January 2010
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December 2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Elvis Costello & The Attractions (26)
Metric (17)
Phoenix (12)
The Raveonettes (11)
Mos Def (10)
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas —...
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“Although there’s no hard statistical evidence on most-stolen titles, The...”
– Steal These Books, in the NYT, quoted by Alan Jacobs. Also worth quoting: “It’s mostly younger men stealing the books,” Zack Zook, the general manager of BookCourt in Brooklyn, suggested. “They think it’s an existential rite of passage to steal their homeboy.” (via mills)
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“I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American...”
– James Thurber - The Quotations Page
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Dear This Recording and Alex Carnevale...
Dear Alex Carnevale: You are an Internet-savvy person. I know because I follow you on Tumblr. From your Tumblr, I know you edit a blog called This Recording. This Recording is about art and culture. You’d think those three facts would insure that when one of your writers needs images for a piece she’s writing, those images are damn well not going to go uncredited. Especially when...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Mojave 3 (10)
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists (4)
Plain White T’s (4)
Nicole Atkins (4)
Portishead (3)
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“Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.”
– Donald Barthelme, quoted by Falling and Laughing (who had an additional political note, as do I). I have many reasons for not cursing the world; I even agree that “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” Sometimes I worry that I’m naive, or that such sentiments...
“We were struck by the states that come at the bottom, because a lot of them are...”
– An article on how ‘happy’ the various US states are is full of absurd quotes: “When human beings give you an answer on a numerical scale about how satisfied they are with their lives, it is best to pay attention. Their answers are reliable.” Little about humans is reliable, but we are particularly... 