January 2011
“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody...”
– Mark Twain
December 2010
i-am-charles asked: Is your tumblr name in reference to the Rilo Kiley song?
Anonymous asked: do you have any formal photography training?
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“Twelve months later, society is still divided on what to call this year, and it...”
– “Not Calling Next Year ‘Twenty Eleven’ Will Be the End of Us All” [the Awl].
I am still sad that “oh-ten” didn’t catch on.
Kyle Johnson’s Top 11 Live Music Photos of 2010 By... →
(I would have linked to this excellent list even if Kyle hadn’t picked one of my photos for his top 11.)
“I am still waiting for some kind underpaid soul to make the distinction between...”
– Nick Sylvester explains why he’s quitting Riff City, by way of not liking then reassessing the new Kanye West album, with forays into the noise around MIA, and needing to spend a lot of time with music. There’s a certain depressingness about great farewell columns. [THIRTEEN]
Beirut Giving Away Movies: Or, Why I Love Indie... →
the story of how Cheap Magic Inside, Vincent Moon’s fantastical movie starring Beirut playing the Flying Cup Club in various locations in New York, came to be online for free downloading. [Chris Peterson]
fuckyeahsufjanstevens:
fuckyeahhipstergarabe:
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“the United States would be left with enough nuclear firepower “to blow anyone to...”
– Republican pragmatism, courtesy Lamar Alexander. [ NYTimes]
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“Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It...”
– Ricky Gervais’s ideas about how science works [WSJ] lead me to believe that he doesn’t subscribe to the New Yorker [#] or the Atlantic [#].
Testing the validity of the Danish urban myth that... →
samantham:
Conclusion Our results suggest that feet are impenetrable to the alcohol component of vodka. We therefore conclude that the Danish urban myth of being able to get drunk by submerging feet in alcoholic beverages is just that; a myth.
Some day we should concoct a study for the BMJ xmas issue.
“I also like that all I needed to do to get mail and calendar and contacts...”
– That *is* how things should work and is the main aspect that has me, a die hard iPhone fan, most intrigued about the Nexus S (and Android in general). Google is getting a few very important things (syncing and the cost of on-boarding) right that Apple has, to date, gotten quite wrong. That being...
“It’s a Great Time to Be Rich”
– BusinessWeek. Hey, suddenly never ending high unemployment rates and self-described ” possibly immoral” state budgets [seattletimes] don’t seem so bad!
"Autotuned Barbra Streisand (!!!); two separate... →
maura:
A partial litany of sins committed by the #5 song on F2K10, “We Are The World 25 For Haiti.” Click through for more.
Also, tune into WNYC at 2 p.m. today to hear Chris Weingarten and me talk about the countdown!
Oh wow. I had been totally happy having forgotten about that musical atrocity. It was really something to see, though, wasn’t it?
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in which there is no reason to dance about...
howtolistentomusic:
sciencevsromance:
[…] my strongest reaction to these videos is a personal bafflement at importance that he places on lyrics (giving it equal footing with music and vocal delivery) (1) and trying to make sense of how he can give Bieber a pass on long stretches of single word repetition (2) but cuts Arcade Fire for a soft metaphor (3), dings Dirty Projectors for making...
