May 2012
“The robots asked the Munich Machine to go into a vocal booth and speak about his...”
– From URB’s report about electronic pioneer Giorgio Moroder’s recent studio stint with Daft Punk. (via pitchfork)
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Watchthedandyunderworld:
Taking place in England the owners of the yard slowly kept adding sections to the contraption so when the squirrel learned one section and got the nuts, they’d add another section. It took over 2 weeks to get to the final product you see in the video.
animals rule
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basically the best song ever
“The good news: Twitter lets you block a person’s retweets while still following...”
– http://www.splatf.com/2012/05/retweeting/
This is the most useful thing I have learned all day. (via tomewing)
“Or actually, “Paul and Linda.” This was another one of Paul’s...”
– Paul McCartney / Linda McCartney: Ram | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
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“The perception that most people have of mental illness comes from a lot of...”
– Ironiclastname on Reddit (via shooby)
“European and North American soldiers who have mutilated enemy corpses appear to...”
– Soldiers who desecrate the dead see themselves as hunters
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Listen
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“A common mnemonic is “An orphan has no past; a widow has no future”...”
– Widows and orphans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dare!
rocketsandrayguns:
tomewing:
postpunk:
tomewing:
I’ve been listening to the Human League’s Dare recently - it just got a nice reissue for its 30th anniversary (a year late!) w/other League Imperial Phase tracks on.
The League is such a great pop story, and Dare is a great pop LP, partly because it’s the collision of two very potent ideas of pop which have resonated ever since but rarely...
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This Is: Watching the season finale of Community... →
thisis:
Watching the season finale of Community reminded me of Grant Morrison’s comics. Dan Harmon and Morrison both make formally inventive stories that are often riffs on staid genre fare and always teeming with ideas, and both use this hallucinatory style to infuse feel-good cliches with new power.
lots of threads being woven together here. well done
ABBA - The Visitors →
tomewing:
I reviewed this for Pitchfork. It’s the most satisfying reissued ABBA album because the bonus tracks are all absolute killers (on most of the reissues the bonus tracks are Swedish-language versions of the singles: not quite so vital) (unless yr a Swedophone). If it weren’t for the bonuses, song-for-song I reckon Super Trouper and Arrival are better, but they don’t have The Visitors’...
“One way that psychologists have found to test whether something is seen as an...”
– People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people
“many early Slowdive songs bordered on precious goth (as did many of their fans)”
– Ulrich Schnauss: A Strangely Isolated Place | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
The Tiny Wives Club: The Best Show on WFMU Jokes... →
thetinywivesclub:
These are the jokes and insults for the year 2007. There weren’t as many direct threats at Tom this year, but there was a number of running jokes and themes like being asked to “Define” something or the continual mispronouncing of words. Check out the list for 2008 here and for 2009-2011 here.
Our real first gay president →
There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.
Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi,...
The rain-drenched, dark-street rhythms and...
bl.ocks.org - 1123639 - Rounded Rectangles (D3.js) →
