assemblage of digital lint
Take a Break from Tweeting and Send Mail Art! - National Postal Museum
tumbroglio
“ Writing very slowly in your best grade school cursive and the act of linking the letters together… makes a space for your brain to open up and your thoughts focus. ”
“ You, Randall Stephenson, and your lazy stupid company — you are the problem. You are what’s wrong with this country. ”
“ Words never mean what we want them to mean. ”
from “Everything Is Illuminated” (Jonathan Safran Foer). I’ve just finished the book today and watched its movie right after (which was an entirely different story than the book) and I’m in love and in awe. I’m so going to translate it (if somebody else is not already translating it) (via fulltimeprocrastinator)
“You hear that Mr. Anderson?… That is the sound of inevitability… It is the sound of your death… Goodbye, Mr. Anderson…”
Phony Irony: a phoneless payphone kiosk photographed by the reason these phones are gone: a cell phone.
ti top 40
These are supposedly the top 40 tracks I’ve listened to in the last year:
1. Peter Bjorn and John - It Beats Me Every Time (15 plays)
2. Anya Marina - Move You (14 plays)
2. Brazilian Girls - Internacional (14 plays)
2. Loney, Dear - Airport Surroundings (14 plays)
2. Max Entropy - Short Skirt, London Bridge (Fergie Vs. Cake) (14 plays)
2. Cocoon - Chupee (14 plays)
2. Kings of Leon - Use Somebody (14 plays)
2. Cut Copy - Saturdays (Reprise) (14 plays)
9. Lykke Li - Breaking It Up (13 plays)
9. My Brightest Diamond - The Gentlest Gentleman (13 plays)
9. Headlights - Get Your Head Around It (13 plays)
9. The Decemberists - Record Year (13 plays)
9. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (13 plays)
14. Flight of the Conchords - Business Time (12 plays)
14. The Pogues - The Body of an American (12 plays)
14. The The - This Is the Day (12 plays)
14. Lykke Li - Little Bit (12 plays)
14. Ida Maria - Oh My God (12 plays)
14. Her Space Holiday - My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (12 plays)
20. The Killers - Human (11 plays)
20. The National - Brainy (Alternate) (11 plays)
22. Gomez - Airstream Driver (10 plays)
22. Josh Ritter - Snow Is Gone (10 plays)
22. The Whitest Boy Alive - Intentions (10 plays)
22. The Pogues - Streams of Whiskey (10 plays)
22. Lykke Li - I’m Good, I’m Gone (10 plays)
22. Andrew Bird - Don’t Be Scared (10 plays)
22. of Montreal - A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger (10 plays)
22. The Faint - Phone Call (10 plays)
22. The Submarines - You Me And The Bourgeoisie (10 plays)
22. Feist - I Feel It All (10 plays)
22. Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance (10 plays)
22. Calexico - Fractured Air (Tornado Watch) (10 plays)
22. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (10 plays)
22. The Hood Internet - Shut Up, American Boy (Estelle feat Kanye West vs The Ting Tings) (10 plays)
36. The Kinks - Better Things (9 plays)
36. Neil Young - Unknown Legend (9 plays)
36. Eurythmics - Regrets (9 plays)
36. The Mountain Goats - Sax Rohmer #1 (9 plays)
36. The Dodos - Winter (9 plays)
Get yours here. (It’s not really accurate b/c I have never figured out how to capture most of the songs I’ve listened to on my iPod to last.fm, but, well, it’s not completely off, either…)
