Catatonic Marathon: Archive

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Julia Holter

Julia Holter’s new album Ekstasis is getting heavy airplay in our household. I can’t even begin to tell you how into this I am. The whole album is genius.

Apr 8th

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New Greyshield album: Kal Lor

Hi folks, I just finished my new album. It’s called Kal Lor. You can listen to it and download it for free at Bandcamp. Neat! <a href=”http://greyshield.bandcamp.com/album/kal-lor” data-mce-href=”http://greyshield.bandcamp.com/album/kal-lor”>Kal Lor by Greyshield</a> Those of you whom are close to me know that I had a much, much more exciting and...

Mar 29th

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Portland Restaurant Haikus →

This is my new blog idea. How long will it last? It’s a mystery. For now, I present Portland Restaurant Haikus.

Mar 12th

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Mar 2nd

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 21st

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Feb 20th

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Feb 19th

11 notes

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Feb 17th

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Feb 17th

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Feb 16th

4 notes

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Feb 13th

1,679 notes

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Feb 13th

17 notes

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Feb 11th

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Feb 11th

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God knows why I felt it necessary to record this...

Feb 10th

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Feb 10th

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Feb 7th

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Feb 7th

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Feb 7th

Movie drought

What the heck is up with Hollywood right now? This is such a long and intense movie drought. Hanna and I go to the movies a lot, and there were only three movies I saw in 2011 that I actually liked. They were: The King’s Speech Drive Martha Marcy May Marlene Everything else, from Super 8 to Ides of March to Harry Potter, was yawn-tastic. 2011 was a terrible year for movies, and when the...

Jan 6th

Bumper stickers are alienating

On my way home today, I was behind a car with a bumper sticker that read “If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli more fun to shoot.” As a strict vegetarian, I have a few things to say about this. 1. That’s pretty funny 2. God doesn’t want us to be anything, primarily because he doesn’t exist 3. If God wanted us to be mouth-breathing...

Dec 8th

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My favorite music of 2011

I read lists like this every year and they mostly make me angry. To those fellow passionate music enthusiasts for whom this list will inspire similar rage (“OMG, no Bon Iver?” etc.), I’m not sorry. Nor am I energetic enough to write even a paragraph on any of these. This is nothing more than a quick list that maybe you can look over if your iTunes needs a kick in the pants. ...

Dec 7th

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A song for a green pheasant

Where music is concerned, taste is enormously complex. As often as we revel in the shared enjoyment of a song or artist, we relish the solitary specificity of our individual favorites. We covet the music “nobody else likes.” It’s a strange art form that inspires its enthusiasts to personalize their enjoyment to levels of alienation. When I was a kid, I used to wake up...

Nov 20th

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Fleetwood Meg

This is my friend, Megan Taylor. She’s one of my favorite people, and has been for about ten years. This photo is from April 2010, when Hanna and I visited Meg in San Francisco. Before I forget, Meg’s blog is called Poem Sweet Poem. Note: If you’re reading this in Google Reader or another RSS agent, you may not be able to listen to the song files below. Meg reciprocated...

Nov 13th

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The surreal world of wrestling promos

Did you watch WWF wrestling when you were a kid? If so, have you paused in your adult life to consider how truly bizarre those televised events were? I have, and to me, there was no single aspect of WWF wrestling more bizarre than the promotional spots each wrestler made before and after each match, during which they pumped up their images, smack-talked their opponent, and reacted to the canned...

Oct 29th

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"I drive... for movies."

I saw the Nicholas Winding Refn-directed movie Drive this week. It’s really great. **No spoilers ahead.** If you’re already familiar with Ryan Gosling’s outstanding performances in Half Nelson and Blue Valentine, you won’t be surprised to see him delivering subtle complexity and outright intensity in his role as “The Driver.” Carey Mulligan, another actor...

Oct 1st

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Aug 9th

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The reflected smile, the wordless conversation

Congratulations to my dear friends Jeff and Heather upon their first full day of marriage. Their wedding last night in my beloved hometown of Essex, Massachusetts was one of the truly beautiful, tasteful and original celebrations of love I’ve attended. On another topic entirely, I just remembered that last week I dreamed of playing in a Herman’s Hermit’s cover band called...

Jun 19th

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Great Scott!

Well, the new album already passed the 500 download mark, which I honestly cannot believe. It must have been posted somewhere really special, because it literally jumped tenfold today compared to Wednesday night’s total. Huge love and thanks to all who downloaded and shared. It makes it all worthwhile to know people are listening. Bandcamp wants their nut, so the album is $5 on there for...

Jun 17th

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New Greyshield album

Hi Tumblr friends. Just wanted to let you know my new album is available on Bandcamp. It’s called Obscure Lands, and if you’re one of the first 30 people to download it, it’s 100% free. &lt;a href=”http://greyshield.bandcamp.com/album/obscure-lands” _mce_href=”http://greyshield.bandcamp.com/album/obscure-lands”&gt;Obscure Lands by...

Jun 14th

Sweet Lights: A Hundred Needle Pins

One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums of the past year, infused with familiar footage that makes every good person smile. Sweet Lights - A Hundred Needle Pins from Sweet Lights on Vimeo.

May 27th

May 2nd

ESPN: Warren Moon says criticism of Cam Newton is...

I really agree with Warren Moon here. The Rich Eisen NFL podcast (which is pretty terrible) compared Cam Newton to three other quarterbacks: Vince Young, Donovan McNabb and Jamarcus Russell. They were solely comparing Newton to other black QBs whom have been subjects of shame at some point in their careers. Not once did they compare Newton to Aaron Rodgers, a QB known for escaping the pass rush...

Apr 1st

The Adjustment Bureau is really dumb

We just saw the movie The Adjustment Bureau. It’s thoroughly dumb. I don’t really want to get into why, other than everything about it was just convenient and fudgey. It had some enjoyable elements, I suppose, and we didn’t expect all that much. The most disappointing part was that it was essentially a nice romance movie with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, who of course are both...

Mar 26th

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Mar 9th

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Feb 9th

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Watch

EXCUSES by Bibio That’s fresh.

Feb 9th

New Red Abbott site

I redesigned the Red Abbott site for the millionth time after it was crippled by some mysterious hack or something. Here’s a link. I might be slightly overstating the fact that we’re working on a new album (we’ve completed one track that we started in March 2008) but don’t tell that to any of our rando internet fans. http://redabbott.com

Feb 3rd

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Watch

From Warpaint’s EP Exquisite Corpse (2009)

Feb 2nd

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Grumble

I wasn’t aware until I recently started using my Twitter account more actively that I had it configured to tweet everything I post here on Tumblr. That’s fine, but as evidenced by recent hashtag-mania here on CM, the opposite was also happening. Henceforth, my tweets won’t appear here, unless I want them to, and my Tumblr posts will continue to appear in my Twitter feed...

Dec 29th

Simply having an extremely disturbing Christmastime http://bit.ly/fa5u79

Dec 29th

wonder where this guy with the ORNGMN license plate and #Syracuse sticker went to college #trafficjam

Dec 22nd

“verbing” should be a word

Dec 21st

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