Things To Get To Know And Love
o the film Shopgirl.
o the Swedish band The Shout Out Louds.
o the Brooklyn band Animal Collective.
o the Chicago post-rock supergroup The Sea and Cake.
o the new Rick Rubin-produced album "12 Songs" by Neil Diamond. (I'm feeling a bit guilty for perpetuating / buying into the corporate coopting of more organic-in-origin type socialization sites such as the [admittedly youngish & silly] MySpace - but you get to listen to the whole damn album and that's what it's all about after all.)
Nick Hornbyish thoughts of Top 5 lists and such have been recurring in my mind fairly frequently. One of those characters had the theory and strong belief that you are what you like, and if you and another person like the same items, you'll get along with each other. Clearly oversimplified and naive. But there has always been a longstanding suspicion, a secret personal assurance even, that the "you are what you like" idea was onto something halfway profound. "You are *why* you like what you like" seems a useful adjustment, even if it is grammatical stretch.
o the Swedish band The Shout Out Louds.
o the Brooklyn band Animal Collective.
o the Chicago post-rock supergroup The Sea and Cake.
o the new Rick Rubin-produced album "12 Songs" by Neil Diamond. (I'm feeling a bit guilty for perpetuating / buying into the corporate coopting of more organic-in-origin type socialization sites such as the [admittedly youngish & silly] MySpace - but you get to listen to the whole damn album and that's what it's all about after all.)
Nick Hornbyish thoughts of Top 5 lists and such have been recurring in my mind fairly frequently. One of those characters had the theory and strong belief that you are what you like, and if you and another person like the same items, you'll get along with each other. Clearly oversimplified and naive. But there has always been a longstanding suspicion, a secret personal assurance even, that the "you are what you like" idea was onto something halfway profound. "You are *why* you like what you like" seems a useful adjustment, even if it is grammatical stretch.
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