DecemberDec 8 Tuesday 09
All the lonely people
What's a good way to keep from getting lonely in this high holy season of togetherness? Stay away from lonely people.
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Flux-Rad Top 20 of 2009
(21.) Phoenix (22.) Doves (23.) Dark Was the Night
20. Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
“Falst Jesii Pt. 2″
19. The XX – XX (Rough Trade)
“Crystalised”
18. Washed Out – Life of Leisure (Mexican Summer)
“Feel It All Around”
17. Vetiver – …
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William Basinski releases new album, ‘Vivian & Ondine’
The highly-regarded ambient composer, best known for his 2002-3 series The Disintegration Loops (one of FACT's 100 Best Albums of The Decade), is currently based in California, which is where he recorded Vivian & Ondine. It's the second album he's made available in …
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Artists Paid: The Residents
"Commercial Album (1980) consisted of 40 songs, each consisting of a verse and a chorus and lasting one minute. The songs pastiched the advertising jingle although the songs were not endorsements of known products or services. The liner notes state that songs should be …
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DecemberDec 7 Monday 09
Best Of The Decade | The A.V. Club
Lots of great lists to browse here, even the orphans!
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Apple’s Lala purchase forecasts browser access to iTunes content
Apple's acquisition of the streaming music service Lala could pave the way for iTunes content and purchases to be accessed from multiple locations via a Web browser, one analyst has predicted.
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OVER THE EDGE – An Oral History of the Greatest Teen Rebellion Movie of All Time
In the spring of 1979, a small-budget movie with a somewhat corny-sounding name was released in just a handful of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, only to be pulled a few days later due to concerns that audiences would riot. Based (loosely) on a true story about …
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All That by David Foster Wallace
Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer. It was made of wood except for its wheels—axles—which, as I remember, were thin metal rods. I’m ninety per cent sure it was a Christmas gift. I liked it the same way a boy that age likes toy …
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Trolley Scooter von Samsonite und Micro
Kevin definitely needs this awesome travel scooter for tour next year.
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The Greatest Velvet Paintings Of Science-Fiction Icons!
It's true, these are the greatest (thanks Joe).
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THE STYLUS DECADE IS COMING.
So glad to see some kind of reformation coming from these guys ….
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Simon Reynolds’s Notes on the noughties: The musically fragmented decade
The cheapness of home studio and digital audio workstation recording, combined with the wealth of history that musicians can draw on and recombine, fuelled a mushrooming of quality music-making. But the result of all this overproduction was that "we" were spread thin …
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The Major Works of Counterintuitive Thought From the Past Decade
In the aughts, the shocking hidden side of everything became the only side of anything worthy of magazine covers and book deals. Social scientists applied their techniques to the problem of climate change; liberals who wanted to be taken seriously had to come up with …
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10 Easy Ways To Improve Your Cooking
Here's 10 easy things you can do to improve your cooking. I've touched upon a few before and some apply to baking, some to savory cooking. They're ways that I've personally improved my cooking and stocked my pantry, and all of these things are within the reach of …
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Brock Davis Illustrations
Brock Davis‘ illustrations are both cute and impressive. They’re just waiting to be on t-shirts. See also Brock’s portfolio and Bird & Dog.
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Burgess McDowell: Clockwork Orange (Video)
Anthony Burgess und Darsteller Malcolm McDowell discuss A Clockwork Orange
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DecemberDec 4 Friday 09
Print: Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit
If Google has its way, all of English literature will one day exist as searchable digital text. Franco Moretti, a Stanford English professor, wants to be ready for the deluge with new kinds of questions and new tools to answer them — things like computational …
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In Radiolab We Trust
In Radiolab We Trust is a limited, affordable set of prints by five international artists, designers and illustrators – Jez Burrows, Frank Chimero, Nicholas Felton, Meg Hunt, and Impactist – the profits from the sale of which (after some scant printing and packaging …
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The Kubrick Site: Kubrick on ‘Words and Movies’
The perfect novel from which to make a movie is, I think, not the novel of action but, on the contrary, the novel which is mainly concerned with the inner life of its characters. It will give the adaptor an absolute compass bearing, as it were, on what a character is …
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