bugalu - Tumblr blog

[bugalu]

[bugalu]

Lindos (1)

[bugalu]

I think about REM’s Monster a lot.

Mainly because on most days it’s my favorite REM album (other days it’s Fables, others its Murmur, others its Up [yes, it is]). But also one of the most conceptually coherent REM albums. And, of course, it’s one of the queerest albums ever made.

I’m writing...

[bugalu]

Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl

[bugalu]

These tweets from @OfRedAndBlue are very important.

[bugalu]

Mallory Ortberg has a voice like an old movie actress. (“Male Novelist Jokes” at the Last Bookstore in LA)

[bugalu]

via

[bugalu]

Let us be vividly clear about this.

What the New York Times did to Michael Brown today was not merely slander. It wasn’t a case of a lack of journalistic integrity.

Highlighting that a black teenager was “no angel” on the day he is being laid to rest after being hunted and...

[bugalu]

undefined

[bugalu]

"7.9 of out 10"

[bugalu]

[bugalu]

Bots - talking amongst themselves - via

A twitter conversation between two bots (@oliviataters and @notkeithcalder) was picked up and intercepted by the Bank of America bot account. This is twitter bot culture sans humans. 

[bugalu]

Okay, been conducting this experiment for years and it's worked out pretty well for me

[bugalu]

Mario Lanza - Vesti La Giubba - Pagliacci

I’ve been listening to this nonstop. 

[bugalu]

Questions that I fear, chapter one. The point of the song is that we are fairly well damaged by the legacy of the romantic poets. We think of love as this thing that is accompanied by strings, and it’s a force for good, and if something bad happens, then that’s not love. And the therapeutic tradition I come from, I used to work in therapy, also says it’s not love if it feels bad. I don’t know so much about that. I don’t know that the Greeks weren’t right. I think they were: that love can eat a path through everything. That it can destroy a lot of things on the way to it’s own objective which is just it’s expression of itself. My step-father loved his family. Now, he mistreated us terribly quite often. But he loved us. Well, that, to me, is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing what I see as terrible damage in the way that people talk about love as this benign, comfortable force. It’s not that. It’s wild.

John Darnielle on Love Love Love (via fuckyeahthemountaingoats)

[bugalu]

Thanks bud

A nightcap courtesy of my Facebook pal and otherwise drinks doppelgänger Rafa García Febles, aka DrunkLab. Strong and full-flavored just as I likes ‘em. You’d all do well to follow Rafa on Kindred Cocktails as his drinks are consistently excellent and his drink names are consistently hilarious (e.g., Corpse Defiler #2). This one uses one of my favorite recent discoveries, Louis Royer Force 53 cognac, to beautiful effect:

Storyville

1 oz Louis Royer Force 53 cognac 1 oz Jamaican rum (50-50 Smith & Cross and Appleton VX) .5 Bonal .5 Yellow Chartreuse dash bitters (Angostura)

Stir and strain up or on a rock, lemon oil garnish (discard peel).