February 2010
105 posts
11 tags
“And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special,...”
– Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
January 2010
105 posts
5 tags
Cars & Trains | Intimidated By Silence
[d/l]
9 tags
4 tags
16 tags
Shearwater | Black Eyes
[d/l]
8 tags
WatchMates Of State | My Only Offer (Retread Session)
6 tags
“They talk like TV channels I don’t watch.”
– Precious, from the movie Precious. In one line, the massive difference between the life of the poverty-stricken, uneducated main character and those who were reaching out to her was on display, said completely in her own words. The Oscar nominations come next week, but I’m pretty sure this is...
5 tags
6 tags
Balmorhea | Bowsprit
[d/l]
(via charlesdarrrwin)
4 tags
8 tags
WatchLocal Natives | Airplanes
10 tags
Tanlines | Real Life (Memory Tapes Remix)
[d/l]
8 tags
10 tags
4 tags
Beach House | Zebra
[d/l]
8 tags
6 tags
5 tags
The Radio Dept. | David
[d/l]
18 tags
WatchKings Of Convenience | Un Soirée de poche (Mini-concert)
(feat. the songs Mrs. Cold, Singing Softly To Me, Boat Behind, Free Fallin’ [Tom Petty Cover], Cayman Island, It’s My Party [Lesley Gore Cover])
11 tags
9 tags
11 tags
WatchSeams | Glitch
From the description: Here is a little music video I made for ‘Glitch’ using public domain video from archive.org. ‘Glitch’ is taken from the album ‘A Juvenile Rush’, available to download for free at seams.bandcamp.com
(via mvmvmv, a tumblog I highly recommend following)
4 tags
7 tags
4 tags
8 tags
9 tags
Youth in lawless Haiti at risk for sex trade,... →
I don’t usually post a whole ton of stuff like this, but things mentioned in this article made me angry. There are a lot of disgusting things out there that we are blissfully unaware of - but when the world cracks open and falls apart as it has been in Haiti, the cockroaches scatter out into the open from under their rocks and show us the unthinkable still happens. A lot.
From the...
5 tags
WatchLymbyc Systym | Bedroom Anthem
(via mvmvmv)
5 tags
4 tags
9 tags
Coma Cinema | She’s A Dentist
[d/l]
7 tags
WatchFrightened Rabbit | I Feel Better
4 tags
10 tags
Sea Wolf | The Cold, The Dark & The Silence
...
8 tags
13 tags
When Insults had Class
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
”I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx
“I...
9 tags
“Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give...”
– Chris McCandless, expanding on Thoreau.
7 tags
4 tags
Vetiver | The Swimming Song
[d/l]
4 tags
12 tags
WatchJoe Pug | How Good You Are (Live Bring The House Down Show)
2 tags
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Chris McCandless
8 tags
11 tags
Phillip Oskar Augustine | Internal Combustion
...
2 tags
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely...”
– Lord Byron
4 tags
7 tags
WatchJoe Pug | Dodging The Wind (Lake Fever Session)
I have a few more of these vids comin’. Joe Pug absolutely blew me away with his Nation Of Heat EP all of 2008, and his subsequent handful of b-sides from that EP which formed his In The Meantime EP (given away for free on his website).
On February 16th his debut album Messenger will be released, perhaps one of my most anticipated releases...
5 tags
“I firmly believe that when the last pages of modern history are written, our...”
– Ravi Zacharias (source)
4 tags
