May 2012
77 posts
Future Islands - Old Friend
I love this song so fucking much.
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Fleet Foxes - Montezuma
Thanks, Girls, for reminding me about this song.
- Aaron: [Being a bitch] is kind of your thing.
- Me: Is it?
- Aaron: [yesface]
“From the omniscient narrator at the beginning intoning about a world that existed “long before you” to the flashback montage at the end that replays the only 30 seconds’ worth of happy moments that took place in the entire movie, The Land Before Time feels like an allegory for the constant slog of life. Even though, like Littlefoot, we are all doomed from the start, we have no choice but to struggle on and hope that our memory montage is worth it at the end.”
—From Julie Beck’s Vulture Nostalgia Fact-Check on The Land Before Time
The fact that I am just now watching all of Arrested Development makes me feel like I’ve wasted 29 years of my life. I mean, maybe not that many because the show ended in 2006. But at least like 6 years of my life. Wasted. Well actually maybe just like, 5 3/4 years of my life because I did watch most of season 1 like 5 years ago. So at least that much. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have had such a prolonged post-collage malaise if I had had this to watch in these past few years. So many inside jokes I could have been making and so many jokes others have made that I haven’t understood. It’s a shame. I’m ashamed. I’m better than this.
But also what will do I when it’s over?
Everything is the worst.
“It can be fun to look at your own sadness or anxiety or general mental clumsiness. And it can be fun to come out the other side of it, and look back fondly, and then go out to meet the world.”
—from Dry Season by Rachel Monroe
