I kinda dig these awkward silences.

steampoweredmedia: laughingcity: baravettski:hungryghoast: I’...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:18:57 -0700

laughingcity:

baravettski:hungryghoast:

I’m with Joe

as usual. also, I love his signature. (via Letters of Note)

This is fucking awesome.

bruce = auto reblog!

Me too, Joe

Also: I recently watched Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. It was great.

kateoplis: In December of 1944, whilst behind enemy lines...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:12:46 -0700

kateoplis:

In December of 1944, whilst behind enemy lines during the Rhineland Campaign, Private Kurt Vonnegut was captured by Wehrmacht troops and subsequently became a prisoner of war. A month later, Vonnegut and his fellow POWs reached a Dresden work camp where they were imprisoned in an underground slaughterhouse known by German soldiers as Schlachthof Fünf (Slaughterhouse Five). The next month - February - the subterranean nature of the prison saved their lives during the highly controversial and devastating bombing of Dresden, the aftermath of which Vonnegut and the remaining survivors helped to clear up.

This is a letter he wrote to his family that May from a repatriation camp, in which he informs them of his capture and survival. Transcript here.

kateoplis: tragos: Jon Stewart does himself some Glen...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:46:32 -0700

kateoplis:

tragos:

Jon Stewart does himself some Glen Beck.

He nailed this last night.

Daniel Johnston - “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:29:59 -0700

Daniel Johnston - “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” (Beatles cover, live)

Really sorry I missed him when he was here.

towerofsleep: thepublics: Biggie Smalls: Going Back to Cali...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:20:23 -0700

towerofsleep:

thepublics:

Biggie Smalls: Going Back to Cali (Dam Funk rmx)

Dope.

yeah, this works.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart from Halloween last year.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:11:00 -0700

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart from Halloween last year.

Somebody Buy Joe Lieberman a Puppy

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:51:27 -0600

Somebody Buy Joe Lieberman a Puppy

Elvis Costello, “Brilliant Disguise” (Springsteen Cover) via...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:48:31 -0600

Elvis Costello, “Brilliant Disguise” (Springsteen Cover)

via (beautifulordinaire, noraleah)

Love this cover. damn.

langer: Photographer Michael Wolf recently documented the...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:23:31 -0600

langer:

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.

jacquethisishardwhatsherlastname: Chad VanGaalen live on QTV -...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:16:46 -0600

jacquethisishardwhatsherlastname:

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.

inky: Married to the Sea

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:06:24 -0600

inky:

Married to the Sea

Chad Vangaalen - “I Wish I was a Dog” From the...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:05:00 -0600

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...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:20:00 -0600

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.

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:10:28 -0600

My favorite version of Born to Run.

kateoplis: Jim James (vocals), M.Ward and Conner Oberst /...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:55:05 -0600

kateoplis:

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

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:45:55 -0600

The tiniest gap:

mrgan:

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

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:39:00 -0600

contrived wackiness:

though you may identify with Jim and Pam, you are on some Michael Scott shit.

mareen: »red dustday in sydney, 23 september, 2009« (via...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:59:12 -0600

mareen:

»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

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:32:00 -0600

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

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:38 -0600

The Beatles - Dig a Pony