HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM DUMONT

Yelle's new single is out, somewhere. love you Yelle. check my hypemachine: pretty sure that's on it.

also, this winter feels very much the National to me. very Matt Berninger, unshaven, moody. hipsters and people I don't like: please don't shit all over the National anymore, okay? thank you. you ruined Arcade Fire, Muse, Radiohead and Coldplay for me. well Coldplay has Chris Martin which inadvertantly ruined it. oh, who am I kidding, the National will only always remind me of Dan.

Baz Luhrmann is directing the new version of the Great Gatsby which is slated to star Leonard DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. it will be in 3D. ??? so the car can hit me smack dab in the middle of the movie theater? huh? AND WHERE IS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THIS.

it should be better than that version starring Mia Farrow and Robert Redford from the 70s. I love F. Scott Fitzgerald so much I would write fanfiction about him and that's not a light thing for me to say. and The Great Gatsby, like On the Road, is one of those books I could reread and reread until I eventually went blind and then I'd just listen to it. but that movie version was so so bad. however, hearing that this greatest of all American novels is to be in 3D puts an uneasy feeling in my stomach. you know what is clever? there's an internet radio station called F. SKA Fitzgerald. ha.

I had a very Carrie Bradshaw moment today. but then it ended. lastly: who the fuck is Carey Mulligan?

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