JD Layman
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This is why you save every note from every mixtape. You all are welcome for this one.
There is so little to remember of anyone— an anecdote, a conversation at table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that wanderers will find a way home.
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it. I miss civilization, and I want it back.
I love finding random pictures on my phone after roadtrips. Great weekend with some of the best people in the world. Friends, relatives, mentors, kids, green men, dance parties, dogfights, coffee, on-the-road phone catchups, thunderstorms. All soundtracked by the joyously epic “Impossible Soul.”
New clothes in the mail today. Trying to look more professional, without looking like an engineer.
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
No Age - Everything in Between
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a Changin’
- Roger Thornhill: What's wrong with men like me?
- Eve Kendall: They don't believe in marriage.
- Roger Thornhill: I've been married twice.
- Eve Kendall: See what I mean?
If you fellows can’t whip the VanDamm’s of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them and probably never come back, perhaps you should lose a few cold wars.
Nouns describe objective roles, parts to play, scripts to follow. Adjectives are more amorphous and qualitative, describing how we put our unique mark on an expected role. Both nouns and adjectives are necessary.
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. When one looks from inside at a lighted window, or looks from above at the lake, one sees the image of oneself in a lighted room, the image of oneself among trees and sky— the deception is obvious, but flattering all the same. When one looks from the darkness into the light, however, one sees all the difference between here and there this and that.
The Hold Steady’s fifth studio album, Heaven is Whenever, came out last week. On first listen, I wasn’t a huge fan. Then I put it in my car. I forget that The Hold Steady graduated from headphones long ago. These tunes are meant for the arena, to be pumped loud and unabashed from speakers. Craig Finn’s lyrics are no longer intimate stories, but manifest themselves as proclamations. Perhaps not quite as strong as previous offerings, but destined for heavy rotation this summer.
But they didn’t name her for a saint
They named her for a storm
She said the theme of this party’s the Industrial Age
And you came in dressed like a train wreck
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Updates
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Who didn't grow up wishing they were Benny "the jet" Rodriguez? #Sandlot
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I love that @craigshortbus invites people over and then promptly asks if they have any brownie mix. #lazynight #munchies
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@craigshortbus it's about time!
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@petiteartichoke I listened to the Broken Social Scene version of that song this morning. Miss you, friend.
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@kaciejosherrard I am proud that you associate me with Dylan! I think of you at every Starbucks.
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Mouse just tried to drag a bite-sized Snickers to his house. Don't touch my breakfast! #timetofight
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@petiteartichoke I will do my best. It seems our only conversations revolve around our mice infestation at the moment...
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I was just compared to a young Barry Manilow. #sunfresh
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@craigshortbus I wondered about that last night! I couldn't remember if it was new though. It was there before I got home from work.
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Unbelievable performance by Brandon Paul. #I-L-L
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Roy kicked off the new year by sleeping past noon today. #lazydog #resolutions
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@kevincawley I couldn't help but notice your friends in Mercury Mad are playing at Davey's on Jan 2nd. Can we expect you in the front row?
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Don't worry now we're blasting "Say My Name." #redemption
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I'm curating @AmandaLayman's music on our trip. Are we listening to Point of Grace? #embarrassment
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Then there's that moment when you realize the actual problem for why the church's website is ignored by Google and you fix it. #oops
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@kaciejosherrard love it! Thanks so much for the gift, friend!
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@evanrosell As a member of the aviation industry, I've always found those restrictions hilarious. As if we don't test for interference.
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A cartoon Bobba Fett is riding a dinosaur. He just befriended Luke and Chewie. How did the franchise ever recover from this?
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My family just sat down to watch a boot-legged copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special. It's somehow managing to be worse than expected.
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Black Wave by The Shins2 hours ago
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Turn on Me by The Shins2 hours ago
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Red Rabbits by The Shins2 hours ago
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Sea Legs by The Shins2 hours ago
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Phantom Limb by The Shins2 hours ago
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Pam Berry by The Shins2 hours ago
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Australia by The Shins3 hours ago
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Sleeping Lessons by The Shins3 hours ago
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Those to Come by The Shins3 hours ago
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Gone for Good by The Shins3 hours ago
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Reconciled sinner living in KC, who loves a good book, a long run, and time spent with friends. I also write software for private jets from time to time.
