ant and someone smushed YOU?” A patronizing lesson in empathy… Interestingly, I had open heart surgery around the same time and spent days in the hospital, but this memory is much more visceral. Love this question.
Apr 2, 2024