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Friday (Taken with picplz.) Later: it’s kind of killing me...

Fri, 18 May 2012 07:40:00 -0400

Friday (Taken with picplz.)

Later: it’s kind of killing me that he composition of this is slightly off.

Photo

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:47:00 -0400

Dinowalrus - Happy (Rolling Stones cover) Dinowalrus takes this...

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:37:24 -0400

Dinowalrus - Happy (Rolling Stones cover)

Dinowalrus takes this one on with a little assistance from Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles, and Stereogum pretty much nailed the summary: “sloppy, drunk, and fun.”

Happy cover Friday!

The Memphis Horns - What the Funk It’s usually not a...

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:14:25 -0400

The Memphis Horns - What the Funk

It’s usually not a two-song-post kind of day, but today is a two-song-post kind of day. As long as the second song is this one.

Thursday (Taken with picplz.)

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:14:28 -0400

Thursday (Taken with picplz.)

Thursday: 7yo learning to embroider (Taken with picplz.)

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:27:00 -0400

Thursday: 7yo learning to embroider (Taken with picplz.)

The Driftwood Singers - Come Across The Tracks As long as...

Thu, 17 May 2012 05:28:00 -0400

The Driftwood Singers - Come Across The Tracks

As long as we’re on the topic of bands from California that bring sounds from another era, let’s talk about the Driftwood Singers.

You could be excused for thinking that this dates back to when the Carter Family was turning out the hits, but there you go: it’s from the band’s self-titled debut record, coming out next month.

Some American roots for your Thursday morning.

vintagesesame: It’s been 22 years, but it feels like yesterday....

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:24:06 -0400

vintagesesame:

It’s been 22 years, but it feels like yesterday. We still miss you, Jim.

Wednesday: early prototype of the Boxee box? (Taken with...

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:47:43 -0400

Wednesday: early prototype of the Boxee box? (Taken with picplz.)

The Tallest Man On Earth - 1904 There’s a new TMOE record...

Wed, 16 May 2012 05:45:11 -0400

The Tallest Man On Earth - 1904

There’s a new TMOE record this summer; all is well.

"Mike Watt and D. Boon stand, arms around shoulders, facing camera, smiling. Photo captioned, “Pedro;..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:44:38 -0400

“Mike Watt and D. Boon stand, arms around shoulders, facing camera, smiling. Photo captioned, “Pedro; June 6, 2012”.”

- Imaginary Image Blog (via magnificentruin)

"Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right context, for some..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:46:00 -0400

“Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right context, for some people. But so are a lot of skills. I would no more urge everyone to learn programming than I would urge everyone to learn plumbing.”

- Jeff Atwood, “Please Don’t Learn To Code” (via evan)

I learned to program (in part, at least) for the same reason that I’ve gone on sales calls, learned to read a P&L, put together marketing plans, and — yes — learned to do some basic plumbing.

Other people are better at all of these things that I am, but having a basic understanding allows me to communicate with those people more effectively and intelligently, and also avoid bothering those people with the really stupid questions.

While I’m probably too much of a generalist for my own good, I nevertheless believe that having this kind of broad understanding of a variety of topics is important.

Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless I made the same mistake as Jen,...

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:04:19 -0400

Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless

I made the same mistake as Jen, and avoided this record until a friend pushed it into my dropbox. Learn from our wrong-headedness. Listen, now.

chewablevitamins:

Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless

When an album hits the hype cycle and an artist is suddenly everyone’s SXSW pick and everyone’s band of the moment, sometimes I can’t even listen to it. I’ll admit that I steered clear of the new Cloud Nothings album because the swells of praise were too loud.

Well, that was a mistake. This is probably the best album of the year so far. Perfect pop punk that invokes both the Strokes and Minor Threat. You wouldn’t be wrong to call them brethren in arms with Japandroids and Fucked Up. Attack On Memory is raw and alive. Even “Wasted Days,” at almost 9 minutes, is driving and urgent with the repeating chorus “I thought I would be more than this.” It’s hard to listen outside the context of today’s political and socioeconomic shit show.

“No Future/No Past” is straight out of the Slint playbook, and is the first track that drew me in. But “Stay Useless” is the centerpiece, so I’ve shared that here.

Attack On Memory on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes. Also check out their performance on KEXP.

Love Curtis’ pictures. luzfosca: Hopi Indian women,...

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:36:22 -0400

Love Curtis’ pictures.

luzfosca:

Hopi Indian women, watching the dancers.
USA, ca 1907.
Photographer: Edward Curtis.

Gorgeous !
via

Retro Tuesday: the Failure of the Zune

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:29:00 -0400

A handful of years ago I made a hobby of tracking the rolling disaster that was the launch of Microsoft’s first Zune. While there was a bit of a fish/barrel thing going on that left me feeling guilty about how easy the mocking was (and Microsoft apparently put together a pretty decent device by 2009). it was a still pleasant way to pass the time.

But now the truth comes out. According to former Microsoft executive Robbie Bach, the Zune’s problem was that the music industry didn’t support it.

That’s right — it wasn’t the ill-conceived marketing campaign that launched the device, the tepid response from the press, the crippled banner feature it offered, or the one-two punch of the iPod Shuffle in 2006 and iPhone in 2007.

It was the music industry.

Bastards.

Happy Monday (Taken with picplz.)

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:25:32 -0400

Happy Monday (Taken with picplz.)

Broken Water - Underground Crunchy, with a whiff of ’90s...

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:52:38 -0400

Broken Water - Underground

Crunchy, with a whiff of ’90s northwest to it. Hello, Monday.

Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Mama Tried Been offline...

Sun, 13 May 2012 19:37:18 -0400

Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Mama Tried

Been offline today, but wanted to make sure I got this one in under the wire.

Sunday (Taken with picplz.)

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:35:07 -0400

Sunday (Taken with picplz.)

Sun, 13 May 2012 07:55:24 -0400