May 2009
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 28th
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May 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
Orchestra da Camera Roma Classica (32)  Janine Jansen (20)  Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony (16)  Deadmau5 (6)  Virgil (4)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by
May 25th
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“Like ectoplasm from a medium, it is the visible extrusion of a marketing...”
– Roger Ebert on “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” (via goldenfiddlr) Ouch.
May 23rd
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jimray: “But John survived, grew into Nick Stahl and has now matured into Bruce Wayne — I mean Christian Bale, all grizzled cheekbones and frayed vocal cords — while the original T-800 runs the State of California.” — And this is why I love A.O. Scott. That’s why I love A.O. Scott, too. (You pulled the very quote I had sitting here in a draft. Sneaky!)
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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WatchWatch
Ron Weasley is in love… 2 things: Don’t watch it if you’re the clip-averse sort. Hee! Gotta give him points for how uncomfortable he makes him when he rushes forward and sits on the bed all curled up with the box of candy.
May 21st
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Infinite Summer →
jimray: Some of my favorite writers (Matthew Baldwin and Avery Edison amongst them) are reading Infinite Jest this summer. This is a swell idea, one I’ll happily try to participate in. I tried once before, unaided, and after 30 hard-fought pages, the book sat on the shelf for more than a year before it was finally returned to its owner. Perhaps it is time to try again!
May 21st
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ListenI know, again with Copland? Bear with me. This...
May 21st
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Their Stellar Wobbles. I don’t know what for, yet, but that’s a keeper. From the excerpted quote in Kottke’s entry about the search for a nearby second Earth.
May 21st
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ListenLove. How could anyone not be excited by this? ...
May 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-17) →
London Symphony Orchestra (2)  Peter Schmalfuss (2)  Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra (2)  Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (1)  Utah Symphony Orchestra (1)  Imported from …
May 19th
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“…those lazy red photons, underachievers of the visible spectrum.”
– The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
May 19th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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Ribbit.
Disney’s Prince and the Frog full-length trailer I’m looking forward to this one, myself. What caught my eye is the comment about an uproar over the Prince (Frog) not being black, the better to match the Princess. Excuse me, but isn’t it better (cooler, shrewder, smarter) that he’s not? Which means we get the first mixed couple¹? Come on, that’s great. ¹ You say...
May 12th
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Crop circles in carpet
Garrett posting “Just for Now” → Stumbling on to “The Song That Never Was” on the last.fm homepage → excellent photo of Imogen @ last.fm (couldn’t find a source; surprising, no?) → “Headlock” (fave) > “Look what I got in the post today!!”
May 12th
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May 12th
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"We are outnumbered. By machines. Working. Around.... →
lowindustrial: Potentially the year’s most annoyingly phrased and delivered line of dialog as we head into the moviegoing summer. Word. My affection for Christian Bale’s ability to enter stage left and steal whatever scene he’s in notwithstanding: can we dispense with the Batman-whisper? It grates. Will Arnett and Alec Baldwin are the only ones who can do the menacing whisper, so...
May 12th
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May 11th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 6th
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…to a flame
This morning: Email → Album Art Revival at We Are Hunted¹ → We Are Hunted → Moth (new Burial²!) (also @ stereogum) → Lykke Li! → The English Way ¹ I don’t read SvN much anymore, but every so often they pick a good one. ² “Untrue” is definitely one of my favorite records of the last few years.
May 5th
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Priorities
Google searches on the drive to, time in, and drive from Key West today: Florida traffic Florida keys (why “keys”: corruption of Spanish “cayo” -small island) restaurants in Key Largo 30 Rock quotes Kenneth “oh no when I get upset” how many $50 bills in 1lb (about 454… $22,700)
May 3rd
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May 3rd
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Yes Man
That was possibly the least irritating Jim Carrey movie I’ve seen. He only did that over-the-top nonsense once and it was so brief. That said: I was on a red-eye flight running on only a couple hours’ sleep… But still. Zooey Deschanel! Bradley Cooper (shut up, “Alias” was great [excepting the last season and a half]).
May 1st