July 2009
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Weighing the worth of movies watched →
kiyoshimartinez:
My friend, Brian Mackey, recently wrote a column about procrastinating on your Netflix queue. What’s our reasoning for putting off watching films, listening to music and reading books that we’ve either purchased or rented? I’m sure everyone’s had an experience like this:
Unrealized ambition now has a recurring cost.
For me, the all-time record for an unwatched movie was...
WatchI think it is a wolf spider, but the movement was a little unusual. I really felt for this guy. That spider was enormous.
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Best of 2009 (so far)
Yes, I know Paste Magazine did this already, but I wanted to put my 2 cents in.
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Haunting and beautiful and a graduated step up from For Emma. The question now remains: where to go from here? Eventually, the economy will get better and we as a listening public will not want to listen to music that makes us want to hide under the covers and sleep all day.
M. Ward - Hold...
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Deer Tick - Art Isn’t Real (AKA City of...
“Debt is the new disease.”
– Hollis Webb (after going through student loan paperwork and paying credit card bill)
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Deer Tick - Live at Bash's II in Lubbock, TX...
Lubbock, TX seems like an odd tour spot for an alt-folk/garage band from Providence, Rhode Island—it is (but, anything worthwhile coming from either place is pretty spectacular in and of itself, so I suppose we shall call it even). Started by Providence native John Joseph McCauley III as a two piece guitar and drum band, Deer Tick is a band that manages to pull off several cliched...
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Sunday Sounds - Bon Iver's Blood Bank
I don’t mean to kill a surprise, but I will be listing this EP in my “Best of 2009 So Far” list this week (yes, I know Paste Magazine did this). For the first Sunday Sounds post, I present Blood Bank by Bon Iver. Enjoy.
Blood Bank - Bon Iver
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Why the GOP is falling out of love with... →
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"Dear Old People Who Run the World, My generation... →
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jayparkinsonmd: claytoncubitt: (The Generation M Manifesto, via)
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Wilco - Wilco (the album)
Chicago rises again (and not too soon either).
I reject this notion that the sound of a band’s music must stay static record to record, I also reject the notion that a band’s sound must change or that a group must release an experimental or “concept” record to be relevant. Since when did we start judging ourselves on what has been done or not done rather than what is...
“Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And...”
– Aristotle (via poortaste)