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Cloud Cult — Everybody Here Is A Cloud
If Cloud Cult were actually a cult and not just a bunch of hippy-ish rockers (and I mean hippy-ish in a good way) from Minneapolis, I’d seriously consider joining.
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Talking Heads — Mind
Best part of my day? Finding The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads on vinyl at a thrift shop, which contains my favorite version of my favorite Talking Heads song (this version of Mind, obviously).
I don’t know why I find this so hilarious. I think it’s because Bruce is adorable as the Soccer Clown King.
I’m not even remotely close to being a boxing fan. That didn’t stop me from really enjoying Tyson, a documentary about the personal life of Mike Tyson during his rise and fall as a boxer. It’s built mostly around interviews with Tyson himself, with lots of historic footage. It’s totally one-sided (no one else is even interviewed about the events Tyson talks about), but considering how skewed the media treatment of him has been, this film is a fresh perspective on a very complicated figure. Plus you get to hear him say “skullduggery” several times, which is enough reason to watch.
Remember Weezer’s Buddy Holly video? Someone totally needs to do that with the Enchantment Under The Sea scene from Back To The Future. It would kill.
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Songs: Ohia - Cabwaylingo
I hate hearing about other peoples’ dreams. So here’s a dream I had last night, brought on by watching Back To The Future right before I went to bed: I’m Marty McFly (of course), and I’m at the Enchantment Under The Sea dance where I hop on stage to fill in for the guitarist with the cut hand. I tell the crowd “this is an oldie… well it’s an oldie where I come from” and instead of playing Johnny B. Goode I break into Cabwaylingo. I don’t remember what happened next, but I’m pretty sure it ruined the dance and my parents never got together. And Marvin Berry certainly didn’t call Chuck. Not that Cabwaylingo isn’t a great song, it’s just not the one you should pick to play at a dance if the fate of your existence depended on your parents getting together during a song.
(And that, kids, is why you don’t tell people about your dreams)
Easily my favorite LeBron James plays are his chase down blocks. I could watch this a thousand times.
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It’s sad that the internet has gotten to this, but seriously. I think 90% of large websites with comments would be better off disabling them altogether.
At only $2.99, the This American Life iPhone app is one of the best bargains in the iTunes app store. Not only can you listen to all 399 and counting episodes of TAL, but you can also browse by contributors and search by topic. The only thing more I wish it could do would be to download episodes so I can listen to them when I don’t have a network connection (like on airplanes, or in train tunnels, or anywhere in SF).
Ha, there really are page turning animations! To recycle a quip I made earlier today, this is like Henry Ford putting a horse-scented air freshener in the Model T to remind you of your old carriage.
Oh, like you’ve never almost cried over a robot. (via xkcd, obviously)
If you haven’t read Steve Martin’s autobiography “Born Standing Up” yet, man is it fantastic. It had been on my “to-read” list for a couple of years now. After a string of great but horribly depressing books (seriously, librarything needs to know when to stop recommending certain books), I looked through my list and picked a winner. Even if you weren’t previously a huge fan of Steve Martin, you’ll appreciate his perspective on what it took for him to, for a time, be the funniest man in the world.
The first thing I thought when I saw this screenshot of the iBooks application for the iPad is “ah, so this is the Kindle for people who don’t actually like to read.” It’s not a bad business move considering that demographic is like 90% of the population, but come on! Look at those cheesy book pages! Look at them! I would not even be surprised if there were page turning animations. People knock the Kindle for its lack of color screen or backlight or support for video, but it’s a shockingly good device for reading books. This just looks like a good device for looking at book covers on a bookshelf.
Also here’s a bad sign for Apple: I’ve managed to just about completely talk myself out of getting one of these within twelve hours of the keynote. That never happens. I just can’t figure out what this lets me do that my iPhone doesn’t.
