How is it possible for a song to be this absolutely perfect?

It’s by this guy who calls himself Fireflies, and just came out on his debut album this month I think. I learned about him from this blog.
I spent the weekend putting together this giant, awesome header thing. It collects my six most recent Flickr […]

Destroyer - Foam Hands

Almost two years to the day.
Read Stereogum.
@ Destroyer Wiki.
 On streethawk.livejournal.com.

It’s a couple days short of being two years since I moved to Cambridge from Cleveland. I moved here in the snow, and I lived in it for several months as I got used to the place, so the arrival of snow always feels like a return to normality, to some kind of natural […]

Trying to be a weekly thing. [image] Mark Ryden

have a proper CoverFlow clone that doesn’t lag or rely on Java (like AlbumApplet), and that allows for custom locations of art on the drive.
monitor folders for new music.
have an integrated BitTorrent client that puts music from trackers directly into your library.
jump to the location in a page where the currently playing mp3 was found.
properly recognize all XML podcasts […]

Google Reader, employing Google’s petabytes of storage, archives every feed item it’s ever pulled for you. This has always amazed me, as I’m sure I and everyone else must be using far more in Reader than the 5 gigs we get from Gmail. Still, they don’t have much of a choice; it wouldn’t […]

Ok so I’m trying to do a custom SQL query on the wp_comments database table in order to create a list of commenters who’ve either commented more than once using the same email address or who’ve commented in the about page, and who have at least one associated URL, producing a kind of auto-generated “friends” […]

[image] Yakuza Heart Attack - Evil Brain

[image] boards of canada is the best thing i know

Wandered into some new neighborhoods today, away from the commercial center that the blocks around Trafalgar Square seem to be. Was cornered by a middle-aged drunk man in The Salisbury (“Sports-free since 1892”) last night, who lectured me about the Red Sox, Barry Bonds, and George Bush: “We don’t think like you, and we […]

I am in London.
I am typng this using the “Internet on TV” feature of my room. The TV is wall-mounted and has a display of 640x480, and is clearly using some custom, fullscreen version of Firefox. I feel bad for the guests who don’t know the keyboard shortcuts, or that you can browse in […]

I’m really enjoying waking up to the contrasting sensations of the smell and the feel of the radiator with the cold wall of air beating from the windowpane. It reminds me of an old girlfriend who insisted on sleeping with the window open a couple inches every night. I remember liking it. […]

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Only TWO days ago, cinematictitanic.com mysteriously appeared. Claimed to be authored by Joel Hodgson, it goes on to say that he is returning to the making-fun-of-movies thing, along with Trace, Frank, Mary Jo, and JOSH WEINSTEIN. So I think some healthy skepticism wouldn’t be UNfounded.
Nevertheless, Slashdot, Ain’t It Cool News, and doubtless thousands of […]

Hangover Cure: 3 advils, water, day-old Starbucks coffee, The Milk-Eyed Mender, Finally We Are No One, Summer Make Good.
This is not so much a cure as it is just what I’m doing. I don’t think the coffee’s helping, for instance. But the music is crucial.
It’s going to be a sunny week in the 50s, which […]

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I fashioned a small pod, mostly out of paper and aluminum, as per the instructions from a kit. The trip there was exciting, until we passed orbit range (it seated two), when it became alarmingly clear that we were in space in a ball of paper and aluminum, and would probably die soon, quickly, […]

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I had a dream last night that I was waiting for a bus on Mass Ave. in the dead of winter. I had my face buried in my scarf, and wind was whipping into the gaps at the ends of my sleeves. My shoulders were hunched, all my muscles were tensed. It […]

When Thief was originally pressed on vinyl, only 300 copies were made, and it is now selling for two hundred and thirty fucking dollars.
This Night is going for a hundred, and I could have had it from Merge like a year ago for $25 or something.
I wonder what my copy of City of Daughters is worth.
Oh yeah, I […]

Firefox 3 is scheduled to be released later this fall; I haven’t really been following its development, but one thing I have heard about and am excited about is its (or, more accurately, Gecko’s) new graphics library, Cairo.

First I heard that it would resample rather than simply rescale images, as demonstrated in the image above (via […]

Visiting family in Illinois. The suburbs are awfully bleak. The only “thriving” area is downtown Naperville, though every part of it with any character is being bought or torn down or painted over. Usually when I’m there I hang out at Java & Juice, what felt like the last non-corporate business downtown. […]

I have 45 unpublished draft posts, dating as far back as May 2005, lots of which are either outdated, or about which I’ve forgotten what I was going to say. In any case I’m getting really annoyed that the three most recent posts here are just showing things I found on the internet, so,
As much […]

[video] These things are all The Colbert Report is good for.

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[image] They’ve begun massive construction where my street meets Central Square, at what I guess is called “Lafayette Square,” and I was wondering what it was going to be before I realized it’s probably information they have on the public works website. […]

 Concerts:

May 20: Frog Eyes: never not good, but come on, play your slow stuff. Carey was way uncharacteristically making awful jokes and smiling, so I can only assume he was more drunk than usual.
May 24: Mice Parade: boring (sorry)
May 28: Lightning Bolt/DMBQ: SOLD FUCKING OUT (shoulda known)
June 2: CSS: really very hot and good but uneventful
June 5: Great […]

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sin·gu·lar·i·ty (sĭng’gyə-lăr’ĭ-tē): A point in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted.
Or maybe a Möbius strip? I don’t know.

Flash video is so great.
Anyway I used to use MediaCoder to convert to flash video, but when it gave me errors, and refused to tell me the specifics of those errors, I took it old school to the command prompt with FFmpeg (which MediaCoder uses anyway). This gives you a lot of useful info about […]

Tom Hanks celebrates Christmas on Conan in 2000. This has been documented as the last funny thing Tom Hanks ever did.
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Miraculously retrieved from the land of forgotten television moments, four months after my plea on a Conan forum, to replace the taped copy I lost years ago. Because I like to hoard things […]

So this is pretty good I guess. They seem to have toned things down a bit since Strange Geometry, landing them somewhere closer to The Violet Hour. But something about Alasdair’s voice is getting really grating. I don’t like that thing where the band opens with a few bars, and then he […]

Last weekend Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort debated some smug atheists over the existence of God. Kirk’s and Ray’s claim was, to paraphrase, that they could prove, 100%, scientifically, the existence of God, without invoking faith or the Bible. The atheists were to prove, not that God doesn’t exist, but that Kirk and […]

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A 1995 Lexmark 42H1292.

Click the image for the full photo montage.
I first encountered this last year on WFMU’s blog, and despite being curious of its origins, the internet has trained me to accept content without context. Funny pictures, drunk pig, pass it on. Neither the WFMU post, nor the blog they got it from even ask […]

One of my favorite scenes from Stella.
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Things I’m looking forward to in the next week:

Tears of the Valedictorian on Tuesday
Bishop Allen at The Middle East Upstairs tomorrow night
Acid Mothers Temple at The Middle East Upstairs Saturday night
Trans Am at Great Scott on Wednesday night
Sunset Rubdown at The Middle East Downstairs next Saturday

The other day I downloaded and installed Pine. I’m having some difficulty getting it to […]

the other night i had a dream that last.fm came out with a new beta :\

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Times New Viking at P.A.’s Lounge this Saturday!!!

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I tried to upload this to YouTube, but with words like “letterman” and “conan” on it, it didn’t stand a chance. Which I don’t get — how does NBC plan to make any money off this clip in the future?
Well anyway, I downloaded this in like 2002 from some Conan video site. There’s this great moment […]

This version is most notable for the compellingly clinical female voiceover, and that it notes the change in the speed of time as you approach the speed of light, which is actually pretty irrelevant to this film. Also it’s copyrighted 1989, which seems years later than the film indicates.
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I turned on yesterday’s episode of The Daily Show today, and noticed that they had made some significant changes to the opening sequence. Not only that, but the set had been entirely revamped. Here:
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At first I was happy about it — it’s glassy and modern and makes the old set look cheap by […]

A few months ago I tried to convince myself that Vox could replace MySpace, but I think I secretly knew that it couldn’t. It was just too ugly and too difficult to use.
But, this time, I believe, I really believe, Virb can do it.
MySpace is loud, ugly, buggy, (flash-)ad-ridden, and owned by Fox. Virb is […]

Soon I’ll be in Ohio on my way to Kanu’s wedding. The ceremony is actually tomorrow, so tonight will just consist of hanging out in a hotel, which I am more than happy, even a little excited, to do. The hotel stay is even preceded by a road trip from Cleveland to Girard, […]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today’s_featured_article/April_2,_2007

I don’t know where I first heard about this, and it took me a hell of a time finding it again, but I finally did at Sixeyes.
It’s five “unmastered” Art Brut tracks they’ve released as a preview to It’s a Bit Complicated, their second album due June 26. I don’t think there’s any album art […]

In dealing with spambots as the administrator of a couple phpBB forums, I’ve noticed that most of them, when registering, give the birthdate of March 28, 1983. I thought there might be some explanation for this consistency — like the January 1, 1970 dating of phantom phpBB posts — but a Google search for “march 28 1983” only […]

In the early Nineties my family had one computer, a Zeos 386, and Prodigy was my very first experience with anything resembling the internet, including e-mail. I spent a lot of online time playing this labyrinth game called Mad Maze, which you can once again play in its entirety, as long as you use […]

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Back in November, WFMU’s Beware of the Blog blessed me with the Skate Bording Girls video. I re-posted it with a YouTube embed, and later used it to demonstrate an independent, open-source flash video embed method I discovered.
On March 12, “enui” left this semi-anonymous comment on that post, and 7 hours later, the WFMU blog […]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Count_Chocula&oldid=64163729
Ernst Choukula was born the third child to Estonian landowers in the late autumn of 1873. His parents, Ivan and Brushken Choukula, were well-established traders of Baltic grain who — by the early twentieth century — had established a monopolistic hold on the export markets of Lithuania, Latvia and southern Finland. A clever child, Ernst advanced quickly through secondary […]

I feel like I’ve been asleep for four months.
I dreamt that I:

Saw Essex Green at TT’s, and was drunk and disappointed
Bought the new Air record, and was disappointed
Saw Red Sparowes at TT’s on Thursday, and was drunk
Played Wii for the first time at Jon’s place on Friday night, and was disappointed
Saw Clinic and Holy Fuck at the Middle East Downstairs […]

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Another implementation of this embedded flash video method, because this Dr. Stringz clip keeps getting deleted from YouTube.
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I hate just posting a YouTube video here, in part because it’s lazy and boring, but also because YouTube videos are liable to disappear at any moment, and even if they don’t, YouTube has to die someday, right?, whereas kbps will last forever, and then hundreds of years from now its YouTube posts will be […]

Believe it or not: still without a square root button in scientific mode.
I’ve also been told that the native Windows color palette still doesn’t save custom colors.
More Microsoft Calculator trivia, care of Wikipedia:
The version of Calculator shipped with Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1 suffered from a bug causing it to display completely wrong results for certain classes of […]

It’s short for “emotional.”
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Here is my poster, and here is my shirt.
The show was last night at the Middle East Downstairs. She was deathly ill, though it wasn’t noticeable outside of her doubling over coughing between songs and apologizing profusely for the fact that she might die. The sound wasn’t as clean as it is on the […]

http://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20070226_2200.m3u
God damn it.

Beirut - The Gulag Orkestar
The Go! Team - Everyone’s a V.I.P. to Someone
The Moldy Peaches - Lucky Number Nine
Destroyer - This Night (live)
Belle & Sebastian - A Century of Fakers
Blueboy - Too Good to Be True
Metallic Falcons - Pale Dog
The Clientele - As Night Is Falling
Rocketship - We’re Both Alone
Trans Am - The Dark Gift
Times New Viking - We Got Rocket
Beach House - Apple Orchard
Destroyer - […]

I love Mozilla Thunderbird, not least of all because it’s a Mozilla-branded product, but also largely because of its adaptive junk mail filter. What this means is that for every email you get, you’re able to mark it as “junk” or as “not junk,” and from both of these practices, Thunderbird begins to learn […]

Leaving work, I opened the door to the men’s room to a loud hissing sound and dense humidity. The light had also come on, the light that shuts off after 15 or so minutes of nobody opening the door. All this occurring to me in under a second, I realized that somebody was […]

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Okay so the first one could be “Quiet, Ruby, someone’s coming…oh it’s just your precious American underground,” though a subway is kind of a goofy way of depicting that. The second one is probably the “cheap dancers.” Third is “Blessed doctor, cut me open.” Then there’s “Proud Mary said as she lit […]

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http://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20070212_2200.m3u

Johann Johannsson - IBM 1403 (Printer)
Beach House - Apple Orchard
Ratatat - Beat 4
White Flight - Timeshaker
The Moldy Peaches - Nothing Came Out
The Moldy Peaches - Who’s Got The Crack?
Blueboy - Fleetway
Blueboy - Also Ran
Natural Dreamers - The Big Switch
Revolving Paint Dream - Mandra Mandra
Tenniscoats - Ball Man
The Lucksmiths - The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco
Life Without Buildings - Sorrow

I think I keep the mic volume too […]

This week was: violin, My Night at Maud’s, Boboli, Sababas. This weekend was: lots of CSS, Unisex, walking downtown. This week will be: Pan’s Labyrinth, Down by Law, Akron/Family (?).
People in the practice of calling me at 3:10 in the morning should continue to do so, and be an example to others.

In a position to invent my own responsibilities, and to realign them on whims, I don’t get very far. Even if I remain productive, it’s a fractured, diffuse, directionless kind of productivity, composed of many tiny islands, sealed in vacuums, free of context or import. Meanwhile, everything that I’m not doing screams with […]

Friday: 36°

7:00pm: McDonald’s: double hamburger
8:00pm: sleet
9:00pm: S