February 2009
76 posts
January 2009
75 posts
MF Doom - “Hoe Cakes”
“When...
In Which We’d Like To Buy The World A Coke (Cake)... →
Who knew making Coke cake was so easy (and entertaining)?
Matmos in Johns Hopkins Magazine →
“I was working at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles on my dissertation, in the archives looking for visual representations of melancholy, and I got a phone call from Bjork.” She was standing on a cliff in Iceland where, Daniel says, she goes to make big decisions, and she was inviting Matmos to join the backing musicians for her upcoming tour. The tour would be huge, traversing...
about-today:
Scarlett Johansson, Last Goodbye...
17 Things I Love, By Neko Case :: Paste →
5. My Pets
Yeah, yeah, I know. You don’t wanna hear it. I can’t help it though; it’s been a tough year. One of my dogs, Travis, lost a leg to cancer. Funny thing is, he couldn’t care less. He’s almost as fast as he was on the track. It’s mind-blowing to watch a greyhound—even a three-legged one—at full speed! Dogs live for today. I love them for that. I didn’t make you watch any of this on...
Jump London →
Jump London, a 2003 documentary about parkour, is available in its entirety on Google Video. (thx, sacha)
(via Kottke)
Avenue D - “2D2F” (Erlend Øye DJ-Kicks...
At night I wake up with the sheets soakin’...
Said the Gramophone: INSIDE THE GOLDEN DAYS OF... →
This is a special Saturday post because I am extremely bummed out by David Berman’s announcement that he is more or less wrapping up the Silver Jews. Berman wants to turn to writing - books? poetry? screenplays? - and is haunted by the fact that his band are “too small of a force to ever come close to undoing a millionth of all the harm” that his father, a right-wing lobbyist,...
Watch“i wrote this song when i was 26 years old. you would have thought i would have learned my lesson, but i did not.” (via maura)
Want to be a Cook's Country recipe tester? →
fyi this means one who makes recipes in order to test them, not simply a taste-tester
Old Navy's Goga-Go-Motion Game Official Rules →
FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND (400,000) THIRD PRIZES: A piece of candy. Brand and type of candy will differ depending on the Old Navy store where the prize is claimed. Prize must be redeemed during the Promotion Period. ARV: $0.20. Odds of winning are 1:4.25.
Dance, little suburban monkeys! Dance for that piece of candy! Ten bucks says at least 1:4.25 Old Navy stores give away the disgusting...
Frightened Rabbit - “Poke”
FR singer...
Lifter Puller Anthology and Book Coming This Year... →
“The band that spawned The Hold Steady will get an Anthology and Book treatment this year. So says lftrpllr.com.”
Ohhhhhh, joygasm.
The Dismemberment Plan - “The Other...
gynergy
I just finished reading The Bell Jar and The Handmaid’s Tale, one right after another, and was intrigued by the fact that both authors’ fathers were accomplished entomologists. While Sylvia Plath’s father was distant and seemingly somewhat cold—married to his bumblebees—Margaret Atwood’s dad took her along with him on nature hikes through the forests of Canada when she was...
piercethenight:
grandaddy he’s simple, he’s...
There's No Such Thing as Writer's Block
kfan:
~Or: Writers Are Jerks!~ The good news: there’s actually no such thing as Writer’s Block! There are only Things That Keep You From Writing.
More good news: there are only two (2!) things that keep you from writing! They are: Inability to Start, and Inability to Finish. If you can steer clear of those two, you’ll be golden! OK! So: how to steer clear? Good news! The Inability to Start and...
NPR: Eight Years Gone →
“In a matter of hours, we’ll put the presidency of George W. Bush behind us. (His legacy, of course, is another matter entirely.) While much of the nation is looking ahead, singing along to Pete Seeger’s “This Land Is Your Land” at the Barack Obama inauguration concert without an ounce of irony, I’d like to take this moment to reflect upon what we’re...
piercethenight:
sayyes:
tesslynch:
Steely Dan...
tesslynch:
Steely Dan — Hey Nineteen
The Cuervo...
ostermayer:
Animal Collective - “Brothersport”
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important things learned today
2 cups dried chickpeas ≠ 2 cups cooked chickpeas
oops! looks like i’ll just have to make falafel (and oven-roasted chickpeas?) with the extra four(ish) cups, then dip it in the hummus. what torture!
this is the first time i’ve prepared dried beans of any kind. but even in their naked, un-recipe-d state they already taste roughly 10x better than canned chickpeas (and are much...
Neko Case - “People Got A Lotta...
“If you haven’t seen THE WIRE, the single finest, best written, best made, best...”
– tony bourdain. we call it TRUTH (via itsnotforyou)
Coconut Records - “Microphone” (via...
