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2. She & Him (12)
3. Sigur Rós (3)
4. Robbie Seay Band (2)
5. The Weepies (2)

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1. Ryan Adams (18)
2. Robbie Seay Band (7)
3. The Civil Wars (7)
4. Chris Thile (1)
5. Jethro Tull (1)

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ailan:

From the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.

jorgerodriguez:

Blueberries and Cream Cookies and a loaf of Chocolate Stout Chocolate Chip Bread fresh from the oven and ready to be mailed. In fact, they’ve already been sent. The woman working at the post office said “whatever it is, it’s still warm!” That’d be the bread. What can I say, I get really excited about sending homemade goods in the mail.

Caitlin,

Oh man. I’m not officially doing Tumblr Eat Up until I have more time, but if you wanted to make either of these for me, I’d be stoked for sure. I could be persuaded to make something in return.

Yours hungrily (that sounds a little different than I mean it),

Patrick

She & Him - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, from A Very She & Him Christmas

She & Him’s Christmas album came out today. You can purchase a $5 digital copy on Amazon, but if you have a turntable you’d be much better served purchasing the vinyl edition.

If I owned a record player, I would want nothing more than to put on this album of a snowy evening with a fire in the fireplace and a Christmas tree decked out in typical Wilson-family splendor.

In my fantasy, I am wearing a burgundy terry-cloth robe, meaningfully pondering a tumbler of scotch.

1. Ryan Adams (16)
2. Iron & Wine (3)
3. Original Broadway Cast - The Little Mermaid (2)
4. The Civil Wars (1)
5. Elton John (1)

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1. The Civil Wars (12)
2. Phil Wickham (9)
3. Joni Mitchell (2)
4. Iron & Wine (2)
5. Sarah Jarosz (2)

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nevver:

Tom Whalen

It’s about time for this! I need to remember to tivo it when it comes on TV.

scout:

thedailywhat:

Your New Favorite Flickr Feed of the Day: Nightmares Fear Factory might be “the longest running and scariest haunted house in North America, possibly the world,” but it’s nowhere near as scary as the prospect of ending up on its Flickr feed looking like a frightened fool for the world to see.

[mefi.]

I hate being scared but I love watching other people get scared. The urgency on that boy’s face in the first picture. I love people.

Excellent! 10/10.

rebeccalinn:

A color study made in Painter that I believe is turning out well. It may eventually be part of a larger piece.

Welcome to Tumblr!

qwantzfeed:

the more i think about it the more it seems god powers are a pretty sweet deal. i guess this thought has been had before?

scout:

Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire (live, acoustic)

Title track from his new album. He sounds so great. Remember when DRA was on Tumblr and all was right with the world?

New album? How… how did I not know about this?

Yeah, Ryan Adams was a pro at Tumblr. Wish those days would come back again.

Describing archetypal characters from romantic comedies:

The Ethereal Weirdo

The smart and funny writer Nathan Rabin coined the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl to describe this archetype after seeing Kirsten Dunst in the movie “Elizabethtown.” This girl can’t be pinned down and may or may not show up when you make concrete plans with her. She wears gauzy blouses and braids. She likes to dance in the rain and she weeps uncontrollably if she sees a sign for a missing dog or cat. She might spin a globe, place her finger on a random spot, and decide to move there. The Ethereal Weirdo appears a lot in movies, but nowhere else. If she were from real life, people would think she was a homeless woman and would cross the street to avoid her. But she is essential to the male fantasy that even if a guy is boring he deserves a woman who will find him fascinating and perk up his dreary life by forcing him to go skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool.

Read the article here.

This is a real e-mail that I had occasion to write yesterday. This… is my life.

Hi there.

So, we put our heads together on this issue, and this is the best solution we could determine.

The 6th Edition of the Publication Manual for the American Psychological Association provides instructions for how to cite a music recording on page 210.

52. Music Recording

lang, k. d. (2008). Shadow and the frame. On Watershed [CD]. New
     York, NY: Nonesuch Records

In text citations, include side and band or track numbers: “Shadow and the Frame” (lang, 2008, track 10).

Note that the musician’s chosen capitalization overrules conventions of the English language, in which first letters of names are capitalized. One problem you may run into, I’m afraid, is that there may not be a known author, or known date of publication, nor may there be an album from which one could gather publication information.

We feel that you could easily make the case that “Old MacDonald” is considered “common knowledge,” and therefore not in need of citation. If you choose to cite it, however, you’re going to type:

n. d. Old MacDonald.

And that’s it. (n. d. simply means “no date.”) You likely don’t know a date, author, or publication information. An in-text citation, then, would look like this: And on that farm there was a pig (“Old MacDonald,” n. d.).

Finally, note that if you’re citing a specific version of “Old MacDonald” from a specific recording, you will need to cite the song as provided above for the music recording with as much information as you have available.

Hope this helps!

Patrick Wilson
Webster University Writing Center