December 2009
25 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Nirvana (12)
The Mountain Goats (5)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow (4)
Bishop Allen (2)
St. Vincent (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
We have free video chat capability now and we don’t really use it. And you know...
– 11 Predictions That Back to the Future Part II Got Right - 11Points.com (via happysmer)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Lily Allen (13)
Death Cab for Cutie (11)
Bright Eyes (9)
Kid Sister (7)
The Shins (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Increasingly we offload the need to remember the minutiae our day-to-day lives...
– Intriguing stuff.
History’s New Gatekeepers - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect (via slantback) (via infoneernet) (via nerdgasms)
"30 Rock"
LIZ: Creativity to me is just like, pffft, it's like a bird, like friendly bird that embraces all ideas, just like shoots out of its eyes all kinds of beauty.
JACK: Wow, Lemon. This is like watching Hemingway write. Mark Hemingway.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Mike Doughty (30)
Girl Talk (14)
Soul Coughing (13)
Vashti Bunyan (8)
Warren G (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Letters to Santa: Post office won't help deliver... →
This is why we can't have nice things.
langer:
In America a president can campaign on a platform featuring a national healthcare program with a robust public option only to see it stifled by Congress because of the mere threat that a few senators are going to take to the podium and talk for a really long time.
And yet in America that same president can campaign on a platform featuring the escalation of a war in Afghanistan and...
Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that...
– Paul Auster, in this amazing book.