June 2010
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1000 tips zum überleben / sonny hennig [cloud...
“Alexander William Kinglake suggested that all churches should bear the...”
– futility closet
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revofev / kid cudi [plain pat single] [d/l]
you should download and listen to this nico jaar... →
[resident advisor interview]
check out the new dead prez / gangsta grillz... →
not bad. ill throw up a couple songs over at town & kountry.
prodigal son / ariel levy's new yorker profile of... →
im not sure what i find more galling: huckabee’s [uncontested] aw-shucks attitude in the eternal damnation of jews, or the fact that this weird zionist christian bullshit actually gets traction. and i say that as someone who would be totally down with the end of days, generally speaking.
The tour buses took the Christians to a souvenir shop next, and while people shopped for olive-wood...
roland barthes reviews pac-man [where else?] →
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mantra [what is and what is not] / visions of a...
the traffic guru →
i was familiar with this story, but it’s not every day you get proust references in the context of city planning. side note: people who don’t like round-abouts are retarded.
At a loss, Monderman suggested to the villagers, who as it happens had hired a consultant to help improve the town’s aesthetics, that Oudehaske simply be made to seem more “villagelike.” The interventions were...
missing missy [lost cats + cheeky graphic... →
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before you judge me / black lips [the adult swim...
way to go, france →
the dictionary of obscure sorrows →
my favorite:
rialtoscuro - n. disorientation when you step outside a movie theater into unexpected darkness, a twinge of jet lag from two hours of escapist fun which only diverts you from making the sequel to your youth—an old cult classic with wild shifts in tone, dropped subplots, major characters that appear out of nowhere only to vanish without explanation, and an ambiguous ending—but this...
town & kountry is operational [i needed a mobile... →
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bam bam / sister nancy [one two] [via]
errol morris also has a new post at his nyt blog... →
errol morris' new film: "tabloid" →
this looks rad:
According to our sources, it seems Morris has just finished up a brand new documentary, “Tabloid” aka “A Very Special Love Story” (the title is not yet final) about Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who, in the late seventies, abducted Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary in England, chained him to a bed and forced him to have sex with her. But...
if there’s anything more endearing than watching a compilation of a 7’6” sudanese dude launching threes from the top of the key, i don’t know what it is.
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ce n’est pas bon / amadou & mariam...
good for you ronnie. →
[previously] + my earlier roundup of all things artest.
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gamma ray / beck [modern guilt]
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outta control / paper route gangstaz [hood...
that depressing and reassuring feeling when you... →
like flashlight tongs times a million.
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river may come / wild yaks [ten ships] [d/l]
“Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think...”
– i’m comic sans, asshole [mike lacher’s short imagined monologue / mcsweeney’s] via sledgebox.
e3 just announced the new goldeneye will be... →
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light of the morning / band of skulls [baby...
what is html 5? [an infographic] →
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in the useful music app department...
i also just discovered trntbl, which rules. if you hit the ‘turntable’ link at the top of the page, you can see my entire music collection and [most importantly] shuffle at will.
now if they only had an iphone app….
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constant struggle and all that
im a bit embarrassed to admit this, but i just realized this evening that there’s a little pop out button next to the streampad logo in the bottom right of the screen that lets you create a new window that’s just the music player. convenient as hell!
this just might give longform a run for its money →
an easy tool to convert youtube videos to mp3... →
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rawnald gregory erickson the second / starfucker...
oh my god i fucking hate these things →
we would go and watch the kaiser chiefs play and i could only make it for about 20 minutes without getting a terrible headache. get ready.
The trumpet, called a vuvuzela (pronounced voo-voo-ZAY-luh) and reaching as long as three feet, has over the last 15 years become to soccer in South Africa what the samba drum is in Brazil — albeit at a much higher volume.
From the beginning of Friday’s...