October 2009
September 2009
Tell your friends you can't go out tonight because...
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Allegations and convictions
Roman Polanski declined the opportunity to clear his name of the more graphic charges in court and pled guilty to a single charge of unlawful sex with a minor. This has led Whoopi Goldberg and others to claim (despite grand jury testimony otherwise) that it wasn’t “rape rape.”
If it wasn’t “rape rape” Michael Vick simply “conspired to … sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture.” No animals...
"Just Google it" is a fine reply to the question,...
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Julian Lynch - Two Babes In The Woods
Sez...
Julian Lynch: “Two Babes in the Woods”
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I love my Saab 900 Turbo.
I used to drive an old Volvo wagon. The thing was the opposite of the Saab in every way except country of origin. (They both hail from Sweden). However, this morning as I was driving to work I flipped on the turn signal and a little puff of electrical smoke wafted up from the steering column. I know that old Saabs are notorious for having finicky electrical systems, so I wasn’t too...
New Pornographers - Jackie
Thanks to the...
“If I direct a movie I can rape the shit out of 13-year-olds?”
– Pantsblog
America truly is a meritocracy.
“In retrospect, every record Dave Longstreth made with whoever he was calling...”
– Mike Powell, with another great write-up from Pitchfork’s great list.
“Estrangement from spouse and offspring! The push-and-pull of an...”
– Paul Thompson on The Meadowlands, my favorite write-up, thus far. I have to say, the the ass-end of 100-80 shows how awesome this decade has been for music. Any one of these albums could have been my favorite of the 00s.
Jeff Mangum - She Did A Lot Of Acid Today /...
Unexpected hanging paradox - Wikipedia →
A judge tells a condemned prisoner that he will be hanged at noon on one weekday in the following week but that the execution will be a surprise to the prisoner. He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day. Having reflected on his sentence, the prisoner draws the conclusion that he will escape from the hanging. His reasoning is in...
“Thee 2000s
When I was in my early twenties, I had the chance to play in a band...”
– Jamie Stewart, Xiu Xiu
Pomplamoose - Single Ladies
From that Hipster...
“The aim of literature is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which...”
– Donald Barthelme (via spaceships) (via unburyingthelead)
Oh my god what a great line!
I'm Making A Mix To Listen To On The Drive Up To...
To get an idea of the “texture” or “feeling” or “steez” of the mix, here are the first few tracks:
99 sich luftballons
time to pretend
pop the glock
Songs on the maybe pile include heartbeats, the diplo paper planes, make out fall out make up, and some african music. I dont care if it’s “cool” or “new” ?
“The best compliment I ever got came in 1979, after I sang three verses of “Home...”
– YMFY: The Art of Giving Compliments
Normal people are asleep at this hour.
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agingercalledjacquelynn:
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“Awl contributor Tom Scocca just blew my mind by IM’ing me this sentence, from...”
– The All
I’m generally for description being analogous to meaning, so this is a really neat-and-tidy quote.
I sometimes wonder, now, with the proliferation and wide adoption of spell check whether spelling and usage won’t kind of ossify roughly to the present’s ideas of spelling...
A Rule of Nature: I can dash off 60 page papers...
But give me 1 paragraph in Tumblr’s text entry window and I cannot elude making a tyop.
Corollary: Someone will reblog my typo.
“My soul shattered like an empty vase.
It fell irretrievably down the stairs....”
– “Note,” by Fernando Pessoa (via Maced)
Fernando Pessoa has been all over my dashboard and all over my heart, lately. It’s one for the confluence book. What a lovely poem. It’s so true and so earnest that you almost forget that it’s also beautiful. This soft-focus,...
Group Doueh - Eid For Dakhla
Ok, so I don’t...
WatchScientists are cribbing their ideas from Mr. Show, now! Whatever, I’d live in the House of the Future (by Menocu).
Assistant professors Robert Hancock and Becky Sue Parton have received a $360,000 grant from the Department of Education to develop their ”physical world hyperlinking” teaching system, a term used to describe the process of connecting digital data on a computer and real-world...
Music Theory Geekery
A flood of flat-sevenths
“Or, what are all those flat-sevenths doing in the Beatles’ Revolver?”
Is this peculiar chord, along with the quartal harmonies, responsible for the album’s meditative atmosphere?
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Do click through.
TMN: Fiery Furnaces visit the DMV →
The entire premise of this piece is fucking weird. Is it based in fact? Anecdote? Song lyrics? Fancy? I don’t know, but it’s hilarious. The Morning News always wins.
I’m plowing through a stir fry like it’s the last one ever Tied to my porch with chicken wire and clever When Vargas dips his fingers into my sticky rice And up floats a letter from the DMV, very nice I’d better run down...
Primer
Aaron: You know that story, about how NASA spent millions of dollars developing this pen that writes in Zero G? Did you ever read that?
Abe: Yeah.
Aaron: You know how the Russians solved the problem?
Abe: Yeah, they used a pencil.
Aaron: Right. A normal wooden pencil.
R.E.M. - What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
I...
Jay-z v Pavement: “Problems Here”
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trichotillomania
noun • \trick-uh-till-uh-MAY-nee-uh\ • an abnormal desire to pull out one’s hair
—After the break-up I saw Sammy and he was, like, fucking bald in spots all over.
—What a bummer. Must be the trichotillomania.
“I think very well of Susan but I do not know her name
I think very well of...”
– Gertrude Stein
“I added to it. / I could rather be rather be here.” is, like, some of the most perfect poetry ever. I’m just going to populate my Facebook profile with Stein quotations, put the URL on my card, and let the chips fall where they will.
“I call people rich when they are able to meet the requirements of their...”
– Henry James (via caraobrien)
Hah! Henry James—besides being a fairly-to-really technically skilled writer—is funny.
Question for guitarists and/or metalheads
pgwp:
I’m trying to explain artificial harmonics and pick harmonics to someone who doesn’t necessarily understand what those are. I want to give examples of songs (preferably metal or hair-metal songs) that famously use these techniques. I’m looking basically for the most obvious possible answer.
For artificial harmonics (i.e. the kind where you simply rest your finger on a string other than...
Mountain Goats - Orange Ball of Hate
From a...