The Loudest Tour I Ever Heard
bron’s itunes shuffle just landed on “Only Shallow” and after the first two seconds I was like “holy shit why did anyone ever bother to make any OTHER kind of music than this?” which reminded me of how many shoegaze bands there’s been in bk in the last year or so and i started to wonder…never mind. this is topic for a 174 sesh.
isn’t this my notional “The New Brooklyn Sound” essay for the Village Voice?
one of my biggest show regrets was the ride falling through for the mbv dinosaur jr. tour. everyone said it was the loudest shit ever.
Overheard in Starbucks pt. 1
Just heard the dude next to me call Carlos Segura of Segura Inc and T26 and ask about getting a job.
hilar. we actually got some stuff from that whole universe of people once and it was pretty awesome.
Ry, you should by some of this stuff and add it to your amp wall.
I can’t tell if this is audio equipment or actual WWII era military technology.
This could be a prequel to snakes on a plane
“A powerful new light source for ultraviolet detection of scorpions in the field”.[pdf] Yes, they mean actual scorpions.
“Scorpions In The Field” that is.
It sounds more like some lame Peter Matthiessen novel.
BTW, Jeb, did you see that the SOAP trailer debuted on your favorite website (tagworld)?
what SOAP trailer? fuck tagworld.
Haterade
Here’s what I came across surfing around the gossip- and backlash-osphere the other evening. wordpress™ wank is focused entirely on the wonderful and ego-filled world of WordPress development, where even the lead dev’s company (Automattic) is named after himself.
Go Flock Yourself was apparently started specifically to torture the Flockers, but has branched out to take on the internet at large. They author gems such as Jeff Jarvis is still a rabid dipshit where it is eloquently noted that “Digg and all of the other Web 2.0 ‘community news aggregation filters’ only cover techie-ass shit that appeals to grotty Linux trolls! What kind of jackass would rely on these people to provide information about world news?”
Meanwhile, Patrick Scoble, the son of that other Scoble, lets us know that his friends think his dad is a porn star.
And if you read only one account of the latest Winer brouhaha, I recommend this recap at Burningbird which nicely lays out the events in chronological order to answer the question: “Which came first: the business disagreement or the problems with the RSS Board?”
These were all the rage in Italy. This guy seems to think that the French are to blame.
of these I’ve only read Riddley Walker. I really need to read all the Cordwainer Smith books.
there is a whole hall full of these things at the met.