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Old Man John Lennon
I clicked on the link to this super-trashy Buzzfeed post entitled "What Deceased Music Legends Would Look Like If They'd Made It To Old Age" expecting it to be a chill mix of inaccurate and...
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I Love the Best Show Forever
BY JEN Last night was the last episode of the Best Show on WFMU. The show is over as we know it. I love the Best Show so much I don’t know how to talk about...
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Let's Watch 'Greenberg' Instead of 'It's a Wonderful Life' On Christmas Eve...
WORDS BY LIZ, IMAGE BY JENI held off on watching Greenberg because every single person/reviewer was like, "OH MY GOD SO DARK, Ben Stiller is so loathsome, just the worst." I'm not very into movies...
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The Music We Loved Most In 2013
2013 Was Not Really A Huge Music Year For LJ2013 was not really a huge music year for me. It was a food year and a life year. I worked very hard and I got a lot of things done in the very standard way...
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Some Cool Shit I Wish I Owned, by Laura Jane
1. Venessa Arizaga JewelryIf Strawberry Fields Whatever was going to have an official, or unofficial, jewelry designer, I would definitely have to make it be Venessa Arizaga. There's a lot of weird and...
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Everyone I'm in Love with in the Big Star Movie
BY LIZI saw the Big Star documentary at a press screening last May and I loved it, because it's about Big Star. It also kind of bugged me, for reasons that are unfair, like how so tragically little...
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Two Things That Create A Really Cool Atmosphere Together
1. The part in Chronicles, Volume One Where Bob Dylan Says But what he say, I knew not what About James JoyceBob Dylan is so important to me that the only reason in the world I don't have his name...
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Low is for January, Obviously
BY LJDavid Bowie named his album Low Low because he was feeling low when he wrote and recorded it. It came out on January 14th, 1977, which is perfect. Everything about Low sounds like January. It is...
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We Have New Little Beatles Books For Sale
A few years ago LJ and Liz started a writing project based on taking Beatles songs and retelling them as stories or essays or story-essays. We named the project Let It Be Beautiful, and eventually...
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Hurray For John & Yoko! Cries Bob Dylan
Yesterday in the middle of walking home from running errands and listening to Love Minus Zero/ No Limit it occurred to me that Bob Dylan has penmanship, and that it inevitably must look like something....
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Nicole Kidman in 'The Paperboy' Makes Me Want to Wear Canary-Yellow & Fake...
BY LIZBasically I'll watch any movie with Matthew McConaughey in it, and one of the few McConaughemovies streaming on Netflix is The Paperboy, which I kind of hated but also loved a little. It's set in...
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I Want To Live In A Wine Cellar
BY LJI am moving to England in the summertime. In England, I am going to do a lot of things, and a very important one of them is: become a “chill sommelier.” A chill sommelier is basically the same as...
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Watching Mary Timony Eat All Different Foods in the Video for "Hot and Cold"...
BY LIZMary Timony's new-ish band Ex Hex just premiered the video for their song "Hot and Cold" and it's everything I could ever want from a rock video: Mary Timony, cake, cookies, pizza, Ian Svenonius...
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Thing of the Week: LJ's Boyfriend's Birthday, Meeting Kristin Hersh,Seeing...
LJ'S THING OF THE WEEK: My Boyfriend's Birthday (& Snoopy)My boyfriend's birthday was on Tuesday. He spent his birthday and the two days preceding it at his parents' house up north. At first I...
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Doing Exercise Videos In My Kitchen
BY LAURA JANE/ ILLUSTRATION BY JENI pushed my kitchen table up against the wall so that its longer edge no longer juts out and cuts into the largest fat rectangle of open empty space my little home has...
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Thing of the Week: Draught Negronis, Beaches, Iceland
LJ'S THING OF THE WEEK: Draught Negronis at Red SauceA new restaurant named Red Sauce opened up in my neighbourhood, and I am in love with it. I am going to marry it, and change my name to Laura Jane...
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I Want David Klein to Illustrate My Life
BY LIZAbout a month ago I became aware of the existence of David Klein, who was an artist and illustrator who made a lot of weird and gorgeous advertisements in the 1960s. He's maybe best known for all...
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Our Weekly Mad Men Column: Liz & LJ on "Field Trip"
BY LAURA JANE & LIZLJ: Every Mad Men Monday morning I wake up feeling like my heart is going to explode with excitement. I am very hyped to watch the new episode of Mad Men. I sync up a pirated...
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Excellent, Average & Terrible Things I've Recently Eaten: A Medium-Heavy...
BY LAURA JANE/ ILLO BY JENAt the beginning of April everyone on Twitter was talking about how Susan Miller said April was going to be fucked. Some people were scared about it, and other people told...
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Our Weekly Mad Men Column: Liz & LJ on "The Monolith"
BY LAURA JANE & LIZLJ: Watching this episode of Mad Men was a really intense experience for me. It was called "The Monolith," which was a reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey that I didn't...
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