Ooh ... shiny.

neil-gaiman: Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in...

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:46:20 -0700

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth. Yes.

RIP the wonderful Maurice Sendak

blowncovers:

We’ll miss you.

Wonderful commentary on books and children. Sendak was a gem. So is Spiegelman.

"The other interesting thing about that story is that out of the 5,000 people, only two of them had..."

Fri, 04 May 2012 15:35:45 -0700

“The other interesting thing about that story is that out of the 5,000 people, only two of them had thought to bring any food. So, in a way, it’s, OK, good miracle. But the other side of it is 4,998 idiots with no sense of foresight at all. And Jesus doesn’t make them learn a lesson from that. It’s all fine. “You didn’t bring any food? Of course there’s not going to be any food. Think about it. Plan next time. Judea would be better if people planned.” But, no, it always works out fine. Jesus will magic up some grub. He’s going to get crucified one day, and then what are you going to eat?”

- David Mitchell

Yeah, but is your pumpernickel THIS good?

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:47:41 -0700

Yeah, but is your pumpernickel THIS good?

"That’s what Graceland had: an unusual degree of understanding among people who had just met."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:23:25 -0700

“That’s what Graceland had: an unusual degree of understanding among people who had just met.”

- Paul Simon

europhemeral: Something that just occurred to me. Made with...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:33:49 -0700

europhemeral:

Something that just occurred to me.

Made with Paper

Clever!

But, why do I never go out for a drink?

Sent from my iPhone.

wheniflysoloiflysohigh: Ra Ra Riot - Valerie ft. Delicate Steve...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:37:11 -0700

wheniflysoloiflysohigh:

Ra Ra Riot - Valerie ft. Delicate Steve (Steve Winwood Cover)

Side one of a 7” Split with Delicate Steve to be released for Record Store Day. Ra Ra Riot has this 80’s sound down. Haha

Wow.

Nailed it.

laughingsquid: TopBrewer Coffee Faucet HELLO, BEAUTIFUL!

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:21:17 -0700

laughingsquid:

TopBrewer Coffee Faucet

HELLO, BEAUTIFUL!

The Amazing Slow Downer

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:49:36 -0700

Learning some tricky drum parts. Downloaded the Amazing Slow Downer iPhone app. Most useful music app I’ve bought by far. Earns its name (and its purchase price, which is a little steep for an app at $14.99). Highly recommended.

Stanton Moore drum clinic at Rhythm Traders

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:07:05 -0700

Stanton Moore drum clinic at Rhythm Traders

thedailywhat: Krusty The Klown IRL of the Day: A kid in a clown...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:51:08 -0700

thedailywhat:

Krusty The Klown IRL of the Day: A kid in a clown costume attends Purim services at an ultra-Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem.

[willprescott / ratsoff.]

Is it too early to give this an award for best photo of 2012?

nprmusic: Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate with a pint of...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:42:18 -0700

nprmusic:

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate with a pint of green brew and a concert from the long-running Irish folk music band The Chieftans. Folk-rock stars The Low Anthem join Paddy Maloney and his gang join in front of a spirited audience.

Hear the concert.

Photos: Brian McCreath/WGBH

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

nprmusic: Watch Kendrick Scott and Oracle perform “Cycling...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:35:32 -0700

nprmusic:

Watch Kendrick Scott and Oracle perform “Cycling Through Reality” live at the Berklee College of Music, then hear the whole concert from WBGO.

Kendrick Scott, on drums, is the bandleader. The drums come in at just over four minutes into the song. There is a lesson here.

Also, Scott begins by playing the resonant/snare side of his snare drum. (That is, he’s playing it upside down.) At around 5:35, the camera focuses in on the bass player. Scott breaks his rhythm down to the ride cymbal and then a few beats of rest, before snapping back in at full force, having flipped the snare over while off camera. He’s the David Copperfield (Scrubs, not Dickens) of drums.

I like that he explores his instrument by playing the “wrong” side (see also: Dave King), but also I think that this would be a great exercise in playing softly. Snare-side heads are as thin as they come. If you overdo it, you’re going to have to buy a new head and, honestly, when’s the last time you replaced your snare-side head? How’s that for stick-control motivation?

merlin: grantimatter: Good lord. We really have inherited the...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:46:33 -0700

merlin:

grantimatter:

Good lord. We really have inherited the Earth. Now what do we do with it?

3/13/12: White House Press Briefing, in which White House Press Secretary Jay Carney proclaims Guided By Voices to be the greatest rock’n’roll band of the modern era. The Dayton bit starts about 24 seconds in. Love it.

[ via andrewtsks:jasonbaldwin]

I’ve watched it five times and I still have no words.

Apart from: “TWO, THREE, FOW!”

How can I vote for Jay Carney for, I don’t know … anything? Speaker of Rock, perhaps.

Now, go listen to Do the Collapse (Spotify).

thedailywhat: Marketing Campaign of the Day: This brilliant...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:36:25 -0700

thedailywhat:

Marketing Campaign of the Day: This brilliant promotion for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by photographer Bjoern Ewers shines a perspective-reexamining light on the interiors of musical instruments, which, incidentally, look like they would make rather amazing concert halls.

See the rest here.

[colossal.]

Clever and beautiful adverts featuring a side of musical instruments few get to see—and in remarkable detail.

wilwheaton: (via Reddit) “You can’t expect to...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:19:38 -0800

wilwheaton:

(via Reddit)

“You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.”

"Now hear me. One day, a young person will come to you, on some kind of spiritual quest. If it works..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:03:37 -0800

“Now hear me. One day, a young person will come to you, on some kind of spiritual quest. If it works out for this person to become your apprentice, let me give you one piece of advice. Don’t talk with him about spiritual matters. Just teach your apprentice how to make shoes.”

- From “Cobblers,” on The Northwest Woodworking Studio blog

"When you innovate, you create innovative things in your marketplace and the jobs can’t go..."

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:28:00 -0800

“When you innovate, you create innovative things in your marketplace and the jobs can’t go overseas because they haven’t figured out how to do it yet. One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you, and they can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you, and at a multinational, free-market enterprise, it is their company’s obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply. But in the ’60s and ’70s, was anyone complaining that jobs were going overseas? I don’t remember that. Because we were innovating in ways that the rest of the world was playing catch up. So, for me, the motivation is to compel the nation to want to do this as a stoking force on our economy. Once the nation wants to do it, the pressure then gets put on our lawmakers and then what they end up putting into place is the expression of our wishes, not some political whim that happens to make a good campaign slogan.”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

thedailywhat: Yes You Can Scream of the Day: The recently...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:06:00 -0800

thedailywhat:

Yes You Can Scream of the Day: The recently reunited Refused perform “New Noise” live for the first time in 14 years at a secret show in their Swedish hometown of Umeå.

Additional footage from the show can be found here.

The band will be playing a slew of festivals this year, beginning with Coachella in April. More info on their official site.

[punknews.]

AHHHHHHH!

"This last year, though, it looked like this might actually be it. He was in a home, and he was all..."

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:06:00 -0800

“This last year, though, it looked like this might actually be it. He was in a home, and he was all dried out and really old, like a raisin or a lazy simile.”

- Ian Karmel on Live Wire! Radio

The Vinyl Anachronist: "Age/Sex/Occupation's This Side of the Fence on CD"

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:49:00 -0800

The Vinyl Anachronist: "Age/Sex/Occupation's This Side of the Fence on CD":

“I’ve been paying a lot of attention to drummers lately, and McAllister knows how to beat his kit with vicious authority. He also knows how to mix it up and follow Weiskopf’s muse, whatever that may be from moment to moment.” Criminy.