April 2009
25 posts
“The division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be...”
– NYTimes op ed on grad school (via faketv)
I love Mark C. Taylor. Cited his book a lot in my thesis. But yeah, very little reason to go to graduate school these days.
“Hello, we are the french band called The Teenagers you can find us on...”
– THE TEENAGERS on Muxtape
“Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. ...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
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Bagels! Ultra-caffeinated-sludge-like coffee! Brooklyn! Disgusting weather! Sirens! Free Wi-Fi! Asians! Fixies!
It is good to be back.
“If you like finding your music on Billboard and being a dildo then this is for...”
– slantsmcgee
Help @8tracks beat out said aging indie rockers in the webby’s best internet music awards: http://pv.webbyawards.com/ !!! #webby #music
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Help 8tracks beat Pforkand NPR for most awesome music internet site: http://pv.webbyawards.com/ !!!
Pitchfork redesign: indie rockers turning 30. Now off to Weimar to stay on RichardWagnerStrasse, jewish ancestors rolling over in the grave.
Helmut Newton exhibition not quite as exciting as I had imagined. Cool seeing all his photo gear; the outfits on mannequins were a bit much.
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“8tracks: utterly random picks from today’s playlist:...”
– warrenellis
hypem and 4chan in the sound clizzouuddddddssss
Liveblogging from SoundCloud offices. They have a DJ booth right in the middle of the office.
Spent all day cycling around Berlin. Most amazing city for biking ever. @goodnightkeith is ignoring me but that’s ok.
Anzone else going to be in Berlin next week?
Northern Italy with Judson. Great coffee, german sounding italian, italian sounding german. Surreal.