December 23, 2004
Boston Globe Buys Photo From A Flickr User
"Hi, Matt, this is T— B— from the Boston Globe. (The Boston Globe? What the fuck?) I'm calling to ask if we can use one of your photos that I'm looking at online for a story we're doing on Wal-Mart distribution centers. Pays about 150 bucks, will run in the business section." "Uh, sure." (Arrangements are made.) "So... did you find that on..." "On Flickr?" "Yes, on Flickr." (Hell fucking yes.)
Posted by timothompson at 09:11 PM
December 22, 2004
My Favorite Albums of 2004
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Deerhoof - Milkman
Pink Nasty - Mule School
The Sadies - Favourite Colours
Compilations/Reissues/Other
Pavement - Crooked Rain x2
The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
The Pixies at Coachella DiscLive CD
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Supergrass Is 10
Posted by timothompson at 11:59 AM
December 16, 2004
Posted by timothompson at 11:51 PM
December 11, 2004
Link Dump Part One
More old stale links...Was Plain Layne the third fake diarist created by Odin Soli? [via] [Beth: “I think he also ran the web account for another persona (male, possibly not entirely fake) who was on Diary-L some years ago. (Santiago of "Superbrown," for anyone who remembers.)”]
Lasagna Farm features a timeline on the decline and fall of Courtney Love.
Deliver Us To The Fiery Furnaces
Wrens (indie rock band, not birds) documentary filmmaker requests donations. [via]
Mike Judge interviewed in Onion AV Club. [via]
Rex Sorgatz writes great article summing up the Plain Layne saga/hoax. [via] (“Not surprisingly, the ascendancy of personal websites (blogging) coincides with the continual rise of reality television.”)
The Rake: Too Much is Not Enough
My Life, by Bill Clinton - The PowerPoint version. By Daniel Radosh
Advanced Theory Blog (Related: This Klosterman essay from Esquire.)
Ramones documentary due in August. [via]
Allmusic.com to relaunch site in July.
Work continues on final Elliott Smith LP.
Ask MetaFilter: “I have a hairy anus.”
Word magazine interviews Mark E. Smith / Enjoyment: Mark E. Smith Interview
Forbes Magazine delves into disc golf's popularity.
John O'Hurley, who played J. Peterman on Seinfeld, liked it so much he bought the company (well, became part owner).
The Branding of Polaroid, 1957 - 1977 [via]
toothpaste for dinner - CONTEST 2004
PAPERMAG >> BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY JAPAN TOUR [via]
Guardian Unlimited: The Concretes (nice vid)
Franklin Avenue (LA city blog)
Clusterfuck Nation by James Howard Kunstler
More: del.icio.us/omit35
Posted by timothompson at 11:31 AM
Interim Edition Link Dump
More inside...Mark Morford on rock artists selling their music to commercials. Related: AskMeFi wonders what the most egregious use of a song in a commercial is.
John Frusciante not only recorded six albums in six months, but he’ll also be recording a new RHCP album in 2005 and performing in the Vincent Gallo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties event in London.
Billy Idol will play and give a talk the first day of SXSW (maybe on the depth of his lyrics?).
Dylan on “60 Minutes”: “ I realized at the time that the press, the media, they're not the judge — God's the judge,” says Dylan. “The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.”
An interview with Patent Pending Industries designer Jeff Kleinsmith.
Leslie Harpold’s 2004 Advent Calendar
A lot of people have been linking to this article from the Portland Mercury about a Canadian who found an obscure and valuable VU acetate at a LES yard sale. In the 33 1/3 book “The Velvet Underground and Nico” by Joe Harvard, he mentions that this acetate was discovered in the fall of 2003 (p. 82), not earlier this year as the article suggests. There’s more info about the acetate on this page.
DJ Martian compiles 2004 music “Best of” lists. [via]
Great review of McCartney solo recordings from the turntable.
I’m back. Now leave me—another Dusted Magazine crossword beckons.
Going on holiday, but here’s a recommendation: watch this CNBC documentary on Wal-Mart if you get bored (TiVo link). Happiest of holidays to you and yours. Thanks for being here. I kiss you.
Swedes choose Houston over Austin. (I totally blame this on our not having an IKEA.)
Rushkoff to Progressives: Do not kowtow to the Right
How adman George Lois and Mick Jagger saved MTV.
Is E.J. Dionne reading this site? (or “hack minds think alike” sounds more accurate)
Once again, RS compiles a list of the 500 “greatest” songs of all time.
More Cowbell has produced a Christmas indie mix.
Jandek on Corwood feature and interview with the filmmaker. [via]
The Fall’s “Hex Enduction Hour” to be reissued in deluxe edition (with Peel sessions and live tracks) by Sanctuary.
Guess what? We have the right to buy, but we don’t have the right to vote.
While watching the Home Depot documentary on “Biography,” I could understand why a lot of people have SUVs and trucks. If you are doing a lot of DIY home projects (as most people are doing), you're going to need a vehicle that’s capable of carrying large boxes and planks of wood (hence the use of the word “utility”).
Sermon on the Mount: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”
Time to stop using the globe motif, icon designers (and maybe that 3-D Aqua motif as well).
The creator of Grouphug has compiled a book from the best confessions: “Stoned, Naked and Looking in my Neighbor’s Window” [via]
Supersuckers’ equipment stolen. I would encourage bands to look into something like this anti-theft device (no, it’s not a car alarm).
I discovered a great Sgt. Pepper-esque baroque track from the Colorado band Juliet and the Spirits through the No Love for Ned radio show. Download it here.
From Philip Megg’s “A History of Graphic Design”: “The English art historian Herbert Read once suggested that the life of any art movement is like that of a flower. A budding in the hands of a small number of innovators is followed by full bloom; then the process of decay begins as the influence becomes diffused and distorted in the hands of imitators who understand merely the stylistic manifestations of the movement rather than the driving passions that forged it.”
While watching the Frontline documentary “The Persuaders,” I saw consultant Frank Luntz mention the 1994 Republican “Contract with America” (spearheaded by Newt Gingrich), made when the Republicans were in the minority and wanted to change their image. This led me to question whether, 10 years later, the GOP-dominated Congress is following their contract now. For example, let’s take the issue of committee chair term limits (#2 in the contract). Here I see it mentioned that Senators were moving to repeal the limits. Here, the Holland Sentinel asks whether the GOP has reneged on their promises. And according to this USA Today article, the Republicans have slowly broken most of the promises they made in their contract since they became the majority power. Meet the new boss, same as the old?
Montreal Gazette: Has great songwriting fallen into decline?
A compendium of pre-VU Lou Reed music.
Designer John Gall comments on a negative critique of his latest book design on Foreword.
Penn professor examines the exit poll results: “The odds of those exit poll statistical anomalies occurring by chance are 250,000,000 to one.”
J. Purvis captured some excellent photos of the Goats and the 'Slice.
David St.-Lascaux compares two famous logos (see the PDF) in a parody of the presidential campaign logo design critique by Paula Scher.
Dave Pell: How the Middle Sold Out
Billy Harvey site by Sofake [via]
Daily Kos: Terrorist Strategy 101 [via]: “All of this points in one direction: Another attack on the United States, probably within the next year.”
Someone on the Pavement list found this Usenet thread chronicling the band’s history.
Speak Up rounds up election maps and graphics.
More voter fraud theories from Michael Moore (based on a Dick Morris article in the Hill).
If you didn't catch it, try to watch this week’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” to see former U.S. Senator
Alan Simpson have a Jon Stewart-like blow-up on Maher (playing the role Tucker Carlson). Update: Luckily, I missed Andrew Sullivan massaging his posterior during the end credits.
Katrina vanden Heuvel at the Nation features this great quote from John Dos Passos [via] : “America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have turned our language inside out who have taken the clean words our fathers spoke and made them slimy and foul/their hired men sit on the judge's bench they sit back with their feet on the tables under the dome of the State House they are ignorant of our beliefs they have the dollars the guns the armed forces the power plants/they have built the electric chair and hired the executioner to throw the switch/all right we are two nations.”
Oligopoly Watch: Under Bush II, Big Business to step up to the trough.
Comedy Central plans a “Daily Show”-style celebrity mocking TV show.
Notebooks out, conspiracy theorists—Greg Palast thinks Kerry won Ohio and New Mexico.
The cities of America proclaim: GBV Day! [via]
It’s official. Bloghosts is dead.
The Simon: Reflections on Election Night Coverage
The Heads of State got a nice redesign.
CR, CR now available on iTunes (so you can pay more and miss out on the nice packaging)
Vonnegut says the end is near due to our fossil fuel dependence [via], echoing Kunstler.
I don’t know what’s sadder—Drudge reporting a false election fraud story or the dow using his 32-point “headlines” to determine whether they buy or sell. developing...
Nice CR, CR re-issue review here.
Five Big Election Trends: “The anger towards big corporations, towards America, towards President Bush, towards big media, towards polls, etc. has coalesced into a general anger at big institutions that seek to control individuals' behavior.”
More Electoral College links: Slate’s Walter Dellinger argues that a president still has legitimacy if chosen by the Electoral College while Neal Peirce of the Seattle Times says we should ditch the antiquated EC system (citing a book by George Edwards). And Howstuffworks attempts to explain the EC to those who are still confused (most likely the majority of Americans). Update: Another opinion from Gregg Frazer. Update: According to CNN projections right now, Bush leads by 1 million votes (8:25 p.m. ET), but is behind in the EC 66-77.
Voting Tip: Do not go to the post office on election day and ask if they are holding your absentee ballot (Yes, this actually happened).
Speak Up: A Contribution to the Ethical Taxonomy of Political Signage
Flickr Halloween: Vote for Scary John Kerry!, iGourd, Bed at Work, Boo from Blogger, Bush trying to get re-elected.
Due to my Web host going AWOL, I've changed my host for this site. Therefore, this page may be offline until DNS changes propogate. Also, my email has been bouncing so please use the domain name of this site at gmail to reach me.
Looks like Doggett will survive. (Maybe I'll start a “Lorem ipsum...” blog.)
Stereogum’s Guide To A Britney & Kevin Halloween
Related: TMN’s Non-Expert gives last minute ideas for costumes. Semi-Related: TMN: Don’t Sniff My Butt, I’m A Pumpkin, Scary Stories, New Endings to Halloween Stories
Slate staff’s individual endorsements for President. I wonder why more publications don’t do this.
Austinites can check to see if their fellow citizens have voted here. [via]
Jesse Jackson (speaking about the election on “The Daily Show”): “Well, it disturbs me, because the winner should win and the loser should lose, but the winner shouldn’t lose again and the loser shouldn’t win.”
Inconsistencies in the Pavement “CR CR” reissue booklet.
Like many other Internet music fans, I give greatest respect to the late John Peel, one of the greats (MP3s of Peel Sessions here). Mark E. Smith (singer of Peel’s favorite band, the Fall) talks about Peel in his typical inscrutable fashion on BBC Newsnight (23 minutes into the audio stream on this page).
Before & After has another design analysis of the Bush and Kerry campaign logos. [via]
Cozytone (art and music news and interviews)
Pink Nasty has a funny picture of Will Oldham on her site (there’s an MP3 of a duet they did here).
I woke up this morning and wrote down a word comparison to attempt to describe the Red/Blue Divide. Here’s the best I could come up with (still not sure if they’re all true).
Douglas Wolk announces the music alternative to NaNoWriMo, NaSoAlMo (National Solo Album Month).
Austin American-Statesman has a highly qualified endorsement of Bush. But is the rumor true that the editorial board bent over for their publisher (and how many other newspapers have done this)?
This eggplant is either a penis or Richard Nixon reincarnated.
Sushi USB keys are way cool (just like Jesus). [via]
Ben Folds discusses working with the Shatner.
Make your own sketchbook out of an old vinyl LP cover.
A profile of Modern Humorist/“Best Week Ever”’s Michael Colton and John Aboud. [via]
Get your Election night party supplies here.
Whaddaya know? Jandek played live. [via]
The Electoral College: Making your vote meaningless in 40 states.
Flickr: The Refrigerator Project Pool (another example of what the Internets were made for) [via]
14: Number of times Bush said “my opponent” in his “major address” on foreign policy today.
15: Number of times the audience said “Booo!” during his speech (maybe an early Halloween reference?) Update: Ed Koch on tonight’s “The Daily Show”: “Why is it only liberals that boo?”
Mark Morford yearns to have a “normal” president again.
The Smoking Gun has testimony from Stipe, Mike Mills and Bono for Peter Buck's 2002 air rage trial.
BlogBites (clever reblogging by using quotes)
Domino is streaming a different track each day from Pavement's “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain” reissue. [via] And Matador has posted an MP3 of the track “All My Friends.”
Type designer Mark Simonson found a new use for Legos. (Boing Boing will probably like this one.)
Largehearted Boy has updated his ACL Festival downloads page again. Please go download or seed these shows, for my sake.
If you like Brian “I Keep a Diary”, you'll probably like his friend Meredith's site, too (and she updates more often).
I went looking for something to help an undecided voter that I know make their decision, but I didn't necessarily want something partisan—I was looking for something more fact-based than a party screed that would turn off someone who hadn't made a decision yet (though I somewhat agree with this article saying that undecided voters sometimes seem deliberately coy and are probably more decided than you think. But they love the attention and courting that goes on during elections). It's remarkably hard to find a straight non-partisan position paper, but I think this page from the New Voters Project comes close. What's disconcerting is how much more substance there is to Nader's answers than the canned puff that Kerry is putting out in this piece. (This is long—I might need to restart the full blog soon.)
I've created some of my own Debate Bingo cards for tonight's debate (based on Hipster Bingo). Use at your discretion or make your own from this blank Bingo card.
Ryan Catbirdseat has exclusive photos of the new Spoon LP cover.
Rolling Stone: Wal-Mart putting pressure on major labels for $10 CDs.
Designing the face for Screenhead.
“Dazed and Confused” subjects (Wooderson, Floyd and Slater) file defamation suit against Linklater.
Americans befuddled by business documents, according to latest Siegel & Gale Perplexity Poll. The Motley Fool investigates why.
Paula Scher outlines the differences between the candidates’ campaign logos to accompany this article. [via]
Bushism from last night: “First, the National Journal named Senator Kennedy the most liberal senator of all. And that's saying something in that bunch. You might say that took a lot of hard work.”
Top secret memo from Cheney to Bush. [via]
The Onion A.V. Club interviews Jason Schwartzmann and David O. Russell.
Blockbuster owner in Cedar Park, Texas, keeps Fahrenheit 9/11 DVDs behind the counter. [via] (reg. required)
Mighty Goods: Shopping Blog [via]
With the administration grasping for reasons why it initiated war in Iraq, Josh Marshall and Wonkette proffer new arguments Bush might come up with next if these ones get debunked.
New AOL logo critiqued at Speak Up.
A Detroit writer composes an imagined mixtape that captures the eau de Jack White.
Linklater needs some kids for his “Bad News Bears” remake.
Is it just me or does Dick Cheney resemble Old Man Potter?
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Sugarland) eludes a Democratic protest in Austin by rescheduling his appearance. (DeLay’s had some legal and ethical trouble lately.)
Michael Corcoran of the Statesman suggests that 1979 changed music forever.
Revenge of the Zombie Pumpkins
R.L. Burnside in ill health and not recording anymore. [via]
This season’s tv schedule for Austin City Limits has been posted.
Photographer Richard Avedon in critical condition in San Antonio hospital. Update: He has died.
Two very political Malk updates: He’s against the left’s anti-war arguments, but still voting for Kerry. (See also: Other musicians share their politics with The Stranger. The Long Winters’ John Roderick rails against musicians who voice political opinions.)
2000 Gore/Bush debate. [via] “BUSH: I think people need to be held responsible for the actions they take in life. I think that — well, I think that's part of the need for a cultural change. We need to say we each need to be responsible for what we do. People in the highest office of the land must be responsible for decisions they make in life.”
Current leg of GBV tour postponed. [via]
IRS agent + topless dancers = trouble
Blender magazine editor Andy Pemberton cut in a lad mag downsizing. [via]
Gothamist interviews Joel Sherman, professional Scrabble player.
“this website is dedicated to my boobs and amber's relationship with them”
Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne follow similar paths through Florida (albeit at different rates).
Newsweek features an excerpt from the Bob Dylan memoir “Chronicles.” [via] (Dylan reveals that albums like “Self-Portrait” actually were released to destroy his fame: “ I released one album (a double one) where I just threw everything I could think of at the wall and whatever stuck, released it, and then went back and scooped up everything that didn't stick and released that, too.”)
DMN: Size of Austin music fest signals time for change. (reg. required)
Largehearted Boy features an awesome master list of ACL Bittorrent shows. (Still waiting for that Calexico show...c'mon, tapers.)
ACL Fest black tu tu guy. (Also: People are still wearing Utilikilts?)
TMN’s Non-Expert draws up a hipster litmus test.
EBay decides to keep Half.com open indefinitely.
October 2nd to be Guided by Voices Day in Austin.
Rio Chroma == fugly (is a color LCD worth it?)
Mark Jenkins lays out the ground rules for bands considering reuniting.
Corny Travis Morrison t-shirt. [via]
Billboard has news about the third Malkmus CD.
Alec Hanley Bemis writes two articles on the future of music for LA Weekly: one on the new breed of obsessive, eclectic-minded music fans and smaller labels fueled by the Internet and another debunking three myths about the music industry. [Bemis refers to Warner Music head Lyor Cohen’s memo about “incubator systems” (designed to co-opt indie labels), which made the rounds a few weeks ago.] Online Music Blog is on the same wavelength.
Michael Moore tells the Dems to stop being crybabies.
Another ACL Fest review. (more good stuff at the Austin Chronicle)
An e-card for the upcoming “Frank Black Francis” album.
New Earlimart LP (a tribute to Elliott Smith) is available for download on iTunes.
Elvis Costello thumbs his nose at the FBI anti-piracy warning on his new CD. [via]
Two articles cover the changing face of the “Austin City Limits” television show. (This season's upcoming performers include the Pixies, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Wilco, Trey Anastasio and the Flaming Lips. For the first time, there will be no country performers this season.)
Disastro: ACL Music Festival review. (Advice for next year’s festival: 1) Limit attendees to 65,000. 2) Move to October to avoid heat. 3) Fire the sound guy at the Cingular stage. Update: To clarify, I had a great time and I don't totally agree with Disastro, but there is room for improvement.)
Whitney Matheson must be stopped.
After reading this article about Bruce Springsteen’s former band and hearing him sing Donovan’s “Catch the Wind” [via], I discovered that Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You, Babe” is really a rip-off of that song.
Austin board refuses to revise toll road plan. (Now I'm positive this is a boondoggle.)
PriceGrabber.com has a list of election money raised for candidates.
AIGA Get Out the Vote design posters.
A list of songs from John Lennon's jukebox from the latest “Great Performances” episode on PBS.
“Napoleon Dynamite” continues to do well in Yahoo! Search (and here it is compared to “Garden State”)
Are you better off now than you were four years ago? [via]
Official CR CR track listing from Matador. [via]
The Kinks' Ray Davies talks to the Belfast-Telegraph.
Greg Palast: “This is not a story of what George Bush knew but rather of his very-unfunny ignorance. And it was not stupidity, but policy: no asking Saudis uncomfortable questions about their paying off roving packs of killers, especially when those Saudis are so generous to Bush family businesses.”
The Daily Texan: “Keep Austin Weird” slogan both loved and despised.
Movie Blog: The Price of Going to the Movies: An Open Letter to the Theater Chains
ILM: Album covers featuring one band member wearing sunglasses.
This is Broken: Dell computers cost twice as much sans monitor.
Craiglist: To the man who did his hoochie on my hood!!
Bush: “And in all we do to improve Hitler care in America...” (Freudian slip caption on C-Span)
SaltwaterPizza really likes self-posting on del.icio.us.
Is Napoleon Dynamite star Jon Heder also a photo clip art star?
Austinites: Do you eat really weird foods or odd combinations of foods?
Adam Rice on toll roads in Austin. (I agree. Make no mistake—we have been boondoggled.)
The case of the plagiarizing blogger. [via]
Trailers for “Tom Dowd & The Language of Music” and “The Motorcycle Diaries” [via]
Another “This Much I Know” column from the Observer, this time featuring the Hasselhoff. (“The work that I've done, I've tried to do from my heart ... even when the show was about a talking car.”)
Recommended book: The Stratocaster Chronicles
Incredible String Band reunion tour in the works. [via]
Amblongus writes his annual rant on the now ridiculous “Keep Austin Weird” movement. Statesman columnist John Kelso profiles the guy who started the “Make Austin Normal” backlash site (complete with an “I <3 big box stores.” t-shirt). Kelso: “There's even a ‘Keep Erie Weird’ campaign mentioned online. You know it's overdone when Erie, Pa., hears about it.” (Hilarious to me since my hometown is Erie.) Update: Celluloid Eyes adds to the discussion by noting that “Keep Austin Weird” is now trademarked by a t-shirt company that didn't even come up the slogan (with the slogan's creator notably pissed).
New William Shatner album (produced by Ben Folds) preview.
How do you fix a Rio Karma hard drive? Smack it hard while in recovery mode. (Worked for me.)
14 white guys and a woman: the RNC bloggers. [via]
Classic rock bands continue working despite having wrinkles and beer guts. [via]
Behind the scenes preview of the new Cameron Crowe film “Elizabethtown” [via]
Three words: graphic puppet sex
Quentin Tarantino (or impersonator) has a blog. [via] Update: Former co-writer Roger Avary calls it a hoax. Update: Publicist also calls it a hoax, but a “great job.”
An encounter with Afrika Bambaataa
New book from author of “The Hipster Handbook”
NY Observer compares “Six Feet Under” to “American Beauty” and finds both lacking.
You can now browse and search newspaper ads on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer site. (Great idea!) [via] Update: VarChars now has an RSS feed for the Seattle Fry's Electronics.
Snatch up good deals on refurbed iPods. [via]
Saw on del.icio.us that the Daily Photo Project guy is still going strong. What's interesting are his links to other photo project people.
Where's Bugmenot.com? Update: Just a hosting problem.
Statesman: What's become of the Butthole Surfers? (annoying registration required)
Gawker rep crashes “The Brown Bunny” premiere party: “It was the same 200 faces you'd see at any indie film party, which isn't pretty, my friends.”
“The Life Aquatic” trailer online (Quicktime version). [via]
The Sports Guy faces off with Chuck Klosterman. [via]
Douglas Coupland's “All Families Are Psychotic” to become a movie.
Gothamist Interview with Craig Wedren (ex-Shudder to Think)
A complete scan of the Split Enz “Stranger Than Fiction” bio book.
Spoilt Victorian Child kvetches about those “just remotely leeching the tracks without even visiting [mp3 blogger sites].” (thanks to Jeffrey Veen's wget innovation and aggregators?)
The Pixies: Who needs record companies? [via]
ACL Festival posts schedule grids.
Austin Chronicle: ISO the Thirteenth Floor Elevators
An Interview with Bill Murray: “There is a certain integrity when you can destroy about what you do—you know, when you're able to laugh at yourself.Even in life, people who can laugh at themselves are the only ones I can really bear.”
Under Consideration: Fluid Prose
Melissa Auf Der Maur in the Guardian: “The modern woman in ‘Sex and the City’ is a heartless, money-obsessed, shoe-obsessed bitch.”
The Ad Nauseum Marketing of Von Dutch
TuneTags (add tags to iTunes)
Geoff Farina's Tape Op article about good guitars for the studio. [via]
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller discuss the upcoming movie "Sin City." [via]
Blogumentary Chuck reports on the Vincent Gallo Experience, including audio. (See also: Whatevs' recent report)
Coudal/Slatch Celebrity Playlist Prediction Contest
GoSupernova (awesome Bittorrent search tool)
"Let not my quest be to acquire goods, but rather to inspire the good."
Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb [via]
Great photo of Lance Armstrong in the last stage of the Tour. [via]
Richard Linklater shares his “Seven Habits of Highly Effective Directors” (login required)
Roger Ebert reflects on a day spent with Bukowski during the filming of "Barfly." [via]
Greg Palast rips into John Kerry's convention speech.
PupStyle - Fashionista Dog Culture [via]
MP3s from Trent Reznor's first band.
A car that winks, laughs and cries. [via]
Kempa has updated his Acme Novelty Archive.
Austin American-Statesman covers the Meat Purveyors. (While The Chronicle focuses on MP guitarist Bill Anderson.)
ajc3 has started compiling Obama links on del.icio.us
James' has started a blog called Runner-Up, dedicated to those who finished second. He's looking for design help and contributors.
Austin's Meat Purveyors are releasing a new disc, “Pain By Numbers,” this month.
You must see the speech (text, video, Daily Kos' take) Barack Obama gave to the DNC tonight: “There's not a liberal America and a conservative America — there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.”
David Weinberger's blog on the DNC is rather insightful.
The first people to submit a scan of needed Spoon record covers will receive a free T-shirt.
Issue #4 of The High Hat magazine. (And it features an article on “Reckoning,” which I recently started listening to a lot again.)
Tom Green and Jerry Springer to run a news/culture talk show.
del.icio.us spammed by Amazon?
Underneath Their Robes (News and gossip about the federal judiciary) [via]
The Austin Chronicle covers the braniacs of the indie pop scene.
Icarus Line article : “It took only one or two haywire gigs for the Icarus Line to cement their reputation as indie rock’s most volatile, verbally pugnacious, hard-partying scumbags (really, though, who was the competition? Death Cab for Cutie?); it took six long years for them to advance from ‘definitely, um, spirited’ to “pretty damn good.’ ”
Back from vacation. Posting will be light as I play catch up. My friend Reagan has started a blog.
Elvis Costello and the Neville Bros. have been added to the Austin City Limits Festival line-up.
Allmusic.com redesigns as IE-only, resulting in user bitterness. Zac from Allmusic responded to Gigantic Mag. Tim Murtaugh from Monkey Do is preparing a standards-based redo of the site.
Listen to Arthur Magazine folk compilation “Golden Apples of the Sun” (compiled by Devendra Banhart)
The 100 Greatest Comics of the 20th Century
American Segue (A friend of mine is taking a Segway for a ride across America.)
I like seeing a list of songs that people downloaded from iTunes (on the 100,000,000 songs page). They should institute a “Last 100 Tunes Purchased” list like Cheap CDs.
Funny sex questions from last night's “Six Feet Under”: “How many times a week do you get your pole wet?” (said to Keith by fellow bodyguard) “You mean you've never rubbed one out?” (said to Claire by Edie)
“Rolling Stone” editor leaves for “Maxim”
Ray Davies talks about “Village Green Preservation Society” to Radio 4 (RealPlayer link)
The Philosophy of Spider-Man 2
Google Labs posts a clever job ad in Physics Today.
chart the tags of del.icio.us users (Mine are fairly obvious.)
iTunes-free legal TMBG downloads.
A Tour de France blog (?) by Lance Armstrong's bike. (Quelle fromage!)
Captain America Comic Book Covers
POPSHOT Magazine talks to Britt Daniel.
ACME :: The London News Review
Kinks Kovers (iTunes link)
Vacuum tube car stereo receiver.
Craiglist: Look, if you have money to throw around... / Look, if you have pussy to throw around... [via]
Honey, No (ATXers critique the fashionably challenged.)
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