February 2012
37 posts
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“I’d love to speak with Leonard,...
“I watched a music awards show last year and started crying afterwards. I just...”
– Santigold talks to us about the state of popular music and her forthcoming album, Master of My Make Believe. (via pitchfork)
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“Nothing will ever replace the moment when Jesse Orosco struck out Marty Barrett...”
– RIP Gary Carter. He always seemed a bit out of place — as if an overachieving, slightly overweight middle-aged dad with bad knees walked into Shea Stadium and became the catcher for the coolest team in baseball.
Here’s the moment he’s discussing above:
Tracy Jordan's Tour Rider →
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“Eventually, everyone becomes who they always were.”
– Chuck Klosterman, on Eddie Van Halen, the new VH record, getting older and, yeah, destiny.
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“Jesus Christ,” [Kobe] Bryant said chuckling. “Let’s not get...”
– Kobe Bryant knows not of Linsanity.
Craig Finn | Clear Heart Full Eyes: Tiny Desk... →
steadycraig:
Hey Everyone,
Two really cool performances just became available online.
A few weeks ago Ricky and I drove to DC to do a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to Bob Boilen and everyone there for having us. We took the opportunity to play an unreleased track called “Jeremiah’s…
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“I curse a lot”
– My good friend Shahien Nasiripour in one of the most entertaining interviews you’ll read all year.
Plus, there’s this:
: Wall Street is either dying or doing completely... →
counterparties:
We’re not going to choose sides in this battle — though we certainly do have a side — but suffice to say there’s been a lot of reaction to Gabriel Sherman’s cover story in New York magazine about the ostensible “end” of Wall Street. (We suggest you read Chris Lehmann’s takedown for a full …
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“At the end of the night (for me, anyway) there was still a line outside. Phil’s...”
– Park Slope is dead, “parents are cool, I guess” and “drunks never bother me”
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“People seem to feel that Del Rey is trying to trick us, though it’s impossible...”
– We trick ourselves into believing in auteurs and authentic. Sasha Frere-Jones on Lana Del Rey
AOL Bets $30 mill on Huffington Post Streaming... →
The video ad market is still heating up, but AOL is betting it will come to a boil very soon. It’s making a major bet with a new streaming service on Huffington Post that will launch in the summer and promises live content twelve hours a day, five days a week and hope to get up to sixteen hours a day by 2013.
The service itself is ambitious, but even more so is the investment AOL is putting...
“But as I have noted on many occasions, the moral hazard problem from tail-risk...”
– Private equity and the Greenspan put - by Macro Resilience (via counterparties)
The Generalized Theory of Bernanke's Beard Length
Bernank Beard Length = Fed Funds Rate / Libor * U6 Unemployment Rate + (52-Week Moving Average of ConAir Corp. Shares - Length of Putting Greens on 18th Hole of the Master’s course in Augusta, Georgia)
[ConAir corp. manufactures beard trimmers]
[All putting green lengths in CM]
January 2012
12 posts
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“He played Scrabble on Facebook almost the entire time; I learned some Scrabble...”
– Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi talks about working with famed studio man Steve Albini. (via pitchfork)
“This is a single page article that could have been done with two sets of...”
– Enough With The Slideshow Pollution & This Means You, Huffington Post (via felixsalmon)
Yes
“A lesson for 2012 will be the need to shift our talent culture from one where...”
– AOL CEO Tim Armstrong writing incomprehensibly on losing editorial talent. Got that?
December 2011
14 posts
“We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over...”
– The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Go read this, it’s wonderful. (via felixsalmon)