Neutral Milk Hotel

I was thinking about Neutral Milk Hotel last night, how it’s strange that I never listen to one of my favorite records. For the same reason I never listen to Tortoise or pre-80s Leonard Cohen, too closely associated with a certain period in my life.

Anyway, I was thinking, maybe there’s a world with a dairy that calls itself Neutral Milk because their milk production is carbon-neutral, all sun and batteries. And in that world they have a lodge for tourists who want to make a weekend out of visiting their farms – the Neutral Milk Hotel.

just a thought

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Brooke Shields update

So remember I posted about my second-favorite punk song, The Money Will Roll Right In by Fang?

One great pleasure of the song is when (murderous, unsupportable) Sam McBride insists that once he gets rich and moves to Hollywood he’ll get to FUCK BROOKE SHIELDS.
Anyway, I recently read Tina Fey’s Bossypants, which is great, and watched clips of her on late night talk shows promoting it. And Letterman wanted to talk about her late exit from sexual girlhood

…and he cites a copy of US Weekly, which apparently included a list of celebrities who gave it up late, and on that list is Brooke Shields who Judy Bloomed at age 22.

The Money Will Roll Right In was recorded in 1982. BROOKE SHIELDS WAS A VIRGIN UNTIL 1987. God bless you, reality.

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Anime Architecture

I love shit like this. Frames are from C – Money, Soul and the Possibility of Control.

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“Industrial productivity can be achieved on a small scale”

I’ve been following Marcin Jakubowski’s Open Source Ecology project for some time now – he and his collaborators are trying to do for farming and industrialization what MakerBot is doing for 3D printing – this is my very favorite open source project and it seems to be taking off.

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Adult-Oriented Radio 4 ever

You! telling me the things you’re gonna do for me!
via my favorite easy listening blog, AOR Disco
EXCLUSIVE #62: Takin’ It To The Streets (Northern Rascal Edit) – The Doobie Brothers by AOR DISCO

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TETSUUUUOOOOO

KANEEEEDAAAAA

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Just go ahead and bookmark

Culture Boner.

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Hm, Thor

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I don’t know whaaaaat’s wrong with me

but I saw the cover of Paul Allen’s book, which I though was so funny:

and spent fifteen minutes on this:

Yes, pretty much all I think about is pork, kitties, and Wu-Tang.

Maybe they can work on a beard filter for Photoshop CS6.

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VA – Roll You

NEW MIXTAPE

MEDIAFIRE DOWNLOAD 119mb

1 Intro
2 The Soft Boys – I Wanna Destroy You: Deathless.
3 The Ponys – I Wanna Fuck You: Not necessarily conflicting impulses. First heard posted by Finny over at El Stence. I change one word and sing this to my cat – “I wanna pet you! I wanna put my hands all over you!”
4 Warm Ghost – Without A Dancer: I guess “ghost” is the new whatever the thing after “wolf” was for indie bands. Kompact-y.
5 Nicolas Makelberge – Dying In Africa: Don’t let the synth fool you because this is a bitter, bitter jam.
6 DJ Elmoe – Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man: This track, the first off ยต-Ziq’s Bangs & Works compilation, really opened my eyes to juke/footwork. The sample is Vangelis.
7 Childish Gambino – Freaks and Geeks: Troy from Community stepped up his rap game – punchlines from a comedian, surprise! The casual misogyny is pose – let’s remember this is a dude who takes his fellow female castmembers to APC for style emergencies.
8 Lil B feat. Tony Yayo – #based: I’m still working on understanding the Based God. Meanwhile, Yayo turns in the most interesting verse of his career.
9 The Books – A Cold Freezin’ Night: The video for this is bzzzonkers. Found audio arrangements are close to my heart.
10 The Reborn Identity – Black Hole A Go Go: Mashups are mayflies but this one stayed, at least for me.
11 Sly and the Family Stone – I Cannot Make It: I’m not saying shit about this slice of molybdenum gorg except if you don’t have the album go get it.
12 Gene Chandler – Rainbow ’65: Gene Chandler is great on record and everything but his live performances are solid gold. In Chicago he was bigger than the Beatles.
13 Trap Them – Scars Align: I heard about this record on NPR, of all places. Superficially metallic but punk; “GOOD LUCK pause LETTING GO” cf. Hot Snakes.
14 Metal Mountains – Silver Sun: Yoga cooldown.
15 Lani Hall – Love Song: Naive but charming.
16 Console – Cutting Time: A “band” from the Notwist programmer.

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Great video

I don’t love the song but the images are so true. UPDATE: a) the song is growing on me and b) apparently Johan is the Johan from Nicolas Makelberge, who did the awesome and slept on Dying In Africa? Crazy.

Via Ken-Tonio Yamamoto (not safe for uncool workspaces), who did the most recent and bitchin’ Acronym promo.

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The future looks OLD, right?

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