(The prime minister later defeats the king in an epic chess game, freeing strong beer and its ilk from monarchic tyrany forever!)
Its all uphill from here
The internet says statistically, american men are least happy in their 20s. So chill the eff out, grill something. Its almost over.
if only I had a grill. or a place to put it.
(↝via Waxin’ & Milkin’)
it’s difficult to imagine how this could be any more in the modcult wheelhouse.
I needed to find something big to break the stranglehold 90s nostalgia has had on modcult for the last two weeks.
(↝via nyt)
Well, who can say honestly he doesn’t harbor a curiosity about the ethos and dynamics of the hippie? Ps– is that fleet foxes record good?
Carrie Brownstein sez (courtesy of NPR):
If “Baroque Shins” isn’t conjuring anything for you, how about: Fleet Foxes are estrogen-powered Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Itchy-Beard Left Banke, or Subaru-Outback-hand-me-down-from-Mom-and-Dad Bert Jansch. (Hmmm, maybe these brief descriptions would be more useful if I weren’t so fond of Fleet Foxes.)
Buy a Love Battery or Cat Butt record from Sub Pop instead.
We Should Probably Get David Duchovny to Post
His insight into magic, postmodernism, nerdery, and slackerdom (as mentioned in this Salon piece) would probably be a good fit for Modcult.
…a Princeton grad who was an English Ph.D. candidate at Yale (his unfinished dissertation was to have been on morality, magic and technology and “Gravity’s Rainbow”).
(↝via cheesedip)
Various Scenes Involving Pudding by Tom Gauld.
This one is conspicuously missing.
(↝via It’s Nice That)