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Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able wow.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:09:47 -0600

Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able

wow.

Best font-themed Halloween costume idea of all time?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:13:02 -0600

Best font-themed Halloween costume idea of all time?

Kicked

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:39:55 -0600

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.

move over bacon. copycats: Hot Like Fire by The xxoriginally by...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:02:18 -0600

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

Empire Strikes Sabotage I’m such a sucker. via

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:52:35 -0600

Empire Strikes Sabotage

I’m such a sucker.

via

How To Choose A Vocal Microphone for Your Recording...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:22:23 -0600

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.

Last Days of Gourmet

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:21:16 -0600

Last Days of Gourmet:

A photoset

Bruce Springsteen - Seaside Bar Song This shitday needs the...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:28:51 -0600

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.

(via nerdboyfriend)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:13:28 -0600

(via nerdboyfriend)

Google Earth alphabet by Thomas de Bruin (via)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:29:35 -0600

Google Earth alphabet by Thomas de Bruin

(via)

T-Rex Drums T

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:43:33 -0600

T-Rex Drums T

Sweet retro styled posters for IYA09. Too bad 2009 is almost up,...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:14:06 -0600

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

Only £25! (there should be a special character for...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:06:55 -0600

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

Trailer for “Until The Light Takes Us” (High-res QT...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:03:32 -0600

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.”

Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arar

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:24:28 -0600

Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arar:

More American Awesome. Scott Horton:

Typical of the care that went into the majority opinion is this passage: “Consider: should the officers here have let Arar go on his way and board his flight to Montreal? Canada was evidently unwilling to receive him.” Had Judge Jacobs, who wrote for the majority, bothered himself a bit with the record, he would have discovered that Canada confirmed it was willing to accept him home. Moreover, this is hardly a trivial error. The gravity of the government misconduct in this case comes from the decision to send Arar to Syria when he could have been returned to Canada, sent to Switzerland, or back to Tunisia, where he had been vacationing. He was sent to Syria for a reason, and that was torture.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER -- THE BOOK!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:20:00 -0600

I don’t think Kickstarter accepts belly lint or maraschino cherry stems, but Kali will accept your hard earned cash instead.

livewrongandprosper:

Dear Tumblr Friends*,

I’m hoping to self-publish the book Live Wrong and Prosper: Your Morals for A Million, partly because this game never gets old to me and partly because I have a backlog of hundreds and hundreds of questions I’m excited to share with the world. I’m using Kickstarter to raise the money for publishing costs, and I’m asking for your help; by donating anything you can – even, say, $1.00 (and every donation is much appreciated) – I can get this book made. Plus, you get rewards – prizes of sorts – for giving! If you’ve enjoyed the blog at all – and I really, really hope you have – I hope you’ll give whatever you can to help me complete the book.

To check out my Kickstarter page and watch me ask random strangers on the street some Live Wrong and Prosper questions (Note: Apparently, most people would NOT eat a bowl of their own shit for $1M) please visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/easylover/live-wrong-and-prosperthe-book.

I appreciate any help, including just reblogging this.

Thanks,

Kali

* We are friends, aren’t we?

Wired : Ecosmackdown : Pets Versus Solar Panels: It...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:41:31 -0600

Wired : Ecosmackdown : Pets Versus Solar Panels:

It takes 17 times more land to feed American pets than would be required by solar farms producing enough electricity to meet all the demand in the United States.

False dichotomies are really a pretty limited construct, since nobody is choosing between destroying all of America’s pets or converting all of our power to solar, not to mention converting all of our pets to biofuel for electricity generation, but it’s pretty amazing to put the solar number in context.

Awesome. Here’s Brandon Spikes doing his best impression...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:19:56 -0600

Awesome. Here’s Brandon Spikes doing his best impression of The Crusher, you turkeynecks.

Now, this ain’t no scrub. Spikes is regarded as the top inside linebacker in college football, an All-American expected to go top-10 or top-20 in next year’s draft. He’s one of five co-captains of a team that’s ranked No. 1 in all current polls, an undefeated juggernaut that’s won 2 out of the last 3 championships, in a game that was over by halftime and which the Gators won 41-17.

But I guess Spikes learned a little something about winning from his brother, who’s serving life for first degree murder. It never hurts to give your opponent that little extra.

So what’s Spikes’ going to get for this inexplicably disgusting play? Well, this is the best part. Coach Urban Meyer is going to have a “serious talk” with him and bench him for half-a-game against a 2-7 Vanderbilt team that is last in the SEC.

Compare this premeditated on-field nastiness and the weak coaching response to the suckerpunch thrown by Oregon senior LeGarrette Blount following some post-game trash talking after the team’s loss in week 1 against Boise State. For that swing, Blount was suspended for the season, and not by the PAC-10 or by the NCAA. No, first-year head coach Chip Kelly benched him, and without a moment’s hesitation. It seemed to me too hefty a penalty, though it turns out Blount had a history of rough behavior and being suspended from the team. And you know what, the Ducks have gone on to win every game since, including this past weekend’s obliteration of the fourth-ranked USC Trojans. They’re now the highest-ranked one-loss team.

Since I started working for UF two years ago, I’ve encountered what can only be described as manic hysteria about their football team. I’m usually a root-for-the-underdog kind of guy, but I have often rooted for the Gators — I went to a tiny Division III school, so having some sort of reason to root for a big-time program is kind of fun. But not anymore. Screw those guys.

No surprise, but I’ll be pulling for Iowa from here on out, and Oregon, too. Thanks, Brandon, for opening my eyes.

A more realistic Pixar intro

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:33:10 -0600

A more realistic Pixar intro

Custom wedding bands with each other’s fingerprints on the...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:28:35 -0600

Custom wedding bands with each other’s fingerprints on the inside. Available in super-affordable sterling silver or other metals. I wish these were around when I was on the hunt…

loveallthis:

Mandy posted this already but I also thought I’d share. I love this idea - as if your loved one is always holding your hand.