March 2011
103 posts
“The Olympics used to include art competitions. Between 1912 and 1952, medals...”
– futility closet.
on "random" / paul hiebert for the awl →
worth a read. kind of charming.
so ive been making my way slowly through the first two seasons of deadwood. certainly not terrible, and i feel a bit like my mother saying this, but the amount of swearing in that show is out. of. control. the scripts read like they got a temp to just go through and add “fucking” as a modifier to every other noun. there is literally a scene where a two women are moving an injured guy...
EPITONIC RETURNS →
best part of an otherwise shitty day.
behind the scenes / the making of the pharcydes... →
hipster faith / brett mccracken for christianity... →
the funny part is that im sure this shit works:
The new subculture of young evangelicals—I call them “Christian hipsters”—grew up on Contemporary Christian music (CCM), Focus on the Family’s Adventures in Odyssey, flannel graphs, vacation Bible school, and hysteria about the end times. Now all of that is laughable to them, as they attempt to burn away the kitschy dross of the...
keep me there / nicolas jaar [space is only noise]...
i just registered www.thehighandtight.com
now i’m gonna figure out what to do with it.
sanjay saigal investigates useful words in indian... →
my favorites:
Prepone is the antonym of postpone. It makes perfect sense. If an event is re-timed to occur earlier than previously scheduled, it is preponed. A marriage is preponed, for instance, if the couple decide to elope to Las Vegas instead.
[…]
North Indians of a certain age, for instance, might say something along the lines of, “James Cameron is the holisoli on his...
me and the kid / the hit back [who are these old... →
mndr remixes foster the people's pumped up kicks... →
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plant me a rose / the boggs [we are the boggs we...
vanity fair publishes the obligatory 4chan piece /... →
wait, can someone explain to me again what a /b/tard is? and these lulz?
the fantastic mr. star fox →
no joke: i would happily watch that movie.
way to go germany
this is awesome:
Half of German doctors prescribe placebos, according to a new study for the German Medical Association.
The report says placebos, from vitamin pills to homeopathic remedies or even sham surgery, can prove highly effective in various treatments.
In Bavaria, it found, 88% of GPs have sent patients home with prescriptions for placebo drugs.
ive thought for a long time that...
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oh be joyful / the pack a.d. [funeral mixtape]
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donald glover posted the new childish gambino ep... →
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making gestures / the pack a.d. [funeral mixtape]...
the ashtray [part 1] / errol morris for the nyt →
these series are easily the best thing the nyt has going for it right now:
It was April, 1972. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. The home in the 1950s of Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel. Thomas Kuhn, the author of “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” and the father of the paradigm shift, threw an ashtray at my head.
link.
waiting for the bad thing / sam lipsyte for the... →
a nice profile of french author michel houellebecq:
We drive a few more hours and Houellebecq seems to nap through a lot of it. He has this uncanny ability to appear asleep and then rise up out of his slumber with some bon mot, as though he’s been listening to the conversation the whole time. It’s his M.O. in a wider sense, too, this disheveled, seemingly discombobulated man, an...
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the zeitgeist builds... →
straight to hell / the documentarian →
i had never heard of this, but it’s going to be my dinner entertainment. an homage to spaghetti westerns seems about as necessary as a pop-punk revival, but what a cast: dennis hopper, joe strummer, courtney love, jim jarmusch, kathy burke, grace jones, elvis costello and shane macGowan. wikipedia:
The plot of Straight to Hell concerns three inept hitmen (played by Richardson, Rude, and...
tryouts / javelin [brenton duvall remix w/... →
latter-day saints / carl swanson for new york →
pretty fluffy profile of parker & stone’s new broadway show. not much new, but this made me laugh:
But gayness is also used fetishistically, as a way to be as disgusting as possible. [Andrew] Sullivan, who is gay, says, “They’re no more homophobic than they have to be,” and he relishes the way the show revels in truly bizarre gay filth, like the cross-dressing undercover vice cop...
file under: working music
i just stumbled upon a trove of songs produced by nick berke, aka pogo. he made that alice in wonderland remix that got passed around a bunch last year, and he put out a bunch of free [and suprisingly good] albums that you can snag over at last.fm
a few sample tracks:
murmers of middle earth / go out and love someone / drunk in the batmobile / mending / scrumdiddlyumptious
you are listening to los angeles →
the world of r. buckminster fuller / ubu [1974] →
continuing on a theme. really lovely and underdone:
Buckminster Fuller was an architect, engineer, geometrician, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. His legacy becomes ever more relevant, providing us a road map to steer our planet away from oblivion and toward a sustainable future for all humanity. This film by...
you're cute. you look like topanga before she got... →
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swiss alps / action bronson featuring meyhem...
prison rape and the government / david kaiser and... →
grim but worth your time. there’s not a lot good prison reform journalism out there, but this hits all the right notes and avoids the melodrama.
npr is streaming the new album from the dodos. →
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yuksek remixes oh land's son of a gun [mp3] →
“charlie sheen looks like he lives in fishers”
– jenna.
i love how copyranter manages to be equally outraged every time axe or american apparel use asscrack in their ads. whoever writes that blog must have the worst life ever.
music to skate to / jamie xx's new mix for... →
get past the obnoxious intro. worthwhile.