January 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Tom Waits (296)
The Kinks (228)
The Clash (153)
Modest Mouse (38)
The White Stripes (32)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Love Doesn't Hurt
Bitterness hurts. Rejection hurts. Jealousy hurts. Love doesn’t know hurt. Love is the best thing we have to stave off bitterness, rejection and jealousy.
The cynics among us like to repeat platitudes like “love hurts” when something goes awry. Those same cynics are the ones too scared to love someone more than they love themselves.
I hear it often on the social...
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Uncle Walt - Live from the Magic Kingdom
Bottom line: Disney put out some of the finest music ever found on any soundtrack in the history of soundtracking. If your soul isn’t moved in some way back to the halcyon days of your childhood, perhaps your soul’s condition needs examined.
Featuring songs from: 101 Dalmatians Lady and the Tramp Snow White & The Seven Dwarves The Little Mermaid Sleeping Beauty The Jungle...
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WatchBehold! The mighty, all-in-one, portable Fisher Price turntable. It’s a beauty.
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Finding the Right Tool to Tell a War Story →
What have here is the first generation of combat correspondents using mobile phone cameras to document combat. When you think about it, shoving the barrel of a DSLR lens into the faces of these soldiers could result in them shunning you, or at the very least posing which then makes plenty of your images yearbook shots. People are familiar and comfortable with having their pictures taken with a...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
The Doors (133)
Pink Floyd (96)
Morphine (14)
The Morning Benders (10)
The Double (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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"She Was Like the Pélé of Anal." →
Season two premier of Archer tomorrow. Dig.
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In Search of the Next Big Bang
This is what makes me and people like me dive headlong for hours on end into vast stacks of vinyl records like an audiophile Scrooge McDuck doing the backstroke through his money piles. We are digging because over and around and under each stack lies the next musical revolution that will play out only in our heads. It is a lost R&B song from a defunct record label out of Greenville, South...
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“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast...”
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Watch
Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP
Republicans say they have found their fresh new face in the corpse of Ronald Reagan, recently back from the dead
I wish Reagan’s reanimated corpse had two cocks so the pundits could collectively blow him in half the time.
ash-trayhart asked: Sweet! I'll have to listen in on your podcast thing. I'm right there with you on being an avid music fanatic.
What do you teach? And what are you coaching for?
What do you teach? And what are you coaching for?
ash-trayhart asked: Hello!
Just wanted to pip in and say thanks for the follow! :)
Just wanted to pip in and say thanks for the follow! :)
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Dad's Oldies Mix Tape = My Education
When I was a wee lad, my father went to work creating an oldies mix tape for us while on road trips and weekend visits. This mix tape would serve as the backbone of my musical education - it’s romantic gestures, funky backbeats, great stories, killer grooves, amazing voices and just… yeah. Here’s half the tape, 11 songs.
Shake, Rattle and Roll by Big Joe Turner
What a...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Aaron Neville (12)
This American Life (8)
The Kinks (6)
Elvis Presley (4)
The Doors (4)
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The Distaff Collection - A Woman's Work
Angel of the Morning - Merilee Rush
Breakfast In Bed - Dusty Springfield
Jim Dandy - LaVerne Baker
Everything is Everything - Lauryn Hill
Think - Aretha Franklin
Changed the Locks - Lucinda Williams
New York State of the World - Luscious Jackson
Baby, I Love You - The Ronettes
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Take Yo’ Praise - Camille Yarbrough
I’ll Take You There - The Staples...
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Serendipity Strikes Again
On the occasion of this post from NPR about Sam Cooke’s 80th birthday, I’m posting this blog from my personal archives.
First night in a new apartment is an occasion for rituals.
My first night in my new apartment in Norfolk - I get out of the shower and have a seat next to the window. Norfolk summers can be unreasonably hot and humid and a cool breeze was a welcome sensation...
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Holy Shakespeare Bust, Batman
Do you know what this is? Do you have any freaking clue how amazing this is?
On the old television show, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson would be kicking it in stately Wayne Manor, as billionaire playboys are wont to do, when the unmarked, red Bat-Phone would blow up with Commish Gordon on the other end desperately looking for Batman’s help. Okay, okay, Robin can play too. Bruce would...
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“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on...”
– Relevant.
Mark Shields (via azspot)
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Penis
thebigflavowski:
Religion is like a penis. It’s fine to have one, fine to be proud of it.
But please don’t whip it out in public and start waving it around.
And please don’t try shoving it down any kids throats.
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This Machine Kills Fascists
Crafted with love like the songs themselves, this Ear Candy Update is dedicated to songs of social and civic change.
Stream online here:
Download for iTunes here: This Machine Kills Fascists.mp3
“Most songs are written for one of two reasons: love or protest. At its fundamental level, self-expression in music is all about raising awareness, the subject of which fluctuates between...
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This Machine Kills Fascists - Protest Songs
This is a playlist of songs dedicated to social and civil change. “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creative maladjusted.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Train Kept a Rollin'
“Some men are searching for the Holy Grain, but there ain’t nothing sweeter than ridin’ the rail.” - Tom Waits
Train rides provide a necessary function for me besides the obvious transport from point A to point B. They allow me to put the time element in someone else’s hands. I get to shelf the hustle and bustle and let time grow big, fat and lazy, which is why I love baseball too. It’s out...
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"I got to stop going into detail, okay? Because... →
greatestgeneration:
Read this account of the “swimmers” from the doomed USS Indianapolis as told by Doc Lewis Haynes. Haunting!
My Navy forefathers. Rest your oars, mates. We have the watch.
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Blackbeard's Sword, Found! Archaeologists Discover... →
Holy smokes!
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“Life is a drink and you get drunk when you’re young.”
– The Jam, “When You’re Young” (via digmuseum)
May you never be sober.
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“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping … waiting … and though unwanted,...”
– Joss Whedon (via kari-shma)
Truth. Just found this on the site of a new follower. I immediately followed back.
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“Exposed On the Cliffs of the Heart
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Look,...”
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Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875 - 1926 / Prague / Czech Republic)
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Oh! The Places I Still Need to Go
After 12 years of Navy life and 54 countries, it has come to my attention that I still am struck with wanderlust. I need to boogie on out of the U.S. for bit, I need to cross that line on the map and make my way to someplace where I don’t speak the language.
It starts here:
Indeed. I know who I want with me. I know I want to be there in the Spring. One of the great tragedies of this...
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