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.)
May 31st
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May 30th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 28th
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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.
May 23rd
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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.
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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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)
May 20th
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
May 20th
“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)
May 18th
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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...
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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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.
May 12th
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May 12th
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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
May 10th
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
May 6th
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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. 
May 5th
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May 4th
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May 4th
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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
May 2nd
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May 1st
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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,...
May 1st
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