January 2012
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Music Marathon Days 41-46
davebloom:
Albums listened to in full (again, only counting 2011 albums from my ‘Marathon’ playlist):
Real Estate’s Days. It’s arguably lousy criticism to fixate on the general discourse surrounding an album (in agreement or disagreement) over the album, itself. But given the after-the-fact nature of the marathon and my position that this isn’t exactly criticism, I’m not going to pretend that...
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"The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions are... →
convincingindie:
Hey! Look! It is a book that I am in! And it is finally out (I am a co-author on a chapter with this guy)! Neat!
Psssshtttttt, books.
The Ice Fishing Sessions →
thelistenerd:
This is a project that must somehow come to fruition.
Yes.
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Onion Rings.
Let’s talk about them. As in, is there a place that will bring them to me right now, or tomorrow at precisely midnight thirty?
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mprnews:
Read what Paul Huttner has to say about the cold and possible snow at our Updraft blog.
He says snow Friday, Sunday and Tuesday? Our long regional nightmare is over.
Actually, We Need Something Along the Lines of...
immutableinscrutable:
I recently pirated Bizarre Inc’s “Plutonic”—amazing, grindy UK rave track circa 1992—because the mix I wanted wasn’t on iTunes. I used YouTube, and audio-jacking software that recorded it as the video played.
It wasn’t free. YouTube rented my eyeballs to advertisers, I paid Optimum Online for the access, I recorded it on a MacBook Air, and I listened to it on an iPhone....
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Watchjennyo:
launderground:
BLAKE MILLS : HEART OF MINE (BOB DYLAN COVER) (LIVE ON CONAN)
hell yeah
Holy hell, Blake Mills.
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“The bicycle was nothing new but a recent development into a new style called the...”
– Apparently Minneapolis was a hotbed of John Deere bicycle design and marketing in the 1890s.
[Found via this strangely engrossing timeline on the John Deere website]
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“Buffets [Inc.] is the nation’s largest steak and buffet restaurant...”
– “TAHOE JOE’S FAMOUS STEAKHOUSE”
Just when I thought my dream job coming up with ridiculous names for inconsequential things was pure fantasy, I learn that something called “Tahoe Joe’s Famous Steakhouse” exists. Though, its parent company is going bankrupt so...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-1-15)
Cloud Nothings (108) Trampled By Turtles (62) Kathleen Edwards (48) Brad Paisley (34) Drive-By Truckers (34) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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youngmanhattanite:
tanya77:
MPAA Responds to SOPA Protests
soupsoup:
The following is a statement by Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion
Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on the so-called “Blackout Day” protesting anti-piracy legislation:
“Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents...
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Listen to WFUV's replay of their Kathleen Edwards... →
In like five minutes! Coooooooooooool.
[Thanks, Erin.]
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