May 2010
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When he was thirty-two Murakami sold his jazz club... →
The Millions
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WatchBudget cuts are endangering NYPL. Improv Everywhere are busting some ghosts and hoping to bust the cuts also. Info here.
(via Book Bench)
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With so much new-found pride in their city, it was... →
Guardian.co.uk
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A remarkable thing about maps is people's... →
BBC News
(via NFT)
April 2010
14 posts
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“To repeat: bullshit. Maybe you don’t like to cook, maybe you’re too...”
– Michael Ruhlman (on what we choose to do with our time. Read the whole rant at the Huffington Post)
(via Twitter)
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WatchMoonshot: Dean & Britta covering Buffy Sainte-Marie (listen to the original version here)
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WatchCharlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven can wait
(via 9009)
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He stated his dislike of nihilism and the “high,... →
Los Angeles Times
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But imagine if, instead of paying taxes in the... →
Public Radio International (via Getty Museum)
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“I’ve always been torn between my appetite for people, the vanity and the...”
– Albert Camus (part of his American Journals)
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Nude travellers rejoice! →
Jaunted
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Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
If you can read...
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“Critiquing, especially harsh venomous criticisms, is always easier than...”
– Scott Berkun (on how to call bullshit on a guru)
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WatchFacto delafé y las flores azules - El indio
No more Facto, just Delafé y las flores azules, btw.
March 2010
11 posts
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WatchThe Box Tops - The Letter
Where will Alex Chilton be playing tonight?
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“I wanted to say, ‘I know what you did.’ And that statement has...”
– Paul Greengrass (on his upcoming Iraq movie, Green Zone. Part of an article-interview in the Guardian)
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WatchK’naan’s Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, including “Take a Minute,” “Fatima,” and “Waving Flag”.
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“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions, even...”
– Lillian Hellman (part of a letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Find it at the end of an interview in The Paris Review)
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Watch2010, not surprisingly, people still strange, particularly on Mondays.
The Doors - People Are Strange
(via lilyna)
February 2010
10 posts
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“I think accepting one’s weakness, being powerfully timorous, might be a...”
– Michael Silverblatt (part of an interview available at Bomblog)
(via The Millions)
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Fun, fun, fun (no irony here, they sound really...
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WatchWouldn’t you recall faulty Bic pens? Toyota will do it for you.
(via Autoblog)
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Arcade Fire - Wake Up
(via...
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Indeed, most of the “My Way” killings have... →
New York Times
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“I have the same horror of evil as you do. But I don’t share your hope…”
– Albert Camus addressing a group of Dominican monks in 1948.
(via mazenmason:fuckyeahexistentialism)
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INXS - By My Side
Once upon a time, before...
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WatchSufjan Stevens covering R.E.M.’s The One I Love (which may be or may not be a love song, according to Michael Stipe). Listen to the original here.
January 2010
3 posts
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The meatballs were a travesty, with the... →
New York Times
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John Coltrane - My favorite things
(via...
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“I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only...”
– Bruce Schneier (from a post in his blog on airport security, air travel silliness, and the like) (via Gadling)
December 2009
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WatchPlaying for Change
Sometimes, it is easy to disregard clichés.
And yet… This is a meaningful song, performed here by Grandpa Elliott and Clarence Bekker for a nice cause.
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“Why should I pay?” he asked with a grin. “I don’t... →
New York Times
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U2 - Still haven’t found what I am looking for
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