I didn’t get into this to build a big company as fast as I could no matter what the cost, I got into this to make something simple and beautiful for people who love music…
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
White Privilege
This is Your Nation on White Privilege: Z Space – Tim Wise
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay…
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Floyd founder Wright dies at 65
These are the Days
Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters, Merrill Is Sold, AIG Seeks to Raise Cash – WSJ.com
The American financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. faced the prospect of liquidation, and Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to be sold to Bank of America Corp.
The press can no longer ignore it’s responsibility. It must stop feeding the gutter sniping that has passed for campaigning in the weeks following the conventions and challenge the candidates on issues of real substance.
RIP DFW
Peter Sagal – Blog » Blog Archive » David Foster Wallace
…towering above everyone else…his sheer brilliance, his curiosity, his unbounded appetite for observation and thought and analysis…
Also see Gawker, which includes a 2005 Wallace quote regarding suicide, and the NY Times obit. Both via John Gruber’s Daring Fireball.
While I was, admittedly, not much of a Wallace reader (to be remedied), this a tragic loss.
Bring the Noise
bagatellen | free jazz research project.
Let’s call attention to a new collective project initiated by Mr. Pierre Crepon. His premise is to allow readers and listeners to lay claim to out of print literature and audio files that are far out of reach.
“After, after your storm / I will grieve and remember…” *
Robert Giroux, Publisher, Dies at 94 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com
Mr. Giroux made his mark on the inside, as editor in chief, shaping the house’s book list and establishing himself as the gold standard of literary taste. The publisher Charles Scribner Jr., in his memoir, “In the Company of Writers” (1991), wrote, “Giroux is a great man of letters, a great editor and a great publisher.”
* from “Surviving Love” by John Berryman
Gonna Make You Crawl – A Mix
- Matmos – The Stars and Stripes Forever
- The Conet Project – Bugle
- XTC – Knuckle Down
- Dälek – Corrupt (Knuckle Up)
- Aesop Rock – The Next Big Thing
- Opium Jukebox – War Pigs
- Funkadelic – The Electric Spanking of War Babies
- Kid Koala – Skanky Panky
- The Upsetters – Freak Out Skank
- Gnarls Barkley – Whatever
- Stereolab – Valley Hi!
- The Mamas & The Papas – Trip, Stumble & Fall
- Elvis Costello & The Attractions – The Only Flame in Town
The mix can be downloaded here.
Dancing Till My Feet Don’t Touch the Ground
Dancing Till My Feet Don’t Touch the Ground, originally uploaded by that.turtle.