February 2010

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• art, books

  Vajazzling

  02.27.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Vajazzling is basically when a woman pays someone to wheat paste a bunch of tiny crystals to/around her vagina. Jennifer Love Heweit’s new self-help romance book, The Day I Shot Cupid, includes a chapter discussing how Vajazzling helped her get through a tough break up – I bet that’s going to sell well.  I’m sure [...]

• articles, links, music, people, technology

  links

  02.25.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Great Things +  The new Balance and Composure song Kaleidoscope is soo fucking good.  Listen to it HERE.  They’re releasing a split with Tigers Jaw in May which features 4 new songs from both bands.  I’m really looking forward to that. + 4Chan founder interviewed at the TED conference.  Nothing really profound happens in the [...]

• music

  Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me

  02.20.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Disregard my initial criticism of this album because I haven’t taken the time to sit down and give it a good in-depth listen (which is one of my old man gripes below). I should be more excited about Have One on Me considering how incredible Joanna Newsom’s last album Ys was but I can not [...]

• movies

  BEST OF ’09: KRIS FULTON III

  02.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  After taking a short break with kris’ list, I will be posting the last two portions today and tomorrow.  I don’t want to overwhelm the front page with a wall of text so click through after the cut to continue reading. This is a continuation of Kris’ “favorite movies of 2009″ list.  Part 1 can be [...]

• art

  Sketches

  02.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I really like the loose caricature styling of these illustrations from German artist wischnik.  If think this style of illustration would transfer really well to tattoo design.

• links

  Links

  02.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  +  Google is shutting down music blogs. +  A new way to treat cancer without hurting surrounding tissue:  shake the cells to death. +  25 ways to overcome a creative block.  Interesting read.  I like the guy who includes a dinner recipe. +  Take your friends money using your iphone and their credit card. + [...]

• music

  Chalk Talk

  02.12.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Chalk Talk is an infectiously happy three piece punk band from Connecticut/Massachusetts. While watching them play through their set in a VFW hall in Massachusetts a few weeks back I couldn’t help but think that they are the embodiment of what I envision an early Blink 182 show being like..  They heckled the crowed, yelled a bunch of crude [...]

• music, video

  Die Antwoord

  02.08.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  It fucking blows my mind that Die Antwoord is a real rap group.  These are 3 goofy looking people from South Africa who rap about being Ninjas and other equally awesome subjects.  This is like rap that is specifically tailored to get huge on the internet. Also, I’m pretty sure TsimFuckis (otherwise known as alien [...]

• random

  Go away from my window, leave at your own chosen speed

  02.06.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The northeastern United States is in the process of being hit by a gigantic snow storm.  Baltimore, the city I call home, is at the epicenter of this gigantic storm.  There’s at least a foot and a half of snow on the ground already, and the storm is supposed to hang around until tomorrow morning. [...]

• music

  Tigers Jaw – Tigers Jaw

  02.02.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Tigers Jaw’s sound is reminiscent of bands like The Get Up Kids or early Taking Back Sunday – not so much musically as in the overall “feeling” of the album, which I know is a very generalized statement but just trust me – after you listen, you’ll know. [...]