March 2009
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Things I Need This Morning
Breakfast, a Coca-Cola before 11AM, a lot of uninterrupted time at a scanner, and five more posts today to make sure that every month of 2009 in my Tumblr archives has more posts than any given month in 2008.
That last one could probably be filed under “Sad Things I’ve Done / Noticed / Cared About Lately.”
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Sad Things I've Done Lately
Manually trawl the internet to find the best possible album art for every single one of my MP3s (all 13,000+), including getting scans of the labels of obscure vinyl releases on discogs.com. I am up through the letter B.
YES I KNOW THERE ARE PROGRAMS THAT DO THIS I DO NOT TRUST THEM.
Why do I get the feeling this heading will be the first in a very long series.
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"Concision has a long, proud history, but pundits... →
hungryghoast:
every single article saying “Oh my god Twitter is making us morons” pisses me the fuck off to no end. Seriously. It’s always something that’s “making us morons” when really we are JUST MORONS.
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Award For Accuracy, obvs.
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Amazing Typos From The Menu Left On Our Door This...
Roast Beff On Hero
Meatball Marina
Meatboll Merina
Chicken Bacon Renchy
Beacon
Beef Patti
Hot wins
Chicken Pamazon
Garlic Konts
Patoto Wags
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Ramis Talks 'Ghostbusters 3' - Confirms Plot... →
bikerfish:
(via moderation)
I am not joking when I say that I believe that the world needs Ghostbusters 3.
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Lord knows I certainly do.
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URGENT kinda
pterodactyls:
How would you write the noise that the Hypnotoad makes?
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KRRRRRRXXXXZZZZRRRRRXXRRRRZZZZZSSSHHH
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OK, California, I'll make you a deal:
As soon as we successfully obsolete the internal combustion engine, I’ll consider moving to Los Angeles.
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On Location - Building Around a Tree in the... →
The New York Times really needs to stop posting slideshows of houses I would love to live in in California, or it’s going to give me ideas about leaving this town.
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Apple - Movie Trailers - Where the Wild Things Are →
This looks seriously awesome. I teared up a little watching it. In the words of she who I can’t stop talking about lately, “Don’t fuck it up.”
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M.T.A. Increases Fares and Cuts Services - City... →
Goodbye, W line. My morning commute officially just turned hellish, since I haven’t heard anything about any kind of service increase on the N to compensate.
And look, I’m gonna say it: If you opposed the bridge-toll proposal I am going to break your fucking face. It’s fucking expensive to make New York City work. DEAL WITH IT. It’s far, far, far, far, FAR more important...
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My imaginary boyfriend.
I met him on the TV yesterday. His name is Zeb Hogan. He is a biologist who studies “megafishes.” That’s every bit as amazing as it sounds.
As I watched him babble excitedly while wrapping his arms around a nine-foot Mekong catfish, I knew he was the man I’d been waiting for my entire life. Remember this completely rad picture of an immense freshwater stingray? That was...
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Damn it, people.
My Dashboard isn’t updating often enough to sufficiently amuse me. It’s my birthday, people. I DEMAND STIMULATION.
Matthew got me in to see Morrissey at Bowery Ballroom. Vicky got me an unbelievably sweet tie with a bunch of Triceratops on it. The least you could do is post me a picture of a funny puppy with an ironic video-game caption on it or something.
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“PJ Harvey & John Parish. The title track of the forthcoming collaboration...”
– Idolator At Sxsw: My Top Six South By Southwest Shows
Give me this album now now nowwwww
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“PopJustice: What’s the worst song on the album?
Kelly Clarkson: Umm…...”
– Popjustice - Kelly Clarkson interview
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Gird Your Loins: Phantom of the Opera Sequel --... →
WHOA. I didn’t know about this. I’m laughing and crying all at once. (I was pretty gay for Phantom Of The Opera in my early teens, which explains why I was a virgin for so long.)
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“you’re stupidly vulgar. here’s a burrito!”
– Vicky
its even better without context
(via chronicfail)
(via pterodactyls)
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Oh look, it’s the inscription on my gravestone.
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Theater Review - 'Blithe Spirit' - From Noël... →
Somebody go see this with me. God, I need a boyfriend.
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Where Britney Spears and James Joyce collide. →
nervousacid:
Britney’s newest single, “If U Seek Amy,” had the conservatives up in arms over its obvious subtext, but spelling out this particular dirty word is a longstanding trope in music that’s been played with by everyone from Memphis Slim to Poster Children. But James Joyce did it first:
The Irish literary god does in fact appear to be the first person to have used this phrase; in...
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“…and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like...”
– Suggested St. Patrick’s Day activities: read Molly Bloom’s soliloquy. It is here, but it doesn’t quite work onscreen. (via fightwithknives)
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Can’t even tell you how many times I’ve gone looking for this online to conveniently quote it. Heart.
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Today's Deep Thought
I seem to be turning into a person who wants to be relentlessly efficient at the office, but then just transforms into a completely indolent blob of protoplasm that receives only pleasurable stimuli while at home.
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Today's Deep Thought
Why is that seemingly every single “Upcoming Events” e-mail I receive from a venue has a show by the Saw Doctors scheduled in it?
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Eater: First Word: Water Taxi Beach Approved for... →
THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE A MINI-GOLF COURSE. Mini-golf in NYC at last. FINALLY. See you there this summer! (Via)
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“it would be rad to bring a puppy to an exam. NO ONE WOULD DO WELL”
– Twitter / Hungryghoast
Today’s Award For Accuracy, because, well, it’s funny, and it’s true. You could even say it’s funny because it’s true.
The wisdom itself, I’m now told, comes courtesy of Fight With Knives. FWK FTW.
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“I have indeed worked at an east London firm of (publicly funded) criminal...”
– Dave Rowntree
Talking of Blur…Dave Rowntree is not the sexiest member (obvs), but he sure seems to be a top bloke.
(via 5500)
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You know, you say that, but honestly of the four I think he’d be my first choice of member to sleep with. I don’t...
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The Of Montreal "Tribute To Dinosaurs" Album
Entitled HISSING DILOPHOSAUR, ARE YOU THE DESTROYER?
A Spinosaurus Of Sorts In Kongsviger
Raptor Rapes The Muses
Triceratops, To Punctuate!
Heimdalsgate Like A Pteranodon Curse
Paleontological Studies’ Victims
So Begins Our Albertosaurus
The Parasaurolophus’ Crashing Us
Wraith Pinned To The Microraptor And Other Games
Beware Our Nubile Maiasaurs
Diplodocus The Dots
Bunny...
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The International Jurassic Park Erotic Fan-Fiction... →
I know you think you don’t want to click on this link, but really, you do. I know you better than you know yourself.
PS: “dinosaur sex” tag watch: #3
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Riding the Rails - NYTimes.com →
Anybody want to take two or three weeks off and cross the country on a train with me?
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Can you hear This? Musicians high frequency... →
takethecityandrun:
I got to 18kHz. Better than I expected, actually.
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Umm. I couldn’t even hear the 14kHz one. Not happy about that. I think I know exactly which concert to blame for this, too — Doves / Elbow / The Rapture, June 2002. My ears were killing me for three full days afterwards. Great show, horrible repercussions.
Does this mean James Franco is the next Ethan... →
(via fightwithknives)
Oh God, you just put your finger right on the thing that has always unsettled me about James Franco, but that I just couldn’t articulate. He is exactly the next Ethan Hawke. He is now irrevocably ruined for me.
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Florida's Lost Tourist Attractions →
barthel:
Includes Splendid China and Pirates World!
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I really miss my home state sometimes.
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Watcherikonymous:
thedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: Brand new trailer for Terminator Salvation.
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I’m always surprised by how often NIN gets used in theatrical trailers, but it’s totally fitting in this instance. This trailer also, if you’re interested, practically ruined the movie for me (i.e., it gives way too much away).
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U2 to release another new album in 2009 | News |... →
Oh come on, music journalists. These wankers say this every time they release an album. If another full album of U2 material comes out this year (criteria: there must be a minimum of eight original songs on it, not reworkings of other songs and that kind of nonsense), I will allow myself to be pied in the face and I will post the photograph here on this blog.
