January 2012
19 posts
Jan 27th
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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. via WordPress http://bit.ly/zE7LnR
Jan 27th
“Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die...”
– Ezra Pound (via mnmal)
Jan 26th
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Jan 15th
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. [WordPress isn’t being nice to the widget] (Direct URL) via WordPress http://bit.ly/wzxMQj
Jan 7th
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...
Jan 7th
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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. via WordPress http://bit.ly/zX6eNr
Jan 6th
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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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 27th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Beatles (37) Kent (29) Bob Dylan (15) Sufjan Stevens (13) Soul Coughing (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 20th
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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 6th
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.
Nov 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Jim Guthrie (88) James Blake (11) Nicolas Jaar (6) Jasbir Jassi (2) Deuter (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 23rd
“Simple and light equals freedom, agility and mobility.”
– (via mnmal)
Nov 22nd
“…those bones are far too few and fragmentary and dubious to fill up the whole of...”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Nov 22nd
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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 15th
Nov 4th
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“This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to...”
– Philip K. Dick
Nov 4th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
M83 (43) Deastro (28) Brian Wilson (26) Elbow (12) James Blake (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 1st
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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 26th
Oct 21st
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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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 18th
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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by …
Oct 4th
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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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Lindsey Buckingham (14) Sloan (14) St. Vincent (12) Kent (6) Lykke Li (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 14th
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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 9th
August 2011
2 posts
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WatchWatch
twentyfourbit: 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...
Aug 24th
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Aug 22nd
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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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 12th
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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 24th
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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 22nd
Jun 10th
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) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 3rd
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Jun 1st
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May 2011
14 posts
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May 31st
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May 27th
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May 24th
May 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-22) →
Fleet Foxes (45) Cold War Kids (13) Dashboard Confessional (12) John Vanderslice (8) Yuck (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 24th