July 2010
55 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Elvis Presley (24)
Dolly Parton (21)
Hello=Fire (14)
Wild Nothing (13)
Pere Ubu (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Watch
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secret swing, graffiti? →
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One of a Kind, One at a Time →
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“‘Are you afraid of thunderstorms?” I asked Olga.
She lowered her...”
– Chekhov, The Drama at the Hunt
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AND OTHER STORIES OF CRIME AND SUSPENSE
The Intentional Deception
Death of an Office Worker
The Conversation of a Man with a Dog
A Dead Body
Conversation of a Drunken Man with a Sober Devil
Dreams
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (53)
Blind Willie McTell (18)
Blind Willie Johnson (17)
The Velvet Underground (11)
Xiu Xiu (6)
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“Focal things and our engagement with them orient us and center us in time and...”
– Borgmann (Jack White, Philosopher of the Real)
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“Salander opened the door a crack and spent several paragraphs trying to decide...”
– Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/07/05/100705sh_shouts_ephron#ixzz0uAUqnVVq
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“I get wildly obsessed with other girls* and try to be like them to help me...”
– Secrets I Never Told
*people in general
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
Robert Johnson (43)
The Velvet Underground (16)
Joy Division (12)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (12)
Patti Smith Group (10)
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From the director of 'Control' →
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The Creativity Crisis
For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.
Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed by professor E. Paul Torrance. Schwarzrock still vividly remembers the ...
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Nikola Tesla
NIKOLA TESLA (1856-1943) should be a hero to environmentalists, progressives and pacifists everywhere. Famous for developing AC (alternating current) and infamous for his battles with Thomas Edison, a proponent of DC (direct current), Tesla is also known for developing the first radio transmitter. His list of patents, inventions, experiments and musings reads like a prop list for a science...
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“Greenwood, Mississippi. Around 1934.
When I heard what that knucklehead...”
– http://bukowskisbasement.blogspot.com/2010/07/hellhound-on-his-trial-flash-fiction.html
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WatchA black and white 1967 documentary film by United States filmmaker Frederick Wiseman about the treatment of inmates / patients at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane.
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No such thing as free music? →
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Car CD (June 2010)
Elevation / Television / Marquee Moon (1977)
No Children / The Mountain Goats / Tallahassee (2002)
Crystal Visions / The Big Pink / A Brief History of Love (2009)
Tellin’ Me Things (Featuring RZA) / Blakroc / Blakroc (2009)
Stay Off The Fuckin’ Flowers (Featuring Raekwon) / Blakroc / Blakroc (2009)
New Age / The Velvet Underground / Loaded (1970)
You Forget Love / The Verlaines...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →
The Velvet Underground (21)
The Tallest Man on Earth (11)
Wild Nothing (11)
Bob Dylan (6)
David Bowie (5)
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I watched the fireworks that night
One in a crowd of thousands
I listened to the oohs and ahs
The claps and the cheers
Silhouettes in front of me
Behind, uplifted faces
Rows and rows and rows
Lit up
From red to yellow and back
So many people
Families, friends, lovers
Everywhere
My friends too
But I’ve never had a shoulder to lean upon
Looking up at the circus in the sky
And together we would...
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“Whilst nothing he’s produced will probably ever match the raw tension of...”
– Listening to…..Tom Verlaine
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