July 20, 2009
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Final Fantasy put on my favorite set at Pitchfork, with this song being my pick of his already-released songs. Owen Pallett began by saying “I feel like I have to play this song. I’ve been asked to play it. It’s really difficult, though, so I’m sorry if I screw up.” And then he began setting down the piano loop.

June 17, 2009
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Feeling Good - My Brightest Diamond

Excellent music to cut through this cloudy, moisture-ridden day.

May 16, 2009
“ No one should fear me becoming a tragic hipster. I may be a hipster, but never tragic. I’m not going to bars in Brooklyn and drinking PBRs.

Brian Williams, NBC news anchor, to Rolling Stone. (via friponnerie)

I don’t think I’ve seen anything, anything by Brian Williams that has not increased my respect for the man.

May 11, 2009
It’s not Jess’s roast chicken, nor was meant to be, but Chicken in Milk is a tasty, tasty dinner. My only suggestion is to do the oven step breast side up, so that the skin there stays crispy. Note that I said tasty, not pretty. The chicken itself is, I hope you will admit, gorgeous (if a bit raw at the point photographed above), but the curdled milk sauce from boiling milk with lemon zest does not look good at all. It winds up being delicious, but one could be convinced that I had put scrambled eggs into a sea of butter from the look of it.

It’s not Jess’s roast chicken, nor was meant to be, but Chicken in Milk is a tasty, tasty dinner. My only suggestion is to do the oven step breast side up, so that the skin there stays crispy.

Note that I said tasty, not pretty. The chicken itself is, I hope you will admit, gorgeous (if a bit raw at the point photographed above), but the curdled milk sauce from boiling milk with lemon zest does not look good at all. It winds up being delicious, but one could be convinced that I had put scrambled eggs into a sea of butter from the look of it.

May 4, 2009
This is exactly what it is like to be a man. Every manly day.

This is exactly what it is like to be a man. Every manly day.

May 2, 2009

Showing the value of a good tagline.

March 16, 2009
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The Kills — Cheap and Cheerful

Off to Pittsburgh. Enjoy!

March 13, 2009
I really, really want a pair of these.

I really, really want a pair of these.

March 12, 2009
A field guide to Crystal Stilts versus Crystal Antlers

I really, really needed this. I know I kinda like at least one of them, but I can never recall which.

March 10, 2009

Saturday!