April 2008
171 posts
March 2008
110 posts
Muxtape / catbird →
BEST MUXTAPE EVER. EVER. EVER. EVER.
“Fritolaysia has no choice but to crumple up and throw away all chiplomatic ties...”
– Chear- Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
While on the subject of The Onion, this one is an oldie but goodie.
“Always Marry An April Girl
Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found...”
– Always Marry An April Girl by Ogden Nash
The poem from this picture. Self-indulgent yes, but it’s a beautiful poem. I have a feeling me and this Ogden Nash fellow would’ve gotten along.
WatchBomb the Bass - Butterfingers - NickyDigital on blip.tv
When Veronica said this was an adorable video, she wasn’t kidding. SO CUTE! For animated music video fun, hit play.
mail-trends - Google Code →
“Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server). You can see:
Distribution of messages by year, month, day, day of week and time of day
Distribution of messages by size and your top 40 largest messages
The top senders, recipients and mailing lists you’re on.
Distributions of senders, recipients and mailing lists over time
The...
[FINISHED]Craft Challenge #25 - Represent Your... →
“Here’s your chance to pay homage to where you currently live or where you hail from. What special characteristics is your town known for? …What do you think of when you consider what your town represents, what you’re most proud of, what you think is unique about your town? You can interpret this challenge in any way you see fit using any crafting techniques you...
Need a Home Pt 2
For anyone following me for awhile, you already know I’m looking for a new place to live in the city. Well the housemates have a ‘we’d like you leave by’ date of May 1. They think its reasonable but then again, they haven’t been looking ;) Here goes one more time:
I am looking for new digs. Anyone that has tried to find a room on Craigslist in San Francisco knows...
Muxtape / xena →
Who is this Xena character? Warrior Princess?? Surely I do no know her. And I just happened upon this amazingly melancholy Muxtape playlist. Whoever made this is truely brillant!
(wink)
Rick returns to the hits - Rock and pop - Music -... →
I’m not alone when I say that people have been talking and wondering what the man behind the Rick Roll song, Rick Astley, is about. This is a fun article that sums him up nowadays. Homeboy has had a LOT of hits besides his most notorious one, no doubt.
Music fans prefer Wikipedia to MySpace - Yahoo!... →
Not surprising! I prefer to use Wikipedia because sometimes I know their music already, I’m looking for fun-facts.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog: The Cassette Mythos... →
25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog →
dubber: Strategies for blog success Interesting. I’d like to read this later.
muxtapelist.tumblr.com →
gtmcknight:
Exactly what was needed, a steady flow of new muxtapes coming into my dashboard. I think this is the Tumblr killer music app.
There is also a wiki where people are sharing links. Interesting that when a certain needed functionality isn’t built into an awesome product, people will find community workarounds.
“The younger generation knows the truth. You might think you’re pulling one over...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Everybody Knows
Bob Lefsetz rants a lot and while I disagree with the quality level of music out there today (there ARE musicians and bands with potential to be as good as The Beatles, so shoot me for saying it). I so appreciate his honesty and his...
Alarm Industries Presents: VLING →
This store is incredible! They sell jewelery made out of old vinyl records and have really great sillouettes. I love the spindel necklace, the best friends heart, the neon lightening bold earrings, and the Shamrock necklace... or the skull necklace.
Seth Godin Is THE MAN.
Could you make a list? A list of things that you probably could understand if you put your mind to it, but don’t. Things like:
How the Federal Reserve works
Why things from China are so inexpensive
How Google Analytics works
Why kids like using FaceBook
How the guys in the factory make the widgets you sell
Six ways to make your web browser work better
How to make a great spaghetti...
My Muxtape
davidtrawin:
¡Listen Up! http://trawin.muxtape.com
Once I’m done listening to Jakob’s, I shall listen to this fellow’s Muxtape. And when I get home from work tonight, I’ll make one myself.
“My morning consist of waking up to meditation and soothing sounds of my Native...”
– 1 BIG Bdrm Available in Spiritual Oasis, Spacious + Sunny HUGE 3-bdrm
OHHHHHH San Francisco Craigslist. While I appreciate his honesty, this is not a fit. Is it wrong that I’m also irritated a wood nymph will be getting an gigantic 18 X 18 ft room?
gtmcknight: Not to brag, but I LOVE MY JOB.ME TOO.
Crackdown on illegal downloaders - Security -... →
“One Australian internet provider has started to crack down on copyright infringers, as the the music industry’s plan to have telcos disconnect the internet services of illegal downloaders gathers steam in Australia.”
Dear music industry,
PEOPLE WILL FIND NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT ALLOW THEM TO KEEP PIRATING MUSIC.
xo,
april
NPR: Save Me From Your Followers →
A great article from Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein about the fanaticism of music fans. I get a kick out of the discussion in the comments about particular insane-devoted band fans. I’d say U2 fans are pretty crazy-intense.
The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere -... →
its true. comments don’t really do it anymore. interesting. there can be 50 conversations about a blog article outside of the actual blog.
São Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising →
This DOES sound like something right out of adbusters. An interesting experiment. While I agree with no billboards, I disagree to some extent about store signage. I’d like to see the city in a year because I’m willing to be it’ll be beautiful. I also wonder what the stance on murals is because how awesome would it be to have art replace advertisements? Pretty amazing.
Tony...
A Conversation
April: you're feeling better today, aren't you?
Matt: well i mean i still hate the world and want to die
Matt: but i'm coughing less
April: awesome
April: it really annoyed me to hear you cough. it reminds me that you work here
Matt: i hear you
Matt: it kept reminding me that i exist, which of course pissed me off
“In other words, Margulis’ work confirms the wisdom of the old joke “How do you...”
– Miller-McCune | Article | The Musician’s Brain
How do they sleep at night?
” I feel anal-retentive and self-loathing saying that I want to like Dengue Fever, but it’s true: I appreciate that they’re making indie rock music informed by a foreign stylistic context, I appreciate the mix of non-Western music with Western, and I love Chhom’s voice. But there are better “foreign” bands, and musicians making more interesting mixes at the...
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Text Messages That... →
These are awesome. Historical text messages that would’ve stopped massive calamity and/or deaths.
“yo Abe, r u still going 2 the theatr 2nite? hve a weird feeling bout it, y dont u and mary cum by here instead? dont wnt 2 talk about slavery all nite tho, its my weekend 2 u kno? txt me back”