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My mom brought by some pictures she came across while cleaning...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:24:23 -0400

My mom brought by some pictures she came across while cleaning out my grandparents’ house, which hasn’t helped the weird nostalgia binge I’ve been on for the past couple of days. Me and my sister, probably close to twenty years ago.

newspeedwayboogie: Fugazi

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:35:00 -0400

newspeedwayboogie: Fugazi

Cut Chemist - Adidas to Addis I started listening to Sun Kil...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:32:00 -0400

Cut Chemist - Adidas to Addis

I started listening to Sun Kil Moon’s Admiral Fell Promises earlier, but it just didn’t take on this sunny end-of-summer morning. So, Cut Chemist it is.

Audio

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:53:56 -0400

Wednesday

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:34:35 -0400

Wednesday

Wednesday

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:34:35 -0400

Wednesday

peterwknox: this is real life | wait what From the guy behind...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:47:26 -0400

peterwknox:

this is real life | wait what

From the guy behind the B.I.G and xx mashups, comes a whole cd’s worth of rap/indie rock mashups that you’ll pay-what-you-want and have it benefit youth writing (826). Heck yes.

So I get these tracks, and the profits go to support 826 Valencia? I believe that’s what you call a win-win situation.

Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed again'

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:26:52 -0400

Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed again':

I’m sorry to hear this, but I also hope and trust that they’ll have to pull my OED2 from my great-grandchildren’s cold, dead hands.

The Grateful Dead - U.S. Blues newspeedwayboogie: This will...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:55:00 -0400

The Grateful Dead - U.S. Blues

newspeedwayboogie:

This will always be the end of summer song for me, every summer, it reminds of summer adventures everywhere (Europe 82, Thailand 91) and summer shows (Greek Theater, RFK, JFK, Rich Stadium, Giants Stadium, Frost Ampitheater etc).

Summertime done come and gone, my oh my

Walking past the House of Oldies on Carmine street a few minutes ago I was on a different nostalgia trip, but I had the Dead running through my head, too. I was thinking more along the lines of a Brokedown Palace post, but I can work with this.

Dr. Dre ft. Eminem and John Cage - Forgot About Sonata...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:08:58 -0400

Dr. Dre ft. Eminem and John Cage - Forgot About Sonata I

Wow.

themattsmith:

Here you go, Six.

Dr. Dre ft. Eminem and John Cage : Forgot About Sonata I

I just threw this together because I’m kinda busy today. Maybe I’ll try another one later this week.

The Pixies - Debaser This hasn’t happened in a while, but...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:04:00 -0400

The Pixies - Debaser

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

Two-phase user adoption: from “oh, wow!” to “oh, yeah…”

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:21:00 -0400

Two-phase user adoption: from “oh, wow!” to “oh, yeah…”:

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.

The Minutemen - Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:39:54 -0400

The Minutemen - Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)

Cover Friday goodness.

Minutemen - Post-Mersh, Vol. 3

(via pas-d and thesweetestpsychopath)

Thursday

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:37:00 -0400

Thursday

Thursday

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:37:00 -0400

Thursday

Kurt Weisman - New Blueberry Song It’s easy to find...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:04:39 -0400

Kurt Weisman - New Blueberry Song

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

And we're back...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:37:01 -0400

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 way. Questions will be answered. Presidents will talk about Presidents. And all will be right in the Tumblr world once again.

The Stones have been figuring heavily in this morning’s...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:18:13 -0400

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?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:54:00 -0400

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.

HAR-YOU Percussion Group - Feed Me Good This opens the 1967...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:27:38 -0400

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.