March 2010
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As the great philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once...
“Hell is World 9 in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.”
Just kidding, he never said that. It was merely spoken by a character in one of his most famous plays, “Argh What The Fuck Why Won’t You Just Let Me Get That One Fucking Star Coin.”
February 2010
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Where's Willy? - The New Yorker →
I need two more posts to beat my post total for last February, which seems like a really important thing to do, for some reason. So: enjoy this Susan Orlean article from 2002, about Keiko, the orca star of Free Willy. Since we all have orcas on the brain at the moment.
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Pitchfork: Robyn Plans Three Albums for 2010 →
Say WHAAAAAT?!? Honestly, this actually makes me a little nervous… quality control, girl, quality control! But we’ll see what we see (or hear, I guess).
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“Sold to SeaWorld as a stud in 1992, the whale was involved in a second incident...”
– SeaWorld Orlando: 1 dead at SeaWorld Orlando Shamu attraction - latimes.com
Uh, this sentence? WHAAAAAAAAT?!?!?
Also, I love aquariums, I really do, but: killer whales should not be made to do tricks for people. Obviously. In fact, no wild animals of any kind should be made to do tricks for...
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How Millennial Are You? →
I got a 70, despite being, well, a Millennial. Apparently Millennials NEVER go out to see their friends after work, since they caught me on the one twenty-four hour period this week where I didn’t play video games, because I was hanging out with friends. (Actually I didn’t play Mario on Monday night either, due to a perfect storm of work-related parties, so.)
(Also, apparently, giving...
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“The line “think you’ll be getting this? Nah, nah, nah” might...”
– Popjustice - Notes On Ke$ha’s “Blah Blah Blah” Video
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Ted Leo Karaoke Party?!?!?! →
maura:
On Tuesday, March 9 — the official day of release for the new LP/CD/digital album The Brutalist Bricks — Ted Leo & The Pharmacists will be playing a handful of songs, new and old at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory. After a brief intermission, the quartet will return to the stage to provide musical accompaniment for an evening of karaoke.
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“When it comes to medical malpractice, the Republican Party doesn’t really...”
– That Elusive Common Ground | Mother Jones
Thanks for the suggestions, everybody!
I’m updating the original post to archive them; feel free to keep them coming so we can have a great little bookmarkable “Oh my God I’m bored” / “I want to enrich my mind” post.
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Do me a favor?
Can somebody please post a link to some kind of really long and fascinating article that I haven’t read? That would really help me out today.
UPDATE: Since my template doesn’t show people’s replies to the Tumblr “Answer” feature, I’ll reproduce them here.
Douglas Wolk suggests Neal Stephenson’s “Mother Earth Mother Board,” an account of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
Marina & the Diamonds (26)
Goldfrapp (13)
Hot Chip (11)
Fight Like Apes (2)
Adam Lambert (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Glenn, the library isn’t free. It’s paid for with tax money. Free public...”
– Jon Stewart in response to Glenn Beck saying he “educated himself by going to the library.” (via soupsoup) (via takethecityandrun)
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Sleeve notes.
Do they make shirts and sweaters with the sleeves already rolled up, to avoid stretching? Because that is the only way I can bear to wear things with long sleeves, and it would really be practical if I could buy sweaters that don’t get ruined when I inevitably do this.
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The money pit.
For every weekend like last weekend, with singing and drinking and friends and cheeseburgers, there is one like this one, where I am literally afraid to leave the house for fear that I might spend money.
I’ve resisted whining about it on here, but: things in general are not going great for me at the moment.
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WatchVampire Weekend - “Giving Up The Gun”
<3 THIS. And not just because I want to sleep with Jake Gyllenhaal, Rostam Batmanglij, and the drummer, in that order. This is my favorite track from the album, too.
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The Mariana Trench To Scale →
AMAZING please click on this. (Via Daring Fireball)
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Fluxblog: Something Music Kids Might Steal →
Matthew’s writeup of the Fight Like Apes show we saw last night. This band is seriously, seriously slept-on. Do yourself a favor and listen to the song he’s posted — and $6.99 for the album on Amazon MP3 is a steal! They’re playing Union Hall in Park Slope tonight. Go see them. Their set is short, sweet, and intense.
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““‘Sharktopus!’ is more difficult because you can imagine a...”
– Syfy teams with Corman for ‘Dinoshark’ (pic) — The Live Feed | THR
God bless Roger Corman.
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I have made the best possible use of my day off. →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
jj (21)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (13)
Massive Attack (10)
Fiona Apple (6)
Beyoncé (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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How Christian Were the Founders? - NYTimes.com →
I haven’t read this yet. I am linking it just to say that I am very disappointed that my lovely Sunday morning tradition of reading the Times magazine has been disrupted by the publication of an article that I can already tell will make me so angry I could fucking spit.
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“Pitchfork: Do you remember when you first heard Massive Attack?
Edouard...”
– Pitchfork: Director’s Cut: Massive Attack: “Splitting the Atom”
Anybody else have a first time that beats this? At, like, anything?
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →
Massive Attack (34)
The Magnetic Fields (15)
Spoon (12)
Vampire Weekend (11)
Sade (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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I want your everything.
me: uh wait a second excuse me Hercules & Love Affair remixed "Bad Romance"?!?!?
Matthew: oh really?
me: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Romance-Remixes-Part-2/dp/B0036I9IZQ/ref=sr_shvl_album_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1265822706&sr=301-4
Matthew: hm
me: hmmmm kind of turns it into shoe-store music
not that H&LA are known for balls-to-the-wall maximalism
Matthew: yeah, it's the same thing as the Deceptacon thing
takes out the forcefulness
me: I want a Basement Jaxx remix of that song, is what I want.
Matthew: you want a song that is up to 11 pumped up to 39
me: yes.
I want a Russian men's choir singing the chorus.
Matthew: you want a version where maybe you die at the end of it
me: The PSB could probably have a good time with that one too.
PSB & Trevor Horn
just giant brass sections everywhere
orchestra hits
car-crash sounds
the Andrew WK cover
or maybe you just bring him in to do like a super-multitracked version of the "whoa oh oh oh oh ooohhhhh" bit
Matthew: the version that isn't a song, but actually a hefty bag full of cocaine
me: yeah, cut with pool chlorine
and you smoke it out of the muffler of an eighteen-wheeler
on top of a burning building in Dubai
Matthew: the film adaptation of Bad Romance starring Jason Statham
me: and Michelle Rodriguez
Matthew: yes.
intensity.
me: that's the takeaway from this conversation, yes.
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“This Valentine’s Day, February 14th at 10pm ET/PT on Discovery Channel,...”
– I Am Proud To Live In A World Where We Can Watch Dinosaurs Fucking | The Awl
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN SET YOUR MOTHER FUCKING DEE VEE ARRRRRRS.
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Wow.
Yesterday’s Massive Attack reblog was my 1000th post.
Thanks for reading this rinky-dink piece of trash, everyone.
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Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Hot Chip: One Life Stand →
I definitely disagree with this one — I think this album has three titanic songs (“Thieves In The Night,” “One Life Stand,” and “Take It In”) and the rest are just sort of there. The comparison to Pet Shop Boys’ BEHAVIOUR is serendipitous, since I feel exactly the same way about that album! (The three huge songs there, obvs, would be “Being...
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What celebrity would play you in a movie about your life?
My stock answer for this has always been Ben Affleck, who I have no particular affection for but who looks enough like me and is not entirely un-talented. Lately, though, when guys hit on me, the #1 come-on line is “You look like that guy from Glee!”
Cory Monteith is not exactly the world’s most prodigious acting talent,...
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If you had access to a time machine, where and when would be the first place you travel to?
There are two possible answers to this question, and they depend on your personal interpretation of how time travel works: If the past is immutable and cannot be changed, or if we can alter past events. I tend to personally believe that the past can’t be changed, and that everything that happened...
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“So Max Baucus didn’t listen to us. Big deal. So we didn’t get...”
– Our Dysfunctional Left | Mother Jones
Award For Accuracy. It’s difficult for me to find issues on which I don’t agree with Kevin Drum.
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Well that was odd.
I just spent fifteen minutes Google Mapping my way around central London recreating the long rambles I used to take through town.
I think I miss London.
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god I hate these. You need to make more dinosaur posts.
Formspring questions are anonymous, but this one obvs comes from Vicky. So: enjoy.
Ask me anything
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Have you touched Grant Morrison’s bald head? Well, have you?
No, I have not. I doubt many people get to. I’ve met Grant briefly a couple of times, but we’ve barely had any kind of substantive interaction. I don’t get starstruck easily, but I honestly do around him. Probably the whole “I wouldn’t be working in comics if I hadn’t read his work” thing. ...
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What would your perfect day look like?
So I kinda thought that Formspring would actually notify me that I had questions waiting. And I got the first notification today, two months after all y’all started asking stuff. OOPS. I’ll start working through them now! Anyway. The perfect day would take place in the summer, probably late June. Probably on a Sunday. I would be gently awakened...
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Has Jean-Georges Created the Ultimate... →
My response to this is at the 0:52 mark in this video.
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