Hilary Lehman
The Teenagers Who Love You Will Wake Up, Yawn and Kill You
The Beatles – “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
By Danny Djeljosevic
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“I fucking hate this song,” I remarked to Raf Gaitan over Mediterranean food. The food is an important detail as I happen to be a fiend for falafel and hummus and I don’t want The Beatles’ worst song as a soundtrack for my [...]
TURN ON Rilo Kiley
Every mainstream girl needs a little indie cred.
I admit: I am pretty mainstream. I love the Gap, classic rock and celebrity magazines, and I’ve never set foot inside American Apparel.
And the only reason I downloaded my first Rilo Kiley album was because a friend told me I looked like Jenny Lewis.
There Must be an Angel With a Smile on Her Face
James Blunt is a fucker.
The first time I heard “Beautiful” I wanted to vomit. It seemed like such an obvious attempt to use music to pick up girls. I immediately hated this person based solely on his first single, but I’m being hypocritical.
I’ve always defended Jimmy Eat World’s earlier work, and felt that singles were [...]
Insert Your Own Title Here
The following essay was written by my friend Hilary Lehman.
My senior year of high school, my English teacher had us read the Hemingway short story “Hills Like White Elephants.”
Not giving away too much of the story, a young woman makes a decision, and the ending is one of those ambiguous ones that [...]
