February 2009
“Who wants to talk to someone from the Decemberists about the new album? Just so...”
– An e-mail i just got from an editor. I guess Meloy’s too busy swimming in that sweet, sweet Colin Meloy Sings Sam Cooke money.
katiebakes:
I always like to have fun with the coat check girls. After dinner when the coat check girl gives me my coat back, I will say in a rather surprised way, “Hey wait a minute” I pause as the girl will look at me with a, oh no, did I give you the wrong coat look. Then I say, This is the coat I gave you. Don’t you have anything nicer?” Fortunately, I usually get a smile out of her at that...
Jim Anchower's Intellectual Older Brother
elpasajero:
there’s a very hot young teacher in the class next door, and lately we have been making [what in my opinion I would call] friendly stares, accompanied by short smiles. Nothing to it; I enjoy it for what it is. So, today I finally got rid of my lovely parents and after I dropped them off at JFK Airport where they took a marvelous plane to Santo Domingo (for what I hope will be a very...
“First beat I did, was in seventh grade, on my computer. I got into doing beats...”
– Thanks To Erotic Game Design, Rapper Kanye West Got Into Hip Hop
“Dressing gay” you can’t dress like … Your dress don’t...”
– Kanye West - If you’re manly enough, you can talk to homosexuals without getting any of the gay on you.
“But I’m still planning on deleting the not-terrible tracks from my iTunes...”
– The Spirit of Apollo | Pitchfork
This is the first time I’ve heard a reviewer communicate an album’s value in terms of hard drive space, even though this metric has contributed to most listeners’ idea of perceived worth for a decade.
Manta Ray, a Pixies b-side. My favorite song by my...
topherchris:
Search engine optimization (SEO) has come up a few times in my internet and real-life travels over the past 24 hours, and I’d like to take this opportunity to say the following.
SEO is a joke. If your stuff is worth being visited, people will find it.
Addendum: If it was possible to circumvent what Google’s algorithm considers to be worthy of the first page of their search...
“On January, 26 2006, Phoenix was in a car accident on a winding canyon road...”
– Wikipedia - Beginning to think that Herzog actually is an angel.
This Thing →
looks like That Thing.
“When the Mongols laid siege to a city, the first day the general would...”
– (via SA)
