Say what you will about Weezy, but his latest mixtape No Ceilings is straight up fire.
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Beirut – Postcards from Italy
It’s been a couple of years, but this track from Beirut’s debut album Gulag Orkestar is just beautiful as the day I first heard it. The song’s lyrics paint such an incredibly vivid love story.
And I will love to see that day
that day is mine
when she will marry me outside with the willow trees
and play the songs we made
they made me so
and I would love to see that day
her day was mine
Don’t fuck with me cuz right now I’m higher than Captain Kirk
Radiohead by ~gloriousday
On music and life
According to my Last.fm profile, I have 45,020 recorded plays since July 23, 2005. My actual number of plays, though, will probably be around 48,000 partly because of flaky iPod scrobbling support in earlier versions of iSproggler and partly because I have been known to just forget to have it on and scrobbling—whoops. But I digress.
According to the ever-useful Wolfram Alpha, July 23, 2005 to November 4, 2009 is a period of 1,566 days, or 37,583 hours. And according to iTSfv, the average length of a track in my library is 3:49.
45,020 plays × 3m49s ÷ 60 hrs ÷ 37,583 hrs = 0.09284
I spent an average of a little over 9% of every day for the past three and a half years listening to music. Factor out the time when I’m sleeping and I’m spending close to 15% of my waking hours just listening to music. In other words, a little over two hours every single day. Wow.
My So-Called Life
Recently I’ve started watching My So-Called Life on Hulu after an enthusiastic recommendation from Kottke. This short-lived teen drama was on the air for only one season in 1994 before ABC axed the show for low ratings, but not before it attracted a small but loyal and dedicated fanbase who continue to run a popular unofficial fan site fifteen years after the show had been canceled.
The show was also a darling of critics, who praised the show for its authentic and nuanced depiction of high school and its sensitive portrayals of difficult topics of the time, including child abuse, homophobia, teenage alcoholism, homelessness, adultery, school violence, same-sex parenting, censorship, and drug use. 1994 was a time before networks catered to the youth and teen market as is routinely done nowadays, and ABC hardly knew how to market such a difficult show.
I was never particularly a fan of Claire Danes—she was completely forgettable in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and I haven’t yet watched Romeo + Juliet—but I used to listen to The Ataris a lot and on their ‘Looking Forward to Failure’ EP there is a song titled “My So Called Life”, in which Kris Roe proclaims his love for her ever since seeing her on My So-Called Life. That, plus the fact that the show is currently available on Hulu in its entirety led me to give it a try. And boy, am I glad I did.
And probably not a moment too soon, as there has been word that Hulu will officially start charging for content in 2010.
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Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage
Laugh all you want, but the New Moon soundtrack is truly awesome. I have been playing it basically nonstop since the 11th. It sounds like the soundtrack to a hipster’s wet dream.
Kanye West and Spike Jones – We Were Once a Fairy Tale
This is why you don’t do drugs. I’m just kidding—you totally should. This short film feels like a horrible, hallucinogenic nightmare but it’s oddly alluring and endearing at the same time.
In other words, it’s Kanye × Spike Jonze. Hard to go wrong with that one.
I loved this song when we were in love but I haven’t listened to it in years.
Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the 2000s
Agree with their indie-centric taste or not, but there’s no denying that Pitchfork put together a thorough and comprehensive roundup of this decade’s greatest albums.
And if you’re the type that likes to flip to the back of the book and read the ending first, here are the top 20.
(via Kottke)
SNL Digital Short: On the Ground
Samberg does it again; another hilarious short from Saturday Night Live.
At the Farmers’ Market with my so-called ‘girlfriend’,
she hands me her cellphone, says it’s my dad.
Maaann, this ain’t my dad, this is a cellphone.
I THREW IT ON THE GROUND.
Here’s hoping it appears on The Lonely Island’s next album.
