January 2012
1 post
the new jalen rose podcast is not to be missed. →
November 2011
2 posts
skinemax is koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised... →
“But they can’t do this,” shrieked Lou Reed. “It’s my song! They’re just taking my song?”
“Are they really, Lou?” said the Buddha.
“Yes! Listen to it! It’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side.’ It’s just ‘Walk on the Wild Side.’”
“Only here and there,” replied the Buddha.
“What?”
...
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
5 posts
richard feynman explains how trains stay on their... →
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“Native Tongue was a thought experiment, with a time limit of ten years. My...”
– suzette haden elgin, on her science fiction novel native tongue. full láadan dictionary here.
it’s kind of messed up but i get more upset about the failures of constructed languages than the death of real ones.
inertia is a property of matter →
the complete bill nye.
lichtenberg figures are bomb as fuck. →
July 2011
16 posts
the transition between the president’s address and it’s worth whatttt? was priceless.
noir desir / la vent nous portera →
said the gramaphone:
On 27 July 2003, the man who sings this song murdered his girlfriend. This is not a fiction. Bertrand Cantat attacked Marie Trintignant and three days later she died in hospital. He spent 3 years in prison. In 2010, Krisztina Rády, the mother of Cantat’s two children, the woman he left for Trintignant, committed suicide. Cantat was inside the house. An autopsy...
rush to judgement: trying kids as adults / valerie... →
“my next door neighbor was over complaining about someone stealing her clothes...”
– via
bullshit heaven / jed perl reviews the new book on... →
compelling piece about the relevance (and relevance of discussing) of motel artist thomas kinkade:
The love affair between the intellectuals and the trashmeisters, now more than a hundred years old, has just overtaken the man who is by some measures the most popular painter in America. Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall is an essay collection that exudes a creepy fascination. While a number...
wait for me / motopony [motopony]
“In August 1945, about 500 Manhattan Project alumni founded the Association of...”
– futility closet
this shit / sol [dear friends vol. iii] [d/l]
so far the only feature in osx lion that ive really been using is the tool in preview that allows you to write your signature on a piece of paper, take a picture of it, and embed it into a pdf. on that basis alone: completely sold.
***UPDATE: also, having my g.reader items read to me by a woman with an indian accent.
i don’t like you / max ulis [d/l]
via...
June 2011
85 posts
pretty good →
Jean-François Sudre had a unique thought in 1817: If people of different cultures can appreciate the same music, why not develop music itself into an international language?
The result, which he called Solresol, enlists the seven familiar notes of the solfeggio scale (do, re, mi …) as phonemes in a vocabulary of 2,600 roots. Related words share initial syllables; for example, doremi means...
the talks →
nice new interview site with pieces on patti smith, mike tyson, sofia coppola, mick jagger, ewan mcgregor, mel ramos & others. pretty down until:
But you [Patti Smith] still seem to be a person who is not always comfortable with being famous…
All of this stuff if you call it flattery or whatever, yes it’s awkward, it’s awkward for you and it’s a little awkward for me but in the end we...
morgan freeman's alleged relationship with his...
so i just stumbled upon the morgan freeman ep that yellow ostrich released last summer. all of the tracks are based on subcategories of his wikipedia page. pretty pleasant.
“We can’t help noticing that the kids aren’t making a documentary...”
– david denby, on super 8 in this week’s new yorker. beyond the fact that writing about the rise of cgi-laden summer blockbusters is retarded, this should go down as one of the worst hooks in current cinema history.
where have all the classics gone / piebald [the...
stuff expat aid workers like →
44. blogging for the folks back home:
When setting up a blog for the folks back home, you’ll want to make the title some clever variation of your name and the place where you are posted during this first overseas EAW-type job or experience. Good words to include are “stories from” or “my life in” or “chronicle” or “Africa” or “nomadic” or “odyssey” or “adventures in…” or “from [your home...
starting at 6 pm tonight watch freddie gibbs &... →
Along with XXL, LRG and Karmaloop will also be on hand documenting the marathon session.
The project titled Lord Giveth, Lord Taketh Away, will precede Gibbs’ forthcoming mixtape, Cold Day in Hell, which, as of press time does not have an official release date.
**UPDATE actually don’t do that. my mistake.
colours / grouplove [xaphoon jones remix] [d/l
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d/l the new album from youth lagoon, the year of... →
your renegade ways have no place in geek squad /... →
Shut the fuck up and let me finish. You caught a lucky break. You ever stop to think what could have happened back there if the problem wasn’t just that the router had to be unplugged and then plugged back in? You ever stop to consider that maybe the power strip was fucked? That maybe you make one wrong move on that router and you’re a pile of fucking ash and bones on the floor of some...
gone gone gone / nikki lane [gone gone gone ep]...
the killing: hackery in the first degree / bill... →
mostly digestible regretables for people who watched the killing and hated it, but then there’s this paragraph:
Our heroine was a redheaded detective named Sarah Linden, a poorly written character who didn’t wear makeup, kept her hair in a sexless ponytail, and wore the heaviest sweaters anyone has ever worn on television. Halfway through the season, she chased a suspect through...
affirmation nation with bob ducca is my favorite... →
more pizza rolls mom →
i’ve never played an rpg before, but i really want this to be my first:
Fiasco is inspired by cinematic tales of small time capers gone disastrously wrong – inspired by films like Blood Simple, Fargo, The Way of the Gun, Burn After Reading, and A Simple Plan. You’ll play ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. There will be big dreams and flawed execution. It...
i get nervous / lower dens [twin-hand movement]
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the case for rooting against lebron / joe posnaski →
a nice takeaway from the last two weeks:
What I mean is: Professional athletes are characters. I”m not sure why this concept gets lost, but it does all the time. Professional athletes get paid money to perform. We pay money to watch. That’s it. We don’t know these athletes. We know some things about them. We try, with varying success, to know more things about them. Beyond...
dirt / wu lyf [go tell fire to the mountain] [d/l]
wu lyf / go tell fire to the mountain [album d/l] →
