Little Explosions of Recognition: Archive

May 23rd

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Feb 17th

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Jan 13th

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GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support →

Major Internet companies have formed a united front in their opposition to the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. Well, almost. One exception has been the domain registrar GoDaddy. In a op-ed published in Politico shortly after SOPA was introduced in the House, GoDaddy applauded the bill and called opponents “myopic.” Need to move my domains over to another domain registrar,...

Dec 23rd

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →

They Might Be Giants (33) The National (14) Barenaked Ladies (8) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (8) The Smashing Pumpkins (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 16th

Dec 12th

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Dec 10th

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Dec 8th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →

Real Estate (23) They Might Be Giants (21) The Smashing Pumpkins (17) Girl Talk (9) M83 (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 7th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →

ARMS (13) Sun Kil Moon (8) Mariss Jansons (6) American Symphony Orchestra (5) Ryan Adams (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 29th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →

Ryan Adams (20) ARMS (12) Drake (12) Dan Mangan (10) Wilco (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 22nd

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john bellairs/edward gorey

fletchingarrows: these books were great. i just reread the house with the clock in its walls (and it’s literally been 15 years since i read it) and it totally held up. I read these multiple times when I was between the ages of 8 and 13. I’d forgotten about them until now. I can’t wait until my kids are old enough for me to read these to them. The re-prints don’t have the...

Nov 18th

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prrr, halls of mirrors, and why it's good to just...

agrammar: last night i went to a party for “The World’s Perfect Zine,” which is a zine that was just put out by a guy called “David Shapiro,” but who is actually named something else. a zine is like a self-made magazine. the party was at a downtown record store called Other Music, and it was sponsored by Tumblr, because David Shapiro writes a well-known Tumblr called “pitchfork reviews reviews,”...

Nov 17th

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Literary Devices

casualoptimist: The Random Analogy Generator and other literary devices from Grant Snider: (via This Isn’t Happiness) Original Article

Nov 17th

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Nov 16th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →

They Might Be Giants (28) Real Estate (10) Atlas Sound (10) Mitch Hedberg (9) Wilco (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 15th

Nov 11th

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salus mea est.: timshel. →

itspureimagination: “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that…

Nov 10th

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Nov 7th

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Oct 19th

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“I would have a policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists. Now, then you...”

– Herman Cain, answering a question from Anderson Cooper as to whether he would, as he’d earlier intimated, be comfortable authorizing a hostage swap along the lines of what went down between the Israelis and Palestinians today — the hypothetical situation was an American soldier being held hostage,...

Oct 19th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →

Ryan Adams (16) Grateful Dead (8) Death Cab for Cutie (8) French Kicks (6) Alela Diane (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 18th

Oct 17th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →

TV on the Radio (28) NewVillager (10) Barenaked Ladies (9) Cymbals Eat Guitars (8) Letting Up Despite Great Faults (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 15th

Oct 12th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →

NewVillager (34) Megafaun (20) Mastodon (12) Umphrey’s McGee (11) Sufjan Stevens (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 4th

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Sep 29th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →

Violent Femmes (13) Wilco (6) Umphrey’s McGee (5) Chicago Public Media (4) Sonic Youth (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 27th

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rachael maddux: Thinking out loud about food and... →

rawkblog: I also think indie rock died in 2009 and we’re now officially living in the dubstep era and most new indie bands are basically the equivalent of third-wave grunge (Foster the People is our Nickelback, except with a better first single?) I think this part deserves more explaination. Also, Said the Gramophone. I don’t know what they’re talking about over there.

Sep 27th

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LulzSec arrest: HideMyAss.com fails at basic...

shortformblog: what 23-year-old Cody Kretsinger, allegedly one of the key hackers involved in LulzSec’s Sony Pictures hack and subsequent leak of user data, was arrested on Thursday, the FBI says. why Kretsinger reportedly used a proxy server called HideMyAss.com to cover up his identity. But, instead of hiding his ass, the site reportedly cooperated with authorities, meaning his ass wasn’t...

Sep 23rd

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →

Umphrey’s McGee (36) Blitzen Trapper (27) The War on Drugs (3) Foster the People (3) Flo Rida (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 22nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →

Wilco (48) Pin Me Down (10) Justice (7) Alvin And The Chipmunks (6) The Fresh Beat Band (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 15th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →

Noah And The Whale (17) White Denim (14) Mike Doughty (11) Ryan Adams & The Cardinals (10) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 8th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →

White Denim (26) Washed Out (9) Kurt Vile (9) The War on Drugs (8) Umphrey’s McGee (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 1st

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Aug 30th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →

Ned’s Atomic Dustbin (18) The Lonely Island (16) Beastie Boys (12) The Fresh Beat Band (8) The Silver Seas (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 23rd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →

They Might Be Giants (18) Radiohead (14) Beirut (11) Jay-Z (9) Elbow (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 18th

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Matthew Sweet Does Not Write Songs About The...

Matthew Perpetua: This is Matthew, from Rolling Stone.
Matthew Sweet: Oh hey, the other Matthew. You have a cool last name! Does it actually mean 'perpetual'?
Matthew Perpetua: Yeah, I guess it means what it means. It's a Roman Catholic saint too, my father's family was Italian. Is Sweet your actual surname?
Matthew Sweet: Yeah, it is. Sweet is a Welsh name that had something to do with some people called the Bonesetter Sweet, who set broken bones. 
Matthew Perpetua: But no connection to Skull and Bones?
Matthew Sweet: No.
Matthew Perpetua: That throws off all of my questions for you about Skull and Bones and the Illuminati.
Matthew Sweet: Yeah, yeah. Now what? 
Matthew Perpetua: Are you saying that your new album is not about the Illuminati?
Matthew Sweet: No it is not.
Matthew Perpetua: But what about your previous records?
Matthew Sweet: No, they are not. [giggles] This is easy!
 LOLZ...

Aug 12th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →

They Might Be Giants (28) The Smashing Pumpkins (24) Fountains Of Wayne (7) Release The Sunbird (7) Cults (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 11th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →

Barenaked Ladies (33) Justin Vernon (17) Son Volt (12) Apteka (11) Washed Out (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 1st

Jul 29th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-17) →

Discovery (3) El Ten Eleven (2) Gorilla Biscuits (2) Passion Pit (2) The Dismemberment Plan (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jul 20th

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Jul 12th

Watch

whatevs: “[Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt] is the only [album of Jay’s] that still sells, because it was that good. It was when we were pure. If it was coke, it was pure, A-1, grade A, uncut coke. You know what I mean? The other ones were cut a little, like we was tryin’ to sell records.”-Damon Dash For the better part of the last two weeks, my co-worker Lacey Seidman and I have been working overtime...

Jul 8th

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