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twentyfourbit: Justin Townes Earle: “Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now” The title track to JTE’s fourth album, Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, arrived today, replete with a raw, live-recorded feel befitting of such a surrendered morning after cut. Looking forward to hearing more of the set’s “Memphis-soul direction” soon, but in the meantime, give this...
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“Debuting in 1993, the VCD was the answer to a film pirate’s prayers. VHS...”
– Observations on film art : Pandora’s digital box: From the periphery to the center, or the one of many centers
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ListenWow, completely missed this excellent track last...
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abelson: #886: tom waits - silent night & christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis (1978) the trick to happy holidays is remembering that one december tom waits met a nun from johnsburg illinois whose convent let her out to celebrate new year’s eve. he found a wedding chapel for them in the yellow pages next to “massage,” and a registrar named watermelon called them mr. tom and ms....
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“The intimidating image suits the hardware that runs it. In the Imax 3D film...”
– David Bordwell
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“Technology reveals us to ourselves as we always in fact were: networked,...”
– Tom McCarthy: My desktop | Books | guardian.co.uk
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100 Essential Jazz Albums: The Playlist
Based on this New Yorker list curated by David Remnick and David Brody, here’s around 100 essential jazz albums. Rdio is missing a couple albums, but you’ll find most of them on the playlist. What follows is a list compiled with the help of my New Yorker colleague Richard Brody. These hundred titles are meant to provide a broad sampling of jazz classics and wonders across the music’s...
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ListenApparently that’s all I need. davidcho: ...
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ListenJens Lekman - ‘I Don’t Know What To Do...
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“Usually, when people are looking through the Yellow Pages for a photographer,...”
– Gregg Brown’s Aerial Photos of Ground Zero - NYTimes.com
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“The fake rib bones, those porky railroad ties that give the McRib its name, are...”
– A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The Awl
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“I saw my first-ever Hopper — or a detail of one at any rate, showing a couple in...”
– The Art of the Novel - NYTimes.com
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“Which is hilarious, because 1) you are reading an article in T The Unbearable...”
– Adam Gopnik And The Bourgeois Guillotine | The Awl
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“Case histories from the Japanese literature about fugupoisoning read like...”
– The pharmacology of zombies—By Wade Davis (Harper’s Magazine)
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