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Shut down tumblr. We’re done. It’s not cool anymore. #LOL

Oh, Black Kids! I remember them. I had their t-shirt and my grandfather asked me if it was racist.

Sorry Ryan but I’m not going to teach your grandpa how to understand 2007 postracial/postirony band names with you.

Oh Contra… Contra, Contra, Contra. Before I listened to the new album I went back to see if I was just being a contrarian punk in dismissing Contra. This was an album that made #5 on the Pazz and Jop poll!* Well I was right. That album still stinks majorly with the exception of “White Sky” and “Giving Up the Gun.” “Horchata” still sounds like a parody of a Vampire Weekend song with it’s blatant cultural signifiers. “Holiday” is dreck designed to be in winter Gap commercials. The only reason I can figure for it being so high on so many lists (other than the fact that tastes differ and all) is music critics didn’t want another Black Kids-esque hypecrash.

I was worried that Modern Vampires of the City was going to be another Contra nightmare, but I came out of listening to the album pleased. It’s obvious Koenig et al decided to stretch outside the Graceland boundaries and create something that wouldn’t just be Vampire Weekend Part 3. The electronic pitch-shifting and sampling was a welcome addition to the whole piece. The cultural references pop up once in a while, but they aren’t as thuddingly heavy as in albums past. I can definitely see myself playing it on bright Saturdays are rainy Sundays.

Also everyone is correct that “Diane Young” is a bopper of a song. That song is the only thing saving rockabilly from being the genre played by terrible people to dads who hate “what music’s become today.”

*Also on that list was the Black Keys - Brothers and Bruce Springsteens - Whatever Ehhhh Album Springsteen Made That Year so I have no idea what’s the deal with the Pazz and Jopers that year.

Thoughts on Cayucas?

Not many! They reminded me a lot of Local Natives, another band who’s music is pleasant enough but with nothing solid for me to fully grab a hold of. There’s nothing necessarily negative to say about the music but I’m not going to go back and feel the need to go back and listen to it a few months from now.

Would May never end? It felt like this month stretched on and on with no respite. Looking back at the list I forgot I even listened to a few of these albums. Two Gun Outfit records? Huh? I can’t complain though, because apart from some of the schlocky 60s movies I saw everything was high-quality stuff. Well… you didn’t come here to listen to me yap; you came here to see if I watched Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! and if I listened to the entire catalog of Italians Do It Better (yes to both).

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• Happiness - definition
• We very much live by routine
• Boredom?
• Keep the things that hurt to myself
• Too many metaphors; similes
• Very dark
• Negative
• Vacationing in Monte Carlo from England
• Unpack for him = real put down
• Waiter tries to avoid her and she thinks he liked her
• Atrocious?
• And a full house can be as empty lonely as empty hotel
• If only one could bottle up a memory, take it out; it would be the same as new
• Is everything dismal & depressing to her; hotel, Mrs. Van Hooper, train, everything
• Negative, didn’t she see anything nice in anything
• Once she fell in love she saw Monte Carlo differently - what a pitty to not see it as beautiful regardless
• She, Mrs. Van Hooper, is her boss - she is getting paid
• Check spelling
• He expects the same service to him
• As Mrs. Van Hooper
• Similar to people’s daily routines of e-mails
• Answered the phone, said Mrs. de Winter was dead = huge faux pas
• So like a 4 star hotel
• Like a hospital food list or hotel
• Sounds like me, this week- birthday week - nails, massage, hair, facial, oops
• Some of this is “her” attitude - negative - indifferent
• May be a set-up
• Mrs Danvers is like Mrs Van Hooper

aka Woody Allen finally wrote a black character into one of his movies and she’s a prostitute named Cookie who makes a “black hole” joke 5 minutes in.

Edit: Let’s not even talk about the other Asian prostitute in the silk kimono.

This is a bit late and I do not apologize. In a sense the survey being late makes sense, considering how lazy I was watching movies and reading books in April. I did listen to some good music though! Who cares! Stop reading this!

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