May 2012
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“A dive bar is a social platform. Tumblr is for publicly sharing awful...”
– A graduation message from an analog dad to a digital son. (via latimes)
But. the cats. (via think-progress)
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“If your main argument for how to grow the economy is, ‘I knew how to make a lot...”
– President Obama hits Romney on his Bain Capital experience. (via think-progress)
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Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 13 May 2012
Matt Skiba and the Sekrets (13)
Vacationer (12)
SBTRKT (8)
Jack White (6)
Angels & Airwaves (3)
Matt Skiba has another side project! And unsurprisingly it sounds a lot like Alkaline Trio, just not as good. I like it well enough but I’m guessing only big time Trio fans like me will feel the same.
I really like Vacationer’s (Kenny from The Starting Line) debut album....
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“It’s a uniquely American prudishness. You can write the most detailed, vivid...”
– Rolling Stone interview with George R.R. Martin, author of the A Song Of Ice And Fire series that Games Of Thrones is based off. Issue date: May 24, 2012 (via mattinreallife)
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Ranking of Foo Fighters Albums
Inspired by the two leaked demos from the pre One by One sessions, and a chat with MattInRealLife, here are the Foo Fighters albums in order of how much I like them:
The Colour and the Shape
Wasting Light
There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Foo Fighters
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
One By One
In Your Honor
I think everyone basically shares my opinion of The Colour and the Shape being...
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– This wonderful anecdote about Maurice Sendak captures just about everything that made his work and spirit great.
Related, remember him with his last video interview, by none other than Stephen Colbert, and his unreleased drawings. (via explore-blog)
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“My religion compels me to be against discrimination of every kind.”
– Nancy Pelosi on marriage equality (via think-progress)
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This has been a huge week for LGBT issues; both good (Tom Gabel coming out as transgender, California banning sexual orientation conversion therapy, and Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage), and bad (N. Carolina’s Amendment One). The good outweighs the bad right now and hopefully this trend continues.
The thing that I most enjoy about all this news though, is the fact that homophobes...
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Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 6 May 2012
Good Old War (6)
The Used (5)
Electronic Light Orchestra (4)
SBTRKT (3)
A Static Lullaby (3)
My music was mostly on shuffle last week. This week I will be spending some quality time with Matt Skiba’s (Alkaline Trio) new side project.
Also, I think I will load up some Against Me! in honor of Tom Gabel/Laura June Grace’s announcement. It’s sure to be an amazing story and I...
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Thoughts On the DC Film Universe
I was actually writing up a post on a wish list for the cast of a future Justice League film, but then I realized that I had some general wishes for the any of the future DC films. Here are some of those random thoughts.
Do not attempt an Avengers. Marvel had an endgame in place when Iron Man first debuted. DC has demonstrated that they have a little harder time coordinating like that, and I...
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WatchWe’ve lost another amazing human being. R.I.P. Maurice Sendak. Colbert’s interviews with him might be one of my favorite interviews ever. Do yourself a favor and watch.
Click here for Part 2, since it won’t let me embed it for some reason.
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didpujolshomeryet:
Yep.
W 4-3
Hmm, what do we do now?
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“Forget about Kurt Cobain for a second: For kids like me, the Beastie Boys...”
– Mark Richardson remembers MCA. (via pitchfork)
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Common Sense Android App: Light Flow →
If you don’t own a Samsung Galaxy Nexus or HTC Nexus One, move along. I guess this app works for other phones in a limited capacity, but from what I can tell I would just as well skip it. However, if you have one of the two mentioned phones, this app is a must.
Light Flow lets you completely customize your build in multi-color LED for notifications. What it does is make sure that the LED...
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Remove The Ads From Your Kindle
I bought the $80 Kindle as soon as they announced it. I had been thinking about it for a little while, and at that price point I couldn’t resist. It’s been great, and I didn’t mind the ads at first but they started to bug me. I started searching online and found quite a few instructions for removing them but they all only had a partial solution; the ads went away but it would...
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Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 29 April...
The Used (21)
Good Old War (21)
The Weeknd (20)
Jack White (17)
SBTRKT (14)
Still not a huge fan of the new Used album, but it’s growing on me. Jack White’s new stuff is no White Stripes, but it’s decent, not great. And everyone should definitely check out SBTRKT. Saw them at Coachella and their latest album does not disappoint. They also go great in a playlist with The...
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