January 2010
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The Crazy from The Mixtape About Nothing by Wale
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Chat with S, 1/27/10
S: L! We need to get some guns, AK's, rockets and bombs!
me: Why, S?
S: To fight the devil.
me: Oh yeah? Where is the devil now?
S: We are going to bring him up. That's why we need guns, AK's, rockets and bombs!
me: Ok, S, I will get on that for you.
S: Really?
me: No.
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Farewell, J. D. Salinger →
It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Chat with D, 1/26/09
D: Yo, Mr L, bra, give me a contract for a Marshall's gift card.
me: .......nah.
D: Yo, Mr L. Bra. Give me a contract for a Marshall's gift card or I will fuck up your car.
me: D, that's not how this is supposed to work and you don't know which car is mine.
D: It is a Honda.
me: ...
D: It is green.
me: Damn. Well, and I am in no way condoning this, but if you are going to smash the windows, be sure to get the windshield.
D: OK. But you can't tell nobody.
me. D, if you smash my car windows, I am tellin all sorts of everybodies.
D: Dats cold.
me: No, it isn't.
Harvey Weinstein to Errol Morris in 1988: You're... →
stylman:
Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Shampoo...
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Black Purse (Amp Live Remix) by Why? →
The remix action doesn’t stop with just one song. In preparation for the release of his latest project later this year, Amplive remixed Why’s entire new “Eskimo Snow” into the slightly off kilter “One Dark Eskimo” (download link).
“Sneak peak at the aesthetic for the Into the Spin video:...”
– dessadarling
JEL AND ODD NOSDAM: TOO MUCH RED MEAT FOR THE... →
Odd Nosdam: I can’t even figure out exactly what happened musically this past decade. I would like to see people getting back to hearing music on a record played on a good sound system instead of an iPod. The MP3—especially if it’s at a low bitrate—is the most compromised form; it’s not the way music was meant to be experienced. I’d like to also see the low end aspect of...
Dessa Talking to The Onion about Badly Broken Code →
I think I have a better idea of what I’d like to do as a lyricist [on Code]. The album itself is very varied, in that there’s some tracks that are a cappella, kind of churchy songs, some tracks are rap bangers, and some songs are melancholy, kind of a torch vibe.
….and I continue to bump this album.
flyoverstates:
It’s easy to get carried away when you finally get to hear an album you’ve been waiting on for literally years. You build up the hype in your head for so long that invariably you get let down by the final product and then you spiral into a whirlwind of disappointment. Well, maybe not that far, but you get the drift. Thankfully, that isn’t the case with A Badly Broken Code. In...
Letter from Kurt Vonnegut, 1945, on his time in a...
FROM:
Pfo. K. Vonnegut, Jr., 12102964 U. S. Army.
TO:
Kurt Vonnegut, Williams Creek, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dear people:
I’m told that you were probably never informed that I was anything other than “missing in action.” Chances are that you also failed to receive any of the letters I wrote from Germany. That leaves me a lot of explaining to do — in precis:
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brianstowell:
Get into it. http://www.doomtree.net/dessa/
I have it and it has lived up to, if not exceeded expectations. I will post my favorite track after it comes out for real on Tuesday. Cue Dessa on repeat for the next couple of months…
Chat with J, 1/15/09
me: Next word: Bee. The Bee flew into the hive. B-ee.
J: How you spell that?
me: J, this is a spelling test.
J: I know, how you spell that?
me: That's not how this works.
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The Dessa code →
At a Sage Francis gig in ‘03, Dessa opened the show with a single poem. P.O.S. from Doomtree was in the crowd. Awestruck, he sought her out after the show, and within months she was recording her first solo track, “Hawks and Herons,” at the crew’s south Minneapolis manse, Doom Manor.
Thank you, David Hansen for all this Dessa.
“Why does everyone all of the sudden care about some country in Africa?”...”
– jerkstoremike
Chat with D, 1/13/09
D: Yo, Mr L, bra.
me: Yo D, bra
D: No, you can't say that.
me: Say what?
D: Bra.
me: Why?
D: Cuz you white.
me: Oh. What about "blood," can I say that?
D: You a Blood?
me: No.
D: Den you can't say dat neither.
me: Ok, good to know.
“Turns out some people in Omaha enjoy the new Vampire Weekend. Let the hipster...”
– Sometimes We Mean It
Chat with S, 1/12/09
me: S, what do you call Mr F, again?
S: Depends on what he is wearing.
me: Ok, what about yellow?
S: Mr Lemon.
me: Blue?
S: Mr. Blueberry, duh!
me: What about red?
S: Mr. Cherry, bitch!
me: Ok, so, orange must be orange?
S: Yes, what the hell else would it be?
me: I don't know, S. So, purple would be grape?
S: No, you fucking idiot. When he wears purple he is a purple bitch.
B: You need to go tell Mr. F to wear more purple.
me: Done and done.
Amanda Palmer Sings "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails w/...
twentyfourbit:
Despite Johnny Cash’s version of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” being considered among most to be in the canon of music history’s greatest cover songs, I must confess that I’ve never been too crazy about it. It’s a brilliant performance, for sure, not to mention Mark Romanek’s epic music video, but I’ve always felt that other Cash covers, like “Personal Jesus” or “I See a Darkness”, were...