keith birthday is not in russia: Archive

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Buffalo Stance - Maya Everything about this...

Dec 30th

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Norwegian Arms - Secret Town Alone This is the...

Dec 30th

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Dec 30th

An Interview With A Girl I Met On OkCupid →

(via hammerheadsharks) José’s (all punctuation clutter aside) gchat interviews with friends/strangers are great. Really.

Dec 29th

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The Pharmacy - Warm and Untorn Decided to give...

Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 28th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →

Mount Eerie (64) The Flaming Lips (44) The Magnetic Fields (34) Guided by Voices (27) Fugazi (25) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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The Antlers on La Blogotheque listening to this band/song often reminds me of the ending of Where the Red Fern Grows. So sad.

Dec 28th

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Mount Eerie | It Wasn’t the Hunting I...

Dec 27th

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An actual conversation with a cab driver/an...

 Tomsk is not a very large city. Tomsk is not a very complicated city (it's a grid). I live at the intersection of two major streets. As a result, my friends and I (one korean, one russian) found it slightly silly when we got into a cab this friday and the driver was sporting a brand-spanking new GPS device. We found it even sillier when after I told him my address (the tomsk equivalent of saying 'broad and pine') he attempted to put it into his GPS. Sillier yet was the fact that my address was not in the GPS, but the next address on the street (54 instead of 52) was. Upon pulling up next to my house, the following exchange resulted between myself and the cab driver
Me: You can let us out here, this is good
Cabbie: but this isn't where the GPS said it is, Gagarina 54
Me: Yes, I know, but my house is there, I can see it next to us. I know better than 'Sputnik'.
 (laughter, departure from vehicle, utterances of well wishing etc.)
 You see, the reason why I used the word 'Sputnik' was in reference to the now famous first satellite in space, I thought the reason why everyone found my joke funny was because I had referenced this specific moment and history, and that reference plus my being a foreigner made the joke funny. Moments later I found out that the word 'sputnik' in Russian really is literally the word for 'satellite', but the joke was still funny due to my claim of better geographical knowledge of the immediate area than the man-made celestial objects orbiting above us.
 Think in general it's really interesting in situations like this when things most certainly get lost in the translation but somehow retain their general meaning, or acquire a new one.

Dec 27th

23 человека госпитализированы в Красноярске с... →

23 people were hospitalized in Krasnoyarsk from frostbite 90 % из всех поступивших в стационары находились в состоянии алкогольного опьянения. 90% of all admitted to the hospital were in a state of intoxication.

Dec 27th

excerpt from a recent email to José

…Also the bouncer at the gay club remembered me and my name from last time, shouting “BRENDAN!” when I arrived, letting all of my friends in no problem (underground gay clubs are kinda exclusive). I don’t remember talking to him. Apparently those free whiskeys(due to Russians liking my hair) did more than I remember . Apparently I made a good impression. I wonder what it...

Dec 27th

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Dec 25th

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VALLEYS - Tan Lines randomly discovered this...

Dec 25th

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THE BEST ALBUM OF THE DECADE IS OF MONTREAL'S...

not only because it’s really really awesome, but because I’m totally against the notion that 50% of top albums of the decade are from 2009. Doesn’t make any sense.

Dec 24th

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Kinda hate it when I blog something cool on my tumblr, and then I think others will reblog it as awesome and my tumblarity/internet coolness will increase and I’ll finally have 234098234 followers and achieve my internet ‘meme-maker’ status but instead no one does and one of those ‘meme sites’ blogs it two days later and immediately gets 32498723487 reblogs. FMTL

Dec 24th

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working on xmas will be new to me. the lack of xmas will also be new. almost didn’t notice it was xmas.

Dec 24th

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Dec 23rd

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this woman’s idiocy makes me so sad. I can see why her accent and looks possibly caused people to think otherwise.

Dec 23rd

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I... →

The truth is this: China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama, and insisted on an awful “deal” so western leaders would walk away carrying the blame. How do I know this? Because I was in the room and saw it happen.

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

WISH JOSÉ LIVED IN "RUSSIA" WITH "KEITH BIRTHDAY"...

Dec 22nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →

Guided by Voices (123) The Microphones (73) Mount Eerie (50) Animal Collective (35) The Jesus and Mary Chain (29) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 21st