Song of the Day
Posted on April 27th, 2010
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“Magnetic North”
Posted on April 24th, 2010
Writer’s Corner
Posted on April 24th, 2010
Resources for creative writers.
Websites:
One Word – fix that writer’s block
Byzantine Roads – technical support blog for aspiring writers
Poems about writing:
“Berryman“, W.S. Merwin
Publications:
I recommend The Writer’s Chronicle, put out by the AWP, the Association of Writers and Writer’s Programs which is probably the largest organization of its kind out there and puts on a huge conference every year. The Chronicle itself is lovely, comes in a nice accessible and non-threatening or demanding format and is chock-full of goodies.
Melissa Polinar
Posted on April 24th, 2010
Melissa Polinar is a Youtube artist I just discovered who needs to get picked up by a record label STAT. She’s amazing.
Subscribe and watch all of her songs here
Sunao Ni Narenakute
Posted on April 22nd, 2010
I am in love with the new Japanese drama Sunao ni Narenakute, also known as Hard to Say I Love You. It’s fresh and modern and giddily romantic, and combines a lovely playful vibe with (already!) a good dose of angst, and Eita as a hot young photographer ala Matsuda Shoda in Love Shuffle is mmmmm. It was marketed as a Twitter drama, but there’s absolutely nothing frivolous about it – it’s romantic and well-acted with lots of darkness and already traces of mystery. I am deeply, madly in love – haven’t fallen for a Japanese drama this hard since Love Shuffle.
Synopsis(via Wikipedia):
“Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno’s best friend, whose boyfriend has been avoiding her since she discovered she was pregnant. Ichihara works at a magazine where he is being blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor. Park, on Twitter, takes on the persona of a doctor, when he is actually working at a company that sells medical equipment to disinterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister.
This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.”
Download the RAWS and subs for the first episode at Noanymore
Photograph & Quotidian
Posted on April 20th, 2010
“I envy everything, all of it. I know
it’s a sin. I love how you can shift
in your chair, take a deep drink
of gold beer, curl your toes under, and hum.”
-Dorianne Laux, from “What Could Happen“
Favorite Poems
Posted on April 19th, 2010
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, Ezra Pound
“One Art”, Elizabeth Bishop
“Yellow Bowl“, Rachel Contreni Flynn
“Marseilles“, Antonia Clark
“Father Andrews“, Thomas Lynch
“The Abnormal is Not Courage“, Jack Gilbert
“You Were Wearing Blue“, Tom Raworth
Quotidian & Song of the Day
Posted on April 17th, 2010
Sometime Around Midnight, The Airborne Toxic Event
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“We decided a long time ago not to take reviews too seriously. For one, they tend to involve a whole lot of projection, generally saying more about the writer than the band. Sort of a musical Rorschach test. And for another, reading them makes you too damned self-conscious, like the world is looking over your shoulder when the truth is you’re not a genius or a moron. You’re just a person in a band.”
-Letter to Pitchfork from The Airborne Toxic Event
Life Unexpected Ep 12 Music
Posted on April 14th, 2010
Songs from the latest episode of the amazing CW show.
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now, Starship
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Love Comes Back Around, Graham Colton(played at end of episode 12)
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Photograph & Song of the Day
Posted on April 12th, 2010
Apple And Cinnamon, Utada Hikaru
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