December 2009
40 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Pixies (14)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (10)
Sambassadeur (9)
Tune-Yards (8)
Slowdive (6)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Brian Eno (21)
Vince Guaraldi Trio (11)
Spoon (10)
Stars of the Lid (10)
Quiet Village (9)
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Albums of the year + bonus content
OK, in a purely self indulgent way I thought I would list my favourite albums of the year. There’s no order - just ten that I’ve enjoyed. Having Spotify installed on your machine will improve your enjoyment of this list.
Andrew Weatherall - A Pox on The Pioneers One of those albums where really there’s no peaks, just a selection of very listenable tracks that pass the time...
“The government doesn’t even count its own cameras, let alone anybody else’s. For...”
– How many CCTV cameras are there in Britain?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Convextion (22)
Crippled Black Phoenix (17)
Throwing Muses (11)
Fleetwood Mac (11)
Colder (10)
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“Sokushinbutsu were Buddhist monks or priests who allegedly caused their own...”
– Top 10 Bizarre Traditions - Listverse
“Certain incarnations of rock and hip-hop culture can become outdated, but it’s...”
– The Death Of Music Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
“Rumor has it that Bowie kept his hair and fingernail clippings in the fridge of...”
– Occult Rock | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History
“Alan Moore once told me that, in conversation with Julie Schwartz, it has come...”
– Do Anything 023 by Warren Ellis | Bleeding Cool Comic News & Rumors
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
The Sound of Arrows (45)
Sambassadeur (28)
Mogwai (15)
Fear of Tigers (13)
The xx (13)
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What I Learned About Homophobia from Black Lips
nervousacid:
• DOWNLOAD | NEW ORDER “Regret” (The Fire Island Remix) Regret 12”, 1993
It was 7:25 on Sunday night when I got a text message from one of my snarkiest friends: “Someone from GLAAD needs to organize a Black Lips boycott.” I could deduce from this information that someone in Black Lips did something potentially anti-gay, but seeing how very little I care about the band, I...
“At a cost of more than sixteen thousand dollars, the 1986 marriage between Phet,...”
– The Believer - The Visual Erotics of Mini-Marriages
Finally an answer to the question posed in a British TV ad by a naive cute kid, do animals get married?
“TV has become a revolutionary force for good in the majority world (not just a...”
– This Just In: The Boob-Tube, Not YouTube, Is Transforming the World | Integrated Branding | Fast Company
Puts things into perspective somewhat…
“Imagine a game that connects directly to your mind, and where you are completed...”
– Terra Nova: I dwell in possibility
Andy Havens, we salute you. The funniest wisest thing I’ve read for a while.
“I think the Internet is the most amazing thing to have happened to humanity in...”
– Text Patterns: the costs of ideological amplification
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
The Black Dog (16)
The xx (13)
Grouper (13)
Arthur Russell (11)
Beastie Boys (11)
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“Good vs. evil thinking causes us to lower our value of a person’s opinion,...”
– Marginal Revolution: The limits of good vs. evil thinking
“There’s a really interesting post on Reuters “Entrepreneurial” blog about how...”
– Will There Be a Branding Bullshit Reaction? - PSFK
“I’ll summarize and abbreviate my view of what an ideal pizza should be: A...”
– All You Need to Know About Di Fara, 2009 | Slice Pizza Blog - Jeffrey Steingarten chips in. Google him, or better still, Amazon him and read The Man Who Ate Everything.
