July 2009
1 post
Final Fantasy put on my favorite set at Pitchfork,...
June 2009
1 post
Feeling Good - My Brightest Diamond
Excellent...
May 2009
4 posts
“No one should fear me becoming a tragic hipster. I may be a hipster, but never...”
– 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.
March 2009
13 posts
The Kills — Cheap and Cheerful
Off to Pittsburgh....
A field guide to Crystal Stilts versus Crystal... →
I really, really needed this. I know I kinda like at least one of them, but I can never recall which.
Shearwater — The Hunter’s Star
I’m...
Detroit: City on the Move →
IBM to make a computer brain →
Ignore the article. It’s fine, although seems lacking in lots of information. What you should do is scroll down and see the picture halfway down the page and read its caption.
Here We Go Magic — Frangela
The clacky sounds,...
In case you wanted to know anything about... →
Scouting NY →
The one thing that has struck me about New York, more than any other American city to which I’ve been, is that the physical space is dense with details that were thought about and cared about. Gargoyles and grills and weird little cottages on top of buildings.
“My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, from his story He. Dude could make a trip from the sofa to the fridge for a beer sound baroque and thickly overwritten. I love it.
February 2009
22 posts
Listen
“Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of...”
– Paul Krugman, on Bobby Jindal’s anti-volcano-monitoring stance.
Snuggie Pub Crawl →
I admit, watching really drunk people in snuggies stumble around after visiting several boozehouses strikes me as a brilliant use of time, were I in Chicago.
WatchTilly and the Wall, doing the ABCs on Sesame Street. Obviously it’s a slap in the face of Yo Gabba Gabba’s indie cred.
WatchKanye West’s video for Welcome to Heartbreak. It’s a really impressive complement to the album, actually, repurposing the bad old days of frequent broken key frames and pixelated video to make an end product more organic than the technology ever was.
The Saddest Male Models in the World →
Love is All — Big Bangs, Black Holes, Meteorites
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That bastard couldn't even leave our cheese alone →
Waaaah, the president wants to communicate with... →
I’m at a complete loss that an article could basically say “too much Obama, not enough Chuck! Couldn’t he go on the air at a time when no one would be watching?” For fuck’s sake, it’s not like he’s going to spend the airtime picking at his toenails. There’s a couple of issues of extremely urgent and catholic importance and the media is severely...
A total moneymaking idea
I’m currently watching about a hundred kids take an intro physics test (it’s a well paying gig!) and I came up with a plan. Just like roller coasters, take portraits of people midtest. Everyone has a serious, quiet, thought-grimace that needs to be documented. I’m a bit unsure how to sell it, though. Perhaps some sort of extortion?
Shows
friponnerie:
briannuszkowski:
I feel like The Blind Pig doesn’t book super good shows - am I wrong?
Eh, it tends to be “when it rains, it pours” with the pig, at least in my experience. My first year in A2 I saw Camera Obscura, Grizzly Bear/Dirty Projectors, Sunset Rubdown, and a couple of others between January and March alone. My second year I think I went there twice in a 12 month period....
January 2009
17 posts
An interesting point: If someone predicts that the probability of an event occuring (e.g. the Earth being sucked into an LHC caused black hole) is 10^-9 or some such incredibly small number, then the likelihood of there being an error in the paper is almost sure to be much, much larger than the estimate itself. But if that’s the case, then does estimating the number even make sense to do?
Confession
friponnerie:
Airport bars are one my favorite places to people watch. Ever.
And I’ve often secretly wished for a long layover or really early arrival at some point, since I’ve never been to an airport bar and always want to go.
WatchThe song ( Lille by Lisa Hannigan ) is good enough, but the idea behind the video is fantastic, if very Etsy. (Via The Yellow Stereo)
her: have key. am in library.
me: subjects and pronouns be damned.
her: SUBJECTS AND PRONOUNS ARE FOR PUSSIES
waaaah
friponnerie:
From RH Reality Check’s recent post about the Personhood Conference held in DC for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade:
Even more interesting, [Kristi Burton] seems to accept birth control, the most common form of which is an oral contraceptive, but opposes emergency contraception, something that is essentially the same hormonal drug in two different doses.
Burton’s the woman behind the...
In case you thought "I love Thai food, but I wish... →
And happen to live in St. Louis. Be sure to click the “pizza” thing to show their menu.
