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    Why I love me some Deadly Death, my favorite track-a-day tumblr. Take a look at that caption. Brilliant!

    HAPPY FIREWORKS DAY.

    deadlydeath:

    Galt MacDermot - Ripped Open By Metal Explosions

    It’s Canada Day, a day when, up here in the desolate tundra of Canadia, we put aside our passive aggression, inferiority complexes, and self-loathing to drink booze and watch things explode. This track from Montreal’s Galt MacDermot seems appropriate for an explode-y Canada Day, unless your Canada doesn’t include Quebec - but if you talk that sort of shit around me, your mouth won’t include teeth, pal. I’m all talk though, and I’m as weak as a kitten right now as I was ripped open by metal explosions last night, by which I mean I ripped open some metal cans of beer and uh.. exploded them.. into.. my… mouth, and now am being ripped apart by methane explosions. TMI?

    Canada: indicating the location of assholes since 1867.


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    Mission of Burma - Red (Live, March 12, 1983)

    One of the best bands of all time ever, playing one of their best songs, way back when I was 7 years old. Damn.


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    Off The Beaten Tracks Episode #5.3: Frightened Rabbit - “Song Against Sex”

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    GRIPPIKS sells patterned films to dress up your cruddy nondescript Ikea furniture. This is the sweetness. This is a much better solution than using drawer liners or spray adhesive and fancy wrapping paper to try to make a veneered particleboard piece of shit look halfway decent.
I’m a huge fan of Ikea customization. I have a Bemz cover for my Ikea sofa and love it.  Our boring grey slipcover had seen better days and our bright orange Bemz cover has stood up well now for about five years. I am particularly tempted by their new Merimekko collection.
I am also tempted to order some Expedit add-ons from Parts of Sweden, which has a horrid in-progress website, but which sells wicked things like a cool conversion kit to turn your Billy bookcase into a bar and this automated TV bench.
Ikea is definitely the iPod of furniture…

    GRIPPIKS sells patterned films to dress up your cruddy nondescript Ikea furniture. This is the sweetness. This is a much better solution than using drawer liners or spray adhesive and fancy wrapping paper to try to make a veneered particleboard piece of shit look halfway decent.

    I’m a huge fan of Ikea customization. I have a Bemz cover for my Ikea sofa and love it.  Our boring grey slipcover had seen better days and our bright orange Bemz cover has stood up well now for about five years. I am particularly tempted by their new Merimekko collection.

    I am also tempted to order some Expedit add-ons from Parts of Sweden, which has a horrid in-progress website, but which sells wicked things like a cool conversion kit to turn your Billy bookcase into a bar and this automated TV bench.

    Ikea is definitely the iPod of furniture…


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    Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation

    We just got back from a great two week jaunt back east, visiting M’s family in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, my mom’s side of the family in Lake Anna, Virginia, my dad’s family in Rockville, Maryland, and our friends back in Washington, DC. We put over 2500 miles on the car, which is now covered in bug carcasses and smells like swamp ass.

    I feel like I’ve been on a permanent vacation for the past two months. The baby was born on May 4 and here it is, July 1, and I’m only now getting back to work full time, for real. It’s been a lot of work raising the Nugget so far, but mom is taking the brunt of it. But it has felt very strange not to be doing work for so long. Today, I had to leave the house to get some work done at Theo’s. Mom’s at home with Nugget and I admit it’s a bit tough to be away. But it’s been a good morning so far. Productive.

    My last post was June 11, and that aside from a brief spurt there in early June, this thing is looking a little empty since Nugget was born. But that’s OK, and I’m thinking maybe it’s best to let this thing die a slow painful death, like an Aloe plant that you stop watering, but which hangs on for months and months on end, showing brief spurts of life as kind neighbors and housesitters do the good thing and dump glassfuls of liquid into the pot of dust in which it sputters.


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    Shake! Shake!

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    Neil Halstead - You Are The Glue (Daytrotter Session)

    An unreleased track from the Slowdiving lad from Mojave 3. Digging it on this Thursday that feels like a Friday. I love how loose and sloppy and intimate it is, how it feels like it was recorded in a tiny hotel room, on a portable recorder balanced precariously on the edge of the bed. More here.


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    Woot Shirt of the Day
I love me some kitschy art referencing art, though I’d never wear this on a tee. Put it on a postcard, however…

    Woot Shirt of the Day

    I love me some kitschy art referencing art, though I’d never wear this on a tee. Put it on a postcard, however…


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    Headbanging while making fire

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    fireland:

    rrrrred:

    Waiting for the elevator…
    RECEPTIONIST: It’s TTG!
    ME: I don’t… know what that is.
    RECEPTIONIST: Time To Go!!
    ME: Oh.
    RECEPTIONIST (sadly): That’s the only thing I ever made up.

    I think this might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read.


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    FOR FATHERS DAY! Sonogram Photo Cufflinks!
What a horrible, horrible idea.

    FOR FATHERS DAY! Sonogram Photo Cufflinks!

    What a horrible, horrible idea.


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