Archive for April 20, 2007
Douglas Coupland On ‘Everything’s Gone Green,’ Beaver Dams, Siberia
Making a great playlist is hard to do. First, you need to nail the music. Pissed off? Try a little Rage Against the Machine. Confounded? Death Cab for Cutie. Crestfallen? Sprinkle in some Laura Veirs. Next you need to find the perfect lyric. Intense love might call for Dashboard Confessional’s “Hands Down,” as sung by…
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In my younger and more vulnerable years, I often walked home along Ninth Avenue. I lived just east of Tenth then. The extra few steps mattered. Though real estate agents will tell you otherwise, the neighborhood between 34th and 57th Streets west of Eight Avenue has long been referred to as Hell’s Kitchen. This, it…
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