February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
4 posts
Void Vision on WFMU's Dark Night of the Soul →
Philadelphia Cold Wave Diva, Shari Vari, AKA Void Vision plays a killer live set on WFMU. Go listen. Now.
What? You’re not doing anything important!
December 2011
16 posts
Is It Time to Overhaul the Calendar? →
scientificamerican.com
Forget leap years, months with 28 days and your birthday falling on a different day of the week each year. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland say they have a better way to mark time : a new calendar in which every year…
Didn’t the French try this already after the revolution?
I wish Motorhead would come back... | MetaFilter →
kittysneezes:
That’s sad — Motorhead Sherwood died yesterday.
He moved on, ya know.
November 2011
10 posts
Inside the Mind of an Octopus →
In short, cooooooooool!
Review: Thomas Dolby - A Map of the Floating City →
October 2011
7 posts
“People are only human, and humans make a hell of a lot of fuck-ups. You can’t...”
– Mark Mothersbaugh (Pre-Nuke Slip-Up Memorial)
“[Island] played right into what became the inspiration for our whole theory of...”
– Jerry Casale, as quoted in “Roots of Devo lie in a 1932 horror movie”
On It Being Everywhere →
New post on sanspoint.
WatchDream Affair - Endless Days
These folks are gonna go places.
September 2011
1 post
"On Doing Less, Better" →
A new post on sanspoint that does what it says on the tin.
August 2011
13 posts
On Aspiration Versus Action →
Or, “Why I no longer aspire to be a writer,” now on sanspoint.
WatchThe Decemberists - “Calamity Song”
Dude. It’s a music video adaptation of Eschaton from Infinite Jest. It could be a video by Insane Clown Posse and still be awesome.
Okay, maybe not as an ICP video…
Forgotten Records: Owada - Nothing →
This week, Forgotten Records reviews Nothing.
Forgotten Records: The Band Without The Face, Part... →
The Band Without The Face series finishes with a look at The Velvet Underground without, erm, everyone…
Review: The Spudmonsters - Stand Up For What You... →
My second article this week for Kittysneezes
Forgotten Records: The Band Without The Face, Part... →
The first of two articles for Kittysneezes this week.