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] →
“It turns out Malick is a huge fan of “Zoolander,” Stiller’s 2001 send-up of...”
– kansas city star
the economist has a nice explanatory piece on the... →
raven sings the blues lists the best albums of... →
pretty drone/psych heavy, but a solid list:
religious knives / smokescreen
the people’s temple / sons of stone
the skull defekts / peer amid
grouper / alien observer / dream loss
woods / sun and shade
moon duo / mazes
the caretaker / an empty bliss beyond this world
peaking lights / 936
sic alps / napa asylum
ty segall / goodbye bread
some people call me scum because i have an...
the disco riots, 1979:
The turnout for this promotion far exceeded all expectations. White Sox management was hoping for a crowd of 12,000, about double the average for a Thursday night game that year. But an estimated 90,000 turned up at the 52,000-seat stadium. Thousands of people climbed walls and fences attempting to enter Comiskey Park, while others were denied admission. Off-ramps to...
i was looking up a recipe to make cuban black beans and rice, and just discovered that the dish is actually called moros y cristianos. way to go everyone.
a guide to summer pick-up basketball / sb nation →
runs in the family / yalls [rerepeater]
this ep...
the video for white jesus is bonkers →
passion of the weiss has posted a pretty savage take-down of rittz’s new video and yelawolf’s directorial debut:
No music-video cameo has stolen focus so outrageously since Flava Flav waltzed into the What U See Is What U Get video and caused an explosion by putting his hands in the air. This is glory theft on a new level. Even taking into account his directorial role, how did the...
taller than you then / the paper scissors [in...
tilting at windmills →
just got my google music invite. this seems like the most inefficient operation of all time, but still pretty bomb.
yes please →
In 1822, frontiersman Hugh Glass joined a corps of 100 “enterprising young men” to ascend the Missouri River on a fur-trapping expedition. At the Grand River he was attacked by a grizzly bear; he and his companions managed to kill it, but Glass was badly mauled. The expedition’s leader offered $40 for volunteers to remain with Glass until he died or could travel. The two men who accepted...
why is u2 so popular? →
daniel rosenthal tackles the question over at quora:
You arrive at the show and see yourself everywhere. Tasteful North Face and Patagonia jackets abound. The stands are awash in earth tones. No one is shoving. No one has a nose ring. These are your people.
“The Attorney-General’s kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I’ve spoken to Ed...”
– david simon, after holder asked for another season of the wire.
snag the new album from TOKiMONSTA / creature... →
weiner and his wife / amy davidson for the new... →
a nice take:
Measuring risk is what politicians do for a living—from when they decide to run, to voting to hire policemen or teachers or to go to war. One doesn’t want them to be completely, or even mostly cautious: politicians who never say anything that causes anyone to cringe, and never take a political risk, are useless. (That kind of risk can become routinized, of course; Ron Paul...