May 2011
34 posts
“There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down...”
– “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott Heron (via wellmkay)
iTunes U
Just discovered that there are hundreds of undergraduate courses, recorded in their entirety, offered for free as podcasts on iTunes. Welp, just discovered what I’ll be doing for the next two weeks. You go now too.
WatchAndrew Bird’s TED talk — complete with new, in-progress song, which begins around 9:30. Welcome to the one-man band.
“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural...”
– Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-22) →
Generationals (35)
Foster the People (17)
Tune-Yards (12)
Fleet Foxes (9)
Royal Bangs (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“He’s a fucking genius. I’d never seen nor heard of him in my life,...”
– Rick Ross, on working with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
“She is sixteen and her skin is the darkness before the black, the plum of the...”
– Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Watch
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
Fleet Foxes (28)
Gang Gang Dance (4)
Gold Panda (3)
MF DOOM (3)
Death Cab for Cutie (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →
Alexander (9)
Childish Gambino (9)
Explosions in the Sky (7)
Latyrx (3)
Domo Genesis (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads...”
– Andre Breton
(The quote hung above Aimee Bender’s writing desk.)
