February 2010
Watchoh, hello, new season/series of Skins started last week. [E4.com via alexgarcia] #missuseries1 (p.s., Series 1 and 2 are available to watch instantly [netflix])
January 2010
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“Though Apple is a reasonably progressive company, they explicitly don’t...”
– Anil Dash, in a stirring call to patriotic publicity.
“Season two of The Real World is, arguably, the single most important season of...”
– Patrick Brown. [the Millions, via theawl]. At first this sounds crazy! Especially when he puts it on par with the first season of the Sopranos and the third season of Mad Men (less of a reach, really)! But then you read it and think that hey maybe he is absolutely right and then you kind of mourn a...
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Why computers should be more like toasters.... →
Because what I want most of all is another piece of personal technology with the potential to accidentally char or almost set my kitchen on fire if my attention strays.
TicketMaster And LiveNation Get Approval As One... →
Are you ready for some CONVENIENCE?? (via chainofknives)
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“I have never been more grateful for an official, band-sanctioned online lyric...”
– Phoenix’s ‘1901’ > 2009
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Rob Harvilla wrote a really nice essay about Phoenix’s total inscrutability, and how that somehow makes their songs ever better. By the way, this was one of a small handful of occasions where I’m reading something on public transportation and my mind goes “Hey,...
“While filming a wide shot of the landscape one day, directors Joel Coen and...”
– When “There Will Be Blood” interfered with “No Country for Old Men,” on IMDb (via nickdouglas). I love this story.
WatchHaving accepted the odd situation in which novels have trailers, this one for Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon is really good. It’s grisly and creepy and captures the mood of the book, which has just the right amount of pulpy mystery thrown into the literary fiction brew of three interlocking stories of identity to make it both page-turning and thought-provoking. The prose is...
“But here’s something even dedicated students of the game may not fully...”
– [WSJ.com]. This should come as a shocking revelation only to people who have never actually watched full american football game in their entire lives. In other forthcoming revelations, research suggests that MTV “doesn’t show music videos anymore”.
“Upon accepting his award, James announced that he needs to make his speech quick...”
– Best Week Ever. Cameron’s speech might have been at least entertaining if it was even slightly possible to imagine that it was a self-referential joke. Or if it had been in 3D.
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“I know a lot of people want to send...
Daring Fireball: The Original Tablet →
John Gruber writes about the long gone, but never forgotten, nostalgically beloved Newton. I still have mine in a drawer somewhere, though the batteries have long since lost their ability to be recharged.
Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets →
intense lake ice sound recordings! much more intense than the ones that we heard while snowshoeing at whistler. (via waxy)
“But this is ridiculous. It’s quite clear that he is 8 years old, and while he...”
– Najlah Feanny Hicks, regarding her son Mikey and his status on the TSA “selectee” lists. [NYT via @whittlz)]
“I miss Tumblarity.”
– There, I said it. (via heyitsnoah)
Mine finally broke through the double and into the triple digits and then they got rid of it. Does that make me the un-cool kid who ruined it for all the cool kids?
(via ianwestcott)
God, me too. And of course the day it goes away is the day I get a hundred...
WatchWes Anderson accepts his National Board of Review Award in the stop-motion guise of the same Weasel that he voiced in the Fantastic Mr. Fox. (via Vulture) The reason that no one is making jokes about about him being so reluctant to leave Paris that he directed even his speech by e-mail is because this is so incredibly cute.
“Remember when that Canadian radio program got kind of famous for just calling a...”
– kenlayne, commenting on the current news situation in relation to the Haiti disaster. [the Awl]
WatchShout Out Louds – “Fall Hard” (via @ MBV). Happily, their spring North American tour will bring them to Seattle on 15 May.
“The men I know are nothing like the caricatures of “men” I see...”
– Molly Lambert sort of responds to that Katie Rolphie mess. [This Recording]