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I'm so old school…

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

I listen to bands that don’t exist anymore… While I’m waiting for the second coming of Penelope, listen to some old, but amazing tracks. In the (paraphrased) words of the Terminator, “They’ll be back.”

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Weekend Reading: Faking It

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

So for Cobain, as for most rock stars and fans today, real rock’n’roll must be shackled to the kind of primitivism that accompanied Leadbelly’s career, an idealization of “savage” simplicity. If Cobain had broadcast the facts of his own painful life in the wordy, sophisticated tradition of Loudon Wainwright III rather than the barebones tradition [...]

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Ari and I are both a bunch of dorks.

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Our answer to the question: Would you outsource your social networking?

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Chilling out.

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

short imagined monologues, big willie style, [via liz ] 10:34 AM Ari: buck just sent this to me: http://www.chrisjordan.com 10:36 AM did you download the cinematic album yet? me: oh wow, this guy is awesome Ari: yeah me: dl’d it last night haven’t listened yet Ari: it’s way different definitely their coming out album they [...]

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I started a news item in the blogosphere.

Friday, March 30th, 2007

UPDATE:: Brooklyn Vegan and Curbed report as well. I have a major personal character defect, that I need, or at least very much *like* to be first in regards to things. I get a pleasant satisfaction when I’ve read (and sent) and article around before it appears in the NYTimes Most E-Mailed Stories newsfeed, for [...]

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a couple of notable items.

Friday, March 30th, 2007

first of all, i was perusing pitchfork this morning when i came across this: our friend anais mitchell was recently signed to righteous babe, releasing her first album on ani’s label this past month. anais’ heart and soul is music, and i couldn’t be more proud to know her. secondly, via pitchfork, i just discovered [...]

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blinded by the big head.

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

we’re in the business of niche.

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morning meditation.

Friday, December 15th, 2006

every morning of camp, we’d have to take two minutes at breakfast to put our heads down on the table and listen to someone play something shitty on the piano. i still really appreciate in retrospect, and i’m reinstituting the policy. check this out:

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barter/free: two witty and cunning entrepeneurs…

Monday, December 11th, 2006

the new york times takes a look at the internet’s biggest public service, the now-ubiquitous craigslist. google has tried it, and so has microsoft, but ultimately these are for-profit endeavors that people do not perceive as providing a service. i’ve bought a car on craigslist, a minidisc recorder, a futon, made money as a man [...]

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more online music experiments

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Jane Siberry has created a fascinating new experiment in online music sales. Outlined here by freakonomics co-writer Stephen Dubner, the site offers four options for purchasing songs, and they are as follows: free (gift from Jane) self-determined (pay now) self-determined (pay later so you are truly educated in your decision) standard (today’s going rate is [...]

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