Jandy’s Meanderings

Amazon’s MP3 store just started offering killer short-term deals. I was afraid they’d all be hopelessly mainstream, but no…Raconteurs, Mates of State, The Decembrists, Broken Social Scene…check it out!

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In pictures, music, tweets (reposts from Twitter, which I’ve marked as such), and text.
Day One: St. Louis to Amarillo
Or, technically, my parents’ house west of St. Louis to Amarillo. I initially thought about trying to follow Route 66 for some of this trip, but when I started trying to map it through Missouri (using Historic [...]

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Tagged:Missouri, Oklahoma, photography, texas, travel

A Baylor/Redeemer Pres. friend of mine is blogging about her experiences as a female PhD student (sociology) spending the summer in Saudi Arabia. It’s really interesting reading, you should check it out.

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If you follow the film blogosphere at all, you’ll have probably seen this, but if not, here you go. Dozens of film clips are edited together according to contentual and contextual shot similarity to the music “Complex City” by Oliver Nelson. It’s quite captivating. The film is by Jonathan Lapper, and originally appeared on his [...]

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Tagged:montage, short films

I’m going to stop doing the monthly recap posts and instead try to write reviews/reactions more consistently throughout the month. Since I haven’t actually posted on anything I’ve watched since February, I need to do a few catch-up posts, which I’ve decided to separate into film categories (New Releases, New DVDs, World Cinema, Great Directors, [...]

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Tagged:Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Iron Man, Leatherheads, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Penelope

I logged onto Facebook this morning, scanned the newsfeed, then popped over to a friend’s profile to leave her a wall post. While there, I saw that she had been tagged in a note from one of my other friends, which had not shown up in my newsfeed. I checked back, and sure enough, Facebook [...]

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I’m working on various posts about various things, but I don’t know how long it’ll take me to actually get them finished and posted, so I figured I’d throw up a quickie update for those of you wondering how my crazy move to LA is going.

I’m in LA! Yay! Safe, fun trip all around.
I love [...]

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Mates of State
Austin-based indie favorites Mates of State released a new album last week; it didn’t take them long to get back in the studio after having their second child! (Kori was extremely pregnant when I saw them at Fun Fun Fun Fest last fall.) I’m not head over in love with this album yet, [...]

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Tagged:Eyes Open, Final Straw, mates of state, Re-arrange Us, Snow Patrol