Obama: “You are probably not that good a rapper. Maybe you are the next Lil Wayne, but probably not, in which case you need to stay in school.”
WOW.
(I must admit, Tha Carter III has completely grown on me.)
Category Archives: music
Obama on Lil’ Wayne
July 10, 2008 – 3:56 pm
THE FUCKING OCEAN IN SLATE!!
June 23, 2008 – 9:34 am
John’s band is listed in today’s Slate.com Why Do Bands Give Themselves Unprintable Names? article. The Fucking Ocean have indeed released a very good record, it’s La Main Rouge on Double Negative Records, and if you don’t have a copy you should nab one from iTunes or DNR right now!
Too fucking right
Tha Carter III
June 7, 2008 – 12:28 am
I basically don’t have it in me to talk about this whole album, so let me focus on just one track for a second:
13 - Nothin’ On Me (featuring Fabolous and Juelz Santana)
Fab - whatever. JUELZ* turns in an ISO 9000 certified BURNER, I think - “You’re sloppy like seconds / obey me like peasants […]
I love that feeling
June 6, 2008 – 7:25 pm
when you’re looking for a song, and it’s really hard to find and you’re looking and looking and finally you find it, and it’s downloading so slowly, and all you have is the name of the song to go by, and you’re imagining how incredible it must be, and you have this idea of it […]
The zoo
May 21, 2008 – 11:00 am
Nature has been producing photonic crystals for quite a while in the form of the shell of a beautiful beetle. (We need photonic crystal to produce optical computers.) Bonus link: rare breed of stag beetle being hunted to extinction because of Mushiking.
The Telegraph: Extinct Tasmanian tiger DNA implanted in mouse cells. “‘This is the first […]
Not much
May 13, 2008 – 9:04 pm
Amazing reconceptualization of the US dollar and other currencies. Maybe a little bit unfair - does the world really only see us launching missiles and burning crosses? But striking.
Best news story evs: “They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not […]
Quickly
May 12, 2008 – 12:14 pm
Pentagram on the interactive exhibitions they created for the Detroit Institute of Arts.
FontStruct - make fonts online - looks interesting! via Kottke
Crazy building cover - is that Beverly Hills??
Josh Kopelman on Lifecycle Messaging - dovetails with the Wired article on SuperMemo.
Song of the day: Robyn, Who’s That Girl. Great pop single. She’s backed by The […]
It’s already morning
May 10, 2008 – 9:03 pm
Totally fun story of the week: an interview with the staff of Yujin’s planning department. Yujin is a Japanese company that makes toys in little plastic bubbles you get out of vending machines (in Japan).
Song of the day: Daliah Lavi, Vielleicht schon Morgen, the source vocal for Jürgen Paape’s So Weit Wie Noch Nie, which […]
Bad luck
May 5, 2008 – 12:58 pm
Architecture: Inside The World’s First Billion-Dollar Home. Actually $2bn. I sort of like the exterior - well, I like that it’s not some Romanesque monstrosity one logarithm too large - but the interior looks like a midrange hotel, and that’s because it was built by “Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates, the designers behind […]
Never not blogging
May 4, 2008 – 10:08 am
Games: Snatcher Pilot DS: The Snatcher demo disc ported to Nintendo DS - quite an achievement. Snatcher’s an old cyberpunk game by Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid. You’re going to need a NintendoDS flash card to play. Via Insert Credit.
Jules Guerin: The Chateaux of Touraine: Four pages with images from this incredible 1906 book […]
All - night - long
April 30, 2008 – 10:48 am
Ars Technica: New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability: Huge, important story from last week and NO MENTIONS on the New York Times or any other major news outlet. Shameful. Anyway basically there are now House and Senate bills that would limit your exposure to litigation if you make a good-faith effort to determine […]
What’s up Monday
April 28, 2008 – 2:49 pm
Kitsune Noir: House Uc by Miyahara Architect Office: Great use of concrete. I wonder what’s on the roof.
Wired: Deutsche Bank Loves Shai Agassi’s Plan to Bring Us EVs (Electric Vehicles): “Bean counters at Deutsche Bank absolutely love Shai Agassi’s plan to sell electric vehicles like cell phones and think it could be a “paradigm […]