December 2009
Carl Didur on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s,... →
This guy’s awesome. I discovered him via Analog Beach, where Alex says:
Thanks to max [Slim Twig], I was introduced to carl’s amazing music during our ONE MAN BAND FEST SHOW in Toronto. Carl Didur works with reel to reel tape loops, analog synths, oscillators, and other amazing manual manipulation of analog electronics. A true wizard, and the first person I have ever seen in person...
Today is the birthday of Worn's editor-in-pants. ... →
(via bananafishsticks)
I agree. Happy birthday, Serah-Marie!
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Why, whenever I get home from work, do I feel like eating everything in the fridge, drinking a litre of water, pouring myself a beer stein of wine/whiskey, napping on a mountain of quilts with earplugs and sunglasses, soaking my feet in a bucket of ice water, and floating on an inflatable raft in the middle of a lake?
Do I have a low tolerance for labour? Am I allergic to retail?
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Aussisms
Apologies for being all armchair anthropologist on you, but it’s pretty funny how people jumped on the abbreviation train here ages ago. Pretty much any word can be shortened and put behind an “o”. The afternoon is the arvo, relatives are relos, and the Salvation Army is salvo’s. Your other option is to add an “ie” at the end of something, like brekkie, Chrissie...
Gifting 2.0
teaching a relative to illegally download music
torrenting audiobooks and burning them to dvd
buying games on someone else’s iphone
writing holiday wall posts
emailing a mixtape download link
burning pirated versions of photoshop, finalcut, etc.
subscribing to online magazines with paypal
having etsy items shipped to a friend
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OH, THANK F---! →
cvxn:
I was really starting to panic there for a moment.
Yeah, I had the same freakout a few months back. Whiskey has become my beer since going gluten-free.
Important part:
Although whisky comes from barley initially, the distilling process involved in its production means it is suitable for coeliacs to drink, as there is not gluten present in the end product.
Also:
The word whisky...
Radical Buy Local: albums from 2009 to gift! →
My awesome bud Nikki is approaching holiday shopping with a very particular approach this year. She’s doing something she calls Radical Buy Local or Buy Local Extreme, which she defines as buying gifts from people you know (or a friend of a friend) in order to support one’s community! It’s requiring her to think carefully and creatively about what to give to the folks in her life. Inspiring!
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Country walks
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dontdiewonderingmusic:
Postcards
It’s...
Canberra
Place names I get to use on a daily basis here:
Ulladulla (pronounced “uh-la-dull-la”…it’s the nearest bigger town)
Mollymook Beach
Merimbula
Moruya
Narrawallee
This is one of the Fixture boxsets we made recently for a friend to give as gifts.
Pictured are our last copies of Postcards’ self-titled cassette, Dirty Beaches’ first album Old Blood, and Brave Radar’s Distracting Strangers. These titles are officially out of print, although Cheap Thrills and Phonopolis in Montreal might have copies left and Postcards should have a few more...
Dear Montreal, thank you for a great sendoff last night and this past week. I’m going to miss you all a lot. Conor and I are heading to the airport in an hour to fly to Detroit, then L.A., and then by 6:30am on Sunday we’ll be in Sydney, Australia where his parents are picking us up. The trip takes about 24 hours with stopovers, but Saturday disappears in the time lines, and starting...
“A few years ago, the oldest person in the world, a hundred-and-fourteen-year-old...”
– Oliver Sacks on clupeophiles (herring lovers) via robsmemory. “They are one of the healthiest fish, too, full of omega-3 oils, and without the mercury that accumulates in the big predators like tuna and swordfish.” Good to know.