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    Best font-themed Halloween costume idea of all time?

    Best font-themed Halloween costume idea of all time?


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    Kicked

    It’s official, I’m a goddamned Kickstarter addict. I can’t stop promising my money to people, and every time I do, I get that heroin glaze over my eyes, and start scheming on how to sell off my grandma’s television to buy my next fix. These guys are on to something, I’m telling you.

    I love that Kickstarter’s kind of a mix between microlending, NPR pledge drives, and etsy. You get that feeling of helping to make something happen, a prize for your effort, and some amazing DIY artsy projects.

    I didn’t realize it until just now, but all of the projects I’ve backed so far are printed word:

    Remedy, a quarterly food zine/journal that’s all about tying recipes to stories. The inaugural issue has some decent writers in it, and the design looks fantastic.

    Live Wrong and Prosper book, which will take Kali Holloway’s fantastic blog to the next level.

    Designing Obama book. I didn’t go so far as to give enough for the gold sleeve.

    Jamie Tanner’s new graphic novel. Jamie’s a friend, or really, more of a friend of a friend, but his project was the first one I backed that was successful really quickly. Jamie’s success is due to his crazy art, first and foremost, but he’s been really creative with his prizes, promising away original panels, custom drawings, and getting a cameo in the book (drawn in as a background character, and you get the original art for the page).

    Chicago Rocked, a book on Chicago indie-rock of the 1990s. This was the first thing I threw money behind, but it failed to cross the line. I still think it would have been a nice companion to Dance of Days and kind of hope it sees the light of day someday, somehow.

    So, c’mon, join the party. You know you want to. It’s Friday, after all.


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    move over bacon.

    copycats:

    Hot Like Fire by The xx
    originally by Aaliyah

    The xx take a 1996 R&B jam, remove the beats, add a lot of cross-faded atmosphere and their dueted voices to give us a sweet and sexy track about holding off a bit before having sex with someone. I’d argue the cut does a great job of musically capturing the feeling one builds up in this scenario.

    Oh it’s gonna be, hot like fire
    Take you higher
    You can’t resist
    Kiss, kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss and…

    It certainly sounds like the wait will be worth it to me. —indieandyy


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    Empire Strikes Sabotage

    I’m such a sucker.

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    How To Choose A Vocal Microphone for Your Recording Studio

    I’m such a sucker for these low budget how-to videos. It’s like I don’t even need Tim and Eric anymore. I never realized quite how advanced the shittiness of the businesses that run these sites was until I read this Wired article. Highly recommended.


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    Bruce Springsteen - Seaside Bar Song

    This shitday needs the paddles. Electroshock my workcorpse out of this braindeath. I need a chair that pinches my testicle skin every time I go more than 5 minutes without working. I need a metal hat that starts to constrict if I’m not continuously typing. I need a bright bright room, white and crisp and clear, like a robot’s delirious idea of heaven, or an early George Lucas dystopian tunnel world. I need a machine to pry open my eyes and sear into my skull images of miserable proles scraping by on the indignity of shoveling manure for their paycheck. Maybe if all of these things happen, I’ll get some fucking work done today. If not, well, maybe Bruce can get me through.


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    Google Earth alphabet by Thomas de Bruin
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    Google Earth alphabet by Thomas de Bruin

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    Sweet retro styled posters for IYA09. Too bad 2009 is almost up, chumps. (via)

    Sweet retro styled posters for IYA09. Too bad 2009 is almost up, chumps. (via)


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    Only £25! (there should be a special character for “sarcastic exclamation mark”)

    Only £25! (there should be a special character for “sarcastic exclamation mark”)


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    Trailer for “Until The Light Takes Us”

    (High-res QT version here)

    This documentary traces a few key years in the Norwegian black metal movement, years that were filled with murder, suicide, pseudo-satanism, church burnings, and lots and lots of corpse paint.

    If you like this sort of thing, I highly recommend the fascinating book Lords of Chaos, which is about the same movement. It’s a pretty exhaustive telling of the insane story, mostly told through personal accounts, and definitely not bedside reading. I have the old version, but the new edition includes a new section “detailing outbreaks of Black Metal crime in Finland, Germany and the United States; and includes the secret history of occult Rock, a new section on Varg Vikernes’ promulgation of bizarre Aryan UFO theories, and material on the career of Hendrik Mobus, an international neo-Nazi fugitive.”


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