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MY FAVORITE/MOST OVERPLAYED ALBUMS OF 2009 SO FAR Decided...

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:21:28 -0400

MY FAVORITE/MOST OVERPLAYED ALBUMS OF 2009 SO FAR

Decided this morning I could mess around with the order & which last 3-5 to include for another couple of weeks, or I could just post this already. As with last year’s, I’m curious to see which of these hold up as year-end favorites.

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (amz|ins|mysp)
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (amz|ins|mysp)
Mos Def - The Ecstatic (amz|ins|mysp)
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (amz|ins|mysp)
White Denim - Fits (amz|hmv|mysp)
St Vincent - Actor (amz|ins|mysp)
Crocodiles - Summer of Hate (amz|ins|mysp)
Metric - Fantasies (amz|ins|mysp)
Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic (amz|ins|mysp)
Handsome Furs - Face Control (amz|ins|mysp)
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (amz|ins|mysp)
Woods - Songs of Shame (amz|ins|mysp)
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules (amz|ins|mysp)
Foreign Born - Person to Person (amz|ins|mysp)
White Rabbits - It’s Frightening (amz|ins|mysp)

What are your favorites at the half-year mark??

Here We Go Magic “Fangela” I am so gross & sold...

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:00:00 -0400

Here We Go Magic “Fangela”

I am so gross & sold on this Luke Temple project after seeing them live a 2nd time, at the Seaport last Friday. The recording’s so, so pale in comparison.

My Pal Ray: did you celebrate 12:34:56 7/8/09?

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:03:00 -0400

My Pal Ray: did you celebrate 12:34:56 7/8/09?
me: yea i took my shirt off
My Pal Ray: wowsers
me: whatd you do
My Pal Ray: i screamed FUCK YOU to my office but no one was here

Musicians on Twitter: 100+ Artists That Tweet

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:38:05 -0400

Musicians on Twitter: 100+ Artists That Tweet

“Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss’ editor, bet him that he couldn’t...

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:08:29 -0400

“Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss’ editor, bet him that he couldn’t write a book using 50 words or less. The Cat in the Hat was pretty simple, after all, and it used 225 words. Not one to back down from a challenge, Mr. Geisel started writing and came up with Green Eggs and Ham-– which uses exactly 50 words. The 50 words, by the way, are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.”

—from “Stories Behind 10 Dr. Seuss Stories”

Top 10 Websites for Free eBooks

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:27:40 -0400

Top 10 Websites for Free eBooks

Taiwanese sculptor Ju Chun created Zipper Lotus Pond for the...

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:25:55 -0400

Taiwanese sculptor Ju Chun created Zipper Lotus Pond for the Juming Museum, located just outside Taipei, Taiwan.

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How to: Create a guerrilla drive-in from scratch

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:12:00 -0400

How to: Create a guerrilla drive-in from scratch: “A ‘mobile movie’ or mobmov for short, is quite simply a drive-in that drives-in. Participating in a mobmov is very similar to attending a drive-in from the days of old, except now the projector is located inside and powered by a car, and the audio is piped in stereo over the FM band to the attendees’ cars. As a mobmov driver, you assemble the kit, decide on the movies, and announce your showings to friends and the community at large. Then everyone assembles in a dark place with a big wall, and you watch a movie. It’s a new technological twist to a nostalgic idea.”

"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for..."

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:54:42 -0400

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed. Make yourself a solemn promise right now that you’ll never use ‘emolument’ when you mean ‘tip’ and you’ll never say ‘John stopped long enough to perform an act of excretion’ when you mean ‘John stopped long enough to take a shit.’”

- Stephen King, On Writing

Wombats “seem to love being in zoos and parks. In the...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:02:00 -0400

Wombats “seem to love being in zoos and parks. In the wild, these guys only have a life expectancy of five years. However, as captive animals, they have been known to live past 25… It’s surely partially due to a lack of predators, but they also live a lot more stress-free this way, which seems to have a big effect on the little guys.”

— from “What ‘Chu Know ‘Bout Wombats?”

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s “World Map” is...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:42:14 -0400

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s “World Map” is constructed from 2000 layers of cloth cut into components. Installation is purposely labor intensive to comment on China’s status as a source of cheap workers for the fabric industry.

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Mermaid anatomy painting, from Walmor Corrêa’s online...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:36:07 -0400

Mermaid anatomy painting, from Walmor Corrêa’s online gallery.

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The 50 wealthiest people in the world mapped by location and...

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:10:17 -0400

The 50 wealthiest people in the world mapped by location and industry (click to zoom).

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A renegade Twitter police force tracks down perpetrators of...

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:03:37 -0400

A renegade Twitter police force tracks down perpetrators of “boring tweets” in this LandlineTV parody of “Cops.”

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The cheapest places to live in the world

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:10:00 -0400

The cheapest places to live in the world: Thailand tops this list— a roundup of spots one can easily live for less than $500 a month.

Hell yes over-the-top live footage of Neil Diamond’s...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:09:26 -0400

Hell yes over-the-top live footage of Neil Diamond’s “America” on this sunny July 4th holiday. I am googling dry rub recipes for 10 lbs of ribs I’m bringing to this afternoon’s BBQ.

Marc Newson’s one-of-a-kind “Julia” necklace was inspired by an...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:05:00 -0400

Marc Newson’s one-of-a-kind “Julia” necklace was inspired by an obsession with fractals— geometric shapes that can be subdivided into smaller versions of themselves, specifically the Julia Sets of fractals discovered by Gaston Julia in the early 1900s. The necklace contains around 2,000 paved diamonds and sapphires, and took Boucheron craftspeople 1,500 hours to make using rapid-prototyping technology.

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White Rabbits “Lionesse” Always such a sucker for a...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:41:05 -0400

White Rabbits “Lionesse”

Always such a sucker for a big drummy build-up. This song has got to be so fantastic live.

Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas’s lifelike images are...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:44:47 -0400

Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas’s lifelike images are drawn by hand with ink. Using up to 14 Bic ballpoint pens per drawing, his canvases sometimes reach up to 10 feet in height

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Seeing the New York City 2009 Fireworks From Brooklyn

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:14:36 -0400

Seeing the New York City 2009 Fireworks From Brooklyn: It’ll be difficult this year, but not impossible, according to this helpful list of options.