December 2009
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
The Beach Boys (15)
Vince Guaraldi (14)
Afroman (13)
The Jackson 5 (12)
Johnny Cash (11)
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…the Board wishes to point out that software is an expression of a highly...
– ARIANE 5 Flight 501 Failure - Report by the Inquiry Board
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Speaking of white guilt...
youmightfindyourself:
Is anyone else of the opinion that Paul Haggis’ Crash was the epitome of white guilt? It was essentially Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing; a crash course (sorry I couldn’t resist) in white guilt for dummies. Suddenly people were giving change to bums, mothers were no longer covering up their babies’ eyes when a black guy walked by…gimme a fucking break. Not only did Crash do...
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Mononymous person →
…would be be a good name for a rock band.
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You could take someone like Wayne Gretzky, for example,” she added, “who could...
– A Dissection Project in California Aims to Create a Search Engine of the Brain - NYTimes.com
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Miles Davis (7)
Eluvium (5)
Stars of the Lid (5)
DJ Sprinkles (4)
Vangelis (4)
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Usher + Goat →
jstn:
Open extra goats for extra fun.
Previously, previously.
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One day I’d get an XXL Jeru tha Damaja shirt, for no money. The next day,...
– Sasha Frere-Jones
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Spanish fan calls police over saxophone band who... →
Police decided to investigate after an angry jazz buff complained that the Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core group was on the wrong side of a line dividing jazz from contemporary music.
“The gentleman said this was not jazz and that he wanted his money back,” said the festival director, Ricardo Checa.
“He didn’t get his money. After all, he knew exactly what group he was...
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In another decade, the line between pop music and consumer products may become...
– David Thorpe on the decade in music. He’s almost always hilarious, but this column’s both hilarious and informative! (via willdo)
The next day, out of the blue, Barkley said, “My goal in life is to become...
– Awesome Alex Wolff article about Charles Barkley from Sports Illustrated in 1984. (via willdo)
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...My friends think im metro. Children trust me.... →
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Voices Across the Land
Night and day I keep singing—humming and thrumming:
It is love and war and money; it is the fighting and the tears, the work and want,
Death and laughter of men and women passing through me, carrier of your speech,
In the rain and the wet dripping, in the dawn and the shine drying,
A copper wire.
—Carl Sandburg
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
Of course, I had made the joke before.
Many times.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Eluvium (101)
Nite Jewel (19)
Grouper (12)
Soap&Skin (11)
Ella Fitzgerald (10)
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