May 2009
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May 29th
“Furnishing music completes one’s property.”
– Erik Satie. Furniture music.
May 29th
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“I taught briefly in a public high school and would have loved to have set up a...”
– The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com
May 28th
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“The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the...”
– To Be of Use by Marge Piercy (via)
May 28th
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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music v.2.5 →
There are so many subsubgenres. Lord. (via funkaoshi)
May 27th
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May 27th
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Hindugrass — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC →
“Musician John Heitzenrater fuses the ragas of classical Indian music with the twang of down home bluegrass.” (via Wehr in the World)
May 22nd
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Infinite Summer →
“Join endurance bibliophiles from around the web as we tackle and comment upon David Foster Wallace’s masterwork, June 21st to September 22nd.” This could be good.
May 21st
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“Shop Class surveys an economic landscape where everyone must go to college or else be viewed as suspect, stupid, and/or unemployable. The massification of higher education has also created a new vocational pitfall: I’ve got a degree; therefore, I should be doing smart, clean, fun, and well-paid work. Except for clean, these adjectives can be scarce in cubicle alley. Matthew...
May 20th
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“It kind of puzzles me that people seem so keen on asking fiction writers...”
– From an interview with David Foster Wallace. (via kottke)
May 20th
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May 20th
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Percussive Arts Society: Library of Cylinder... →
When you learn from the awesome 80-year-old instruction book written by dudes like George Hamilton Green, it’s nice to hear him play, too.
May 20th
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“TV is the epitome of Low Art in its desire to appeal to and enjoy the attention...”
– …David Foster Wallace in his essay E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction [pdf], collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, which I am loving so far.
May 18th
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May 17th
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DAVIDLYNCH.COM presents INTERVIEW PROJECT →
20,000-mile road trip + interviews with folks. Launching on June 1.
May 16th
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May 14th
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Simmons + Gladwell
Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell talk about sports and such. My favorite bit: We had lunch a few weeks ago and discussed the parallels between music and basketball. The structure is fundamentally the same: You have a lead singer (the NBA alpha dog, like LeBron or Kobe), the lead guitarist (the sidekick, like Pippen or McHale), the drummer (an unsung third wheel, like Parish or Worthy), the...
May 14th
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in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word... →
Terry Riley’s In C meets Kutiman’s Mother of All Funk Chords.
May 14th
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May 10th
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Listen a late-night-style infomercial for an imaginary...
May 9th
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