May 2008
The endless Washington DC to Seattle Washington flight is not my favorite.
Return to the SEA →
April 2008
My cabdriver keeps confusing “arrive” for “depart” and its very unsettling.
“I am just appalled. All of our gardeners will now have to spend the whole day...”
– explanation for the confetti dropped over Coachella during Roger Waters’s set: “Pro-Obama fliers fell from above” [Desert Sun]
So many coachella refugees at LAX. Time to take off the wristbands, kids.
Pyrotechnics for Roger Waters! / this many people like Roger Waters? Justice please.
Holy shit! Let’s put away those Band of Horses comparisons, My Morning Jacket are the real deal.
Hello Shout Out Louds, you are my new bandcrush.
coachella.lights →
Aside from last night’s Animal Collective set, these lights were my favorite thing at Coachella on Saturday. So pretty and soothing! (some other coachella related posting activities can be found on la.metblogs.com and probably annoying regular updates on twittr).
Even Prince has hype men. Also, um, I am at a Prince show.
Just as grumpchella was setting in Animal Collective play a Panda Bear “cover”.
Hey Coachella, its impossible to get within 20 yards of the MIA tent. Maybe its time to reevaluate what goes on the mainstage?
oh Death Cab, I still like you but you really aren’t the massive outdoor stage sort of band. A for effort.
MGMT = hipster electromagnet
People are actually screaming for Jack Johnson.
The Raconteurs are a huge rock band. And improbably 83 degrees feels cool.
Come on Black Kids, how about not teaching our girlfriends how to dance with us already?
La Quinta →
What is this weird mountain doing in our backyard?
At the Morongo Casino. They really should have focus-grouped that name.
hello, los angeles. Already, I successfully met a guy about a thing involving a large cash transaction in front of the magic johnson statue.
hot chip was good, i was cold →
did you know that there’s a spot inside the showbox where even in the midst of a sold-out dancing crowd it feels like you’re standing at the gate to alaska?
reality bites →
Is anyone watching the Paper? I caught a re-run this afternoon. Although I never watched the Hills (and only watched enough of Laguna Beach to figure out that it wasn’t a brilliant faux-reality meta-commentary on the O.C.), I think that maybe the Paper is what those shows would be if instead of vapid socal teens they were about ambitious super nerdy yet passably telegenic kids who lust...
I think that this new Mount Eerie record might just have a pop song on it.
typing typing typing →
It’s winter in Seattle again. Again, because there was a day of summer last weekend, but I spent that day inside the EMP listening to academics and critics talk about music and watching Blue Scholars…
passover →
“WILL THIS WINTER NEVER FUCKING END WTF DO WE LIVE IN NARNIA NOW”
– janehex (it is so cold here. buried under blankets, waiting for spring.)
why? →
After happy hour macaroni at Smith with the ‘bloggers, went down to the Vera Project to see Mount Eerie (and get his new record). I stayed for Why?, and was thoroughly impressed. (a little more typing, [metblogs])
rock lottery →
Went to the Rock Lottery Sunday night and was amazed to see what a random assortment of musicians were able to come up with in twelve hours. Some of these bands were better than groups that have been together for years! I left a bit early out of tiredness and hunger. (Why aren’t more kitchens open past midnight? And what happened to that wonderful falafel truck?)
Domain Days →
hot new meme: show fimoculous your list of domain names.
this could have turned out badly →
the Coconut Coolouts handed out drumsticks and invited kids to smash a pinata in the middle of their set on Saturday at the Vera Project. Remarkably, no one was harmed in the muppet dancing…
“I was confused by the saucer-eyed, unquestioning devotion shown by my formerly...”
– Rebecca Traister [salon]. This is pretty much how I feel about the election at this point. Apparently, at heart, I’m a mother who thinks.
“This is just like The Breakfast Club except in the middle they make Ally Sheedy...”
– Choire Sicha on Wonkette’s liberation from Gawker [wonkette]
“Idolator gave Stereogum a good run, but a group with a whole array of music...”
– If Idolator is having trouble commanding attention from record labels then a whole lot of music blogs are in severe trouble. Idolator, Gridskipper, and Wonkette (wonkette!?) are getting the boot from Gawker Media. [gawker]
Crazy line at crazycherry.
The mercury threatens to break 70F and already so much pale skin in display.
This woman on the bus is having a fascinating conspiracy laden conversation with her invisible friend right now.
it’s eleven o’ clock and I’m exhausted. morning transatlantic conference calls are ruining my life.
At the Pop Music Conference →
One of the presenters has an OLPC XO.
Kyra Gaunt is using an OLPC for her Pop Conference talk.
"Tech doping"? How Speedo's LZR suit breaks swim... →
swimsuits are becoming indistinguishable from superhero costumes.
Typographical illusion →
I find this sign deeply disorienting: something between nausea and a panic attack.
working, last weekending →
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time working, trying to pay attention to lots of details, and making computers do time-consuming things. Other than that, there was drinking at Twilight…
Daring Fireball: Safari's Tab Dragging Modes →
Documenting the weird behavior of Safari when you drag tabs. Before yesterday I didn’t know that you could pull tabs out into new browsers or between windows, but I’ve been using it like crazy ever since.
The case for Hillary Clinton's electability →
In a popular-vote winner-take-all system, Clinton would now have 1,743 pledged delegates to Obama’s 1,257.
“Facebook Applications are annoying. … I do not want to be a zombie. I do...”
– “Finally, Facebook Does Good” [ohmygodseattle]