January 2010
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My Favorite Albums from the past decade.
Here is my highly biased list of my personal favorite albums from this decade. These are the CD’s that are almost always in my car even though I try to rotate through my way to big CD collection. Well loved and possibly over played, these are the albums that grabbed my attention and have never let go:
Black Eyes – Black Eyes (2002)
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight (2002)
A Band of...
December 2009
42 posts
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Eat Skull (14)
Epsilons (6)
She Keeps Bees (4)
Neko Case (3)
The Vaselines (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
End point of the night: the thought process for the art is more important than what is actually made which is why Duchamp stopped making art.
Also:
My aunt, brother, cousin, and myself all hate Thomas Kinkade.
My brother, cousin, and I also dislike Shepard Fairey.
My aunts hates Andy Warhol and pop art.
I dislike Damien Hirst; my brother likes his work, and the other two have no opinion.
We...
Christmas dinner turned into an argument that last over an hour on if Andy Warhol should be considered a great artist.
kinkade →
thebigspoonnoless:
“I created a system of marketing compatible with American art,” Kinkade said to me recently. “I believe in ‘aspire to’ art. I want my work to be available but not common. I want it to be a dignified component of everyday life. It’s good to dream about things. It’s like dreaming of owning a Rolex; instead, you dream about owning a seventy-five-thousand-dollar print.”
art as...
Yeah! The Montreal Canadians killed the Hurricanes 5 to 1.
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Welcome to My Top 10 Favorite Albums for 2009
Top 10 of 2009:
Mi Ami – Watersports
Eat Skull — Wild and Inside
Ty Segall – Lemons
Thee Oh Sees – Help
The Mountain Goats – Life of the World to Come
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
TV Ghost – Cold Fish
Mika Miko – We be Xuxa
The Future of the Left- Travels With Myself and Another
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Recommended:
Wavves — Wavves
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I took a big bag of clothes to Plato’s Closet to try to get some money to buy a few Christmas gifts for my family. My sister told me that I didn’t need to worry about getting them anything since I’m unemployed. (That is very nice of them.) I still want to get everybody something at least. Oddly enough, Plato’s Closet bought a couple pairs of Old Navy jeans from me, but...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Shannon Wright (22)
Spoon (14)
Murder by Death (12)
The Oh Sees (12)
Emilíana Torrini (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Basement disco punk house show for the win!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121576791
NPR has been playing a series of work on the furniture work has shifted from N.C. to China. One of the most telling points from this story is how the guy in N.C. “made more than $15 an hour” before he lost his job. I’m assuming that he got benefits such as vacation days and health insurance. Whereas the person doing the same job in...
No diggty about to bang it up
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Argonne Scientists Use Bacteria to Power Simple...
This is a cool article: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/12/prweb3354574.htm
I took my grandmom to get Chinese food for dinner last night. She turns 92 in a few weeks, and she is heavily considering giving up driving. She doesn’t drive that much now anyway—only around downtown Greenville.
Anyway, it is kind of awkward to play the in the bed game with your grandmother, so here is my fortune from last night: Now is the time for you to be spontaneous....
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“It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel....”
– Henry Rollins (via owlatthemoon)
I think the problem has to do with trust. You have to be willing to put yourself at risk of being hurt and just take the plunge. I don’t know the rest of what Henry Rollins said around this quote. He does like to talk a lot with his spoken word shows, so maybe...
These two articles are interesting:
Whack a banker game:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/8410453.stm
Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
A Frames (14)
Spoon (13)
Shannon Wright (11)
Karate (3)
David Bowie (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
This christmas party has turned into a salsa dancing party. I need to learn how to do that—it looks like fun.
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Public Option Paradox
keepyourselfwarm:
So it seems more and more likely that we’re not going to get a public option passed which poses the following paradox in my life:
Health care reform without a public option makes me want to beat my head against my desk, BUT HOW CAN I AFFORD TO BEAT MY HEAD AGAINST THE DESK WITHOUT A PUBLIC OPTION?!
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I finally got around to trying Pandora internet radio this week. I like it so far. The results are a little odd sometimes. I wish I knew more about how the algorithm and the subjective judging from listeners are used to pick my songs. I’m thinking I should just build stations based on specific songs instead of an artist. My first station was built around the band Black Eyes. I really...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
The Mountain Goats (19)
Thurston Moore (15)
Bad Brains (14)
Mika Miko (12)
She Keeps Bees (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
art sale
Yesterday was a very good day. The art sale went pretty well. Some people I know drove from Greenville to see the show; that was really very nice of them. It meant a lot to me see and talk to them. Also, I sold some work yesterday! An older guy came by my table four times to look at my work, and was really talkative each time. On the fourth time, he bought something. He also told me that he...
Today at the art sale a couple asked me where I went to school for my masters in ceramics. Weird-at least they felt my work was really good
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A tribute to riot grrrl and all girl post punk...
It seems that I’m a little behind on the news. Earlier this week, I found out that Mika Miko broke up this year. Mika Miko played their last show near the beginning of November. Mika Miko has been on my short list of favorite bands for the past couple of years. After finding out that bad news, I decided to do a tribute show to all girl post punk bands and riot grrrl bands. I did a pretty...
More Music Industry stuff from a guy in a band who...
http://www.toomuchjoy.com/?p=1397
I’m just going to copy the first couple paragraphs as a teaser:
“I got something in the mail last week I’d been wanting for years: a Too Much Joy royalty statement from Warner Brothers that finally included our digital earnings. Though our catalog has been out of print physically since the late-1990s, the three albums we released on Giant/WB have...
Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE5B01Z920091201?sp=true
I like this quote a lot:
“Piracy-related business has become the main profitable economic activity in our area and as locals we depend on their output,” said Mohamed Adam, the town’s deputy security officer.
“The district gets a percentage of every ransom from ships that have been released,...
Today’s lecture is on STDs. yeah!