May 2011
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15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone... →
A list of reasons why I ought to read more often, especially more KV. (I’ve been planning on reading “Cat’s Cradle” since, like, my junior year of college.)
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Matt Jones: The Games We Used to Play (by Love Drunk)
My favorite musicians tend to be little known and play solo shows on acoustic guitar (at least on occasion). Matt Jones might not always be at the top of the list, but I’m pretty sure that he’ll always be the most impressive.
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WHY? - These Hands / January Twenty Something (by anticon.)
WHY? has been soundtracking my adventures in cleaning tonight. I found out that I’ve totally underrated “Eskimo Snow” as an album and that the piano/vibraphone(?) lick in “January Twenty Something” is one of my favorite things.
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At first this record was going to be another percussion album, not completely...
– Spencer Krug discussing his upcoming album (JAG168 Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
Hail Mary Mallon (33)
Anathallo (25)
Andrew Bird (21)
Tune-Yards (21)
El-P (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I was defeated by facts
– ~ D.R. Tucker, conservative author and talk show host who changed his mind on climate change science, as reported in Slate’s “Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds?” (via climateadaptation)
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Carson McCullers
musipal:
by Charles Bukowski
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
all her books of terrified loneliness
all her books about the cruelty of loveless love
were all that was left of her
as the strolling vacationer discovered her body
notified the captain
and she was quickly dispatched to somewhere else on the ship
as everything continued just...
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(via BILL CALLAHAN’S “RIDING FOR THE FEELING” PREMIERE - Viceland Today)
I don’t know exactly how Bill Callahan gets away with a music video like this but he totally does.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
Son Lux (45)
O’Death (26)
Andrew Bird (23)
Elliott Smith (16)
Parts & Labor (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →
Son Lux (81)
O’Death (72)
Bill Callahan (52)
Chris Bathgate (51)
Centro-matic (48)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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velocicrafter said: is that your own design?
Yes it is! It will be a cuff-down sock, pretty traditional construction with a heel-flap and gussets. I’ll have a preview of it as soon as I finish (finally!) the first sock, and the goal is to have the pattern written up in some shape or form by the end of summer.
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I’d been eyeballing the squid stuffed with oxtail since noticing the filthy...
– Portland Food Coma: Enter The 36 Chambers of Birthday Madness
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We Are Rising - Album Teaser →
sonlux:
This has been private for a while, but I’ve opened it back up. If you dig the record, this might be interesting to hear.
Son Lux - We Are Rising (Full Album Teaser) by Son Lux
“Son Lux previews his record, We Are Rising, playing and discussing excerpts from each song. Documentation of the album’s development is on NPR’s All Songs Considered Blog. The coverage includes audio,...