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Seven Good Reasons Why Gram Parsons Is My New Number-One Dream Boy of All Time
BY LIZOn Monday I had a really cool experience that involved swinging on a swing while telling the story of Gram Parsons's life and death to two strangers and two of my friends. We were in Laurel...
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Thing of the Week: Drunk-Listening to "Don't Worry Baby," Cake with Coffee...
LJ'S THING OF THE WEEK: Walking Home Drunk & Listening to "Don't Worry Baby" on HeadphonesThis week it was summer. It was that week when you remember what summer feels like, and it stops being a...
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Of Wolf Loafers & Whispering Witches
BY LIZ...Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age comes out today. I bought it last night around midnight and listened to the whole thing, but listening to a new record on a laptop is ugly and...
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I Got Alex Chilton's Name Written On My Body Forever
BY ELIZABETH ALLISON BARKEROn Friday I got Alex Chilton's name tattooed about an inch above my left ankle. I love Alex Chilton because it seems like he generally did whatever the hell he felt like...
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Happy First Birthday, Strawberry Fields Whatever!
LJ:On Monday, Strawberry Fields Whatever turned a cool ONE YEAR OLD!!! I say "cool" in that sentence to mean the same as when people say "a cool million dollars." A cool one year! Also, Strawberry...
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Thing of the Week: Liz's Summer Uniform, 'Empathy'
LIZ'S THING OF THE WEEK: My Summer UniformThis is what I wore last Friday night, when I went out for the most disgusting sangria after getting my Alex Chilton tattoo:It's my Flying Burrito Brothers...
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You Will Not Even Believe How Fucking Awesome This Melanie Song Is
Last week my best friend and I were sitting on a patio- she was drinking a half-litre of white wine; I had 2 pints of sangria- and we remembered back to a couple summers ago, when we thought of our...
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Some Lessons I Have Learned
BY LAURA JANE/ ILLO BY JENA few days before I turned twenty-seven, I smoked some pot and went on a really bad walk. I forget mostly everything about why it was bad, except for that pot rarely works...
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Thing of the Week: Sarah Silverman's Mom/Stupid T-Shirts, Seeing John Waters...
LIZ'S THING OF THE WEEK: Sarah Silverman's Mom, Stupid T-ShirtsOh my god the Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee episode with Sarah Silverman is so good. I don't really even care about Sarah Silverman, or...
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10 Life Lessons Learned From Fiona Apple's 'Idler Wheel...'
WORDS BY ELIZABETH BARKER, IMAGE BY JEN MAYThe Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do by Fiona Apple came out at the end of...
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Emily & I Ate At Hoof Raw Bar & It Was Pretty Awesome
BY LJHere is a photograph of Emily and I! It’s doing an amazing job of illustrating our relationship dynamic. Emily’s so “wild”! She really is. Usually, in relationships, I’m the “wild” one, but that...
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Every Song I Love: "Cool It Down" by the Velvet Underground
WORDS BY LIZ/FOREHEAD ART BY JENI heard "Cool It Down" by the Velvet Underground for the first time on a Friday afternoon in the spring, standing at a sink in a bathroom in a restaurant, wearing blue...
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Thing of the Week: Juliana Hatfield & Feelings, Daily Tarot Cards
LIZ'S THING OF THE WEEK: Juliana Hatfield & FeelingsMy friend Laura Fisher wrote this beautiful and brilliant essay about Juliana Hatfield's album Hey Babe, and it was published by The New Inquiry...
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Of Lemonade Donuts & Lemonade Nails
Tonight I'm going home to Massachusetts for two weeks. Here are things I want do while I'm there:1. Eat all the ice cream in New England. I'm not one of those bores who likes to whine about how "there...
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Liz & LJ's Biggest Crushes from Season 6 of 'Mad Men'
WORDS BY ELIZABETH BARKER & LAURA JANE FAULDS, IMAGE BY JEN MAY8. GLENThis spot was supposed to be Bob Benson's, but then Bob Benson had to go and RUIN EVERYTHING for EVERYONE by being a...
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Excellent, Average, & Terrible Things I've Recently Eaten: The Izakaya on...
Hi! Welcome to "Excellent, Average & Terrible Things I've Recently Eaten," my cool new column on sfwhatevs where I write about excellent, average & terrible food I've recently eaten. I came up...
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The Blake Babies Are So Beautiful, It Hurts To Look At Them
BY LIZToday Blake Babies are my favorite band and my favorite song is "Out There," from the album Sunburn. I've watched the video for "Out There" about 30 times in the past week and it's hurt me every...
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So Many Beautiful Pictures of Strawberry Fields Whatever's First Annual...
Last Wednesday Strawberry Fields Whatever went on vacation together, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. We stayed till Friday morning and squeezed so much fun and beauty and whimsy and food into those...
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Thing of the Week: A Psychotic Muffin, A 1994 Issue of 'Bikini,' AN ENDLESS...
LJ'S THING OF THE WEEK: The Psychotic Muffin I Ate at the Airport After Missing My Flight to Boston A little-known fact about Strawberry Fields Whatever's seminal 2013 trip to Martha's Vineyard is that...
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10 Bob Dylan Songs I'd Rather Die Than Live Without, In No Particular Order,...
ILLUSTRATION BY JEN/ WORDS BY LAURA JANEI love Bob Dylan so much I feel like I am dead. I don't know when I'll write Part 2. Maybe on Wednesday. Maybe in a month. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight I moved into...
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