January 2011
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So This Happened: Stereogum Re-Reviews Arcade... →
I’m going to try to sound as objective as I can here, because I’ve mentioned a couple of times that The Suburbs, the latest album by Arcade Fire, was my favorite album of 2010. What I want to share here though, is not really about The Suburbs, per se.
When The Suburbs first came out, Stereogum, one of my favorite music blogs, gave it a glowing review that bordered on overly-poetic. It...
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What Songs I'm Loving This Week: 1/28/11
Sorry this one’s coming a little late; I try to get these lists up early in the day on Friday. Let’s get started, shall we? This week’s hideously-colored widget will start with Dr. Dog, a band who’s show in February I just received my ticket to. They’ve got a bit of a stripped down sound to them that I like, and I’m a little surprised they’re not more...
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Kindle e-books have overtaken paperback books as... →
Not to sound too much like a luddite but I’m curious to see if this is a uni-directional trend. Are e-readers here to stay?
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Cake's New Album Debuts at No. 1 On the Billboard... →
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What Songs I'm Loving This Week: 1/21/11
Every Friday, I’ll be writing a little bit about, and sharing, 5 songs I heard the past week and said “Yeah. Nice.” It could be my first, second, or 4000th time hearing it. The only other thing I’m going to try to do is roll over one artist/band each time, for no real reason other than I kind of like continuity.
This week, Built to Spill is the rollover band, with the...
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Shop Mark by Mark Zuckerberg, the Clothing Line... →
Granted, Mark Zuckerberg is a goddamn billionaire, but everybody knows, chiefly Esquire, that he dresses like he doesn’t give a shit. Let me tell you something: if I swam in a pool of gold coins like he probably does, I wouldn’t either. Still, it’s fun to point out just how dressed down he always is, so it’s a funny idea by one Nathan of On & True that this e-store was...
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iTunes Sells A Metric Ton of Beatles Music,... →
The Beatles being available on iTunes was not quite a lot of people’s idea of a “day you’d never forget,” as Apple described it, but I feel like a jackass for poking fun at the announcement now. From what the iLounge story says, 5 million Beatles songs have been sold since Apple made the announcement in November. You can’t argue with the free market, right?
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For 2 Nights, AIRPLANE! Returns to Theaters →
Click the link to find out where the hilarious AIRPLANE!, which starred the great, now departed Leslie Nielsen, will be playing in all the major cities, for 2 days only:
Saturday, January 29 at 12:30pm
Tuesday, February 1 at 7:00pm
If I can get someone to translate all the Jive for me, I’m ridiculously down to go. They should do this more often with the classics.
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Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising Is...
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Submitted by www.twitter.com/adverplanner.
Tumblr is just great, ain’t it? The range of things you can find on it is far wider than I can wrap my mind around. Like this one, called Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising. You can say that it’s a bit of a commentary on the state of advertising (as The AV Club surmises at the source link), but I just enjoy the...
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Gizmodo Explores Peep Telephony, a Sort of Modern... →
Click to read the fascinating story about a guy who claimed at CES this year that his company will provide for free communication with mobile devices for life, without any limits. If it sounds like garbage, that’s because it is. Why this is fascinating is because the guy behind it has dreamt up some crazy schemes and inventions that couldn’t possibly exist, but marketed them anyway to...
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Slate Makes Me Feel Like a Moron For... →
No, I don’t do it anymore. But I used to. What I’m referring to is using two spaces after a period, like I’ll do after this here sentence. That one. It looks pretty awkward, no? The thing is I did it for years, and I swore to people who told me that it weird to do it that I was in fact doing it right and that we shouldn’t be friends anymore.
And damnitall, Slate even...
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Excellent and Important Reading: Discovering the... →
This poignant post over at Gizmodo discusses the speed with which news breaks, thanks to competing online news outlets and of course, Twitter. The main crux of his argument leans on the reaction to the abhorrent actions of a deranged individual in Arizona. Just how quick is too quick? To report or to judge? Twitter’s like a virtual megaphone, that’s far, far more wide-reaching than...
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Thank Goodness Glenn Beck Finally Weighed in on... →
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, the Broadway show that’s been criticized by many, mainly for all those actors falling all over the place, was finally watched by Glenn Beck, who just loved it more than sprinkles on ice cream! The New York Times checks in on The Glenn Beck Program, Beck’s radio show, on which he lauded ‘Spider-Man.’ Let’s break down what he said about...
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What Songs I'm Loving This Week: 1/14/11
Thanks to the awesome guys at Grooveshark, you’re able to make a customizable widget with as many full-length songs as you want that you can embed on your web page. I don’t know how long you’ve been able to do this, but I only learned about it yesterday morning, so it’s news to me!
Anyway, now that I’ve discovered this gem of a feature on their site, I’ve...
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WatchWatch Vampire Weekend and The Black Keys Square off in “Sell-Outoff” on The Colbert Report
I’m pretty sure my best part is towards the end when it descends into an Anchorman-esque mutual size-up, including the wielding of a crowbar, broken bottle, and chains.
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The Hype Machine Presents the Music Blog Zeitgeist... →
Click through to check it out, as it features a list of the top artists, albums, and songs of 2010 with excellent presentation, via a Grooveshark embedded player on the left and large artwork on the right. Not your typical list of words with :30 samples, as you can listen to entire songs and albums with said embedded player. I have lots of listening to do.
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Alright, Can We Stop Pretending Verizon Saved...
I already pointed out a couple of reasons why Verizon getting the iPhone didn’t guarantee an upcoming Golden Age, but that’s not what this is about. Let’s talk about spoiled idiots that bitched about AT&T’s 3G service to the point that they equated their contracts to prison terms, and Verizon to the great liberators.
The Daily Show discussed this a bit last night, and...
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“Well, congratulations on the promotion, Jim, wow. This is a huge upgrade from...”
– The Daily Show correspondent Larry Whitmore on the asinine censorship of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Spiderman Broadway's Highest Grossing Show,... →
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“Hipsters today are often regarded more as a nuisance than a poison. They’re not...”
– Whither the hipster? Dayna Tortorici, author of What Was the Hipster, thinks America’s most maligned sub-culture will be around for some time to come. Thank heavens none of them use tumblr. (via theeconomist)
Watch out, America! Those hipsters will be around for far longer than you’re...
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MTV Plans to Launch Comedy Awards For Some Reason →
Just in case you don’t know what’s funny, if you watch a comedy movie or TV show with a blank look on your face wondering “hey, is this funny? Should I be laughing?” MTV soon plans to help you out.
The Comedy Awards, which will air on too many networks (read: Comedy Central, Spike TV, TV Land, VH1, and Nick At Nite, but not MTV?) simultaneously, will celebrate the best in...
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Stewart and Colbert React to Arizona Shootings
This is everywhere today, and for good reason. If you haven’t seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to click play.
Click through for Colbert’s take, which is also essential viewing.
I originally only “liked” this post, but I removed that and decided to reblog to point out that there was only 1 other time that I can...
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The iPhone is in Fact Going to Verizon →
The industry’s worst kept secret is no longer a secret.
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Verizon to Offer iPhone Users Unlimited Data →
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So not only will it offer better service, it will be a better deal as well. Poor AT&T.
Curious how long this will last. AT&T offered an unlimited data plan for iPad and eventually pulled it. Could see Verizon do the same with iPhone.
Here comes some more Verizon iPhone info. The latest story says Verizon will offer their iPhone customers unlimited data....
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WatchThinkGeek’s “iCade” To Exist, As a Real Thing
Remember last year’s ThinkGeek April fool’s joke, the iCade? If you don’t, stop being all smug about that “life” you have, alright? Watch the above video, and understand that if enough nerds want something to actually happen… it probably will. The iCade is a retro mini arcade cabinet that you slide...
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WatchCover Your Ears and Hide Your Children: Foo Fighters Share 10-Second Preview of New “Album” of “Music”
And that’ll be the hardest they rock for another 15 years. Write that down.
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