January 2012
9 posts
1 tag
December 2011
2 posts
crossposted at my tumblr
twenty one one
Fell in love.
Got a real job, and several fake ones.
Quit smoking.
Cut down drinking.
Started looking after diabetes.
Stopped living hand to mouth.
Got 7 bank accounts, because bank accounts are easier than spending discipline.
Bought a wonderful bass (1975 Fender Precision), and a pedal I’ve dreamed of for years (Line 6 DL-4, DRASP modded).
Did...
twenty one one
Fell in love.
Got a real job, and several fake ones.
Quit smoking.
Cut down drinking.
Started looking after diabetes.
Stopped living hand to mouth.
Got 7 bank accounts, because bank accounts are easier than spending discipline.
Bought a wonderful bass (1975 Fender Precision), and a pedal I’ve dreamed of for years (Line 6 DL-4, DRASP modded).
Did the dishes without being asked several...
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
0 posts
August 2011
3 posts
8 tags
Music: On missing the point and being ok.
Read this.
chrisperren:
There’s things about the music industry, the music press, and institutionalised music teaching that have always felt just a bit wrong. Sometimes when I think about the way we rate and consume music, and compare that with the way every culture on earth has used music since we stopped being chimpanzees, I wonder if we are missing the point. This post isn’t to point...
July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
3 posts
April 2011
10 posts
“There’s this one celebrity, Rosie O’Donnell, a talk show host, and she said...”
– Bill Bailey - Wikiquote (via fnordmotors)
March 2011
11 posts
February 2011
3 posts
2 tags
pictures of upset teenagers with pregnancy tests
gorekitten:
THIS WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED IF I HAD USED ANSELL LIFESTYLES!
Inflatable Nerd: How To Talk About Literary... →
inflatablenerd:
Emma - Jane Austen
This one’s tricky, because it depends on the company you’re with, but generally everyone hates Jane Austen. Remember to dismiss it as shallow feminism still steeped in patriarchal traditions, and not just “Man, Jane Austen really needed to get laid.”
The House Of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Start with a simple “No one has ever utilised the medium of a...
January 2011
44 posts
“In the ’00s, no indie-rock band put out material as consistently strong as...”
– Steven Hyden’s Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? series on the Onion AV Club is one of the best things going on in music writing right now. Every bit of it is brilliant, spot-on, thoroughly wonderful. This digression about Spoon, which has little to do with its ongoing remembrance of the...