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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
- Iron & Wine
- “Flightless Bird, American Mouth”
- At the moment, more addictive than “the Trapeze Swinger”. When I got home to find that I only have a copy on my office computer, I began to worry until remembering the internet.
Jul
16th
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16th
![catbird:
Insound 20: Small Stakes Tees, Hoodies and Posters The independent online music retailer Insound joined forces with designer Jason Munn, of Small Stakes fame, to create iconic designs for 20 of Insound’s favorite bands.
I will take one of each, please.
EDIT: ok, point taken. [distorte]](http://media.tumblr.com/D5tJcyAMxbho6p4tVjxTh3xE_500.jpg)
Insound 20: Small Stakes Tees, Hoodies and Posters The independent online music retailer Insound joined forces with designer Jason Munn, of Small Stakes fame, to create iconic designs for 20 of Insound’s favorite bands.
I will take one of each, please.
EDIT: ok, point taken. [distorte]
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- Loney, Dear
- “the city, the airport”
- sounds like: remember those sponges shaped like marine life or charismatic macrofauna that were magically crammed into little gel capsules that looked like delicious vitamins for horses? This has parts that sound like a handfuls of those thrown into a giant vase, bursting into a crowded, multicolored menagerie.
This somehow appeared on my iPhone playlist after I’d spent almost the whole day listening to Antidotes by Foals on near-constant repeat.
(inspired by amber [applewagon.org], generally and specifically.)
Finally there’s the larger philosophical problem of comments. I think, generally speaking, that every site gets the commenters it deserves.
I’m not philosophically opposed to comments — I like them a lot on my livejournal — but am too lazy to think of a good way to have comments both here and on the source posts. Plus, there’s something nice and clean about the tumblr interface and presentation that makes me less anxious to tinker.
You know, this is actually an insult against Muslim-Americans, something that we don’t spend a lot of time talking about. And sometimes I’ve been derelict in pointing that out. You know, there are wonderful Muslim-Americans all across the country who are doing wonderful things. And for this to be used as sort of an insult, or to raise suspicions about me, I think is unfortunate.
— Barack Obama, responding to Larry King’s question about “a lot of misinformation”. [huffpost]
(long overdue)
(long overdue)
Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked ... as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia | Mail Online
I’m pretty sure that I don’t like that Bansky’s true identity has been revealed. Doesn’t Mail Online remember that touching scene from Spiderman 2 where all the nice people on the train agree not to tell?
yes. the daily show on the new yorker cover.
This just the parts about the New Yorker cover. The whole show is on hulu, which has a really nicest embedding link trick of letting you choose start and stop times, so you can tune in for the Pierce Brosnan interview at the end on your own time. John Stewart gets a little “special commenty”, but the clips of the media coverage alone are worth it.
This, though is the win, and Obama’s missed opportunity to show that liberals aren’t entirely humorless:
Obama’s camp initially agreed that the cartoon was `tasteless and offensive’. Really? You know what your response should have been? It’s very easy. Here let me put the statement out for you: “Barack Obama is in no way upset by the cartoon that depicts him as a Muslim extremist. Because you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists. Of which Barack Obama is not. It’s just a fucking cartoon.”
Jul
15th
Tue
15th
Salon: Rush Limbaugh was right
This is a headline that I never expected to see on Salon.com. (it’s w/r/t the New Yorker cover “scandal”). Here’s the big line: “Irony may have been killed, but not by sincerity — it’s been killed by cynicism.”