January 2010
13 posts
“A former professional cyclist who last raced at age 21, he left the sport for a...”
– Back in Racing Form After Dropping the Fork - NYTimes.com (via emptyage)
So cool.
Rowland S. Howard is dead at 50 →
His guitar work in the Birthday Party helped me understand that there were places to go with the instrument I hadn’t even thought about. I didn’t even know he had died.
December 2009
38 posts
TSA Seizes Hard Drive from Travel Blogger →
Holy shit.
On this day in 1999 ... →
homage: New Order - Western Works 9/80 →
From “The Power of Independent Trucking”, a lost recording session from New Order’s early days.
Suddenly with no lead singer and a wide-open new beginning, the survivors (now known as New Order) took the Cabs up on their offer and decamped to Western Works on 7 September 1980, just two days after their third gig post-Ian. Safely away from the spotlight, and with no Martin...
Rediscovering Central Asia →
The Conflicted Existence of a Female Porn Writer. →
Courtesy Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Ten design tenets of Dieter Rams | Clagnut §... →
merlin:
Like 60s power pop? Me, too. So, see if...
Elvis Costello's Top 500 Albums →
Because he’s a smrt guy what knows his music.
Best New Blogs of 2009 — The Bygone Bureau →
Good things to read that I had not yet found.
BBC News - Coconut-carrying octopus caught on... →
Dude.
“Underwater footage reveals that the creatures scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters.”
“I could give you some head
and shoulders to lie on”
– Jimmy Destri, who wrote a bunch of my favorite Blondie songs. I suppose it would be a better pun if the song were about bemoaning your dandruff, but it’s still a great line.
“How many Jonas brothers are there? I mean other than “too many”.”
– My wife, Katie whom I love
Loudness (Chicago Mastering Service) →
“One of Einstein’s lesser-known papers was entitled “Dualität und...”
– some guy on the Internet
Conway Twitty — Big Town
Holy cow. The...
