June 2009
36 posts
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Empire Of The Sun, Walking On A Dream
Great...
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Regina Spektor, Folding Chair
A friend of mine...
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youngmanhattanite:
Biggie does...
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Michael Jackson, Billie Jean
Forgoing cover...
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Dinosaur Jr., See You
Back with their unique...
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Kanye West, Family Business
Rain, rain, rain go...
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Discovery, So Insane
More from Discovery. ...
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“The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so...”
– Noam Cohen, Twitter on the Barricades - Six Lessons Learned - NYTimes.com, 6/20/09
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zachklein:
Discovery - Osaka Loop Line
It took...
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Zev Chafets, Let Steroids Into the Hall of Fame -... →
A very interesting contrarian perspective from Zev Chafets on baseball’s drug culture. Although I’ve argued previously that drugs have polluted the game, and I still believe that to be the case, we have nonetheless crossed the chasm and there’s no going back. Nearly every great player of the past decade or so has been linked to performance enhancing drugs. Eliminating an...
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fred-wilson:
Stillness Is The Move - Dirty...
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Daniel Rossen, Waterfall (Judee Sill cover)
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David Gray, You’re the World to Me
Saw an...
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Flight of the Conchords, Hurt Feelings
A fun one...
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The Twitter Times
I received the following email from a friend yesterday:
Wanted to let you know as much I’ve found twitter useful, this weekend with all that’s gone on in Iran it’s really shined. Still unsure about how you eventually monetize it but clearly an extremely useful and unique value proposition. As much as there is a lot of noise to screen out, Twitter continually pointed to new...
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M. Ward, Rave On
I literally listened to M. Ward...
“In the end, Muhammad Ali had the best argument of all. He was the Greatest...”
– Alan Schwarz, ‘The Greatest’ Athletes - What a Concept - NYTimes.com, 6/13/09
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“Don’t you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re...”
– Woody Allen, Annie Hall, 1977
Whenever Woody releases a new film, my friends and I inevitably bandy about some of his vintage quotes. This is one of my particular favorites.
I was fortunate enough to see Whatever Works at the Tribeca Film Festival premier. While it’s not his best work,...
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“First is the diffusion of technology. The Internet, blogs, YouTube and text...”
– Tom Friedman, NYTimes - Winds of Change?, 6/14/09
On this, Friedman is dead on. I’ve long believed that mass distribution of technology, specifically the open broadband Internet, is the key to helping alleviate the geopolitical divisions that so plague us today.
In the Muslim world...
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WatchAmazing performance by the Dirty Projectors at Bonaroo.
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Ray Charles, You Are My Sunshine
From the...
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Mos Def, Auditorium
He’s back.
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Handsome Furs, I’m Confused
Check out the...
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Sonic Youth, What We Know
And they’re...
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Sonic Youth, 100%
New album drops tomorrow from...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Higher Ground (Stevie...
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Bowerbirds, Northern Lights
Just discovered this...
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Young Adult...
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Al Green, Love And Happiness
After licensing the...
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Vetiver, More of This
I recently discovered this...