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August 31, 2010
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The Pixies - Debaser

This hasn’t happened in a while, but it feels to me like it’s a Doolittle kind of morning.


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August 27, 2010

It’s a blog post, containing stuff like this:

No matter how good the thing you’ve made is, no matter how big the initial “oh, wow!” is for a user, there’s a crapload of other interesting stuff being released (as well as offline life continuing to roll along), and your cool thing will eventually be pushed to a back burner for a while. The question is what happens when your user hits that “oh, yeah…” moment of rediscovery.

And yeah, it’s got a bit of an ExtensionFM fanboy thing happening, but that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise at this point.

Enjoy.

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The Minutemen - Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)

Cover Friday goodness.

Minutemen - Post-Mersh, Vol. 3

(via pas-d and thesweetestpsychopath)


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Thursday

Thursday

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Thursday

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August 26, 2010
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Kurt Weisman - New Blueberry Song

It’s easy to find Weisman’s voice intolerable, and I sometimes do, but not this evening.


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And we’re back…

You probably need to be following deadpresidents, though you may not know it yet:

Dead Presidents is back in business.  New content is on its wayQuestions will be answeredPresidents will talk about Presidents.  And all will be right in the Tumblr world once again.

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The Stones have been figuring heavily in this morning’s soundtrack, which led to wondering, research, and now a question: how is it possible that John Pasche, designer of the iconic tongue and lips, is not an inductee in the rock and roll hall of fame? 

The Stones have been figuring heavily in this morning’s soundtrack, which led to wondering, research, and now a question: how is it possible that John Pasche, designer of the iconic tongue and lips, is not an inductee in the rock and roll hall of fame? 

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Turns out that the published versions of a number of Raymond Carver stories were extremely heavily edited by Carver’s original editor, Gordon Lish. Check the mind-blowing difference between the published ending of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Carver’s original ending…

Published ending, as edited by Lish:

L.D. put the shaving bag under his arm again and once more picked up the suitcase. 

He said, “I just want to say one more thing.” 

But then could not think what it possibly could be. 

[end]

Carver’s original ending:

L.D. put the shaving bag under his arm again and once more picked up the suitcase. “I just want to say one more thing, Maxine. Listen to me. Remember this,” he said. “I love you. I love you no matter what happens. I love you too, Bea. I love you both.” He stood there at the door and felt his lips begin to tingle as he looked at them for what, he believed, might be the last time. “Good-bye,” he said. 

“You call this love, L.D.?” Maxine said. She let go of Bea’s hand. She made a fist. Then she shook her head and jammed her hands into her coat pockets. She stared at him and then dropped her eyes to something on the floor near his shoes. 

It came to him with a shock that he would remember this night and her like this. He was terrified to think that in the years ahead she might come to resemble a woman he couldn’t place, a mute figure in a long coat, standing in the middle of a lighted room with lower eyes. 

“Maxine!” he cried. “Maxine!” 

“Is this what love is, L.D.?” she said, fixing her eyes on him. Her eyes were terrible and deep, and he held them as long as he could. 

[end]

Via a fascinating art & IP story on Techdirt: it may not be possible for Carver’s widow to publish the original versions of these stories.

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August 25, 2010
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HAR-YOU Percussion Group - Feed Me Good

This opens the 1967 record Sounds of the Ghetto Youth; the record just keeps getting better with each additional track, so you probably need to pick up a copy. Or you could read the story behind the record, which is also pretty incredible. 


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