Monday, November 23, 2009
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copycats:

Will You Love Me Tomorrow by Lykke Li
originally by The Shirelles
(posted by bunkercomplex)

Lykke Li + Cover = Automatic reblog

thedailywhat:

New Music Video! Major Lazer (feat. Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze) - “Keep It Goin’ Louder”

Directed by the incomparably batshit Eric Wareheim (i.e. not safe for work, grandmas).

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1. This video is ridiculous.

2. I’ve said it since it came out, this song is going to be huge in about 3 months.

3. I’m still mad at Diplo for stealing my headphone adapter when the cops came and busted up the after party to his show.

Sunday, November 22, 2009
I’d been set to depart the tour in Lubbock, Texas, but the band was cool and I was safe, so I kept going. On the afternoon of August 26, the bus finally pulled into St. Louis, where the band had a college radio gig scheduled and I had a plan to get to the train station. A half hour later, listeners to KWUR heard the Hermit Thrushes dedicate their show to a mysterious single-named traveler, Don, headed for New Orleans.

Forgot that this didn’t get posted here. But this Wired article mentions KWUR. I wonder if he was actually in the station. If so, that would have been interesting, because this band decided to get naked and play…

Full article: Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened

thedailywhat:

OH SH- of the Day: Sarah Palin and her doppelganger divide by zero at a November 19 Going Rogue book signing in Noblesville, IN.
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Noblesville would. Just another reason to not like the place.

thedailywhat:

OH SH- of the Day: Sarah Palin and her doppelganger divide by zero at a November 19 Going Rogue book signing in Noblesville, IN.

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Noblesville would. Just another reason to not like the place.

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copycats:

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Twin Atlantic
originally by Cyndi Lauper
(via sweetwolfshirt)

So the original may or may not be one of my guilty pleasure songs.

Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the password, a heliograph flashed from a tower window, an act of hopeless optimism in the service of bottomless longing. Every great record or novel or comic book convenes the first meeting of a fan club whose membership stands forever at one but which maintains chapters in every city - in every cranium - in the world. Art, like fandom, asserts the possibility of fellowship in a world built entirely from the materials of solitude. The novelist, the cartoonist, the songwriter, knows that the gesture is doomed from the beginning but makes it anyway, flashes his or her bit of mirror, not on the chance that the signal will be seen or understood but as if such a chance existed.

Michael Chabon (via thebrowncoat)

This quote makes me feel more alive, thank you.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009
brokenbottleboy:

Ideas vs their enemies: Jesus vs The Romans | Yoko vs The Beatles | Titanic vs The Iceberg (via Heavy Backpack)

Hilarious

brokenbottleboy:

Ideas vs their enemies: Jesus vs The Romans | Yoko vs The Beatles | Titanic vs The Iceberg (via Heavy Backpack)

Hilarious

Friday, November 20, 2009

inthejunkdrawer:

Check it out, Surfer Blood has taken over the KWUR studio right now and are being DJs. Then at 530 (central time) Jookabox is going to be in the studio. Go listen 90.3FM for you in St. Louis or on the internet go to KWUR.COM

2. The Process Is The Story

blackbeardblog:

Some of the case studies on offer were more interesting. Kodak, who sponsored the whole event and have put together a free guide to social media practise, talked about how they’d taken a product idea straight from Twitter – implementing specific suggestions, like flexible USB ports and mic jacks, and then crowdsourcing a name. This kind of thing is becoming more common – taking design and useability improvements straight from the user’s mouth online.

You might argue that they’d have got the insights and information anyway, but that’s not the point – the process here is the story. It’s like the three young filmmakers who got up to tell us about the crowd-funded film they’re making of a Jules Verne novel. You’re not buying a good film, or even the expectation of a good film. You’re buying the experience and warm feeling of participating in something crowd-y.

That’s not to say the film – or the camera or the Axe pick-up tips Twitter – won’t end up being good. It might be magnificent! But we’re still in talking-dog territory here, where the fact of socialness matters more than the outcome. This won’t last forever, of course. It probably won’t last out 2010.

Very well stated discussion of why crowd-sourcing is catching on. I personally think it won’t last too long. I think as the practice becomes more widespread, people will soon realize that their time is worth more then the benefits. It’s interesting when you’re one of the (relatively) few people doing it, but not as much when everyone is.

heiheihei:

fuckyeahrecords:

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heiheihei:

fuckyeahrecords:

1200 inspired watch available at Turntable Lab(highly recommend them if you’re in NYC, they have a location in L.A. and Tokyo, too.)

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