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.
»red dustday in sydney, 23 september, 2009« (via antje, mezza)
omg, i wish i had been there.
the best photos are going to be the ones where you can see the difference to everyday light, and the orange does not looked like a shifted white balance.
Hold Steady Tonight
A thousand kids will fall in love in all these clubs tonight.
A thousand other kids will end up gushing blood tonight.
Two thousand kids won’t get all that much sleep tonight.
Two thousand kids they still feel pretty sweet tonight.
I still feel pretty sweet.
The Beatles - Dig a Pony
In the radio booth they’re talking about the crowd. Looks like thirty thousand and how do you figure it. When you think about the textured histories of the teams and the faith and the passion of the fans and the way these forces are entwined citywide, and when you think about the game itself, live-or-die, the third game in a three-game playoff, and you say the names Giants and Dodgers, and you calculate the way the players hate each other openly, and you recall the kind of year this has turned out to be, the pennant race that has brought the city to a strangulated rapture, an end-shudder requiring a German loanword to put across the mingling of pleasure and dread and suspense, and when you think about the blood loyalty, this is what they’re saying in the booth—the love-of-team that runs across the bouroughs and through the snuggled suburbs and out into the apple counties and the raw north, the how do you explain twenty thousand empty seats?
— Don DeLillo, Underworld
Zach Galifianakis interviews Indie Rocker Michael Showalter. (via Jim)
