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In Defense of Being Pretentious—That Is, Matty Healy

In Defense of Being Pretentious—That Is, Matty Healy

The October REPORT

a NAR Collaboration

Reading

Eating

Playing

Obsessing

Recommending

Treating

         he spookiest time of the year is here! It's also the time where you start seeing an obscene amount of Christmas decorations in Target and start wondering if there's something to be said about the rapidity of capitalism's churning cycle. Fake trees aside, happy Halloween! This REPORT is full of tricks and treats.

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Reading

  • The Guest by Emma Cline

  • Black Oaks by Mary Oliver

  • Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins 

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

  • Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice

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Eating

  • Bucky’s Beaver Nuggets

  • Warm apple cider

  • Dark chocolate 

  • Apples 

  • Food Terminal Chow Mein

  • Beef Pho

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Playing

  • Jigsaw puzzles

  • Hammock book time

  • The NYT games (but only the free ones)

  • Rummy 

  • GT UNC game

  • Crosswords

  • Movie theater alone in the daytime

  • The High

  • Halloweekend <3

Obsessing

  • Clinique Black Honey

  • Older (and Wise) by Lizzy McAlpine

  • Perfume (anything woody and vanilla)

  • Jungle’s Volcano YouTube video series 

  • Pretending that it’s colder than it actually is

  • Everything is romantic featuring caroline polachek

Recommending

  • The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

  • The Substance 

  • Haunt Me by Yana

  • It’s What’s Inside 

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

  • Geek the Girl by Lisa Germano (the whole album)

  • Industry 

  • Brushing your teeth at least an hour before sleeping

  • Early voting

Treating

  • Cafe Intermezzo

  • Etsy Jewelry

  • Moge Tea at 12am

  • Coffee, all the time :)

  • Breaking my book-buying ban (for no good reason)

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