May 2012
2 posts
James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) on Sound Opinions (by WBEZ)
April 2012
5 posts
Today we’ll look at slides and interrogate the common hermeneutic understandings...
– Advanced Amateur Art History by Chas Gillespie
The goal in pursuing the rational reconstruction style is not to convince the...
– The Ground Truth: Three Styles for Writing a Paper, (Stuart Shieber)
Dunedin Consort (John Butt, dir.): J.S. Bach - Sanctus from the B Minor Mass
March 2012
25 posts
Sometimes I don’t know things for a really long time, and then suddenly I know...
– lonelysandwich
Kazakhstan’s shooting team has been left stunned after a comedy national...
– BBC News - Borat anthem stuns Kazakh gold medallist in Kuwait
The tuning of organ pipes is mercurially sensitive to temperature. Having a...
– The Boston Musical Intelligencer » The Case for Two Organs at Harvard’s Chapel
Nonesuch Records releases an album of works by Polish composer Krzysztof...
– Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia | Nonesuch Records
166. Leche frys in lentoun. Drawe a thik almaunde mylke wiþ water. Take dates...
– Why celebrate Π Day, when you can celebrate Cake Month instead? — Got Medieval
The $8 Billion iPod:
Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.
I don’t know when I first read that the “official” edge of space was at an...
– Jason Kottke and Theodore von Kármán - And now it’s all this
Michael, John, Tanya and Robert are putting together a synth-based indie band....
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Hipster Logic Problems.
Renowned nonfiction director Werner Herzog chronicles the tragic and untimely...
– Netflix: Grizzly Man
DXT: I started practicing eight hours a day, but of course I still didn’t...
– DXT DigiZine feature story 10/02
February 2012
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
Why do trees exist & what are they use for?
– Why do trees exist & what are they use for? - Yahoo! Answers India
September 2011
2 posts
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam, in various versions:
Vaselines, from Dying for It (1988)
Nirvana, from MTV Unplugged (1993)
Vaselines, live in KEXP studio (2009)
Acorn Alcolach, live at some pub in Derbyshire (2011)
Bon Iver - Blood Bank, live in Atlanta
August 2011
1 post
6 tags
May 2011
4 posts
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
3 posts
Yup. That about sums it up. (via Toothpaste For Dinner)
December 2010
2 posts
explaining early music. fml.