January 2010
43 posts
Can Penn do this to its students coming to class,... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
J. Tillman (18)
Neil Young (17)
Vampire Weekend (15)
Van Morrison (10)
Mike Murphy (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
WatchJim Jarmusch, Randy Randall of No Age and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter doing a wonderfully-filmed rendition of Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer”. Jarmusch, a well-documented Neil Young fan, had Neil record a stream-of-consciousness soundtrack to his 1995 film Dead Man, and also filmed a Neil Young & Crazy Horse documentary (Year of the Horse) two years later. Awesome.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Vampire Weekend (38)
Real Estate (23)
Woods (15)
Iron & Wine (13)
Nick Drake (12)
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“[Pennsylvanian] lawmakers and the Liquor Control Board (LCB) plan to take a...”
– Just when you thought Pennsylvania’s alcohol policies couldn’t get any more bizarre…
(if you aren’t familiar with the state: it maintains a monopoly on the sale of wine and liquor, prohibits the importation of any alcohol from other states unless it’s done through the government, and severely...
WatchSix minutes to midnight.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Woods (39)
Neil Young (22)
Real Estate (20)
Kurt Vile (20)
J. Tillman (17)
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Caught in the act
@gizmodo is sponsored by Best Buy's Geek Squad today, even after all those anti-Geek Squad articles they've published http: //bit.ly/5jTSL7
@mcwm no comment, sir
The man who designed the 50-star version of the... →
Reporter easily breaks "unbreakable" phone →
7! Nation Army →
You can now ask me things, if you feel so... →
H & M Brings New Meaning to The Phrase, "Throwaway... →
(via theoreticalgirl)
The World Cup is going to be in 3D!! →
Now I just need to get a 3D HD TV (can we make that rhyme a little more?), and some fancy new 3D glasses that don’t give me headaches. Rather like 3D TVs themselves, they don’t quite exist yet.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Woods (43)
J. Tillman (40)
Real Estate (34)
Iron & Wine (17)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (13)
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Old people on Facebook no longer like "rock and... →
Here's my top 25 albums of the year list. Or...
I thought about not making one because, really, was I going to be wholly original, non-derivative, or turn many people to music they might like? Probably not. But then, I got bored at work so I started thinking about it. I decided to pool my 25 favourite albums from the year, along with five honourable mentions (so it’s more like a top 30 chart? NO!), but not put them in order of preference....
In the last decade, music has gotten louder and... →
According to the National Public Radio, at least.
The World and All That Is In It →
Best anthological title ever.
This Year, I Will: →
