January 2010
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“I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly...”
– Dave Eggers
Via: Wilson Miner from here (via kevinlane)
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The Truck Driver's Gear Change →
“Who or what is a truck driver’s gear change?
Many writers and arrangers feel that when their song is in risk of getting a bit tired, it can be given a fresh lease of life by shifting the whole song up a key, usually in between choruses, towards the beginning of a “repeat-till-fade” section. You may have heard this technique informally referred to as...
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“The world is split into two different kinds of people. When I moved into my...”
– China Mieville
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itsmyrebelliousnature:
I’ve been really mean the past couple of days. What’s wrong with me?
I’m going to take a stab at this: it’s your rebellious nature?
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Heidi Montag Album Sells 658 Copies →
“….I put every dollar I have into this. I’ve spent over $1 million, almost $2 million, on this album. It’s cost as much or more than a Britney Spears album because I wanted it to be that quality … (But) I think within the first week we will definitely make our money back. The songs will make an impact in pop history,” she told EW last week.
Whoops.
(via)
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What the future sounded like →
bobulate:
From the documentary, “What the Future Sounded Like,” a documentary about Electronic Music Studios (EMS), a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who composed music using technology and futuristic experimentation:
Comprising of pioneering electronic musicians Peter Zinovieff and Tristram Cary (famed for his work on the Dr Who [sic] series) and genius engineer David...
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Secrets of The Shining: Or How Faking the Moon... →
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“You see, we’ve even blurred—where’s the stage? Is the audience the entertainer?...”
– Gallagher is insane.
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All Hat and No Cattle
laflava:
You are alone. I am alone. It is time to shut the fuck up and move on. In short, if you are going to use social networking sites, as I do, be the same everywhere. Understand that no one cares about you, what you like, what you think, what you wear, or what your music sounds like. I care about me, what I like, what I think, what I wear, and what my music sounds like and how you will...
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“I make it up on the spot, improvise lyrics, usually start with a drum beat, come...”
– Jay Reatard
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WatchJay Reatard died at 29 today.
Every time the world loses a songwriter like Jay, I can’t help but get a little bummed.
Watch the video above and spend a little time in his world.
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“Writing to ‘get it right the first time’ is like driving a car with the...”
– Joan Bolker (via merlin)
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Lady and the Tramp
(An Excerpt From The Last Days of Disco)
Charlotte: This sweet movie about cute cartoon dogs you found depressing?
Josh: There is something depressing about it, and it’s not really about dogs. Except for some superficial bow-wow stuff at the start, the dogs all represent human types, which is where it gets into real trouble. Lady, the ostensible protagonist, is a fluffy blonde cocker spaniel...
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TV will murder you.
From The Wall Street Journal (also known as The Debbie Downer Daily):
Australian researchers who tracked 8,800 people for an average of six years found that those who said they watched TV for more than four hours a day were 46% more likely to die of any cause and 80% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than people who reported spending less than two hours a day in front of the tube.
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Half Baked: How To Make A Pizza - The Awl →
4. It doesn’t have to be white and semolina. Just two cups of flour. Half wheat? Half white? All white? Whatever you like! You only have cake flour? Who gives a shit! Do you think in the middle ages when they made flour products they had time to care what kind of flour it was? No. They were just trying not to eat rats.
Very true.
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The creepiest thing about this anonymous Facebook employee interview is not that every move I make on Facebook is stored on several different servers scattered across the globe. No, I figured at least that much.
What really caught my attention were the bizarre anecdotes:
I found a fake account created from Berkeley that used the profile picture and information from the brother of one of my very...
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“It’s easy to write a song that just takes down easy targets— there...”
– Ezra Koenig
Thanks, Kevin
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“It’s been a crazy year. I’ve learned that being a celebrity is like being a...”
– Megan Fox’s secret self-awareness.
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“Cast it from thy sievelike books of memory, Sir Donald; thou art out of thy...”
– Shakespearean Big Lebowski
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XTC - Love On a Farmboy’s Wages
Neurotic,...
