Elvis Costello, “Brilliant Disguise” (Springsteen Cover)
via (beautifulordinaire, noraleah)
Love this cover. damn.
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Photographer Michael Wolf recently documented the sights of Paris as seen by way of Google Street View, and the results are stunning: a collection of serendipitously candid, intimate, and honest “photography” illustrating subjects fully unaware of their observer.
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Chad VanGaalen live on QTV - Bones of Man.
I can definitely hear some Neil Young in this, which is probably why I dig this song so so much, and probably why I almost had a panic attack when I heard Neil Young on the radio as I was driving home for tonight’s concert.
Probably.
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Chad Vangaalen - “I Wish I was a Dog”
From the recently released free EP of B-Sides from Soft Airplane. It contains some of my favorites that he plays live.
“I wish I was a poltergeist, moving through solids and spying on lesbians.”
He is at the Myer Horowitz on Oct. 18.
Springsteen and the E Street Band - Cadillac Ranch (live ‘85)
I also love this for a different reason. So silly. And in Paris.
My favorite version of Born to Run.
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Jim James (vocals), M.Ward and Conner Oberst / Always On My Mind
An extremely rare bootleg from their 2004 concert at the Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis; they never performed it again. It’s probably the most gorgeous rendition I’ve ever heard.
Sorry Ryan Adams but I have found a new favorite “Always On My Mind” cover.
The tiniest gap →
The Language log isn’t all about language. Sometimes they’ll publish a nice little bit of sanity regarding the reporting of scientific work in mainstream media. Like this, on a widely reported study which allegedly shows that women are becoming more and more unhappy, and men happier.
People love this story. They love to speculate about the reasons for the trend — the favorites are variants of “too much feminism” and “not enough feminism” — and to tell us about their own happiness or lack thereof. Tens of thousands of readers, across the repeated reprises of this story in the mass media, have commented on various newspaper and weblog sites. In a certain sense, this tidal wave of response validates the story, which clearly resonates with something in the spirit of the times. But in fact, the empirical basis for all this fuss is so thin as to be practically non-existent.Two pieces of advice from yours truly: suspect any story of a study, survey, or lab finding which makes a strong and controversial statement about the human condition; and read Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science, a clearheaded, focused, infuriating (and somewhat uneven) account of different ways complicated issues get distorted when translated to mainstreamese.
A public service announcement.
contrived wackiness →
though you may identify with Jim and Pam, you are on some Michael Scott shit.
