February 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
The National (14)
CAKE (10)
Talking Heads (3)
The Avett Brothers (3)
Beulah (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
January 2011
“In seven minutes, Mr. Greenhaus ticked off references to Phish songs like...”
– How an economic strategist works in references to Phish every time he appears on CNBC. (via nprfreshair)
This guy is my new favorite economic strategist.
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The National - All the Wine
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Sufjan Stevens - Now That I’m Older
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
The Unicorns (13)
NPR (10)
The Avett Brothers (3)
The Postal Service (2)
Beck (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Thank God Mark Wahlberg didn't get nominated.
And, while the Best Director list is really good, Chris Nolan must be #6 if he didn’t make the list.
Man Man - Van Helsing Boombox
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Quentin Tarantino gives out the first pages of... →
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valerie2776:
The Mountain Goats — Damn These...
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood,...”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
kayrutledge:
Graceland | Paul Simon
And I see...
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Short Stories Reading List
Rip Van Winkle - Irving
Young Goodman Brown - Hawthorne
The Tell-Tale Heart - Poe
The Overcoat - Gogol
Bartleby, the Scrivener - Melville
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Twain
To Build a Fire - London
The Necklace - Maupassant
The Lady with the Little Dog - Chekhov
All works in Winesburg, Ohio -Anderson
Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Use of Force - Williams
The...
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I'm fashionably late to the discussion
I don’t understand how the big topic after the Tucson shooting was violent rhetoric when the real topics should be how society handles cases of mental illness and the ease with which someone who is clearly insane was able to obtain a gun.
The last time a major shooting like this happened was 2007 when Seung-Hui Cho killed 33 people at Virgina Tech and wounded 25 others. He was also clearly...
“The entire world could fit in Texas if each person were allotted the same...”
– That’s from a writer at National Geographic, scaring Texas border patrolmen to death with the idea that seven billion folks might descend upon the state and take all its precious calf-ropin’ jobs.
-DM
(via nbclocal)
Ignoring the “calf-roping” jab, this is kind of incredible.
(via krystalgomez)
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The world would be a better place
if DVDs came packaged more like gum. That tiny red tear-guide is the greatest thing to happen to plastic packaging.
flatteryoconnor asked: The mix is incredible, my friend. Honestly one of the best I've got in my possession. I'm listening to it now. Hope your trip went smoothly!
flatteryoconnor asked: The mix is incredible, my friend. Honestly one of the best I've got in my possession. I'm listening to it now. Hope your trip went smoothly!
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Pete and the Pirates - Moving
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So I'm taking bites out of this pear
and I realize I can’t remember the last time I ate fruit without slicing it first. Or eating a fruit as a snack for that matter.
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Sufjan Stevens - Vesuvius