http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvFB10iIOrw
Here’s Ready 2 Rip by Mean Jeans. This is off their album “On Mars” which believe it or not came out in 2012.
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A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
Here’s Guided by Voices performing “I Am A Scientist” at Austin City Limits. Bob Pollard — drunk as fuck.
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The Fairlight CMI IIx was a neato sampler from the ’80s. It was also horrifically expensive, apparently. Wikipedia says it cost about £27,000 in 1983, which works out to over $125,000 in today’s Americabucks or something like that.
What did you do with a IIx? Well, you played orchestra hits with it. All day, every day.
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NJ woman denies causing penis injection death
NJ woman denies causing penis injection death
Distressing story that’s not really safe for any context reported by Samantha Henry for the AP:
[Justin] Street, a father of two, had gone to [Kasia] Rivera on May 5 seeking a penile enlargement procedure, which prosecutors say Rivera advertised for in fliers posted at local businesses. Rivera, who performed the procedures in her apartment, allegedly with no medical license or training, administered a silicone shot to Street’s penis, according to prosecutors.
Street died the next day. His death was ruled a homicide following an investigation and a medical examiner’s determination that he died of a silicone embolism.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Some pretty cool music makers are Family FUNKtion and the Sitar Jams, three brothers who groove the heck out with percussion, guitar, an SH-101, and sitar of course. They performed a medley of “Supermandala” and “That” with some free jamming in the middle.
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Pretty cool animation by students at Gobelins: Distance.
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve always wanted to be able to play as an elephant in Grand Theft Auto IV. Now I can settle for the second-best thing: watching someone else do it.
All of the animations in this video are simply magnificent. Running, cruising in a convertible, falling (watch the legs), and my personal favorite: swimming.
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Mattel has a series of iPad games called Apptivity. They’re intended for use with figures, which you place directly on the iPad surface to control the game.
Cultures across the planet have been making toys for thousands of years. Lots of us grew up playing with toy cars.
What do you do with a toy car? You drive it. You drive it on the floor, on a playmat, between toy buildings, on tracks, etc.
With Apptivity, you can now also drive it on a magic window that goes anywhere. Consider that for a minute.
This is the future. We are living in the future.
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My current desktop picture is this photo, “Camel Thorn Trees, Namibia”, taken by Frans Lanting for National Geographic:
Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park.
It’s one of several photos by Lanting that accompanied Alexandra Fuller’s piece “Africa’s Super Park,” but this is the one that stood out to me because how is this real
“There is nothing sadder than a 40 or 50-year-old man struggling with a mask that they have to be tough and constantly aggressive”
Speaking of Junot Díaz, here’s another interview this time with Nicholas Wrote in The Guardian:
He says his remarkable use of language – his Spanglish is just one example of worlds colliding – was part of an attempt to unite the various parts of himself. “I was from a very strict and conformist family, so it wasn’t even permissible to cohere between home and the streets. Then came college and so on. In artistic terms it took a lot longer to work out than it should have. There are protocols in writing that are used to simplify things. It takes a while for an artist to work out that they can be broken. One of the contradictions of America’s insane capitalism is that you will meet people like me who have lived in three or four worlds. Maybe it’s to do with the fact that I’m straight and male, but I never saw any value in sealing off my background. I was critical, but I never felt one of the options was to entirely reject it. But it did take a long time for me to talk to my friends at home about the kind of books I read and the kind of politics I was interested in at college. It also took a long time for me to take my home into this larger and more intellectual world.”
Dude just rocks so much. Read his books — there are only two and they are both amazing.