March 2010
New In Town
Little Boots
Little Boots - New In Town
How the New Museum Might Stop Annoying People →
nymag.com
Saltz lays out a list of things the New Museum might do to get people to quit bitching. Trust me, there’s a ton to bitch about too, so get busy New Museum. Hook the public up bitches.
“The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It’s the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to ‘rip, mix, and burn’ — to curate.”
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—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “A World in Three Aisles: Browsing the Post-Digital Library” Harpers (May 2007)
Masculinity, Macaroni, and Mayhem →
chronicle.com
Mad Men in the “He-Cession”? Market analysts have discovered that there are a few growth industries during depressions: Macaroni and cheese is flying off the shelves, along with cheap gin, video games, running shoes, and handguns. It is a disturbing image. Well say it ain’t so: “New research suggests that women from countries with healthier populations prefer more feminine-looking men. Jena Pincott on the science behind attraction and masculinity, and the future for manly men”
Welcome to Glenn Beck's World: What If the Tea Partiers Ruled the Country? →
alternet.org
Imagine a land where white, patriarchal, religiously zealous, Tea Party-type patriots rule. It’s called Utah, and what happens here should terrify you.
Line2 Gives iPhone a 2nd Number →
nytimes.com
“Line2 gives your iPhone a second phone number — a second phone line, complete with its own contacts list, voice mail, and so on. The company behind it, Toktumi (get it?), imagines that you’ll distribute the Line2 number to business contacts, and your regular iPhone number to friends and family. Your second line can be an 800 number, if you wish, or you can transfer an existing number”
Absolute Ego Riot (Louis La Roche Remix)
The Phantoms Revenge
The Phantoms Revenge - Absolute Ego Riot (Louis La Roche Remix)
Skulltaste
Mux Mool
Mux Mool - Skulltaste
Telling Them
Social Distortion
Telling Them - Social Distortion
Bookfuturists Of The World, Unite! →
mbattles.posterous.com
“If you love books, and reading, and writing, it’s a great time to be alive. Why? Because the means for making and sharing stories are are flourishing. Writers no longer merely hawk their wares on the market; they build audience and communities. Readers don’t just curl up with a good book; they hack them, remix them, and mash them up. And a book isn’t only something found on glued-together bits of paper, but a living thing that jumps from codex to blog to the social media and back again.” From library ad infinitum the Republic of Letters & The Storm Called Progress.
Baby Can't Stop (Prins Thomas Remix)
Lindstrøm & Christabelle
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Baby Can’t Stop (Prins Thomas Remix)
Belle and Sebastian Return →
pitchfork.com
“Belle and Sebastian are back! After taking a few years off while Stuart Murdoch released his God Help the Girl project, the Scottish indie leading lights have returned to the studio and the stage. (Via Exclaim!/TwentyFourBit.) In an email sent out to their mailing list today, the band writes that they have been writing new songs in Glasgow recently and are about to head to Los Angeles to record a new album.”
