August 2010
91 posts
you should go d/l the new max tannone joint, dub... →
the perfect five →
the music blog for people who don’t have time to read music blogs.
“In 1989, Jules Verne’s great-grandson opened a disused family safe and found a...”
– futility closet.
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heart it races / dr. dog [architecture in helsinki...
the clientele cover paper planes for the a.v. club... →
i think i like this one more than the original.
fermet's last theorem [1996] →
really nice short doc on g.video. worth your time:
Simon Singh and John Lynch’s film tells the enthralling and emotional story of Andrew Wiles. A quiet English mathematician, he was drawn into maths by Fermat’s puzzle, but at Cambridge in the ’70s, FLT was considered a joke, so he set it aside. Then, in 1986, an extraordinary idea linked this irritating problem with one of the...
oh linda / the gramercy riffs [it’s heartbreak]...
“Dear Diary: Heather told me she teaches people “real life.” She...”
– heathers. okay that movie is seriously weird. although i do find myself wondering why christian slater hasn’t milked the psychopath angle more than he has. he’s great at it. also, probably some of the best dialogue ive heard in a long time; i want to start calling things...
this east timor documentary is remarkably good and... →
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caesar / i blame coco featuring robyn [miike snow...
shuffler.fm →
an idea whose time has come.
the rain chasers / totem pole [caves and tunnels,...
check it out! with dr. steve brule is online... →
this looks kinda great. →
Paris, je t’aime is a 2006 film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities including American, British and French. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements. The 22 directors include Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen, Gerard Depardieu, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Nobuhiro Suwa, Alexander Payne, Tom Tykwer,...
what happens when you slow down justin bieber by... →
happy?
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fuck you / cee-lo [the ladykiller] [d/l]
it...
the kid who sold crack to the president →
so good:
“This is crack cocaine,” Bush solemnly announced, holding up a plastic bag filled with a white chunky substance in his Sept. 5 speech on drug policy. It was “seized a few days ago in a park across the street from the White House … . It could easily have been heroin or PCP.”
But obtaining the crack was no easy feat. To match the words crafted by the...
continental kush breakfast / smoke dza featuring...
d/l joker's ghetto clang mix on mary anne hobbs'... →
insane. you can stream it here.
reminder: ive thrown up a bunch of new stuff over at town & kountry, kentucky windage, and @ the jcc. just in case your bosses are dicks and banned pandora.
butterfly crab walk / roots manuva featuring...
the hooligan problem →
everyone should go download asup's album at... →
Asup’s approach to music can be described as a symbiosis of Underground Resistance’s faceless appearance, a progressive keynote of musicians like Holger Czukay and Igor Wakhévitch and the minimalistic but powerful sound aesthetic of late 80′s hip hop.
whatever the fuck that means. it basically sounds like the ocean’s eleven soundtrack if it were a 1978 blaxploitation film made by...
secrets of magus / mark singer for the new yorker...
really fascinating profile of ricky jay, magician, actor, weirdo:
I once asked [David] Mamet whether Jay had ever shared with him details of his childhood.
Mamet replied, “I can’t remember.”
I said, “You can’t remember whether you discussed it or you can’t remember the details?”
He said, “I can’t remember whether or not I know a better way to dissuade you from your reiteration of that...
someone needs to get on these crumbs beats... →
james patterson, inc. / nyt magazine →
hard to know where to start
1987 outside magazine profile of reg mellor, world champion ferret legger [a sport wherein one ties closed his pant legs, inserts two ferrets, cinches his belt shut, and tries to last as long as possible.
Come on, Reg,” I said. “Do they bite your — you know?”
“Do they!” he thundered with irritation as he pulled up his pants. “Why, I had ‘em...
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chi don’t dance / bin laden blowin’ up [bbu] [d/l]
barry goldwater was a photographer →
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im a lady / santigold [benny blanco remix] [d/l]
emperor du fromage / gq profiles christian... →
amazing and hilarious profile of a dude who i now really want to hang out with. on his legal disputes with [the real] von dutch and ed hardy:
Now, I’m not saying who’s right and who’s wrong. But I’m not sure getting the story straight is Christian’s primary concern. It’s not a new idea, perception being more important than, and arguably defining, reality. But Christian Audigier seems to have...
anya marina cover's TI's "whatever you like" [via... →
it’s over on the kentucky windage playlist.
balatronic adj. pertaining to buffoons
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mess around / super wild horses [fifteen] [d/l]
“Titanic. When DiCaprio is trying to save the young lady, that was dope. When she...”
– ron artest, on his favorite movie of all time. [thanks jenna]
mexicans with guns rips up freddie gibb's playa →
the coverage of the shyne / 50 dispute is amazing →
the best part is that the only news outlet to post the whole quote was mtv uk, which to me seems like a pretty inexcusable case of burying the lede:
“Shut up n**ga! Shut up n**ga! Shut up, you’re on a f*cking island! You can’t go to war from a f**king island!
“Shut the f**k up! Shut up! F**k Shyne! F**k Def Jam! F**k everybody! I don’t care you went to jail! I...