March 2010
178 posts
this week's this american life is really... →
A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production system: how it made cars of much higher quality and much lower cost than GM achieved. Frank Langfitt explains why GM didn’t learn the lessons – until it was too late.
link.
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not the kid / communist daughter [soundtrack to...
“WASHINGTON—Shots of the Indianapolis skyline scheduled to air during the 2010...”
– shots of indianapolis skyline to depress nation during final four broadcast / the onion [thanks drew]
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no conclusion mixtape / something higher [d/l] →
this 2003 spin interview with beck is actually... →
is it just me or did the entire ‘new sincerity’ movement kind of fizzle? and not just the austin zeitgeist / doctors mob shit, which was legitimately terrible, but even the later folk revival / “new weird” [whatever that means] crustache-gazing? as tempting [and obnoxious] as it may have been to call postmodernism’s time of death in late 1991, you would think it could...
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it’s doesn’t have to be beautiful /...
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death cream / sonny and the sunsets [soft abuse]...
raven sings the blues: volume 2 [mixtape d/l] →
lemonade / cocorosie [grey oceans]
an excerpt from philip pullman's "the good man... →
His new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, will be published next Easter as part of Scottish independent press Canongate’s Myths series, which has also seen Margaret Atwood tackle The Odyssey from the perspective of Odysseus’s wife Penelope, Jeanette Winterson retell the myth of Atlas and Heracles and Michel Faber take on Prometheus with a modern retelling which sees...
the best school play ever: scarface [and i thought... →
npr is streaming the new dr. dog album. its good. →
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foxglove / murder by death [good morning, magpie]...
david grann's "the devil and sherlock holmes"
about halfway through david grann’s collection of new yorker pieces [thanks tim]. each essay so far has been brilliant [this is the dude who wrote the incredible piece about todd willingham, the man who was wrongfully executed by the state of texas for killing his two daughters]. another epic essay is about frederic bourdin, the french imposter:
On June 8th, an administrator rushed into...
the new slow animal ep [free d/l] →
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breakneck speed / tokyo police club [champ] [d/l]
the last sit-down show i ever go to.
so last night went to the nosaj thing / jj / xx show at sixth and i. i hate concert reviews as much as the next dude, but the current spate of stories mentioning just how atrocious jj is live kind of necessitates it. they’re all right - shit was the most awkward, unenthusiastic, rushed, and downright weird performance ive ever seen. luckily joakim benon didn’t seem completely mashed...
“Here’s a simple test: Count the number of times they use the adjective “cyber.”...”
– there’s no such thing as ‘cyber’ / wired
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the notorious xx [mixtape d/l] →
four songs by l'homme run / we all want someone to... →
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cab fare / souls of mischief [self titled] [d/l]
i want to see atom egoyan's new film. →
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d.a.n.c.e. / justice [hawa cover] [d/l]
“Why do I care? Because you are making me look at you, because you forced your...”
– an open letter to the aging hippies dancing at the tinariwen concert / mcsweeney’s
art of the steal: on the trail of the world's most... →
Aerial approaches are a tricky business, though, and Blanchard almost overshot the castle, slowing himself just enough by skidding along a pitched gable. Sliding down the tiles, arms and legs flailing for a grip, Blanchard managed to save himself from falling four stories by grabbing a railing at the roof’s edge. For a moment, he lay motionless. Then he took a deep breath, unhooked the chute,...
stream the new dark dark dark ep, bright bright... →
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fuck you / the knux [fuck you ep] [d/l]
boom! boom boom, cha! [redux] →
the increasingly poor decisions of todd margaret... →
*UPDATE. i guess it only leaked for twelve minutes. sucks dog.
taste testing the world's hottest pepper →
“We don’t have to kill her, I’ll just beat her face into hamburger...”
– kubrick’s the killing. deep analysis here.