February 2011
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Son Lux new album! →
One of my favorite musicians is going to be making an entire album, start to finish, this month, which will be documented by NPR. Follow along!
sonlux:
“This year, All Songs Considered will follow musician Son Lux all month long as he makes an album… right in front of our eyes and ears.” - NPR
January 2011
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“Bitterness frequently creeps up on me disguised as wit.”
– (via travisrandall)
I mis-read this as “Burlesque frequently creeps up on me disguised as wit.”
Friction, Facebook, and the Social Layer →
“Friction is what you don’t want. Friction is what keeps people from signing up for your site or downloading your app. Because it’s too expensive, because it’s too embarrassing, because it’s too difficult, because it’s difficult at all. The Internet has been working to reduce friction. To make everything easier to use, easier to sign up for, easier to navigate,...
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Faux Fix & magic →
jddavidson:
Last night I drank several bottles of cheap wine and had a bunch of weird dreams. One of them featured Nathan and Katie, who somehow appeared in the dream not as Nathan and Katie but as Faux Fix. Like, “Oh, hey, Faux Fix is here. What’s up Faux Fix?”
So they were in a manor-style house working on a recording, which you know, subconscious, isn’t really all that surprising. But at one...
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs (via literalefficiency)
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Greatness is found out on a limb
viafrank:
…you cannot suppress the worst tendencies of a show without suppressing its best, because they come from the same place. Put another way: you have to be willing to suck if you ever want to be great. “Awesome” and “awful” are actually closer to each other on the continuum of quality than either is to “meh.”
From an article by James Poniewozik about storytelling, television, arrogance,...
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“I would like to be lifted off the ground by wind JUST once.”
– Jonny Rodgers
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itomakichan asked: You know what's getting me through this dull day at work? The music you did for The Brothers Bloom. Brothers In A One Hat Town is helping me destress and kinda makes me want to jump onto my desk and start dancing. Thank you for your great work. ;)
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“I went to a record store and asked for “the new album by Sharon Jones and...”
– Jon Wurster talking about his most embarrassing moment of the year