The Week In Review
Obama gives his graduation speech at Notre Dame today, where students are protesting. I saw a picture of some dude wearing a "Don't Ruin My Graduation" tee-shirt. This was relatively ironic since he had already attended Notre Dame. They should have been forced to have Charlie Weis give the graduation speech. I wish there were more protests at my graduation, then I wouldn't have had to eat three pizzas because I was so anxious. In fact I think the protestors are simply helping the binge-eating population relax, because they know the attention will be elsewhere. OK here's what we posted this week:
In more serious news, my little brother graduated from college, so congratulations to him. He already has a job, which is more than I can say for most people. My brother is a charming person; his name is Danny but all of his college friends call him Dan. You don't really realize what the problem with college is until you see someone else go through it.
- Harold Brodkey's Innocence turned on every living person.
- Georgia went drinking and dating.
- Molly's Star Trek review.
My grandfather didn't even finish high school, so this is an impressive achievement in our family. As a gift, I peed on a flower and gave it to my brother. Good luck Danny. The first thing my brother said to me when I saw him was, "Did you hear the new Dave Matthews single?" All I could feel was utter joy that he has not been ruined by the vagaries of the world we live in, and is focused on the important things, like getting laid at DMB concerts. And to be honest with you dog, I really liked the new single.
- Alfred Hitchcock's ten best got counted down.
- Back in high school, we went to therapy.
- The appeal of the screwball romantic comedy.
- Eleanor took on Frank Miller's version of The Spirit.
It's good to have a family, I'm glad I have one. I just wish they read the internet more, so that my jokes would seem a lot funnier in context. We stayed at a Marriott, and now the homepage on every computer in the business annex of the hotel is This Recording. You should read this blog all the time, and think of us when you're not reading it.
- The season finale of Lost drew Dick Cheney's ire.
- Lambert liveblogged the shit of of American Idol's dumping of Danny Gokey.
- More top tracks of '09.
You can find last week's week in review here.
"Do The Nurse" — Animal Collective (mp3)
"Young Prayer #2" — Animal Collective (mp3)
"Ice Cream Factory" — Animal Collective (mp3)
from the new box set
