Interstate Wastelands: A Playlist

I just decided to throw together some tunes on a list here that I kept going back to on my recent trip to Pennsylvania. I didn't bring a computer on vacation and I limited myself to my notebook, iPod, and books for the eight hour car ride. It was great to be able to actually listen to albums front to back without interruption or distraction. The tracks are in no specific order.

1. Wisconsin - Bon Iver

2. Stoned and Starving - Parquet Courts




3. Mr. November - The National

4. I Watched The Film The Song Remained The Same - Sun Kil Moon

5. I Was There - The War On Drugs

6. I Guess I Should Go To Sleep - Jack White

7. I Can't Wait For You To Die - Elvis Depressedly 

8. Doin' It Right (Feat. Panda Bear) - Daft Punk

9. Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys

10. Archie, Marry Me - Alvvays

11. Limit To Your Love - James Blake

12. Ain't It Strange - Dr. Dog

Selections From My Virtual Library: June/July 2014

I am officially a slacker. During finals in June, I completely fell off my reading schedule. And once I began teaching again with Golden Apple, life was made of lesson plans and excessive carb consumption. But, I have still cultivated plenty to read even if it is heavy on the July side. Again, italicized articles are my top recommendations.

NPR

Life After 'Life': Aging Inmates Struggle For Redemption
The One Thing Obama Didn't Say About Student Loan Repayment
Why NYC Is Afraid Of Free Lunch For All
A Campus Dilemma: Sure, 'No' Means 'No,' But Exactly What Means 'Yes'?
Is Collecting Animals For Science A Noble Mission Or A Threat?
Tackling Sexual Assault On Campus With Comedy
What We Talk About When We Talk About Violence In Chicago
The Good Listener: Has The Term 'Indie Rock' Lost All Meaning?

The New Yorker

The Teen Whisperer
Ghosts in the Stacks
Literature and Life
The Black Market for Dinosaurs
Why Students Aren't Fighting Forever 21
Wrong Answer
Lisa Elmaleh’s Folk Portraits

The Atlantic

The Morbid Fascination With the Death of the Humanities
The Elusive Specificity of Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Not Knowing How Much You Don't Know
On Teen Sexting: Same Sexism, Different Technology
How Cities Use Design to Drive Homeless People Away
The Sociology of Sorry
Why Kids Care More About Achievement Than Helping Others
Millennials' Political Views Don't Make Any Sense
What's in a Name? Everything.
Where Confiscated Wildlife Ends Up
Don't Write for the Barbarians

Medium

We Killed the Music Industry
Wikipedia Mining Algorithm Reveals The Most Influential People In 35 Centuries Of Human History
Creative People Say No

BBC

The many faces of British poverty in France
Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem

The New York Times

What Writers Can Learn From ‘Goodnight Moon’

McSweeney's

Lost Scenes From Generic Hipster Indie Romance Films Found in 2076 During a Museum Restoration of an Old Macbook Air And Subsequently Adapted For the Stage During Heritage Week at a Camp for 7th and 8th Graders Later That Summer.

Words To Make Your Poetry Legit