August 2009
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“Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge…”
– William Zinsser, On Writing Well 30th Anniversary Edition, p38
Hee. Also: word.
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The best intentions…
I should be 3/4 of the way through Infinite Jest.
In fact, I’m still back on page 120-something. My first attempt at IJ four years ago netted me 30 pages, so this is progress. But still. I’ve read…15 other books since I started IJ. (I knew I was dreadfully behind when Infinite Summer’s unread count in my reader passed 10.)
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“When the lion is dead, the jackals become brave enough to howl.”
– happyroach, in Goodbye, Teddy. Never heard that phrase before, but wow. (via merlin)
Seriously, wow.
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For some ghostly reason…
Tabs currently open in Firefox:
“Vision of Ghosts” - (die) PILOT (via dejvicka)
Ghost chart by Olly Moss (via @rands)
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Just like honey
2 end of summer, dubbed-out, re-edits absolutely worth your time (via Mark):
“Heavy Love” - The Revenge
“Heavy Love Affair” - Marvin Gaye
“Love You Inside Out” - The Pinches Re-Edit
“Love You Inside Out” - The Bee Gees
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Elliott Bay Book Co. →
Where I’m relatively sure I’ll be spending a decent amount of money in the coming weeks, months, years. The shop is pretty big featuring hardwood floors that creak and bookshelves requiring tippy-toe viewing.
Lucky (?) for me, I got there last night 45 minutes before closing. I managed to leave with only 3 books:
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Fred Kaplan
Le Petit Prince,...
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Nostaglia.
The colors + the film + the subjects (both Tom’s photos).
Urban camping
Spin cycle
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“Those who use long periods of flowered prolixity and pretentious phrases—who...”
– Notes and shorter letters. Emily Post. Etiquette. 1922. (via thatwhichmatter)
Indeed. (Said another way: omit needless words.)
I would say much of the specific advice re: addressing particularly women has fallen by the wayside, but the above is still worthy.
(Also: vainglory!)
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“…the stark raving existential pain of learning that the world has broken.”
– Jacob’s review of this week’s “True Blood” (“Time Bomb”). TWoP isn’t what it used to be, but Jacob is great at this (nb: read the recap after you’ve watched the episode).
My thoughts about “Time Bomb” are recursively this: the entire...
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WatchTIME ZERO: the last year of Polaroid Film (Grant Hamilton) (also on flickr)
YES.
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ISO50 Music Exclusive: FREE MP3 EP →
furyandsound (my entry):
At some point, I’ll stop saying it, but the ISO50 crew got it right. Again.
This time it’s with a collection of cover/mixed tracks from a handful of the musician’s Jakub’s seen this summer.
Great artwork, great tunes. Go forth and enjoy.
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The Book Stalker →
Word to the book(shelf) stalking.
I don’t quite understand why this continues to be framed as a set of mutually exclusive options, the Kindle vs. regular books. I like (d) all of the above.
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Bug-fixing, hunting down a digital version of a drum’n’bass track, and researching turntables.
Thursday!
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tiffehr:
“The whole scene is like that robotic vacuum cleaner Roomba: progressive, there to help but also, in a way you can’t quite pinpoint, really menacing.”
— Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco
Hahah. Oh man. You now know why I turned down UCSC after visiting my senior year…
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Droppin' eaves and beats
Gotta work out how to Audio Hijack dreams. In last night’s episode… JB shot a seriously cool video from his Leica MP (really) and apparently Jim Ray’s got some hidden turntable skills.
Ah, ibuprofen- and pain-induced dreams.
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Word, Trent.
Trent Reznor makes me scowly: he and his music are not, as the kids say, in my wheelhouse. That said, I’m happy such a well-established artist has the gall to come out and say it:
Forget thinking you are going to make any real money from record sales. Make your record cheaply (but great) and GIVE IT AWAY. As an artist you want as many people as possible to hear your work. Word of mouth is...
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Bait and switch
As much as I’m annoyed by Kindle samples of which fully half are tables of contents and dedications (really?), so am I annoyed with full-length books of which fully one-third is source notes and lack section/chapter demarcations in the progress bar!
I’m glaring, exhausted, at you, 1776.
The writing clearly signaled end-of-class wrapping up, but the progress bar promised another 30%...
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“And the ignorance of you appalls me.”
– Marathe, p. 105; “Infinite Jest” - David Foster Wallace
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I wait for Henry.
Where I read The Time Traveler’s Wife:
my chair by the window, listening to the Friday night bar patrons babble and order from the hot dog guy
my hallway in the path of a fan
Starbucks surrounded by the murmur of 50 or so others lost in their own air-conditioned pursuits
Started it Friday night, finished it tonight. It’s been awhile since a book compelled me to read into the wee...