February 2012
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January 2012
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Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
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bugalu asked: Thanks a lot for your post! I'll be posting some bonus Up (and Reveal) write-ups tomorrow on bugalu along with the Accelerate/Collapse into Now stuff on OW//OB, if you're interested. -Rafa
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Holy hell.
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December 2011
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I see today with the newsprint grey
I came to R.E.M. as a fan as many late 70’s kids probably did—when “Losing My Religion” was constantly playing And I hated that song. But my sister got the tape and I eventually got into it. But this also means that my knowledge of the pre-_Out of Time_ catalog is pretty spotty. It also means that those later albums mean more to me than the typical music nerd (or the...
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Stars of the Lid (8)
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Modest Mouse (3)
Phoenix (2)
Robyn (2)
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Arms And Sleepers (12)
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Russian Circles (6)
Wilco (2)
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The spirits reveal no great secrets to Ebeneezer Scrooge. They only reveal that...
– Paul Bibeau
Unusual types of gramophone records - Wikipedia,... →
Discovered this when I googled “parallel grooves.”
Rad.
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Kanye West (19)
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Sepalcure (8)
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November 2011
14 posts
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Coldplay (13)
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Emilie Mover (5)
The Halo Benders (4)
Feist (4)
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austinkleon:
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
— Wendell Barry, “Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms,” 1982, from Standing by Words: Essays (Saw this quote in my...
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Zach told our class about this back in the summer when I was learning about prose poetry from him.
He’s a good dude and I think this project is going to be awesome.
And his poems! His poems are good.
lovelyarc:
For four nights in Chicago on February 23-26, Manual Cinema and Q Ensemble are together performing a live-scored cinematic shadow puppet show based on some poems in my...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
R.E.M. (18)
The Long Winters (13)
Daft Punk (11)
The Depreciation Guild (10)
The Night Lights (9)
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I kinda hate myself for how much I actually loved their performances.
Coldplay - Every teardrop is a waterfall @ SNL (by javierlobe)
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Four Tet (15)
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The National (23)
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Far East Movement (4)
Nelly (3)
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Girls (16)
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Saxon Shore (7)
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October 2011
19 posts
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Maybe the most challenging thing about Wilco’s sixth and seventh...
– Paul Thompson, NAILING it.
Wilco: The Whole Love | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
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Ben Kweller (19)
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Feist (12)
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GOOD Shirts
This is super cool!
The folks behind Wants for Sale and Needs for Sale have teamed up with Threadless to do a similar thing with unicef shirts. The actual cost of the relief becomes the price of the shirt.
GOOD Shirts
I wonder if anyone bought the $300,000 shirt? Don’t put it in the dryer!
I like the mosquito one, but I don’t know if Erin would approve of me wearing it.
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Girl Talk (14)
Fiona Apple (10)
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65daysofstatic (9)
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See, I knew things were a bit slow sometimes
Mind you, I didn’t close anything before I ran the test.