September 2008
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-31) →
Loney, Dear
Mount Eerie
Jens Lekman
Low
Tender Forever
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
August 2008
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-24) →
Mount Eerie
Lullaby for the Working Class
Carissa’s Wierd
Elliott Smith
Built to Spill
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I hope you weren’t planning on getting anything at the Threadless $12 sale, because I think I just cleaned them out
“Eight years ago Barack Obama was thoroughly humiliated at the Democratic...”
– Barack Obama | Explaining the riddle | Economist.com
This is the most American of American Stories, and it’s the first time I’ve heard it. (via metacool)
“Watching live user testing from another room is like watching a horror movie,...”
– gb
WatchHello, friends. John McCain’s “I have absolutely no idea what the words coming out of my mouth actually mean” look is starting to become kind of endearing, don’t you think? Kind of Reagan-esque.
“In the unlikely event of anyone wanting my advice, it would be to stop worrying...”
– Please Buy My Record: The Futility Of Flogging Music - Music Think Tank (via catbird)
Takeaway lesson: When I buy MP3s, I’m increasing the chances of the band getting some action. That just gives me warm fuzzies.
Ever Notice?: Steve Portigal and Dan Soltzberg... →
I so need to do a much better job of this, both professionally and personally.
had 4 mimes on my train this morning - it felt like a scene from The Warriors
Ubiquity is interesting, but I have a really hard time believing the future of web browsers is a command line: http://tinyurl.com/5lf7n7
really should have thought about the risks (headache, nausea, bleeding eyeballs) before I launched The Great #ff0099 Desktop Experiment
Is there a medical term for a debilitating ease of distraction? Not ADD, I can focus like a laser on anything I’m not supposed to be doing.
75.
whatwoulddondraperdo:
You know what they want you to do. Do it. Do whatever they say. Get out of there and move forward. It never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.
I think this was maybe the greatest moment of Mad Men so far? It’s turned from a really well designed set with some ok story lines to great television this season.
WatchTimeline: Celeb-Reality
I kind of hate myself for knowing that this is missing a couple of branches on the timeline.
just got talked into going to the Oustide Lands festival tonight, but will be skipping Radiohead’s set because they are boring.
spent Saturday night doing data entry. I think I might need to make some changes in my life.
Dear afternoon: Why are you refusing to end? You’re killing me.
“a campire and a tent and a flashlight and some matches and a tree and that river...”
– Somehow 113 people have used this as a tag on last.fm, misspelling and all.
zachklein:
I heard from an employee close to the deal that the Mormon church’s genealogy business made an unsolicited bid to acquire Facebook.
While maintaining the country’s largest ancestral database, they certainly have a motive to control this generation’s biographical data, and they certainly have the cash to do it. In 1996, Time Magazine estimated the church’s annual revenues to be $5...
“I was on a panel at Bandwith Conference last week and the ‘Who is going to play...”
– Ian Rogers (via fred-wilson)
I’m skipping the Outside Lands Festival this weekend, even though it is literally a block away from my apartment. I’ll have just as good experience opening my windows as I would if I were there. Big huge concerts are completely lacking in intimacy and...
spent the night listening to Steve Albini-produced vinyl. From 1-10 this scores 11 for nerdiness and 11 for awesomeness.
Links for 2008-08-18 [del.icio.us] →
Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design
I really wish I had thought about the productivity consequences before I checked to see if Hulu has episodes of MacGyver (it does).
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17) →
Pavement
The Books
The Sea and Cake
Spoon
Destroyer
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
just realized I live 2 blocks from Amoeba Records. I am doomed.
Airport Express + iPhone remote = magical audio streaming
accidentally just bought the new Jonas Brothers album from iTunes. I hate one-click shopping sometimes.
Shocking revelation of the day: I have only heard 1 Smiths song. Ever.
Struggling to fight the affects of a two hour powerpoint presentation in an 80 degree room.
I wonder how long I could loop Daniel Johnston’s “Some Things Last a Long Time” before I got sick of it. A million?
“when asking a group of 50-something women why they drink Diet Coke. They go...”
– Tinderbox | Spark: Choice is so twentieth century: What the film Juno can teach us about those pesky millennials (via jpenrod)
