January 2009
28 posts
WatchTinariwen is like Mississippi blues straight out of Mali.
“Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom
In 2002 Robert Pollard mentions to Off Records...
Apollo Synergy
Same day I got Hastings Sunrise, the excellent debut from Canada’s Apollo Ghosts and The Spirit of Apollo by N.A.S.A.
Update: Live stream of Hastings Sunrise courtesy of CatBird.
“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”
– John Updike, R.I.P (1932-2009)
Here is “Soggy Beavers” redone on...
Robert Pollard has a real gift for re-recording...
muxtape.com →
(via jstn)
WatchIn a poem-letter to fans Silvers Jews leader David Berman annouces the end of one of my favorite bands.
Now maybe they’ll reissue the Arizon Record so I never have to drop $200 on eBay for it.
“Three things have happened, in a blink of history’s eye: (1) a single medium,...”
– Nicholas Carr (via tomwillerer)
Really Amazon?
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated books by Jean-Philippe Toussaint have also purchased CAPTAIN NEMO: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. For this reason, you might like to know that CAPTAIN NEMO: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island is now available. You can order yours for just $19.99...
“As a general rule, meetings make individuals perform below their capacity and...”
– Reid Hastie, behavioral scientist (via kottke.org)
R.I.P. Flash
Despite that Adobe/Google make-Flash-searchable deal, beautiful, searchable, scaleable sites like the one for Luigi Bormioli - designed and developed by BBDK in conjunction with Ian Coyle of Superheroes - will sound the death of Flash-based sites. Why? Because the whole thing is developed in HTML and Javascript. Usability never looked so pretty.