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nextnewblog: The Gregory Bros perform The Bed Intruder song...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:27:41 -0400

The Gregory Bros perform The Bed Intruder song live at the Bowery Ballroom.

still love new york.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:14:00 -0400

There’s about a week or two, sometimes a month or two, every summer and winter in New York City when you seriously question your sanity for living here. That’s after you’ve already gotten over the tiny apartments, the crazy people, the noise, and the days you can go without seeing single tree or a star in the sky, because you love all the other things about being here.

But that stretch in the summer, when it’s hotter than hell, and the garbage on the sidewalk ripens in the air, you can’t get a cab, it’s over 120 degrees in the subway, and maybe your A/C breaks down, too (or you don’t have one to begin with) — it’s pretty dehumanizing, and that stretch can be hard.

We’re right at the tail end of one — Hurricane Earl is poised to sweep through tonight and bring 70 degree days again in its wake — and as I plodded over to the subway to head downtown for a meeting yesterday, I was not loving New York. But I went anyway, and I got to see a couple things on my way downtown and back.

A teenage girl, crying as she ran alone up the subway steps, followed a few seconds later by her stricken, ponytailed boyfriend, like a story in two acts.

A busker playing electrified violin music in the scalding subway station, where he introduced each of his New Age-y songs with a hilarious name (“This one’s called… ‘Scandalous Love’”) and told everyone they could buy it on iTunes.

A full-grown, middle-aged guy matter-of-factly sliding his groceries under, then jumping the turnstile at the 23rd Street station, because budget cutbacks meant no one was in the booth.

A couple kissing goodbye at the top of the subway stairs, blocking the exit a little, oblivious to the rest of us having to walk around them, because they might not see each other for a while, like a third act to the story before.

And then, the most killer sunset of the summer, as I stepped out onto 23rd Street looking west, and a pretty decent breeze.

Feeling like a human again, after all. Summer’s ending, and here in the city it’s going to be a good fall.

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Monster - Kanye West, Jay-Z feat. Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Bon...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:29:18 -0400

Monster - Kanye West, Jay-Z feat. Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Bon Iver.

Everyone’s reblogging this as an mp3 download w/ lots of malware links, but here it is as straight Tumblr audio.

[via Steve, originally from azizisbored]

Real Life Super Heroes GOOD Magazine has a slideshow of photos...

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:44:00 -0400

Real Life Super Heroes

GOOD Magazine has a slideshow of photos from the Real Life Superheroes project, which documents people who don superhero costumes and masks and perform community service work all over the country, including New York, Atlanta, Minnesota, Florida, Utah and Arizona, and Washington, D.C. It’s cosplay meets Americorps.

Only the Paranoid Survive.

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:38:49 -0400

Only the Paranoid Survive.:

I’ve heard and appreciated this saying, credited to Andy Grove, of course, but never read his book of the same name. The book preface, here online, is a worthy and quick read. Here’s how it begins:

“Sooner or later, something fundamental in your business world will change.”

[link]

cigar box guitar HEY THERE, MAGGIE (via H0LL0WBELLY) I...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:42:00 -0400

cigar box guitar HEY THERE, MAGGIE (via H0LL0WBELLY)

I don’t know much about cigar box guitars, though I got my first look at one Mark Frauenfelder had made a little while back. But this video is awesome.

jakeandamir: Jake’s Twitter

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:21:37 -0400

jakeandamir: Jake’s Twitter

In the face of Islamophobia

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:33:00 -0400

In the face of Islamophobia:

seanbonner:

Here’s a little editorial I whipped up for Al Jazeera.

Must-read of the day.

zadi: Okay, I promise I won’t post any more of these… but for...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:29:05 -0400

zadi:

Okay, I promise I won’t post any more of these… but for some reason, I. can’t. stop. laughing. :D

(And I am sorry for those of you who aren’t used to such profanity on my blog. Blame it on Twitty.) ;)

That is too, too funny. But I don’t know if anything beats this one.

Jenny Holzer, Box for Standing [nevver]

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:19:23 -0400

Jenny Holzer, Box for Standing

[nevver]

lonelysandwich: seoulbrother: incorrigiblerobot: sloganeerist:...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:50:00 -0400

lonelysandwich:

seoulbrother:

incorrigiblerobot:

sloganeerist:

Plus, additional friends!

Like Bernadette Peters. Steve Lawrence. Michael J. Fox. Yakoff Smirnoff. Jay Thomas. Martin Van Buren. Shoeless Joe Jackson. Tom Waits. Jaromir Jagr. Erin Moran. Nelson Mandela. Orson Welles. Jerry Lewis. Avery Schreiber. Boog Powell. Madonna. Bernie Goetz & the Bernie Goetz Dancers. Vic Tayback. And Tony Shaloub.

James Caan. Telly Savalas. Burl Ives. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Before the Wheelchair. L.C. Greenwood. Rip Taylor. Anson Williams. Kool & The Gang. Albert Camus. Father Guido Sarducci. Ed Marinaro. Funk from Funk & Wagnall. Wagnall. Larry Bird. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. C3PO. Ghandi. And Mel Tillis.

Dylan McDermott. Harry Reasoner. The Beatles. Mary Lou Retton. Michael York. H.G. Wells. Festus. Edgar Bergen. Arnold Palmer. Twiki. Joyce DeWitt. Eric Bogosian. Charro. George McGovern. Danny Wuerffel. Jeff Conaway. Sir Edmund Hillary. Gays. The Louisiana Purchase. And Tonto.

Alan King. Tina Yothers…

The Captain and Tennille. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Foster Brooks. Jefferson Davis. Ken Burns and the Ken Burns Effect. The Waitresses. Eli Whitney and His Miraculous Cotton Gin. The Unknown Comic. Dorian Gray. Rich Little. May West. Lunchables. Colonel Mustard. And Elmo.

Ted Danson. Rodan. Bruce Wayne. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. John Larroquette. Melba Toast. Rickey Henderson. The Baja Boys. Ted Turner. Fred Flintstone. Alan Funt. Satan. Elizabeth Montgomery. Long Duc Dong. Kelsey Grammar. And Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Phil Collins. Elliot Ness. Dora the Explorer…

Kai Ryssdal, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jon Cryer, Mark Hamill, Paul Lynde, Lonnie Anderson, Scott Baio, Shields and Yarnell, Eric Estrada, Julius “Dr. J.” Erving, Charro again, Modesky, Martin and Wood, David Copperfield, Solomon Grundy, Kansas, Ronald Reagan, Bill Brasky, Harry Belefonte, A brand new COLOR TV, Soupy Sales, Nipsey Russell. And Liu Kang.

Glenn Campbell, Evel Knievel, Cal Worthington and his dog Spot, Ivar, Tex Winter, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Nellie Bly, O.J. Simpson, Bo Derek, Mario Lopez, Crystal Carrington, That cute black kid, Florence Henderson, Willie Tyler and Lester, Elmore Leonard or is it Leonard Elmore, Lynn Swan, Pete Cashmore, a young Susan Sarandon, a hot Kathleen Turner, a burnt out Shelly Winters, Burt Reynolds, Annie Oakley. And Gil Gerrard.

Tammy Wynette. Cindy Williams. Heathcliff Huxtable and Kenny (Bud). Christy McNichol. Robin Hood Prince of Men. Burl Ives. Merl Bives. Blurf Pives and Mr. Shantypanty. Alice from the Brady Bunch with Her Hair Down. Sam the Butcher with a Hard-on. Hamlet Prince of Thieves and his Pal Nugat. The Korean War. Wayne Newton. Andre the Giant (deceased). Jean-Paul Belmondo. Jean-Jacque Blieubeaublieux. And Gordon from Sesame Street with a Hard-on.

Jack Black. Mike White. Jim Brown. Timmy Purple. Wilson Phillips and the Fat One. Mackenzie Phillips and Baggage. A squirrel. Lady Diana. David Duke and the Racial Tension. Tenzin Gyatso (né Peter Fonda). Daryl Hannah and her Tree Band. D.A.R.Y.L. the Robot Boy Who Could Play Pole Position Real Good. Jon Landis. Martin Landau. Knots Landing. Knott’s Berry Farm. Berry Gordy. Marion Berry and the Marionberries with Special Appearance By Crack. Tiffany Brissette. Edie McClurg. Clurg McBlurg. And Burl Ives.

and now also with: K.I.T.T.! Jimmy Stewart, telling a sad poem about his dog. Emmett Otter and his Jug Band! Peter Sarsgaard. Iron Eyes Cody, the “Crying Indian” from that sad PSA. Snake Plissken. RoboCop! T.S. Eliot. Lorne Greene. Sharon Tate’s vengeful ghost! Roseanne Roseannadanna. Sha Na Na. Ming the Merciless! Herbie. Cherry Chan candies, with their 70’s racist packaging. Jane Fonda. The entire cast of the Laff-A-Lympics. Yoko Ono! Liev Schreiber. Commodore 64. And a special appearance by Patty Hearst.

sashafrerejones: Wayne Marshall, Vijay Iyer and M.I.A.,...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:46:59 -0400

sashafrerejones:

Wayne Marshall, Vijay Iyer and M.I.A., “Galangs,” 2010.

I get crabby about mashups. You laid a rap vocal over Beach House? OK. That’s what djs do. Maybe it’s good. Maybe it’s great. But if there’s something different about this whole combining deal that someone called “the mashup,” it’s the reckoning with the song itself and all the very tricky bits that have to interlock. “Stroke of Genius” is two songs making one, keys and changes and words and moods all lining up. It’s musical and it’s hard and people don’t do it right much. The blends thing is a billion years old and fun but tends to spit out the same kind of material because it’s so easy now with the computerz. Straining and struggling tends to make you work it out and think it out.

Wayne killed it with this one. I am happy to say the word “musical.” I also love “no musics.” But this is the musics.

[via hypem]

The new DVD artwork for Bobby Miller’s...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:17:59 -0400

The new DVD artwork for Bobby Miller’s Sundance/Cannes/SXSW-featured short TUB, designed by Yen Tan. I’m proud to have been a Kickstarter micro-funder. Congrats Bobby.

[via bobbymiller]

I'm Remembering!

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:04:00 -0400

I'm Remembering!:

a great Tumblr to follow, via mdfsmash: “Pop-Culture Nostalgery From The 80’s & Early 90’s.”

[submitted by thisdiscoheaven to adventuretime.]

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:35:07 -0400

[submitted by thisdiscoheaven to adventuretime.]

topherchris: topher’s Tumblr of the moment… Zero Views...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:32:58 -0400

topherchris:

topher’s Tumblr of the moment…

Zero Views
Noteworthy YouTube videos which have zero views at the time of posting.

Brilliant and great. I love that the very act of blogging them here gives them at least 1 view.

agentmlovestacos: Rad piece of art we commissioned @alexmaleev...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:27:10 -0400

agentmlovestacos:

Rad piece of art we commissioned @alexmaleev to create for @JoeQuesada’s 10th anniversary as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics. Read our massive Joe Q. retrospective on Marvel.com.

It’s amazing the run Quesada has had, for ten years now. What a legend, what a nice guy.

gary: A little behind the scenes look at Wine Library and Wine...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:24:00 -0400

gary:

A little behind the scenes look at Wine Library and Wine Library TV done by Viddler

Nice job by the Viddler team. What are your thoughts?

This is really great. How can you not love Gary and his story? I remember seeing the very first episodes of Wine Library TV (I was working with Rocketboom at the time — like Gary I count Rocketboom and Ze Frank as big early inspirations), and thinking it was a great idea — but no one could have imagined how far Gary would come or what a hero he’d be to everyone working in online video.

Great endorsement and demonstration of Viddler, and how awesome their player is, too.

Orange Juice - Rip it Up (via sashafrerejones) I definitely...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:10:58 -0400

Orange Juice - Rip it Up (via sashafrerejones)

I definitely missed these guys the first time around.

Gotta love that Christina Hendricks is modeling scarves for her...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:27:00 -0400

Gotta love that Christina Hendricks is modeling scarves for her friend’s Etsy shop.

[via lizlet, somuchsass]