July 2008
joshc: 8:36 pm : three cousins dining at Tre... →
We were even approached by a homeless person asking for money while we were sitting on the sidewalk patio. A band of teens in American Apparel passed by. Kids were skateboarding at the ice rink. The city is getting so cosmopolitan!
June 2008
joshc: 8:36 pm : at the deserted gym. →
joshc: My neighborhood is at all time low levels... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : on the way to Linda's hoping for... →
joshc: Hundreds of mostly ladies on the march just... →
joshc: Realizing that I'm utterly unprepared for... →
joshc: planning ahead, buying tickets for a Sigur... →
cutest robot of all time →
On the latest day of the year, we sat on a patio in SLU and had pizza and sorbet and then saw a gorgeous movie. Then drinks around town. A nice day. If something can be said to be wrong with WALL•E…
joshc: 8:36 pm : having dinner on the Tutta Bella... →
Girl Talk Goes Track-By-Track Through Feed The... →
Its still OK to only want to talk about Girl Talk all the time, right? Good. Because Greg Gillis’s favorite track on Feed the Animals in my favorite track, too and now I feel so special and might need to go buy a headband.
Now can someone transcribe these MTV videos? There’s some good stuff about what he put on the album vs. what he’d play at live shows in here.
joshc: 8:36 pm : looking for the key to my... →
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more awareness of internet traditions →
This may reveal me as a grouchy neo-luddite, but I think that Buster’s 836pm.com project just might be the thing to save Twitter from the rest of the internet.
The things that people post on it are exactly what I want to see when I look at twitter: immediate answers to the question “what are you doing now?”. Not bits and pieces of ideas that deserve more than 140 characters, not...
listening habits →
I made a radical decision to make my iPhone just sync with my “recently added” playlist and now I’ve had an excuse to listen to a bunch of albums that had been sitting on my computer for months without much notice.
Maybe you already knew that She & Him is great (something like Rilo Kiley/Joanna Newsom + Neko Case/4 + √Polyphonic Spree). I had just incorrectly assumed that...
I've Had Enough (or, Jakob Lodwick quits the...
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The last one really pushed me over the edge. Not only do these people attack me online, but they recognize me in real life. That’s the kind of thing I don’t want to think about while out and about.
While there’s no excuse for people using the internet to be cruel jerks, it’s hard to get worked up about someone who posts pictures of himself near-daily being recognized...
the worst is that i'm still half-watching this →
Is the best/worst part of VH1’s “I Love the New Millennium” series the way that the cultural commentators have to awkwardly gloss over the obviously terrible things that occurred in a particular year or how they’re all required to pretend that the topics they’re referencing happened so long ago that the audience needs explanations suitable for extraterrestrials? Oh,...
“I’m typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!!”
– Kanye responding to the Bonnaroo controversy on kanYe West : Blog (via azizisbored via boringloser) I don’t even care if this is real or fake. I am also pretty sure that if I had to stay awake until 5 am to see Kanye West in Tennessee I would have probably died.
joshc: Leaving work for the second time today.... →
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“If “Baroque Shins” isn’t conjuring anything for you, how...”
– Carrie Brownstein, fresh from the Oregon Coast, tries to compress her description of her “summer band”, Fleet Foxes. [npr] How many times can I mention my crush on her blog without seeming overly fawning?
joshc: 8:36 pm : so disoriented by an afternoon... →
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joshc: This coffee line at Vivace is a cross... →
How smart is the octopus? (Slate) →
pretty smart
joshc: Shouldn't we wait for a decade to end... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : takeout and finishing the work I... →
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“A dozen and a half of the most mind-bendingly ridiculous elements of the film,...”
– Christopher Orr watches (& spoils) the Happening so you don’t have to waste your time and money for the sake of being able to laugh at its idiocy. [TNR]
recap →
The thing about our gloomy spring is that now that it’s summer, the days are suddenly long and without the gradual transition, one is tempted to carefully inspect the molars of this lovely gift horse. Or at least I am still finding it suspicious. It reminds me a little of last summer’s trip to Europe where it seemed to hardly ever be evening. After several hours on the dock at...
“We don’t realize it yet, but the novel has just unfurled its great theme: this...”
– James Wood, reviewing Netherland, which he calls “one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read”. [newyorker]
joshc: 8:36 pm : just finished an iced latte and... →
Highly recommended. O’Neill dips in and out of memory and plot with staggering lightness and solid grace; the ending hits like a glorious and welcome pile of bricks that have fallen gently into place.
WatchVampire Weekend’s video for “Oxford Comma” is basically a Wes Anderson movie. Or a rip-off of a Wes Anderson commercial.
joshc: The enduring psychologically complex image... →
“Reading about craft is like listening to yourself breathe. Writing about craft...”
– Zadie Smith, from the beginning and end of a lecture at Columbia, republished in the Believer this month. (“That Crafty Feeling” [believermag], for the worthwhile full text you’ll need to buy a copy of the magazine which also includes interviews with Gus Van Sant and Tom McCarthy.)
joshc: Tempermentally unsuited to the parade... →
joshc: The depressing thing about iPhone is... →
joshc: Pike Street Fish Fry is out of asparagus,... →
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joshc: 8:36 pm : at home after after work drinks... →
referential →
OK. Instead of being annoyed that I woke up at 6:30 this morning and went back to sleep without trying to buy presale tickets for Sigur Ros at Benaroya only to find that they were sold out two hours later, I’m just going to be happy that this new Girl Talk album is mind-blowing. Listening to it is like realizing that the flat musical map you’d always been using is really...
joshc: 8:36 pm : I am aware of all Internet... →
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joshc: 8:36 pm : wrapping up happy hour(s) with... →
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