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The October 2013 Playlist

The October 2013 Playlist

October! Yes! I love this month so much, and with a wedding around the corner between Maria and I, I have even more reason to love this particular one. October is by far my favorite month of the year, and I can’t wait to share these songs with y’all. First we start off with the Dandy...
The September 2013 Playlist

The September 2013 Playlist

September marks the end of the beast of summer and the gradual transition into autumn, in theory at least (not quite there in Texas, yet). However, that doesn’t mean we can’t stay optimistic and think cool thoughts. This September 2013 playlist is geared to help you do just that–be cool even if the weather’s not....
The August 2013 Playlist

The August 2013 Playlist

Yeah, yeah, I know–this is way late in the month. I usually like to get these out early on so that you can jam these tracks all month long with me. However, as you may have noticed, we had quite a bit of a lull this month in articles because of things going on in...
The July 2013 Playlist

The July 2013 Playlist

So many good songs out there now, y’all. This one was hard to narrow down to a manageable size, but I whittled it down to my 10 favorites. This July 2013 playlist is full of something for everyone to love. For starters, we have the aptly-named Long Walks on the Beach and their track “1st Times...
The 2013 June Playlist

The 2013 June Playlist

Summer officially begins June 21, and with this June playlist you’ll be prepared to greet the new season with open arms. After giving this playlist a once-through, it turned out really heavy on female vocals. Nothing intentional, I guess it just turned out that way. This month I’ll spare you the lame commentary and just...
"Into the Wild" is the Happiest Sad Movie Ever

“Into the Wild” is the Happiest Sad Movie Ever

This could have been a really bad movie. Overly-explained, out of touch, untruthful, and shallow. It would have been so easy to make this film into the usual Hollywood bastardization of someone’s life story and nonfiction book, but fortunately for us, Sean Penn didn’t direct it that way. I recently got around to watching the...
An Old Man's Fantastical Story in "West of the Moon"

An Old Man’s Fantastical Story in “West of the Moon”

Playful humor, macabre, nostalgia, and sadness all come together to form this film by Brent Bonacorsco, and results in one of the best short films I’ve come across in a long time. “West of the Moon” animates a narrated story from a man who has quite the imagination. The film’s animation has touches of Tim...
The 2013 May Playlist

The 2013 May Playlist

As requested last time by reader Will, we decided to put this May Playlist into a set. This is much more convenient than having to play each one separately, and it allows us to reduce the loading time and article length (no more scrolling, yay!). Anyways, we have a pretty awesome playlist this month. It...
The April Playlist

The April Playlist

It’s time for another month’s totally subjective list of music worth listening to. The only problem is there are so many good songs out there right now, I had to double the size of this playlist to 10 songs. I couldn’t cut it down, because I couldn’t imagine a playlist without each one of these tracks...
Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"

Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit”

Jean-Paul Sartre’s work, “No Exit” is a play about three people who are sentenced to hell and forced to spend the rest of eternity in the same Second French Empire decorated room without the luxury of their eyelids. The work, mostly known for its phrase, “Hell is other people,” is one of Sartre’s more popular...
The March Playlist

The March Playlist

February is already over? That was fast. Oh well, that doesn’t bother me all that much because spring is almost here and we can put this annoying cold weather behind us for another year. In the spirit of the change of seasons into something more enjoyable, here is the March Playlist: five songs I can’t...
The Postal Service's "Give Up" One Decade Later

The Postal Service’s “Give Up” One Decade Later

Man, I’m starting to feel really old. It wasn’t that long ago that we celebrated the 10 year anniversary of Interpol’s “Turn on the Bright Lights,” and now here we are again celebrating the 10 year anniversary of another fantastic album that shaped the lives of many 20-somethings. The Postal Service was/is the creation of...