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Andy Greenwald

Miss Misery: Now in paperback!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Chase Utley. Matt Berninger. David Chang.
(Also: please don't ask permission to add me or ask me to add you. Just add me! I'm friendly like that. And: I love comments, but if you use this page as a place to post self-promoting ads, I will delete them. Sorry, but there's only room for one relentless self-promoter around here!)

Music:

The Clipse, The Fleetwood Mac, The Go-Betweens, The Idlewild, The Jealous Sound, The Jenny Lewis, The National, The Spoon, The Tegan and Sara, The Twilight Singers, The Lil' Wayne

Television:

The Wire, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, True Life: I'm a Staten Island Girl

Books:

Ross Thomas, George Pelecanos, James Crumley, Raymond Chandler, Grant Morrison, Ian Rankin, Graham Greene, and the Collected Works of Jon Horatio Dolan (2022)

Heroes:

Haruki Murakami, Jimmy Rollins

My Blog

Thirty One Today (Well, actually not until Monday).

Rainy Friday in the city. I went to the dentist.There's a new muxtape up. I hope you like it. It's sort of a birthday theme. If I have time next week, I'll try and annotate it. (I'd do more of these b...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Fri, 16 May 2008 03:35:00 PST

Paramore

Hi again.So! Do people like the Muxtape? Should I make a new one?Because I like talking to you guys but (a) I'm mostly on Facebook now and I'm keeping that friends only and (b) I haven't really had al...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Mon, 05 May 2008 12:05:00 PST

Approaching May.

Hey anyone still out there.I'm back from India. It was amazing, though the jetlag coming home was a killer. I'll try and post more pictures at some point. Our first day there happened to be Holi, the ...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:15:00 PST

Thaw.

Hi.Sorry about the absence. It’s been an up and down few months. We moved and that was hectic. I spent way too much time writing about Vampire Weekend and that was . . . complicated. Other work ...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:00 PST

ON HIATUS

Happy holidays, everyone. I'll be back in the new year!A.
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:49:00 PST

SHUFFLE FRIDAYS: La vida es hermosa y extraña.

So, first there's this: MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment NewsNow if you're back to reality (or what passes for it) we can continue.So, as I was saying, life is strange and beautifu...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:32:00 PST

SHUFFLE FRIDAYS: Magic bullet points.

ITEM!: Not dead!ITEM!: Kind of feeling a little under the weather, tho.ITEM!: Don't feel bad for me. Two weeks ago there was no Shuffle because I was in the magnificent city of New Orleans. One day sp...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:32:00 PST

SHUFFLE FRIDAYS: Dear Myspace, Are we breaking up?

First off, let me just say now, for the record, that I am not, nor have I ever been, a Macy's shopper. Therefore, I have no personal experience with any of the store's "gift cards." Never have, never ...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:02:00 PST

SHUFFLE FRIDAYS: I was in Philly yesterday and would really rather not talk about it.

1. "We All Stand" -- New Order (Power, Corruption and Lies, 1983)My father saw an advance screening of Control, the Ian Curtis documentary, the other day. He called me at 11am on a Sunday and said -- ...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:19:00 PST

WE WIN! WE WIN! WE WIN!

It's been 14 years. I'm not sure if it's the excitement, the camaraderie of the expat Philadelphians at the bar that seem to be my new best friends, or the tequila shots they bought to toast the victo...
Posted by Andy Greenwald on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:16:00 PST