January 2010
61 posts
Yo La Tengo - Drug Test
This is hyper-old Tengo,...
Everyone needs a hobby
“…As mentioned above, dihydrocodeine and its related drugs dihydromorphine and hydrocodone have a tendency to create subjective effects similar to those reported with heroin such as enhanced empathy, euphoria, talkativeness and ability to suspend or dissolve hang-ups and excessive defence mechanisms.”
Drinks to be served at a literary bar
pterodactyls:
Tequila Mockingbird
Cat on a Sloe Gin Roof
Brandy My Heart at Wounded Knee
And Then There Was Rum
Funny and bookish, the ultimate joke!
Warm blueberry muffins recipe | Recipes - Times... →
catsmeowski:
In the oven. Better be tasty.
And they were! Imma have one for breakfast too.
The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse : NPR →
saimagery:
jufemaiz:
Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark graphed the peak levels of and RMS levels of three hit songs a year over the past three decades. This image links to a PDF of his full poster, “A Visual History Of Loudness.”
Unfortunetly,
it appears my new English Lit tutor can’t spell “unfortunately”. In an email I just received from her, she writes:
“If anyone has emailed me and I haven’t replied then unfortunetly I haven’t got your email. Please forward them to me again.”
Now, to me that looks like more than a mere typo. Too wrong. This, combined with the fact that she’s quite...
Fitter
happier
more productive
comfortable not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week) getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries , at ease
eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
a patient better driver
a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
sleeping well (no bad dreams) no paranoia
careful to all animals (never...
My liver
Is probably trying to develop protolanguage so it can tell me to fucking STOP.
Still, it can probably handle a wee bit more codeine. Just to blur the edges a little bit.
I’m also listening to this for the first time, upon recommendation from my brother:
And it is fucking awesome.
“to be fair, they are conceptually hilarious.
it doesn’t even matter that...”
– My friend Marc, on the merits of Manowar
“Well, Pete Seeger went to Harvard. You could say that folk music is the middle...”
– Stephin Merritt, answering the question “Do you not feel that folk could also be defined by class in many ways?”, in an interview on the Drowned In Sound site. It’s always horrible when cynicism and truth intersect in the Venn diagram of life. (via perpetua)
The worst thing about Facebook
Is that it not only allows me, it actually almost forces me to become fixated on someone I was sickeningly infatuated with and would probably otherwise have lost contact with by now.
IS SHE REALLY GOING OOOOUUUT WITH HIIIIIIM etc.
Panda Bear live set - almost entirely new... →
WatchThis is another video by aforementioned bro, Paul McArthur. Also part of his course, it’s called 71 Cuts, and features 71 cuts placed in an aesthetically pleasing order for your dissection and interpretation. Features various bits of our flat and surrounding area. Y’all better Like the shit out of this.
WatchThis is a video made by my Paul McArthur, my flatmate, long-suffering friend and all-round good guy. It is called I Would Be Alone, and was made as part of his masters course at the art school. It features Alison (flatmate, long-suffering friend, all-round good guy) wandering the west end of Glasgow in a funny/upsetting costume, much to the bemusement/amusement of passers-by.
It should also be...
dear artsy jerk..
arielsinthesky:
i understand that you do indeed have the haircut required to look intellectual, and i’m sure you listen to all the right music that your supposed to be deep. i’m sure you’ve read all the right books, and hell, you’ve even got the “my face is supposed to be pale and i’m sarcastic because i’m smart” look down.
but if you post one more piece of shitty mediocre poetry made of...
Please try to see past the Vice logo
…because this is actually pretty funny, although probably of no value.
The reason for the uncharacteristic quality of this Vice post is that it’s actually the work of someone from HTMLGIANT, which is a nice blog about books and things.
Finally got round to listening to the abandoned...
Sorry, I mean the Beach House album.
“In “Bad Romance” she alters whoever Lady Gaga the Pop Star might be into any...”
– PFork’s Scott Plagenhoef on Lady Gaga (via blownspeakers) (via areminder)
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know?
proofmathisbeautiful:
macmankev:
navigolucky:
Book here, written by physical science editor at Science
I went through and added links to Wikipedia articles on everything.
Mach’s Principle
Newton’s laws of motion
Kepler’s laws
Newton’s law of gravitation
Conservation of energy
Simple harmonic motion
Hooke’s law
Ideal gas law
2nd law of thermodynamics
Absolute zero
Brownian...
My sister doesn't use tumblr
..which makes it the perfect platform to ask you fine people WHAT THE FUCK I should buy her for her birthday. Any ideas?
The Benefits of Alternate Work Schedules
pterodactyls:
Alarm goes off at time I am supposed to wake up. Groan lightly. Hit snooze.
Alarm goes off at time I usually leave for work. Glare menacingly at glass of water waiting, cruelly, on the desk on the other side of the room. Hit snooze.
Alarm goes off at time I usually arrive at work. Poke self in eye by accident while hitting snooze, actually get out of bed and into shower.
Alarm...
“because whether you like it or not, girls like boys who are older and more...”
– Me, making a particularly shrewd and unsubstantiated assertion about gender politics. AMIRITE, GUYS?! (via invisibleidiot)
NO.
Of course, I can’t personally speak to the guy end of the equation though.
(via thedarkspark)
Haha. Well, that went unchallenged for a good 40, 50 seconds. I...
A Sunny Day in Glasgow- instudio at Radio K →
vivapedro:
sounds so, so good.
Yeah so I was just going to “like” this, but it turns out everyone actually needs to hear it because it is, inexplicably, better than the record.
“because whether you like it or not, girls like boys who are older and more...”
– Me, making a particularly shrewd and unsubstantiated assertion about gender politics. AMIRITE, GUYS?!
“I’m so adjective I verb nouns.”
– Written on a toilet cubicle wall in The Captain’s Rest, Glasgow. (via thisblairsmiles)
Best mix I have heard in a long time
Hosted by a site I have never actually encountered before, but it seems very 2.0 and probably quite good in some way. It’s an 80-minute mix, but is not boring even for a second. Please enjoy if you are so inclined.
Four Tet - Much Love To The Plastic People
“The majority of alternative medicine has either not been proven to work, or has...”
– Tim Minchin (surprisingly - was almost certain he was a moron)
veedeeplexagon:
Date: 8th Jan and 9th Jan (slept halfway through)
Film: Mulholland Drive
What?: I liked it! It’s about dreams, and the danger of searching for meaning, right? The keys? The guy from Mad Men in the Winkies? I will not search for meaning in the film! Things lifted from your waking life and slotted into your dreams. All that.
Tears: None! I am failing in my assertion that I cry...
