December 2010
24 posts
As I now live in California rather than New England, “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show is not a particularly fitting “Going back to Kentucky” song. Perhaps I shall utilize The Decemberists’ “As I Rise” (“California’s okay, but I think I might stay in the shade for a while”) mashed up against that obnoxious “Old Kentucky...
http://mashupbreakdown.com/ →
A visual display of the songs sampled in Girl Talk’s “All Day”; way better than the list on Wikipedia (which is gone, for some reason).
The piano better be DDing
Happy 61st birthday, Tom Waits! Here’s hoping your voice keeps on sounding “like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car.”
Also, here’s an inexplicable picture of Tom Waits in a tree.
“God is… living on a farm, upstate.”
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Nietzsche, to his children
http://www.savethewords.org/ →
I adopted “oporopolist,” meaning “a seller of fruit.” A top contender was “kexy,” meaning brittle and withered. (Useful in lyrics for juxtaposition with “sexy”; get on that, musical community.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation →
This will solve 99% of all text-message-based misunderstandings. GET ON THAT SHIT, T9.
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life →
Aliens aren’t gonna need poison. They’re gonna be poison.
Also, my seventh grade report on the element arsenic would have been way more badass with this information. Oh, the regrets of adolescence that scientific progress has rained down upon me…
And vegue (a vague segue): yesterday someone pointed out that Canadians refer to seventh grade as “grade seven,”...
http://nanoism.net →
Twitter-sized fiction, submitted by whomever. I dig it, if only because it provokes me to create something out of the phrase “She had grown to loathe and envy circles” (ended up being about Archimedes’ wife; poor, neglected lady).
New goal: same website, but for expressing the most complex mathematical theorems or proofs in the length of a Twitter post. Infinitude of primes: mad easy.