January 2008
45 posts
Happy new year!
December 2007
40 posts
001 collective, music distribution for the new... →
“There is a revolution happening. You may not know it’s happening; but you’ve heard of it. Napster, p2p, Oink; these were all signs of the changing climate, steps in the right direction. Major Record Labels are quickly becoming relics, dinosaurs of the old world, led by men who follow no equations. Distribution is now in the hands of the internet; people can download a hundred...
Drive Someone Insane with Postcards - (eBay item... →
Best eBay auction of all time
The Get Up Kids were probably the first band that I really liked and now I don’t listen to them anymore. Why? Probably because they’re not the sort of music I imagine myself really liking right now. Perception is reality, and I don’t perceive the Get Up Kids as “cool” anymore. They are still good. What don’t you listen to anymore? Why?
Human Giant interviewed for My Old Kentucky Blog... →
MOKB : What’s your best holiday memory? Aziz Ansari : There was the time I forgot to get my son a Turbo-man doll for Christmas. I spent all of Christmas Eve in an epic city wide quest to find the doll. The events were later depicted in the motion picture Jingle All the Way starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad. Paul Scheer : Writing a song about my grandma’s...
YACHT: FREEDOM MUSIC →
I want to give back. Here are three ZIP files of instrumentals. Download them, use them for karaoke, perform as YACHT or The Blow, chop them up and make your own remixes, make your own new songs, put them on indietorrents, upload them on alt.binaries.mp3. YACHT is great! — vskyeno
Daft Punk Interview - VBS.TV →
The influential, mysterious, and often secretive Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo of Daft Punk when they take some time with Scion Radio to elaborate on their career, their film Daft Punk’s Electroma, and art in general. — vskyeno
scandinace: oh man
scandinace: i was watching the simpsons today
scandinace: and its the episode where bart and lisa follow marge and homer around the country to spoil their second honeymoon
scandinace: and they take grandpa to miami beach where he's trying to pick up old ladies wearing like that full stripped bathing suit and socks
thebirdcalls: yeah!
scandinace: and he sits down and says "hey ladies, I used to be in movies!"
scandinace: and they all go "oooooh!"
scandinace: and then he goes "you know those feet under the house in the wizard of oz? you're looking at them!"
scandinace: and he shrivels his feet up
scandinace: i laughed so hard
thebirdcalls: aaaahahahahahaha
thebirdcalls: that is hilarious
scandinace: because i thought about how much the guy who came up with that line must have laughed when he thought of it!
scandinace: "he's wearing stripped socks... HOLY SHIT, BEST LINE EVER!"
Reading some Buddhist texts today
Good stuff.
SAM'S BEST of 2007 LISTS
Sam is my cousin and these are some lists he made for his favorite musical things this year. He has excellent taste. TOP 25 ALBUMS 1. The National - Boxer 2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch 3. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam 4. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover 5. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog 6. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala 7. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky 8. Feist - The Reminder 9....
Ambient Lapse →
“Ambient Lapse” is a simple technique for capturing the ambiance of spaces, especially their color and spectral characteristics. It operates on a principle similar to long-exposure time-lapse, but allows exposures to overlap. Instead of producing momentary bursts of specific images, individual objects and well-defined perspectives, we’re given vague impressions. This is a really...
This is probably the best news I'll receive today
Office of Undergraduate Admissions December 14, 2007 Louis O. Tamposi [Address redacted] Dear Louis: On behalf of the Committee on Admissions, I am honored to offer you undergraduate admission to Tufts University through our Early Decision (ED) Plan. You offered an impressive application for us to consider, and I invite you to begin study with our Faculty in...
Is perfection something that is attainable?
Probably not yet.
“at least something worst
which i do not even know
now that i wrote this above...”
– nakituminayashi by Nikola Tosic a poem(?), stream-of-consciousness. Just a warning, it’s 1000 pages -via hot4discourse Stream-of-consciousness is basically my favorite literary style about 1/3 of the time. This is a case inwhich it is my favorite.
Some Rejected Titles for my AP US Gov. and...
Gun for One Shoot for Two Plea for Three Whore for Four Even If You Try, You’re Probably Not Going to Get a Five
“I’m sorry, I can’t do this. I’m saving myself for a drunken...”
– “The Foresighted High School Girlfriend” -Matt Enstrom
Let's Redefine "Pro-Life"
living things are flexible and supple and changing dead things are hard and brittle and unchanging same is true of living ideas same is true of dead ideas i pledge my allegiance to the former “thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.” - tao te ching (stephen mitchell trans) — bendickinson
I just finished cleaning out about half of my...
I have too many clothes. What a pain.
A good thing to remember is
that there is a good chance that you are going to die someday.
Here's a pretty good way to find out if a college...
Go to Facebook and search for “[college name] [your college graduation year].” Check out the group with the most members and look if anyone says they’ve been admitted yet.
“If the Red Sox get Santana,” said an executive of one NL team that’s...”
– ESPN - After Yanks’ deadline passes, Red Sox jump into lead for Santana - MLB
Supersilent: 8: Pitchfork Record Review →
Do you think Chris Dahlen, when rating this album, asked himself “What’s most tolerable track on this record?” and then used that as the rating. I think so.
VIVA-RADIO →
I now only listen to Viva-Radio when I assist at the library during school. I thank Mike for idea.
"You guys about ready for a b-- wow, you ate it...
Joe, Jake, and I went to dinner at Pizza Hut tonight and put every obese person in the world to shame. After a few minutes of debate on what to eat, we came to the general consensus that ten breadsticks, twelve buffalo wings, and two large pizzas would suffice for the three of us. Our waiter, Morris, was incredulous. “That’s a lot of food. Can you guys eat all that?” he says....
December is the best month
because school is basically over.
