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Summer Playlist 1994

Hi there, citizens of Earth. Earlier this month, I made a summer playlist. You know I love making playlists (sorry I gave up my earlier efforts, but more important priorities came to light.)  I haven't shared it with you- yet. Until now. '90s Fashion I hope you enjoy it. It's fairly eclectic; Bryan Adams, Iggy Azalea and Vampire Weekend all make appearances. Plus some of my personal favorites from this current year (Lana Del Rey and Lykke Li.) Enjoy it! And make your own (maybe.) And share it with me (maybe.) 

"Brooklyn Baby"- Lana Del Rey

"And my jazz collection's rare,  I can play almost anything, I'm a Brooklyn baby." I'm a little obsessed with this song. Well, okay. And the whole "Ultraviolence" album. I feel like one of the fangirls who showed up to her concert with a crown of flowers crafted in her hair. Well, maybe. Anyway! Reviews have been generally positive. I'm glad to see Lana Del Rey finally moved past the critical stigma of her early career. 

The Faults were in My Biases

A few quick additions before diving into this (this being the actual post, which was written and copied from MS Word, so fingers crossed the formatting doesn't get mangled in transition): since writing this, the The Fault in Our Stars movie has come out, and is doing pretty well at the box office. There were plenty of details omitted, but that's a focus for another post entirely. Moving along...             It’s May 26 th , and I’m finally getting around to checking out The Fault in Our Stars . Partially because the movie will be out in June, which is practically here already. I’m mostly giving it a chance, however, because I’ve developed a semi-strong bias against it. I don’t really feel that’s fair, as all I have to go off of are quotes and Tumblr posts by John Green fans (neither of which are a particularly strong basis for an overall assessment of anything ever). This will be a (relatively short, I should hope) chronicle of my read-through of The Fault in Our Stars , wh

“Everything’s Coming Up Waters”: A Spoiler-Free Review of "The Fault in Our Stars"

Ah, The Fault in Our Stars… There is so much that I want to say about this book-to-movie adaptation, but when I try to talk about it I am usually reduced to a puddle of tears. This film was released just this weekend, on June 6th, and let me tell you… it exceeded all my expectations. John Green’s book, The Fault in Our Stars , is, in short, amazing. I fell instantly in love with it the first time I read it. The book, although about the extremely depressing topic of teenagers with cancer, made me laugh unexpectedly and cry like a small child. Naturally, it only made sense for me to want to experience that beautiful torture once more through film. A quick rundown of the storyline is that Hazel Grace, a 16-year-old with thyroid cancer, meets Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old who lost his leg to Osteosarcoma. The novel details the growing attraction between Hazel and Gus and how they, ultimately fall in love, despite Hazel’s attempts to keep Gus away. They even get a free paid