November 2010
37 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
Lee Hazlewood (11)
Au Revoir Simone (7)
Ahmad Jamal (6)
Madvillain (5)
Uncle Tupelo (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →
Bob Dylan (6)
Tyondai Braxton (6)
Wilco (5)
Sonic Youth (4)
Fennesz (3)
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“An easy slope leads so directly from desire to satisfaction that the beauty of...”
– Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust)
What's killing you? →
Well, this is going to be in my head for the next week.
“Nothing in the voice
of the cicada intimates
how soon it will die.”
– Basho
Photos: Literary Remains
newsweek:
NEWSWEEK takes a tour through the late David Foster Wallace’s just-released archives. Read the story; see the photos.
“The gun was always with the water pistols.”
– The King of Marvin Gardens
Me. And me now.: Instantes →
blueanddeepblue:
I have been reading too much Borges. Here’s another one.
Instantes (Instants) If I were able to live my life anew, In the next I would try to commit more errors. I would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more. I would be more foolish than I’ve been, In fact, I…
I <3 Borges
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-14) →
Randy Newman (42)
Townes Van Zandt (18)
Jacques Dutronc (12)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (10)
The Libertines (8)
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Tumblr Tuesday
theatlantic:
This week’s recommendations:
Wander through history with Laphams Quarterly.
Well hello there, The New Republic.
Being an old magazine, we have a soft spot for I Love Old Magazines.
Poignant visuals from Revvolver.
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Got...
According to my facebook ads,
the internet thinks I should become a music teacher, eat tapas and bowl. These are three things I have done/enjoy doing. So that’s pretty coo…wait a minute, what’s this? Screw you, internet.
“I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t...”
– David Lynch
Whether we fully realize it or not, this is a post-ironic world. Irony is accepted as a tangible and rather literal interpretation of any stimulus, and as such has been blunted as a tool of illumination. Slowly, I think people are coming around on this.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-7) →
Aphex Twin (35)
Yann Tiersen (29)
Randy Newman (26)
John Cale (20)
Television (19)
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“Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is...”
– Laurie Helgoe
WatchTallest Man on Earth, “Love is All” (Dead Ocean)
Wonderful video for a great song.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-31) →
Explosions in the Sky (37)
Aphex Twin (33)
The Beatles (22)
Billy Bragg & Wilco (12)
Best Coast (12)
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