December 2009
80 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Califone (67)
Elbow (39)
White Denim (35)
Animal Collective (34)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (28)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of...”
– Dfw on Good Writing via zadie smith. Discipline indeed. (via meaghano)
Sons Of Freedom's Official Homepage →
Hey - you can download all of the songs from their website (or what claims to be their website).
WatchDailymotion - Sons Of Freedom - The Criminal - a Music video
I think this had a budget of about $100.
The Criminal, by Sons of Freedom - I loved this so...
“Advisers would pay lip service to “sound financial practices,” she recalls, but...”
– The Atlantic Online | December 2009 | Did Christianity Cause the Crash? | Hanna Rosin
Honestly, the Prosperity Gospel mostly sounds like The Secret For Christians to me. (Yes, I know it came first.)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Max Richter (77)
The National (31)
Califone (27)
White Denim (24)
Elbow (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Parents would rather add 10 centimeters to their children’s stature than...”
– Ambitious South Korean Parents See Tall as All - NYTimes.com
“Margarine went on sale April 22. It was packed, colored white, into squishy...”
– A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1949
I’m loving this series of articles on re:place, especially for little time-and-place details like this.
“The Sun’s Page One headline January 4, 1949 about a police raid the night before...”
– re:place Magazine
Hard to imagine a sentence like ‘Figuratively rubbing their hands’ making it into the paper today.
“The government sought more control over the system and wanted to legitimize...”
– Brief History of BC Wine & Liquor Laws - Wine Law in Canada and BC
Somehow these old rules hang around Vancouver like a miasma, they may no longer exist but the urge to control is obviously still there - see recent attempts by council to set very restrictive food/liquor requirements. And pints...
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Preview track from new Silver Mt. Zion album.
“One of the most difficult to locate archival shots yet to be posted is of Tom...”
– Nostalgic poster exhibit revisits Expo 86
Holy crap. I have not seen this - maybe not posted yet?
To add a little to the previous post on Slow, a...
Computational thinking and energy literacy →
On using WolframAlpha to understand what power usage really means, and understanding just what e = mc^2 means.
“Gypsy lights another long, thin cigarette with a tarnished Zippo, which he...”
– Tokeville: On the frontiers of federalism and dope—By Gideon Lewis-Kraus (Harper’s Magazine)
Save this for when you have time for the whole thing, it’s really quite wonderful.
““We expected better sportsmanship from a local Canadian company than to...”
– CBC News - British Columbia - Lululemon scolded for linking clothing line to Olympics
I don’t much care for lululemon, but this amuses me. I like the insinuation that one corporate entity should somehow go beyond the letter of the law to be nice to another corporate entity. Also, if I think...
“Soon, there will be progress bars on everything, from traffic lights, cookers,...”
– things magazine: an online journal about objects and meanings
God, I can’t believe how LONG it took for the tumblr posting window to show up so I could post this.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Max Richter (174)
Califone (145)
White Denim (93)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (74)
Cult of Luna (36)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“High Stakes was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead. It was my first...”
– Dave Foley | Film | Random Roles | The A.V. Club
The Annunciator Box →
Finally a way to summon my butler post-haste!
Vancouver Public Library - Photos Basic Search →
Right, so my point is that the VPL online photo archive is awesome and will suck up time something crazy. Also, I so want these photos sucked into google maps somehow.
Commercial & Graveley: 1920s vs 2009
1920-something:
2009:
Granville & Smithe: 50s vs Naughties
Granville & Smithe, 1951:
And today:
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“When he gets near Canada, he makes a startling discovery: “Canada can’t hold...”
– Tom Bissett, savagely, on Robert Kaplan
I had read the ‘erotization of race’ quote before and was pretty boggled by it as well.
“Since it’s Friday, why don’t I start with last Friday (because that...”
– From Blown Speakers
True story, I downloaded my first Califone album on Monday (legally even, from emusic) and I’ve been enjoying it all week, like, a lot. Timing!
“THERE is a widespread view, particularly among environmentalists and liberals,...”
– JARED DIAMOND - Will Big Business Save the Earth? - NYTimes.com
The world is a complicated place.
Dickhead Policy · The 19th Meredith Music Festival →
indefensible:
The Meredith website is great, and this page, on their dickhead policy, shows exactly why.
Oh I would like this policy in every club everywhere please.
“We showed him [Salman Rushdie] the book case that had been charred by the fire...”
– Remembering the Rushdie Affair « Ask the Agent
Crazy times. I still get a twinge of embarrassment whenever reading about the Rushdie fatwa due to Canada’s ridiculous customs seizure of the book.
“I wrote about Beck last month, and now I’ve reconsidered my opinion of him and...”
– 2009, as seen on TV: The New Yorker Blog : The New Yorker
I bet that felt good to write.
