January 2009
65 posts
karenuhoh:
Billie Holiday. And yes, it’s come to...
Audiophile porn →
The sexiest headphones I have ever owned, I bought today.
Speaking of sobbing
I yelped in surprise during my monthly acupuncture treatment this past week, and then, yep, you guessed it, started bawling.
Apparently whatever bad feelings that are rumbling around aren’t going to wait for Newfoundland, and I have very little control over it any more. In fact, I kind of find it freeing to be quasi-publically emotional, as I have never been this way before (well, at least...
“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Dear Toronto:
Yes, it’s snowing. Yes, again. And if I could magically make you all heed one piece of advice, I would ask that you please remember:
The shovel is mightier than the salt.
distorte:
Music as an exorcist. Take the Windowlicker EP, headphones and fifteen minutes with somewhere to walk. Put it loud. The title track leads you in, it’s effortless and when the fuzzy distortion kicks in you’ll find yourself gulping deep breaths. Track two does the real work, sticking a spoon in and a stirring the gunk, shifting course-ways and folding synapses. Track three is the comedown,...
Desmond Dekker, “Get Up Edina”
The Thing Is - Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Bob Dylan (60)
Led Zeppelin (24)
The Kinks (23)
Billie Holiday (19)
Land of Talk (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Harper’s Index: A retrospective of the Bush era →
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Text of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005) (via gcn)
There's No Such Thing as Writer's Block
kfan:
~Or: Writers Are Jerks!~ The good news: there’s actually no such thing as Writer’s Block! There are only Things That Keep You From Writing.
More good news: there are only two things that keep you from writing! They are: Inability to Start, and Inability to Finish. If you can steer clear of those two, you’ll be golden! OK! So: how to steer clear? Good news! Both the Inability to Start and...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
Led Zeppelin (30)
Bob Dylan (21)
Spoon (12)
Radiohead (12)
Billie Holiday (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nina Simone, “Just Like Tom Thumb’s...
“At the beep please leave your name, number and a brief justification for the...”
– Troy Dyer
Living in a material world.
alexbalk:
POINT: “By the new millennium, a vagina—which, by the way, used to have a pretty high ‘exchange value,’ as Marxist economists would say—wasn’t enough; it barely registered on the thrill scale.”
COUNTERPOINT: $10,000 - $15,000
[Give a quick look around before you click on the second one.]
You know, here’s the thing. I am one of those 20-somethings, but I don’t get...
everybodycares:
“Strangers” - The Kinks
Oh, The...
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
– Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via psychotherapy)
Folke. →
I really really hate Myspace so my linking to something on there means it’s really really good. I can’t seem to find any other websites for this Swedish one-man act. Heck I don’t even know what his real name is, but whatever, the record’s amazing. Again thanks goes to Paul Cox and Mondo Salvo for turning me on to this.
For whoever wishes to examine.
Tôi boulomenôi skopein, “for whoever wishes to examine,” was inscribed on ancient Athenian stelai, or stone tablets, that were erected for the citizenry as an action of political accountability, if not also law to be followed. Interestingly enough, however, it’s been argued these same stelai were also considered original documents. If a decree was no longer valid, for example,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Bob Dylan (31)
Led Zeppelin (23)
The Sound (17)
Lykke Li (14)
Folke (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
paulcapewell:
Today’s life lesson is “you are not as important to them as they are to you.”
Sort of a reverse, negative motivational. I’m sure there’s a market for my particular brand of optimistic pessimism.
I wish I didn’t need to keep repeating this lesson, but.