December 2009
53 posts
Dec 31st
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“The complications of the extensively collaborative nature of television...”
– An understatement by Martha Nochimson in The Passion of David Lynch
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Listenmerlin: One of my favorite Vic Chesnutt...
Dec 30th
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“As I think about the current Facebook craze and the notion of it as an...”
– Chris Anderson, The Long Tail Blog
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Listennewspeedwayboogie: Vic Chesnutt - Buckets of...
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“Out of the hundreds of thousands of years Homo sapiens has existed, we’ve been...”
– TV’s Unintended Consequences by Dave Munger
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Listengrimmertown: The Modern Lovers “I Wanna Sleep In...
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Dec 18th
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jackcheng: A film by Charles and Ray Eames for Polaroid. Beautiful in a million different ways. I could watch this over and over again. Notice that (pace: Andre 3000) there is no shaking going on.
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
Listen“Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop (not...
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Enough. A very short essay about chow mein, condemned men, and information gluttony that merlin wrote for Seth Godin’s What Matters Now project.
Dec 14th
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The Show with Ze Frank Episode 7-14-06 I reference this video every time I try to explain why Facebook is bad for the Internet. This video and an analogy about Canadian hockey players that I haven’t been able to source. The gist is: Canada has a lot of really good hockey players. Not because they are genetically predisposed to being good at hockey, but because they go out and play hockey...
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Dec 9th
“Where money is concerned… hope is counterproductive.”
– Michael Greenberg in Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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Oh, right, Jeff Mangum. “Sign The Dotted Line” from Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox
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Dec 8th
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“[T]he meaning of “reverence”… is the natural attitude to take toward...”
– “All That” by David Foster Wallace
Dec 8th
“It is absolutely easy to say vinyl doesn’t make sense when you look at...”
– “Vinyl Records and Turntables Are Gaining Sales” -
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Dec 7th
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Listen“Between Two Mysteries” by Mount Eerie...
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