December 2008
27 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Pixies (48)
Dan Bern (31)
Daft Punk (16)
Green Day (14)
Led Zeppelin (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
diversity
my musical tastes are diverse.
my artist play count histogram would be phoenix, not manhattan.
gsiener:
http://tinyurl.com/a7e7m4 classic wisdom from Calvin
needs only to be updated in the final panel for 2008: “i need to be a bank holding company.”
argh.
a major contributing factor to my reluctant abandonment of the CD will have nothing to do with the medium itself. why does my brand new product from a major multinational corporation have to come out of the shrink wrap in a useless busted container with little bits of plastic (not to mention the CD itself) flying all over the place?
fuck the music industry.
Op-Ed Contributor - Hard Times, a Helping Hand -... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Pixies (48)
Dan Bern (31)
Daft Punk (16)
Green Day (14)
Led Zeppelin (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“As for many children of baby boomers, Motown was my introduction to soul music...”
– soul sides: THE MOTOWN MASSIVE
Dead on. This is a great blog, by the way, for soul and funk music.
listening to "Where do I begin - Chemical... →
snowstorm music
“To selectively delete [Firefox form autofill] entries, use arrow keys to select...”
– How to remove Firefox autofill entries? | Ask Metafilter
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“Pavement: Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedance Edition. The ideal gift for an...”
– BBC - Music - Rock/Indie Albums
The BBC thinks I’m old enough to be someone’s uncle.
listening to "Vamos (Live) - Pixies" →
make ya shake and shimmy
Optical dating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
physics is rad
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-7) →
Snowden (11)
The Mercury Program (10)
Hella (8)
Mercury Rev (8)
Pterodactyl (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82 -... →
Virtually anyone who has ever taken a course or read basic texts on neuroscience will have heard about H.M. and his profound amnesia. The historical timing of his tragic case, which this obit evokes so well, ensured that he would enter a small pantheon of case studies (Phineas Gage being his closest rival) whose symptoms provided essential insights in the progress of modern neuroscience.
On a...
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals →
good voice.
(fishers connection)
i still find it odd to refer to “my wife” in casual conversation, but for some reason it sounds much wierder when i’m talking to someone close to my own age. if i’m talking to a “grown-up” it comes quite naturally…
On The White House - Looking for the Ideal Spot to... →
"Austrian ethics watchdog launched"
There’s something slightly comical about this Nature News headline. I think the punchline is, “70 years too late?”
Watch
i am now sad.
rivers cuomo is on 100% auto-pilot. he’s now officially the worst disappointment since hydrogen dirigibles as a form of commercial air travel.
“In partnership with retail advertising clients, the news media have worked...”
– The Media Equation - Media and Retailers Both Built Black Friday - NYTimes.com