August 2009
21 posts
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Bon Iver - Blue Tulip (Okkervil River cover)
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We Love You So →
The group blog of the crew and creators of Where the Wild Things Are, via rach
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How Could This Happen to Annie Leibovitz? →
Andrew Goldman, New York Magazine
via noahkalina: “Riveting article.”
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Berlusconi in Tehran →
by Slavoj Žižek
When an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, but before its actual collapse, a mysterious rupture often takes place. All of a sudden, people know the game is up: they simply cease to be afraid. It isn’t just that the regime loses its legitimacy: its exercise of power is now perceived as a panic reaction, a gesture of impotence.
cm: If you’re interested in the...
“It was overwhelming,” best-selling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami tells me...”
– Roland Kelts interviews Haruki Murakami for The Soul of Japan. (via benkraal)
Cocorosie - You Wanna Fuck Me
This is a partial...
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“The value of WoW for analysing gangs is that players can’t advance through the...”
– More from infovore: World of Warcraft helps fight crime in LA (via slavin)
The Oak Ridge Boys - Seven Nation Army originally...
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Why Vampires Never Die →
by Guillermo del Toro
Some skeletons of thought on creative destruction, vampires, gender, eros, thanatos.
“Monsters, like angels, are invoked by our individual and collective needs… Herein lies an important clue: in contrast to timeless creatures like the dragon, the vampire does not seek to obliterate us, but instead offers a peculiar brand of blood alchemy. For as his contagion...
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Matty Charles & the Valentines - Where...
“Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) is the closest thing to a hegemon which the rap world has...”
– Marc Lynch, Jay-Z vs. the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate
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“I find vastly more weird, unplanned stuff online than I ever did browsing the...”
– Steven Berlin Johnson, Can We Please Kill This Meme Now
The Pelican City - The End of Life
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“Developing iPhone apps now means postponing a better and more capable web.”
– Chris Messina, Steve Jobs Hates the AppStore
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“Modernism ages poorly, not least of all because it tried to exempt itself from...”
– Kevin Slavin
“The notebook and pen are professional equipment, as it were. Though actually...”
– Paul Graham
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I don’t know why I bother traveling with books anymore. I lug around a small library that trebles the weight of my luggage and then end up somewhere filled with its own store of books. I’m curious about them, so I forget my own, wanting a chance to learn something about the new ones before possibly never seeing them again.
Even now, I’m in the friend’s house where I...