February 2011
Also
The fake Gallagher tweet stream is pretty great. Perfect encapsulation of his brand of shitty tea party comedy.
Old Men, Bitter and Otherwise
This morning, I listened to the episode of the WTF podcast with Gallagher. I’d skipped until now it because, really, who gives a fuck about that guy, but I ran out of episodes on my iPhone and figured fuck it.
And wow.
I’m super late to this game because there was a bit of an internet hub-bub about the episode (145, from about a month ago), since Gallagher walked out...
Business Is Booming →
“America’s leading corporations have found a way to thrive even if the American economy doesn’t recover. This is very, very bad news.”
Excellent and enraging.
An Illustrated Guide →
drawnblog:
A simple, stylish site with bite-sized reviews of children’s books. So far, a small — but smartly chosen — collection.
Gold mine.
Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit →
New documentary by the director of Helvetica and Objectified.
Interesting side-note: do you remember that video of the father and son team who sent the weather balloon with the HD camera and iPhone up into space? The dad is the cinematographer to all three of these docs.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-20) →
PJ Harvey (65)
The Parting Gifts (52)
The Twilight Singers (40)
Sam Amidon (24)
The Smiths (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
No no no no no.
It just started snowing. Fuck.
WatchMy newest 8tracks mix. Stuff it in your goddamn earholes.
There’s no theme other than “Mikey likes it,” but I do manage to kick things off righteously, if I do say so myself, with my all-time favorite song about roller skating. Roll again, Bobby Fever! Roll again!
Contents:
Karp - Connect 5
Wire - Two Minutes
PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
Noisettes - Ever Fallen...
When is it OK to kill someone?
1. He/she kills someone you love 2. He/she maims someone you love 3. He/she gives your kid this Kokopelli puzzle:
(No, nobody gave E this puzzle. I’m just imagining what I would do should it ever happen.)
Pseudoephedrine + Ibuprofen = FUCK YOU, COLD
WatchThere Is Love In You: Four Tet [Part 1 of 3]
Strip club customer blames robbery on nerds →
NNNNERRRRRRRDDDDDSSS!!!
WatchMan About Town
Hulu Plus - The Criterion Collection →
Wow. This is a coup. Every single Criterion film.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-13) →
Stereolab (68)
Superchunk (53)
Perfume Genius (51)
Justin Townes Earle (38)
The Tallest Man on Earth (37)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A Whiff of Dread for the Land of Hope →
I return to this op-ed from time to time, when I want to be reminded of both the power of clear thinking and truly wonderful writing. It’s by Simon Schama, a very prolific art historian who is also a bit of a polymath. It was written in 2002 in the lead up to the Iraq War and to call it prescient would be an understatement. It is positively clairvoyant. What makes it so powerful is that it...
“Available in 13-, 15-, and 17-inch models, each MacBook contains a 2.4 GHz...”
– Interim Apple Chief Under Fire After Unveiling Grotesque New MacBook
(via Waxy)
Watchtheduty:
Twilight Singers - On The Corner.
…this record is murder.
yes.
Valentine's Daytrip
So my brother called me the other day. He was looking for something romantic to do with his fiancé for Valentine’s Day. I had just the thing. I had been to one of America’s masterpieces a few years ago, and it was only an hour and a half from his home in Charlottesville, VA.
No, I’m not talking about the Natural Bridge.
No, I said to him, what you want to do is find something...
Ukeleles.
They have their place.
That place is apparently 90% of YouTube.
If I had Thor’s Hammer, I’m pretty sure that the only use I would find for it would be to continually and repeatedly pound myself in the head.
IDIOT! <BONK!>
IDIOT! <THONK!>
IDIOT! <THUD!>
IDIOT! <CRUNCH!>
It’s gonna be another long-ass night. Goddammit.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-6) →
The Go! Team (35)
Elliott Smith (34)
The Parting Gifts (33)
Disappears (25)
WEEKENDS (23)
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