only two more weeks left in dc

I feel like I move every three months.

And it always takes about half that time for a place to really start feeling like home to me.

google yourself when you get home

The indie world can't live on fingerpicking and textural guitars alone, and a varity of sounds and multiculturalism in indie rock isn't the enemy here; shitty Jackson 5 covers are.

- "LP" album review (Pitchfork Media; rated 6.8)

Cat introduced me to Discovery, the spin-off project of Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij (keyboardist/producer) and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles (singer), who released their "LP" album (yes, that's the title) this summer. Imagine the beat dynamics of both bands combined and then projected through a flurry of synths and waves of electro-pop sound, with a dose of MJ and a remix of Ra Ra Riot's "Can You Tell" thrown in for good measure.

Or, since Pitchfork calls it "your electro-pop summer soundtrack," maybe you could just think of it as the musical equivalent of drinking a lemon fizz while whirling down a pool slide.

Yes, please.

and in that moment, i swear we were infinite

They carried wine from Trader Joe’s, blankets, almonds and goldfish (the Pepperidge Farm kind), and they were headed to the Great Lawn in search of a patch of grass. It was 6:15 on Tuesday evening, a breezy, golden 77 degrees, and people were streaming into the park with plastic bags of picnic food, like pilgrims bearing offerings, for one of the city’s great summer rites: At 8 p.m., on the grassy oval ringed by oaks, skyscrapers and the almost-too-cute turrets of Belvedere Castle, the New York Philharmonic would start to play. Free.

- "In Central Park, Nearing Consensus on Perfection" (NYTimes)

Picnics in the park; dancing after dark -- this is what summer will always mean to me.

fast-talking and twitchy

Arjun: i didn't know you were a youtube celebrity
Me: what?!

overheard at lunch

"There are parts of your body that your friends should never have to see. The inside of your uterus is one of them." - our lobbyist