July 2010
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Alcohol-induced behavior has produced many unintended consequences, but pushing up the global price of oil and losing $10 million must rank among the most novel.
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Mr. Perkins had just returned from a liquor-soaked golf weekend with colleagues in June of last year when he sat down in front of his laptop at his home east of London and started to place bets on Brent crude futures,...
June 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
Clint Mansell (12)
Josh Ritter (11)
The Mountain Goats (8)
Jason Mraz (6)
Angus & Julia Stone (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Eric Clapton - Layla (Unplugged)
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Mos Def - Priority
Real before everything.
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Jason Mraz - Rocketman
Fact: you are throwing me more signals than a third base coach who’s trying to have sex with me. Fact: I am reading you loud and clear and I’m heading straight for home, unencumbered by garments. Don’t let playful euphemisms like that lull you into thinking I’m keeping my clothes on, because that’s not an option at this point. Mentally, I’m already very...
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The Truth The Dead Know For my mother, born March 1902, died March 1959 and my father, born February 1900, died June 1959
Gone, I say and walk from church, refusing the stiff procession to the grave, letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. It is June. I am tired of being brave. We drive to the Cape. I cultivate myself where the sun gutters from the sky, where the sea swings in like an...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →
Josh Ritter (17)
Stabilo (14)
Lady Gaga (10)
Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard (8)
Anais Mitchell (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“The thing that is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people...”
– John Irving (via bblove) (via sharlala)
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“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right...”
– Tom Stoppard (via libraryland) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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