December 2011
8 posts
You shoulda listened to this in 2011
1. Tune-Yards | Gangsta
2. James Blake + Bon Iver | Falls Creek Boys Choir
3. Fleet Foxes | Battery Kinzie
4. Beirut | Santa Fe
5. Bon Iver | Calgary
6. St. Vincent | Year of the Tiger
7. Laura Marling | Salinas
8. Radiohead | King of Limbs
9. Lykke Li | Get Some
10. Tori Amos | Shattering Sea
11. Dirty Projectors + Bjork | On and Ever Onward
12. James Blake |...
“Instead of a period at the end of each sentence there should be a tiny clock...”
– Laurie Anderson’s “theory of punctation” (via) (via manbartlett)
No, that’s bullshit. No artist should cram down the throat of the audience his or her own self-importance. And just because a sentence may have taken a long time to write does not mean that it is good or that you must respect it.
...
"Discretion"
§ 191.918. Breast-feeding in public permitted
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a mother may, with as much discretion as possible, breast-feed her child in any public or private location where the mother is otherwise authorized to be.
This is the Missouri statute on breast feeding. Here are the two definitions of...
Culture Desk: “Pale Fire,” The Poem: Does It Stand... →
Many yummy nougats in here, but especially liked the packaging…
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
1 post
FONTS of CHAOS - Vampirr →
Love this website, and the font.
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
7 posts
2 tags
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/taxes-cuts-economists_n_932697.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0822/US-should-raise-taxes-to-help-fix-deficits-say-business-economists
So, who’s right? They are both referencing a survey by the National Association of Business Economists. Let this be a warning against regurgitating headlines.
Watchaustinkleon:
tUnE-YarDs play “Gangsta” And It Is Gangsta - Music - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Tonight tUnE-YarDs played “Gangsta” with Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots and man, oh man…it was AWESOME.
Rad. That tUnE-YarDs album is great.
Might be my new favorite.
The rock star myth « .net Magazine →
sebastianwaters:
Handing things over is hard when you’re a perfectionist. You have to hire well and, more importantly, let people put out their own fires. When I started hiring contractors, I made a critical mistake: if their first mockup wasn’t great, or a client got unhappy, I’d step in. You need to let things blow up in people’s faces. Let them make mistakes. If you’re the middle-man...
July 2011
8 posts
Cherry Tomato Orzo Salad — very culinary →
Ah I want this!
Straight Outta Comp 101: A language dork finally... →
austinkleon:
Great piece by Sam Anderson (@shamblanderson) on Yale University Press’s The Anthology of Rap, which I think would be a good chaser to Jay-Z’s Decoded.
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
14 posts
the word unheard: To those of you who don't think... →
perhapsitisthecolorofthesun:
it is pervasive and saddening sometimes. sorry you had that awful experience. not cool AAA.
thewordunheard:
A week ago I was stuck in Manhattan; I’d taken out a CarShare van to transport six colleagues to a work event in Greenwich Village. It overheated pretty much the moment we arrived. We could have tried to drive the two hours back home, but I was worried...
“This is the sadness of the sea -
waves like words, all broken -
a sameness of...”
– William Carlos Williams, The Descent of Winter, from Collected Poems 1921-1931 (via waterinmyveins)
lovelybluepony:
Marissa Nadler- Damsels In The...
April 2011
18 posts
lovelybluepony:
Lykke Li-little bit
“Oh, I don’t actually ‘ride’, but I have some friends who do.”
– Cycling enthusiast
