January 2010
70 posts
“I’m put back in the mind of the The Wire, when Slim Charles tells Avon...”
– I Just Remembered Chris Matthews Was White - Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Much later, I realized there were elements of me in both men,” Kentridge...”
– William Kentridge, quoted in Lines of Resistance by Calvin Tomkins, New Yorker, January 18, 2010, pg 54
Carried!
Thanks to the miracle of the internet, you can read council minutes for the City/Municipality of Surrey going back to 1880. Herein find a small snippet taken from each decade from 1880-1980. Clicking each image will take you to a PDF of the complete document.
1880:
1890 (my vote for the hardest to read):
1900:
1910:
1920 (my favorite writing sample):
1930:
1940:
1950:
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“in order to cut down costs in these frugal times the deal between publishing...”
– Twitlonger: all who want an explanation of the world of walk on music enter this post. ok. this is the definiti
In which we learn why 10 seconds of music can cost a ridiculous amount of money. It’s this kind of crap that makes me think burning the music industry system to the ground would be...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
The National (22)
Mastodon (21)
Explosions in the Sky (16)
The xx (15)
RJD2 (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Unfortunately the designs that many people submit don’t seem to contain an...”
– Make It Digital Textiles – blog review | ouno
‘neo-granny craft’ is a great line.
Apple - Movie Trailers - Blood Into Wine →
Guy who had a cameo on Mr Show makes wine now apparently.
“How did you summon the courage to consciously alienate those people?
I think...”
– eMusic Q&A: Mark Everett of Eels - eMusic Spotlight
“Later that decade, Davis led a quasi-covert operation that recorded the vaginal...”
– Scientific American: Feature Article: Art as a Form of Life: April 2001
Ok, you’ve probably already seen this as it was on BoingBoing, but holy crap.
“Maura: Siren.jpg! I mean, it’s really easy to think you’re seeing...”
– “People on the Internet Like to Argue About Music More Than They Like to Enjoy Music”: Maura Johnston and Seth Colter Walls on Genre, 2009 and Pazz + Jop | The Awl
If you read only one super long discussion analyzing the phenomenon of best-of-the-year lists, make it this one. Plus, big \m/ to that...
“David B. Scott, the well-regarded magazine consultant…”
– New rules ‘a big, big hit’ to Canadian magazines - The Globe and Mail
OH YEAH DAVID B. SCOTT HE’S THE MAGAZINE CONSULTING *MAN* [Seriously g&m, shouldn’t that be ‘a’ not ‘the’?]
Anyway, more alarming and weirdly:
“While the overall...
“Tonight, though, Vancouver is looking pretty good. Kristin, my high-school...”
– Vancouver: Notes from a native daughter. (1) - By Elisabeth Eaves - Slate Magazine
Funny how the fact that the house described is likely close to two million dollars - at least - doesn’t get mentioned. Life is fabulous for rich people!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Califone (76)
The xx (50)
White Denim (25)
Phoenix (19)
Juana Molina (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“It's a conundrum. But Jesus was resurrected after...
Hey, if you’re not spending enough of today with your head in your hands, try these two links out:
The Distant Executioner
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes
Ask an Art Buyer: Following the Comp OR Some... →
Working as a professional photographer sure sounds like fun.
“But then when he comes to record a piece of [Steve Reich’s] like, say,...”
– On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | Interview | Music | The Observer
Also:
“All the signs were in the air all around with ambient music in the mid 1970s, and other people were doing a similar thing. I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what...
B.C.'s Arts and Culture division disappears →
Distressing, plus it feels like there’s not much that can be done to change it. (And the MLA in new digs is NDP, so pointless to complain there.)
lookjjlook:
For the locals: How distressing, after a year of brutal cuts, and money haemorrhaged in the service of the O-lympics.
towerofsleep:
NDP MLA Spencer Herbert has told the Straight that the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts...
And another thing
George Saunder’s story in the latest McSweeney’s, Fox 8, is a thing of beauty. Funny and heartbreaking.
Safari : The New Yorker →
Jennifer Egan’s recent short story is worth your time. There’s a real mastery of tone going on here - it’s not at all showy writing, but it’s very effective.
“There was no other scheme like this in the world at the time,” says Boddy, who...”
– Giving architects their due - The Globe and Mail
I bet they don’t take credit for Main & Hastings though. Also, don’t the politicians and urban planners kind of dictate the broad strokes of what architects can build? I’m sure if the city had been more developer-friendly,...
“There is also eggnog as interpreted by someone interested in the intersection of...”
– Restaurant Review - The Breslin - NYTimes.com
Sam Sifton can turn a phrase.
Oh and also:
“ATMOSPHERE Hogwarts for hipsters.”
“Beginning with its April/May issue, the Winnipeg-based bimonthly, which has been...”
– The Beaver’s name passes into history - The Globe and Mail
The name change is happening for pretty much exactly the reason you think it is. Canada’s History is a lazy replacement name though. Maybe they should try and pick something that would need to be changed for the exact same...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
The xx (117)
Califone (63)
Animal Collective (47)
Phoenix (43)
Puscifer (21)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
What is this called
Teaser trailer for new David Simon show:
Opening of Down By Law:
Opening of True Blood (NSFW-ish):
This use of tracking shot montage shows up a lot, not sure why the first three I thought of were all set in the American South. Speaking of which, bonus video of the trailer for Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, which inspired the True Blood opening:
“Rumpus: What’s the creepiest Facebook interaction you have had?
Employee:...”
– Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee - The Rumpus.net
Also of geekly interest: “For example, this guy right now is single-handedly rewriting, essentially, the entire site. […] He is creating HPHP, Hyper-PHP, which means he’s literally rewriting the entire...
“Ava Gardner, wearing a conical bra that could put out the eyes of a hippo”
– I love Anthony Lane. From January 4 New Yorker article on Grace Kelly.
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“LaHaye & Jenkins show that the allegedly biblical prophecies they insist...”
– slacktivist: TF: LaHaye World
I so like Fred Clark’s close reading of the Left Behind books.
“I notice that the idea of ‘expert’ has changed. An expert used to be...”
– THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2010— Page 2
Brian Eno’s answer to the question ‘How is the internet changing the way you think?’
