January 2012
19 posts
Zelda Big Rig
The legendary hero pilots his steed of metal and glass…
My sister snapped this while riding with my brother down the highway in Oklahoma.
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“Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die...”
– Ezra Pound (via mnmal)
Top Songs of 2011 ~ Playlist
Thanks to Kevin Cray, I’ve been fooling around on Grooveshark for a week or so. Turns out, you can make playlists for other people to stream. Joy! So, I went and made a streaming playlist of my favorite songs from 2011. Enjoy.
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2011 ~ Retrospective
2011 was a year of transformations. A year of passings, and new arrivals. Joel lost his grandpa, and his aunt. We got married! We were at 4 other occasions to witness friends get hitched. We put over 30,000 miles on Joel’s car.
The Year in Travel
The Honda Accord accrued a great many thousand miles in 2011. Joel, and then Joel+Bree made a great many trips across the country in it.
In...
IFTTT Test
Since M.G. Siegler reminded me about IFTTT today, I thought I’d create one to test out sharing posts between WordPress and Tumblr. Testing, testing… 1, 2, 3.
BTW, for the uninitiated: links to Joel’s Tumblr and Bree’s Tumblr.
Now, I wonder if this functionality was already present? Well, sort of.
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December 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Guided By Voices (25)
Suckers (11)
Sufjan Stevens (8)
The Castle (5)
Brian Wilson (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Beatles (37)
Kent (29)
Bob Dylan (15)
Sufjan Stevens (13)
Soul Coughing (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Sufjan Stevens (33)
Jars Of Clay (17)
Bing Crosby (15)
Mannheim Steamroller (12)
Belle and Sebastian (11)
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November 2011
8 posts
“The truth is the successful films aren’t asking questions, they’re not making...”
– Terry Gilliam in Salman Rushdie’s 2003 interview with him for The Believer.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Jim Guthrie (88)
James Blake (11)
Nicolas Jaar (6)
Jasbir Jassi (2)
Deuter (2)
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“Simple and light equals freedom, agility and mobility.”
– (via mnmal)
“…those bones are far too few and fragmentary and dubious to fill up the whole of...”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Bombadil (23)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Skeet (22)
Elton John (17)
Washed Out (7)
M83 (5)
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“This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to...”
– Philip K. Dick
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
M83 (43)
Deastro (28)
Brian Wilson (26)
Elbow (12)
James Blake (11)
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October 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
M83 (49)
Kira (27)
Buck 65 (12)
1492 The Lie (10)
Josh Ritter (8)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
The Kinks (16)
The Beatles (11)
Richard Buckner (10)
Chad VanGaalen (9)
Oh No Oh My (7)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
They Might Be Giants (18)
Active Child (14)
Fleetwood Mac (10)
Comet Gain (9)
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (7)
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September 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
Colour Revolt (11)
St. Vincent (7)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (6)
Bob Seger (5)
M83 (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Lindsey Buckingham (14)
Sloan (14)
St. Vincent (12)
Kent (6)
Lykke Li (5)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →
They Might Be Giants (27)
Washed Out (17)
Townes Van Zandt (15)
Little Dragon (12)
Lykke Li (12)
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August 2011
2 posts
2 tags
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Video: Richard Buckner Covers Townes Van Zandt
It takes a weathered, well-traveled soul to channel Townes Van Zandt convincingly, but if ever there were a living singer-songwriter to invoke Townes’ forlorn charisma, Richard Buckner would be a safe bet. To wit, here’s the wayfaring man behind this year’s excellent Our Blood singing “Still Looking for You,” complete with damaged...
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July 2011
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10) →
“Weird Al” Yankovic (12)
Bob Dylan (10)
Smith Westerns (8)
The National (8)
Randy Newman (7)
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June 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
近藤浩治 (36)
They Might Be Giants (33)
The Beach Boys (23)
Colin Blunstone (14)
The National (14)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-12) →
They Might Be Giants (87)
The Beach Boys (54)
Fleet Foxes (48)
The National (48)
The Beatles (26)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29) →
Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory (39)
Soul Coughing (16)
Neil Young (8)
Flight of the Conchords (7)
T. Rex (5)
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May 2011
14 posts
4 tags
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8 tags
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-22) →
Fleet Foxes (45)
Cold War Kids (13)
Dashboard Confessional (12)
John Vanderslice (8)
Yuck (8)
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