JulyJul 24 Friday Fri 09
A list of all the would-be definitively obsolete technologies and services that kids today will never understand. Scary and very true.
JulyJul 14 Tuesday Tue 09
San Francisco, you're so smug! And funny. But smug!
JulyJul 13 Monday Mon 09
According to New York Magazine, the best cheap slices in NYC in this wintry economic climate. Let the bashing begin! (Also, I'm tired of these damn burritos.)
JulyJul 10 Friday Fri 09
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JulyJul 1 Wednesday Wed 09
Calculate number of meeting attendees, guess the average salary of everyone in the room, and start the timer. Then then the meeting ends, it'll tell you how much that meeting approximately costed the company! Haha!
JuneJun 28 Sunday Sun 09
A collection of essays from artists, designers, psycho-geographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualizing intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology. The theme of this collection of essays is to investigate the apparent desire for technologies to map emotion, using a variety of different approaches.
JuneJun 27 Saturday Sat 09
TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. It said that my public Twitter account I use a lot of metaphors and tend to be abstract. Ha. No shit. My private account would probably be high in aggression.
JuneJun 23 Tuesday Tue 09
"We are rapidly becoming a city of broke drunks, thus it is vital we learn how to be the best broke drunks we can be. If you have no job, no prospects, and only a few bucks, but still maintain flawless taste, then check out the top ways to get your drink on without further damaging the already broken bank."
JuneJun 21 Sunday Sun 09
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JuneJun 17 Wednesday Wed 09
A webcomic about a bad feeling you get when you're feeling good, and about a good feeling you get when you're feeling bad.
The Word without the Press.
Star Wars, Donnie Darko, Switchblade Sisters, Celestial Clockwork, A Bronx Tale, Pretty in Pink, Dogma, Morvern Callar, American Beauty, R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet 1-12, Major League, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Scarface, Good Will Hunting, Double Indemnity, Glengarry Glen Ross, Eddie Murphy Delirious, Rushmore, Momento, Ironweed, Dead Man, Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption, Juno, Running on Empty, Better Off Dead, St. Elmo's Fire, A Beautiful Mind, Decline of Western Civilization II, Waking Life, Immortal Beloved, Boiler Room, Ghostbusters, Fight Club, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Breakfast Club, Million Dollar Baby, Summer of Sam, The Bourne Identity, The Matrix, Eternal Sunshine, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Big Lebowski, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, every movie with Harrison Ford and Bill Murray in it, and I'm pretty much known to cry while watching baseball movies. ANY baseball movie... even the comedies.
Jeff Buckley, Faith No More, Fugazi, Hey Mercedes, Thrice, Hot Water Music, Seam, Blake Babies, Unrest, Knapsack, Jawbox, Small Brown Bike, The Receiving End of Sirens, The Clash, Edsel, Atreyu, Guided By Voices, Wu-Tang Clan, Notorious BIG, Juliana Hatfield, Sunny Day Real Estate, PJ Harvey, Curve, Pantera, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Face to Face, Bottom of the Hudson, The Pixies, Slayer, Ill Lit, Brian Eno, Brandston, Kraftwerk, Moving Mountains, X, Bad Religion, Duke Ellington, Iron Maiden, Tom Waits, Pavement, Mary Timony, Testament, Medicine, The Police, Guns N' Roses, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Smiths, Jay-Z, Eric Clapton, Eve, Tito Puente, Kiss, Lifetime, Jimmy Eat World, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, Psychedelic Furs, The Misfits, Social Distortion, Wilco, Television, Henryk Gorecki, Slowdive, Storm Large, Johnny Cash, Interpol, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Superchunk, Led Zeppelin, The Fall, Future Sound of London, Trisomie 21, Depeche Mode, Big Pun, Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, Sinead O' Connor, Snapcase, Eddie Palmieri, Asamov, My Bloody Valentine, Sisters of Mercy, Attrition, J-Live, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Agent Orange, Bikini Kill, Nine Inch Nails, Front Line Assembly
Robot Chicken, Lost, The Office, Scrubs, 30 Rock, 24, Sports Center, Discovery Channel, History Channel, VH1, Project Runway, Arrested Development, America's Next Top Model, Baseball Tonight, Yankees Baseball
Written (or not) by Hunter S. Thompson, William Kennedy, Douglas Coupland, Jumpa Lahiri, Jessica Hagedorn, Fran Leibowitz, Truman Capote, Bret Easton Ellis, Pagan Kennedy, Kathy Acker, Douglas Rushkoff, Roger Angell, Neil Simon, Nan Goldin, Duane Michals, Bukowski, Spalding Gray, Ben Fong-Torres, Camille Paglia, William S. Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Mark Twain, Richard Brautigan, Rollins, Raymond Carver, Marge Piercey, Noam Chomsky, David Foster Wallace, Jose Rizal, Tobias Wolff, Glen E. Friedman, Anne Sexton; Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, When I Grow Up, Gilgamesh, 1984, Catcher; tons of fringe stuff, mostly non-fiction, bios and memoirs, programming books, reference manuals, business books; books about grammar, psychology, art, music history, baseball; song lyrics. Been a while since I've been a fan of any author.
general tomfoolery and nonsense, margin walking, talking shit about pretty sunsets, walking it off, deconstructionism, troubleshooting, amateur psychology, gross civil disobedience, fighting fires, riding and dying, kinda coding kinda not, eating pizza, finding the needle in the haystack, memorizing minutia and totally not on purpose, last-minute road trips with no destination whatsoever, existential crisiseseseses, sloppy guitar solos, crapping out on chords, fighting crime, skipping stones off people's souls, not taking myself too seriously, taking myself too seriously, Fight Club
keepin' it real, diversity, identity, ironic use of 80's butt rock tunes with cowboy metaphors and/or songs that rely on Norse mythology references, polar opposites, the tie that binds, what's behind door number 2, New York State history, botany (aka "plantsecks"), dermatology, duct tape, aeronautics, airports, dogs, smuggling root beer across state lines, and I have this bizarre fascination with Americana that I don't really understand or get, but whatever.
Bison, Jun 20, 2007:
Thanks for the add! Hope you enjoy the songs.