December 2009
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Jape - ‘Phil Lynott’ from Ritual...
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“In the ears of the Buddha as he thus sat in brilliant and sparkling craft of...”
– Jack Kerouac, Wake Up
All I need to do is turn the page and there is another amazing (tho much longer) sentence. Apparently this was written in 1954-55, before On The Road was published, and before The Dharma Bums or Desolation Angels were written. Or Big Sur, with its writing down “fantastic...
Watchdouglasmartini:
Kurt Vile- “Freak Train”
I’ve been listening to a shitload of Kurt Vile over the past few days.
something quite Iggy Pop-like about this.
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“It was not an agony in the garden, it was a bliss beneath the tree; it was not...”
– Jack Kerouac, Wake Up (Penguin, 2008)
in which Kerouac shows why Buddhism beats Christianity hands down; from his posthumously published account of the life of the Buddha (e.g., Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha). currently reading.
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hfn2k9 #2: Woods, Songs of Shame →
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Vinyl Sunday: Woods - ‘Sunlit’ b/w...
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Dinosaur Jr., ‘I Want You To Know’
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“in february of this year i was playing in grimey’s in nashville -a great independent record shop not unlike this one. a very charming man came up to me afterwards and told me that his son had just brought out his own record and he thought i’d like it. as i was packing up my stuff he handed me “keep it hid”.
thanks mr. auerbach.
his son is one half of the black keys, singer/ guitarist dan...
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Human Bell - ‘The Singing Trees’ from...
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All Night Party (Tonight!)
it’s basically like a scat jazz version of this Black Flag song. he points at the crowd, they shout out “All night!”, the band play the five seconds of the song again, and repeat. I really like the music of Bromst, and the ever-elevating concert-as-performance-art elements of his live shows, but I like Dan Deacon most of all when he’s being an electro punk rocker, which is why this and the encore...
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Whereupon I explain the meaning of Christmas
andrewtsks:
darkknightjrk:
looneynerd:
I love Christmas. I’ve heard a lot of people bitching about it’s commercialization, and others complaining that they aren’t Christians. That’s fine. But I’ll love it for as long as I live, regardless of my religion. And this is why. Late in the day of December 24, 1914, German Soldiers of the 133rd Royal Saxon regiment were on duty on the front lines...
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“I just think that 2k9 seems like ‘a huge fucking joke’ and ‘My Girls’ might...”
– Hipster Runoff’s Carles, from this interview I just read:
“Has there been a song that is so quintessentially 2K9?
I feel like it might by ‘My Girls’ by Animal Collective. I do not think that the song ‘My Girls’ nor the year ‘2k9′ are ‘good.’ I just think that 2k9 seems like ‘a huge...
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postpunk:
The Jesus Lizard - Gladiator
Track...
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the complications of examining other people's...
agrammar:
sadydoyle:
We can agree that Creed is terrible, I think. We can also agree that this is not the point. The point is deciding, as a critic, that you don’t have any obligation to the terrible/popular/terrible-because-it-is-popular stuff, and setting up your own obnoxious young-white-man’s discourse in which you for some reason are qualified to expound upon the culture, and you get (in...
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Nitsuh Abebe undoes the world and shows us its... →
unbornwhiskey:
The corners of the internet I look toward to read about music or art or politics tend to be full of educated people, a lot of whom are middle-class and a lot of whom are white. These people share a certain manner and a certain mode of discourse. (I do, too, obviously.) And the internet has allowed all those in this class who care about certain topics — say, music and film and...
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Those Geese Were Stupefied: HRO 2k9 - a... →
My guest post on Those Geese Were Stupefied’s year-end series. An introduction to Hipster Runoff, from someone who just discovered it this year (thanks, raptoravatar!) and whose intellectual year was made by it. That, and starting postgraduate study, which is probably reflected in the piece.
I also like the way the whole article has mysteriously undergone the AnCo version of rickrolling in...
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WatchVillagers - ‘The Meaning of the Ritual’: #2 in Nialler9’s poll of Irish songs of 2009 (#1 is Super Extra Bonus Party w/ Heathers - ‘Comets’)
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Hipster Runoff: The Most... →
HUGE. I had to disable Flash on my browser in order to scroll down the full list. Favourite bits are Lady Gaga and U2.
I honestly don’t really know who the #1 is (although admittedly my general pop culture knowledge is kind of patchy). I used not to care that I didn’t ‘get’ Pitchfork, now I’m sort of unconcerned that I clearly do, but if I don’t get HRO’s...
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Another Front Page Washington Post Editorial on... →
(via boatzone3)
“A Washington Post article that is ostensibly on Ireland’s budget problems begins: “Is this the ghost of America’s future?” This no doubt had readers asking “is this the way to begin a news story on Ireland?” On the other hand, since the headline is “in Ireland’s deep budget cuts, an omen for a heavily indebted United...
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unranked, very provisional bestuv 2000s ballot
boatzone3:
Labradford: Fixed:Content
Songs:Ohia: Magnolia Electric Co.
Walkmen: 100 Miles Off
Abilene: s/t
Ted Leo: Tyranny of Distance
Hey Mercedes: Every Night Fireworks
Sea & Cake: Oui
“New” Terror Class: Did You Hear that We Fucked?
Mojave 3: Spoon and Rafter
Shipping News: 3/4
All of this is as posted on the postpunk tumblr survey that is still going on, which...
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future NSFW Vinyl Sunday? →
Peaches - ‘Jonny’ PTYT 019 - Feb 2010
Suicide cover, Alan Vega 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP Series on BLAST First (petite).
click through for some striking artwork (for a 10” EP)
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bingoparaphernalia:
annieatkins:
“Rage and their cronies aren’t doing this for the people, they are sneering at the taste of the people. It says something, that, while those who like X Factor mainly think it’s a laugh, it’s the people who hate X Factor – the middle class, the petty – who take it too seriously and end up dictating to others what they should be watching, liking, hearing, and...
anybody know how to ensure that an audio file has artist/track information and/or album art that Tumblr can extract (preferably without using iTunes)?
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Hardcore for Nerds - Best of 2009: 11-15 →
11. Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
12. Bats - Red In Tooth And Claw
13. Valerie Francis - Slow Dynamo
14. Raein - Ogni Nuovo Inizione
15. Loma Prieta - Dark Mountain
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boatzone3:
“The broad mass of college-educated white voters are an increasingly central component of the Democratic coalition. But it remains a challenge for the party to manage the expectations of that community’s most liberal segments because they tend to see politics less as a means of tangibly improving their own lives than as an opportunity to make a statement about the kind of society they...
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Rage Against the Machine v Joe McElderry →
fleetfootedfox:
nostrich:
This is kind of interesting.
Every year, another series of X Factor (the show American Idol takes its format from) ends right before Christmas, and the winner — whose first single is released shortly after being announced as the winner — inevitably ends up being the Christmas number 1 single in the UK. Tired of X Factor’s monopoly over the Christmas charts, a...
Dozens sympathise with sex offender →
bingoparaphernalia:
Dozens of people queued inside a Co Kerry courthouse yesterday to shake hands and sympathise with a man who was jailed for five years for sexually assaulting a woman in Listowel.
If you have a minute, could you please send a quick email of support to the victim in this case? Kerry Rape Crisis Centre is going to pass on any emails sent to them at krcc@eircom.net.
I’ve...
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Hardcore for Nerds - Best of 2009 →
is under way at this new custom tumblr. at least daily posts, I hope, and probably more (it’s not that long a list) to get it done while it’s still 2k9.
catch the screamy, actually ‘hardcore (/for nerds)’, while it’s there, before I get onto the indie rock.