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Chance The Rapper - "Summer Friends" Brock C – 2016

i smile every time i listen to “summer friends,” which always feels slightly unnerving given its underlying fatalism, but the radiant nostalgia overpowers that feeling.

i can’t help but compare it to the family gathering we held last summer after my grandmother passed instead of a funeral (she hated funerals) – it’s more a celebration of life both passed and ongoing than a public grieving.

early favorite for SOTY

https://twitter.com/BrockChenier/status/731660696711221252

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Twin Peaks - "Wanted You" Brock C – 2016

the whole album from these chicago garage rockers is fucking great, but this track takes the cake for me.

i swear the chorus sounds like a lost track from some girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUiqyI5F_Ow

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The Last Shadow Puppets - "Sweet Dreams, TN" Brock C – 2016

you get to listen to alex turner croon “it’s really just the pits without you baby / it’s like everyone’s a dick without you baby” i mean ffs

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Molly Knight - The Best Team Money Can Buy Brock C – 2016

Great book about the revamped Dodgers. I was honestly hoping for a bit more inner-front office talk, but I doubt we’ll get the kind of trade secrets that Moneyball or Travis Sawchik’s Big Data Baseball (re: the Pirates' analytics) gave us.

However, her insight into player mindsets was riveting. She detailed polarizing players like Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp, and Zack Grienke with an empathy that allowed for each point of view to mesh into one cohesive account of the 2013-15 Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Heather Havrilesky - "How To Write" Brock C – 2016

actually from two years ago but just found the masterpiece

http://www.theawl.com/2014/05/how-to-write

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Young Thug - "Digits" Brock C – 2016

aka my new club baseball walkup song (starting at 0:25 ofc)

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The idea that you've existed all along's ridiculous The Last Shadow Puppets – Sweet Dreams, TN
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This sentiment is reminiscent of one Alex Turner previously expressed on “Cornerstone” from Arctic Monkeys' third studio album, Humbug:

Tell me, where’s your hiding place?
I’m worried I’ll forget your face
And I’ve asked everyone
I’m beginning to think I imagined you all along

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The idea that she has existed the whole time Alex has been alive, and they haven’t met/dated baffles him. He is saying that all of his previous experiences with love or romance are irrelevant, nonexistent and incompatible to her; he was never truly living and could never truly love until he met her.

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He’s baffled by the fact that they’ve never met in the past, and is yearning at the idea that he should’ve.

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Twin Peaks Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks is a garage rock band from Chicago composed of guitarist Cadien Lake James, guitarist Clay Frankel, bassist Jack Dolan, keyboardist Colin Croom, and drummer Connor Brodner.

The band formed in 2009, when all of the members were still in high school. Cadien and Jack attended Jones College Prep, same as alumnus Chance The Rapper, while Clay and Connor attended Lane Tech, also home to rapper Towkio. Colin contributed to the band’s second album Wild Onion, but wasn’t an official member of the band until 2015.

Though Cadien, whose older brother Hal was the drummer for Chicago indie rock band Smith Westerns, brought the band together, they eschew the term “frontman”, as each member outside of Brodner lends vocals to their songs.

The band draws heavily on 1960’s and 70’s rock influences like The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, melding that era’s sound with 2000’s garage rock á la The Strokes. The result is a DIY balance between melody and punk that makes for both a jam-filled lo-fi record and a raucous live show.

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