January 2010
121 posts
I'M MARRIED TO THE FIRM, BOO, YOU GOT TO...
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing....”
– Mark Twain
new york observer | How The Times' Home Page Gets... →
WatchDon’t know why I haven’t seen this promo until now but I sure do like it.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Broken Bells (182)
Hot Chip (85)
Sleigh Bells (39)
Gil Scott-Heron (27)
Cam’Ron & Vado (23)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
SINCE 2006, ONE OUT OF EVERY 17 NOVELS BOUGHT IN... →
My new favorite tumblr | LETTERS TO DEAD PEOPLE →
the progressive | Why We Need to Subsidize... →
On the flipside of blaming the Internet for the decline of newspapers is the fantasy that the Internet is somehow replacing the newspaper … So here’s what we have: The shutting down of newspapers, the decline of newspapers, while at the same time with no real replacement by the Web. All the Web is doing is aggregating what little coverage is still done by the newspaper. It’s a disastrous...
new yorker | "The Sure Thing" : How entrepreneurs... →
[The businessman] moves decisively. He repeats the good deal over and over again, until the opportunity closes, and - most crucially - his focus throughout that sequence is on hedging his bets and minimizing his chances of failure. The truly successful businessman, in Villette and Vuillermot’s telling, is anything but a risk-taker. He is a predator, and predators seek to incur the least risk...
“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Leave...”
– Banksy
The attempted Christmas attack also put Al Qaeda’s resourcefulness on full display. In its third decade, under severe pressure, it has evolved into a jihadi version of an Internet-enabled direct-marketing corporation structured like Mary Kay, but with martyrdom in place of pink Cadillacs. + Steve Coll, The New Yorker
Hold Ya Head : The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Bob...
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of...”
– E. B. White
“The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic...”
– Kahlil Gibran
MIRA MIRA VEN AQUI
Remedy : Crookers feat. Miike Snow
do you ever go to sleep?
HAND ME DOWN YOUR LOVE
My Way : jj feat. Lil Wayne
My swag my life...
politifact | The Obameter: Tracking Obama's... →
“I have put all my genius into my life; I have only put my talent into my works.”
– Oscar Wilde
John Mayer on finding a girlfriend
Aren’t we talking about a matrix of a couple of different things here? Like, you need to have them be able to go toe-to-toe with you intellectually. But don’t they also have to have a vagina you could pitch a tent on and just camp out on for, like, a weekend? Doesn’t that have to be there, too? The Joshua Tree of vaginas?
+ Rolling Stone
[joey lawrence voice] WHOA →
Coachella 2010 lineup
I ONLY WANT TO BE YOUR ONE LIFE STAND
“I don’t know who you think you are, but before the night is through. I wanna do...”
– Jace Everett
