A Valentine to Film Noir
Film Noir montage set to “Angel” by Massive Attack. Ah-Mazing.
Via The Daily What
PaperWheel Press
PaperWheel Press, custom letter press and design.
Pricey, at $3.75 per card, but could be worth it depending on the occasion. I’m partial to this one:
Deep Sea Gigantism
In zoology, deep-sea gigantism, also known as abyssal gigantism, is the tendency for species of crustaceans, invertebrates and other deep-sea-dwelling animals to display a larger size than their shallow-water counterparts.
The Giant Isopod (read: A Roly Poly, the size of a football) is a crustacean that shows the effects of deep-sea gigantism.
The One Who Got Away
via Kottke
What we remember — and what we forget — may reveal more about ourselves than about them. We have photos, letters, souvenirs, and fragments of memory, but our powerful imagination takes over from there: We color in the blanks. And that’s OK. Retouching old loves is a way of understanding what we want. It helps us find our way to new ones.
Louis CK, on phones and flight.
This is funny stuff.
Louis CK talking about how everything is amazing, particularly phones and flight, and nobody is happy.
Daytum
Oh, Holy Jesus… Daytum!
Whether you would like to tally an afternoon or a year, Daytum can help you collect and communicate the most important statistics in your life. From an up-to-the-moment personal dashboard, to a tabulation of an event, a home for sports scores, or as a corporate tool, the uses for Daytum may be limitless.
I’m in, and after hours of messing with it, have gone Plus.
Bloggess
This is a damn riot.
Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots
Grrr… I’m still listening to The Flaming Lips constantly.
After checking out a few articles, I stumbled across Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots by The Kleptones, known for this and other mashups.
Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots is a 2003 bastard pop album by The Kleptones. It combines instrumental tracks from The Flaming Lips’ Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots with vocal tracks from various rap songs.
I’ve been listening to it all evening. It’s fun, weird, disturbing… needs more listening.
Flaming Lips – All We Have Is Now
I listened to The Flaming Lips all day today. It was a perfect day to do so, as it was overcast and I was sleepy. This is my “jam” right now.
As logic stands you couldn’t meet a man
Who’s from the future
But logic broke as he appeared he spoke
About the future
“We’re not gonna make it”
He explained how the end will come –
“You and me
Were never meant to be
Part of the future”
I’m leaving on a jet plane…
So, I booked my flight to Seattle today. I managed to get a direct flight, with no stops or layovers, both ways, which I thought was pretty impressive for the price! I’ll probably spend the next three weeks researching Seattle and Vancouver and figuring out what I want to do once I get there. We could spend our days shopping at Target and watching movies every night and I could care less. I definitely want to hit the bar, chill out, and have a good time.
This is going to be me and Katie in 22 days!
Make the most of your netbook.
For archive purposes, Making the Most of Your Netbook via Gizmodo. Good tips here!
Watches…
I want this watch! It looks pretty slick. This is the Gunmetal Compass from Diesel, $250. I am usually a Fossil watch kind of chick, but this watch is dead sexy! I have my eye on the Fossil Black Chronograph, though, and might pick it up. It’d be a really nice dress watch, which I am in the market for. I need to look fresh!
As for the Diesel, I have to see whether my wrist will support it and if I can sport it. It has a very industrial chic look and I love it. I like the big face, but can’t tell if it has the date function, which is mandatory for me.
Diesel, via Gizmodo.
Spending my 30th out of town!
Plans are set! I am going to Seattle & Vancouver for my birthday. My friend Katie is going to host and and deliver a “day of surprises!” I’m pretty excited to go northwest, but more excited to see Katie and get the hell out of St. Louis.
I’ve been to Seattle before, way back in 1998, and I remember a little bit about the place, but not much.
Hopefully, Katie will give me a refresher tour and show me the digs.
I’m counting the days.
Apple Tablet
I read Gizmodo everyday and they talk about the Apple Tablet so much. This thing hasn’t even dropped yet and I am already sold. In a word, WANT.
Roll, from Globe.
This will be my next bike.
I need something I can throw in the back of my car and take everywhere when adventuring!
I love my Carmel, and will use it to ride trails and in hilly situations, but the Roll is perfect for urban assault.
Heartless – The Fray / Kanye West
This is a cover of Kanye West’s ‘Heartless’ by The Fray. Excellent cover and the video is great.
And the original:
I love the scene at the 2:00 mark. Phenomenal.
Report cards, hooray!
Below is a portion of my daughter’s report card that was sent home today. I’m not extremely excited about anyone critiquing my daughter. If she has flaws then let’s get them out in the open so we can work on them, but be sure to sweep in front of your own door first.
Click to view full size.
Anyone see any problems with the comments?
1.) I believe ‘test’ should be pluralized, as in ‘last four spelling tests.’
2.) Consistant is not a word. In fact, the definition of ‘consistant’ is: Common misspelling of consistent. It’s pretty ironic that this comment would be under the ’spells words correctly’ section.
La Vie en Rose – Louis Armstrong
Lyrics after The Jump
Hold me close and hold me fast
The magic spell you cast
This is la vie en rose
A Love Supreme / Kind of Blue
I’ve been listening to quite a bit of jazz lately. More specifically, I’ve been listening to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. I had no idea that John Coltrane was part of the sextet that recorded Miles Davis’s career masterpiece Kind of Blue, which is lauded as the greatest jazz album of all time. After listening to it, I have found that many artists have sampled its recording and some describe it as a Bible, in that you should always have a copy in your house. You can listen to Kind of Blue free on Lala.
Coltrane would move on, create his own quartet, and eventually record the monumental A Love Supreme. It was recorded over two days, the bulk recorded on day one, and adjustments made on day two. I can’t stop listening to it. I ordered A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album from Amazon and it should be here tomorrow. The recording process is detailed, as well as reception, reviews, and its impact on jazz. I am partial to Coltrane and have listened to a lot of his recordings. There’s a podcast on iTunes called The Traneumentary, which has an accompanying website. In it well-known artists and jazz historians break down some great tracks of Coltrane’s, and all of A Love Supreme.
From Pandora:
Composed of four parts, each has a thematic progression leading to an understanding of spirituality through meditation. From the beginning, “Acknowledgement” is the awakening of sorts that trails off to the famous chanting of the theme at the end, which yields to the second act, “Resolution,” an amazingly beautiful piece about the fury of dedication to a new path of understanding. “Persuance” is a search for that understanding, and “Psalm” is the enlightenment.
You can listen to A Love Supreme free on Lala.
One of These Nights – The Eagles
This is, by far, my favorite Eagles song and is the current soundtrack to my life. Hit the jump for the lyrics.
I’ve been searching for the daughter of the devil himself
I’ve been searching for an angel in white
I’ve been waiting for a woman who’s a little of both
And I can feel her but she’s nowhere in sight
Christmas 2009
I made a haul this year for Christmas. I got a lot of cash, a lot of books to read, and a few toys. I did have to wake Sprout up at almost 9:30. I was the one who couldn’t sleep/stay asleep.
Me: Hey.. are you going to get up?
Sprout: Why?
Me: Because Santa came.
Sprout: Yeah, did he bring anything?
Me: Yeah, he brought stuff.
The 12 Days of Christmas, McSweeney’s style.
Day 6: Six geese a-laying. Hmm, that’s so weird because I was just telling someone that I could use some MORE FUCKING BIRDS.
