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"I don’t need a bigger house. I don’t need two dollar a gallon gas. I jus need to feel connected,..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:37:08 -0400

“I don’t need a bigger house. I don’t need two dollar a gallon gas. I jus need to feel connected, to feel that I’m not crazy, that other people are freaked out too, are shocked at what’s happened to our country. I need the musicians to speak the collective truth. To put words and sounds to what we feel. To point us in the proper direction. Because I’m lost.”

- Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » The End Of The Innocence
(via didyouevernotice)
(via fuckinnerd)
READ THE FUCKING PAPER, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.
(via barthel)
I’m having one of those days where I think anyone in the mood to blue-sky about the world should 1) read Candide, a major newspaper (NYT/WSJ/WP), and something—anything!—written by a person who isn’t a tech-evangelizing white male, and then 2) think about what they’ve just read. It would certainly help my blood pressure.
(Lefsetz’s bubble-living also extends to his still thinking that bands can, and have to, make their money on the road. Like Mike said, read a fucking newspaper. Christ.)

The hot dog eating contest announcer just called Joey Chestnut “The Chikezie Eze of...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:33:30 -0400

The hot dog eating contest announcer just called Joey Chestnut “The Chikezie Eze of greasy”!

“Christ, what an asshole.”

(Related: I really need some new non-music-related bookmarks.)

A thing to do.

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:57:01 -0400

A thing to do.: I did this too.

Independence Day Weekend 2008 TV Marathons

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:41:33 -0400

Independence Day Weekend 2008 TV Marathons:

Oh man, G4 is showing a Cheaters marathon tomorrow? It really does want to encourage shut-in-ism, doesn’t it.

(via thisisareallybadidea)

Head for... the mediocre?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:58:25 -0400

ninety9:

Ouch. I say bad things about Pentagram, but aside from the Citi logo, I rarely think they outright suck the ole goat dick. But, to be trite, have they jumped the shark with this one?

it’s like miller and coors were forcibly strip-searched and then subjected to a tandem urinalysis test. you have two iconic script logos and THAT is what you come up with? boooooo.

marklisanti:The saddest thing you’ll see today. Its almost like...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:08:29 -0400

marklisanti:

The saddest thing you’ll see today. Its almost like the unwanted pup-pup is waving goodbye to the family who outgrew him.

the 'm' stands for 'my eyes'

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:52:47 -0400

“True Life: I’m Under Peer Pressure” is on right now.

One of the subjects is a Hooters waitress who felt pressured to get breast implants.

On the bright side, once she did get them, her tips went up by $300 a month!

The new CSS album "Donkey" is online

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:14:00 -0400

The new CSS album "Donkey" is online:

bg5000:

danhacker:
And it’s good.
I know more than a few people that mght be interested in this.

Um. It is terrible, actually. (Sorry to douse water on the leak news.) Plodding and derivative and… well, I’ll save the rest for tomorrow morning because I really need to separate my work hours out from my day. But yeah, it’s a complete disappointment, especially if you like your “dance” albums to, y’know, have varied beats and texture and stuff.

"I think the ultimate test for your current job is: Would you do it for free?"

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:32:58 -0400

“I think the ultimate test for your current job is: Would you do it for free?”

- If your answer is no, you should consider what you are doing. (via tightgrip)
This is bullshit. It’s called work for a reason and I would never work ever if I wasn’t getting paid. One reason I hate school: grades mean shit to me, money talks.
(via sarahchristine)
…says the would-be teacher. To me, the quote underscores the massive difference between doing something you don’t really enjoy in any way for the money (and no, it’s not whoring yourself out—because at least sex is sex, and can be fun) versus getting paid to do something you love.
(via shorterexcerpts)
On the flip side, isn’t the whole “would you do it for free” idea what keeps people in creative fields underpaid for so long, and what keeps the intern/putting your creative works out there for free economy a-humming? It just seems like the ramifications of this “philosophy” (if you want to call it that) serve as yet another way to devalue creative work in this already too technologically driven era.

rendit:lunchfood:OMG! (via fimolculous)see what...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:54:28 -0400

rendit:

lunchfood:
OMG! (via fimolculous)

see what you’re all missing?

signed,

crabby mccrab

attention 17-year-olds of the world: your summer-vacation posts are in hackers' hands!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:35:09 -0400

“Livejournal.com is currently unavailable for a brief emergency maintenance. We’ll be up again shortly.”

Also: Is Diaryland the new old Tumblr? I revisited it last night for the first time in forever and was charmed all over again.

soupsoup:mdfsmash:Kanye Infomercial [via BuzzFeed]Guessing...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:19:11 -0400

soupsoup:

mdfsmash:
Kanye Infomercial [via BuzzFeed]
Guessing this is a continuation of the new Absolut commercials.
Zach’s was better but this is pretty funny.

The phone number just tells you to call back tomorrow! Boooo.

Reading is sooooo "World 1.0."

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:15:00 -0400

Reading is sooooo "World 1.0.": Can we start a new tag: “Shut up, tech weenies”? Please? (via katiebakes)

"I don’t serve meals on my airline anymore. Get over it! What’s the matter— you can’t last two hours without chicken parmigiana? Why are you even going to Indianapolis?"

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:04:17 -0400

katiebakes:

If you wish to attempt a Sudoku puzzle during the flight, you must demonstrate to my satisfaction that you realize that the nine spaces in every row and column must each contain a unique digit, and that the nine squares that make up the over-all Sudoku square cannot be completed without consideration for how they fit into the entire puzzle. Do you understand this? No? Fifty dollars.

I’m just reblogging this to say that i hate sudoku. HATE. Not only is it dumb and artless, it’s killing the crossword puzzle. Although I do like the puzzle that was rebranded as “Paint-Doku” for the purposes of confusing Sudoku fans into buying it. (It goes by the name “Paint By Numbers” in Games.) Don’t believe me? From that linked American Prospect piece:

But Sudoku may not be ready to play second fiddle yet; if anything, in fact, the game’s popularity seems to still be rising. This has led to a somewhat comical scramble in the puzzle biz to identify the next big thing in an expected post-Sudoku wave of Japanese logic puzzles. A Sudoku cousin called Kakuro seems the most likely candidate: “Hooked on Sudoku? Discover the Newest Puzzle Craze!” shouts the cover of a recent Kakuro book.
A personal story about this marketing mania: Earlier this year, my publisher said he wanted me to write a book of a well-known Sudoku/crossword hybrid puzzle. This specific variety of puzzle has been known for decades in the United States as “Alphacodes” or “Coded Crosswords.” They’ve been a favorite of mine since I was a kid, so I eagerly agreed to do the book.
“But we need a Japanese name,” the publisher told me.
It’s a language-specific puzzle that’s never been seen in Japan, I replied. It doesn’t have a Japanese name.
“Then come up with one,” he shot back. “Marketing wants a Japanese name. Can you have it to me by Tuesday?”

"Somewhere in my brain is an essay that I’ve been kicking around for years about how this is..."

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:21:36 -0400

“

Somewhere in my brain is an essay that I’ve been kicking around for years about how this is happening to music in a much bigger and faster way. I used to be really into independent film. Then, it all kind of got terrible because EVERYONE COULD MAKE A FILM AND THERE WERE NO QUALITY FILTERS and I wasn’t interested anymore because there was just so much dreck to slog through before you found real gems. Sound familiar, dear music lovers? I mean, I don’t want to be a big, terrible person against the democritization of art. It’s more about how art is becoming more fragmented and commodified and there’s just too much noise.

I don’t necessarily think that it’s just about inexperience — but it is. This also seems to be related to the girls who all make crap that looks exactly the same that gets sold at the Renegade Craft Fair and Stitch and ready-made DIY shoppes (yes, that spelling is intentional) in trendy cities.

I want to listen and see and buy beautiful original things, objects, art. And though the internet and increased affluence and lots of other factors have made this easier, it’s also made finding the best of what’s available so bloody exhausting.

”

- therichgirlsareweeping’s response to a quote from “Little Movies, Big Problems” is certainly worth quoting in its own right.

Book Recommendations: The Books That Changed Your Lives

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:07:49 -0400

Book Recommendations: The Books That Changed Your Lives:

jessicagoldharalson:

This list is hilarious because Lifehacker readers have such awful taste in literature. The Bible? Ayn Rand? Seriously?

Welcome to our new geek-driven future.

letsgomets:Soup Beat me to the Punch / Mets own New York

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:42:55 -0400

letsgomets:

Soup Beat me to the Punch / Mets own New York

Photographs That Will Never Ever Be Gender-Flipped, Part XXVIII...

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:38:00 -0400

Photographs That Will Never Ever Be Gender-Flipped, Part XXVIII In A Series

Or, “Maybe I Would Have Less Of A Problem With This If Jonah Hill Wasn’t So Freaking Annoying, But Probably Not”