there are a few pages missing but this is a great story.

old classic. the jeff ruland. we wish him well!

If I were making a sandwich for Jeff Ruland, it would be:

One long loaf of bread.
Split in the middle.
Soak both halves in bock beer for two months.
Fill soggy bread with chives, pickles, assorted caramels, and chocolates.
In between bread, place:
1 lb of gyro meat
1 lb of turkey breast.
1 lb of habanero peppers (this is why he is so angry)
3 lbs mayo
Two all beef patties
Two vegan burgers
1 lb radishes
1 lb corned beef
1/4 lb mustard
1 lb mozzarella.
12 dozen egg whites.
salt and pepper
two strawberries
1/4 ketchup
one can of peanuts
one pound of boiled peanuts
one pizza, folded in half
19 oysters
41 slices of kraft singles
one red onion
1 lb kippered beef jerky.
44 shrimp.
hollandaise sauce
diced garlic
two pig's knuckes
one lb ham

Deep fry and serve with a pitcher of Michelob Light.

CULTS "Go Outside"

one of my faves of the year.

wow.

it is not wrong! but it is not right either!
thanks to VIDEOGUM

Unclaimed Bodies in Detroit

no one has the money to bury the dead.

GAYNGS "The Gaudy Side of Town"

GAUDY SIDE OF TOWN

I love Gayngs. This whole record is EPIC. Congrats to Ryan Olson. This is really exciting stuff.


When Ryan Olson decided to make a record with Solid Gold members Zack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, it was clear to them what the result would be: a collection of drugged-up keyboards and slick bedroom production almost exclusively inspired by 10cc's "I'm Not In Love." To be fair, they weren't entirely off. What they didn't know was that it would spiral into a project of epic proportions, enlisting the talents of over 25 musicians from various scenes around the country, relocating the base of operations from Olson's Minneapolis bedroom/studio to the Wisconsin-based studio April Base, and the genesis of a musical super-family, GAYNGS.

From the moment anyone heard Olson, Coulter, and Hurlburt's rough version of their first composition "The Gaudy Side of Town," they wanted in on it. To most of the players involved, this genre of music was quite foreign yet entirely familiar. Olson knew this, and began calling upon an eclectic cast of contributors whom he thought would share his vision, and relish in the idea of exploring uncharted musical territory within them. The first people to join the cause were North Carolina's Megafaun (Joe Westerlund, Brad Cook, Phil Cook), and with them came Ivan Howard (The Rosebuds), and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and Mike Noyce. By mid-2009 the studio sessions were becoming more and more frequent, bouncing back and forth between April Base and Olson's bedroom. In Minneapolis, Olson brought in Rhymesayers rapper P.O.S and his fellow Doomtree artist Dessa, psych-rockers Jake Luck and Nick Ryan (Leisure Birds), song-birds Channy Moon-Casselle and Katy Morley, jazz-saxophonist Michael Lewis (Happy Apple, Andrew Bird), retro-pop duo Maggie Morrison and Grant Cutler (Lookbook), and slide-guitarist Shön Troth (Solid Gold).

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Bill Cunningham, The Documentary

I'd like to go to this.

Bela on Jerry Wick

HEAVY STUFF. this is an amazing collection of writing. such a rich portrait of a scene and of human lives in Columbus Ohio in the 1990s. Kudos. I'm captivated every time I wind up here.

Balancing the pizza on his handle bars, dressed entirely in black he coasted down the slight incline of 4th Avenue onto Hudson Street. There he was met by a small compact car, whose driver having his windshield smashed by Jerry’s upper body, drove off into the night leaving Jerry paralyzed by the side of the road with a broken neck. The driver would later turn himself in; explaining to Columbus Police that he thought someone threw a rock at his windshield. Needless to say, a large swath of the community doubted this explanation while the man got off with a minor violation. He later tried to sue both Jerry’s family and Used Kids for defamation, all in all a pretty stand up guy.

Chet Atkins "Mr. Sandman"

REALLY GREAT (well, not really, but great analysis)

Although new media can help build big TV audiences for events like the Super Bowl, it also tends to make people treat those events as fodder for digital chatter. More people are impatient to cut to the chase, and they’re increasingly willing to take the imperfect but immediately available product over a more thoughtfully analyzed, carefully created one. Instead of reading an entire news article, watching an entire television show or listening to an entire speech, growing numbers of people are happy to jump to the summary, the video clip, the sound bite — never mind if context and nuance are lost in the process; never mind if it’s our emotions, more than our sense of reason, that are engaged; never mind if statements haven’t been properly vetted and sourced.

People tweet and text one another during plays and movies, forming judgments before seeing the arc of the entire work.

sometimes when i am too impatient or inarticulate to post here, i post here:

Fittedsweats

listen up

ST> ETIENNE REMIXED BY RICHARD X FOXBASE BETA

HERBIE HANCOCK, ROCKIT (LIVE) (awesome)

hot tub time machine

JOHN CUSACK I remember very clearly being at the 1985 Super Bowl half-time show, on mushrooms. I hoped that I would be out of the ’80s in 2010. They frightened me, and I remain in fear. It might have been the psilocybin.

Not New, But You Should Keep it in Mind

this went up a while ago on one of the world wide web's better sites:

*Summerall would never discuss the "fantasy implications" of Brian Westbrook's flop on the one-yard line. He would spit out his mouthful of brandy and bellow "A heads-up play by Westbrook, tackling himself on the one," and for a minute you'd think it was Dylan Thomas reading "And Death Shall Have No Dominion."

tarantino on basterds

KM: There’s much talk about the revenge fantasy of the basterds in this movie, but to me, in a good way, they really are side characters. Fun, violent, at times compelling ones, but one part of the movie. And too many critics simply fixate on their actions. What I really admire here is that you bring up UFA (Universum Film AG) and Goebbels. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie that really goes into that territory, especially in a comical, satirical way, but also somewhat seriously. It’s quite true what you’re showing – that with the Nazi party, it was this grand pageant to them. Goebbels and Hitler were like studio bosses. Goebbels was a movie mogul, essentially.

QT: That’s exactly what he was. Actually when I came up with the idea to deal with the filmmaking end of the Third Reich and the German film industry, I thought, “Wow that’s never really been done before.” So I got really excited by it. And I loved the idea of not just portraying Goebbels as the minister of evil or the architect of evil but truly as his job as studio head of over 800 movies. He had control and power and sign off ability on every single movie that was made in Germany. And really just playing up his role as studio boss, with his protégé.

nice

hurt locker

finally saw it. i did not realize scott kannberg had such a big role in it.

LT and JETS in RACE FOR THE BOTTOM

HERE

Death Blow

Who is this tard anyway? All I've heard is this dude bawling all the time about going to jail. Like all he did was jaywalk.

Tyler J. Meier shouted, “They’re going to kill me, they’re going to kill me” as he was led from the courtroom. He was sentenced a short time earlier to five years in prison, followed by five years of extended supervision.

All he got was 5 years for murder. With good behavior, he'll probably only do half that time.

What a clown.

An NFL Player on a Motorcycle is an Idiot

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - The California Highway Patrol says Green Bay Packers linebacker and tight end Spencer Havner is facing DUI charges after crashing a motorcycle and breaking his shoulder blade.
The patrol says the 27-year-old wasn't wearing a helmet when he lost control at the end of a cul-de-sac and crashed at about 2:45 a.m. Monday in Grass Valley, his hometown about 55 miles north of Sacramento.
A patrol report says Havner also suffered cuts to the back of his head and left arm, as well as multiple abrasions.
Authorities say Havner was taken to Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley and found to be under the influence. He was arrested at the hospital and later transported to Sutter Roseville Memorial Center.

chat roulette musical

FROM MONITOR MIX

LIPSYTE IN ASTORIA

SL: ... Homeland is about New Jersey and I hadn’t been back for years, so I could get some sort of fictional handle on it without feeling oppressed by the facts.

FP: The facts are always oppressing.

SL: That’s why I write fiction.

just because

HOW NOT TO BE A COMPLETE DOUCHEBAG

A second key lesson was from a doctor named Marcel Tuchman. He was the most compassionate person I have ever met in my life — I mean, full of human kindness. And every time he met somebody, you had the sense that he cared more about them than anything else in the world.

So what I learned from him is that when you actually are with somebody, you’ve got to make that person feel like nobody else in the world matters. I think that’s critical.

So, for example, I don’t have a mobile phone turned on because I’m talking to you. I don’t want the outside world to impinge on the conversation we’re having. I don’t carry a BlackBerry. I do my e-mails regularly, but I do it when I have the time on a computer. I don’t want to be sitting here thinking that I’ve got an e-mail message coming here and I’d better look at that while I’m talking to you. Every moment counts, and that moment is lost if you’re not in that moment 100 percent.

KABOOM

common sense eludes the "sports guy"

CONVERSE ALL STARS / LARRY BIRD

When people talk about Larry Bird and Converse, there are a lot of shoes that come up from the mid 80s that i do not want.

THESE ARE HOW I REMEMBER LARRY BIRD. I WASN'T EVEN A HUGE FAN OF HIS BUT I LOVED THESE GREEN SUEDE SHOES.

Not much can top these. I really wish Converse would reissue them.

probably will not be featured on the reunion tour, but priceless nonetheless.

please disregard previous dog food vid

this came out before it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

children's drawings painted realistically

HERE

best thing ever

A Man Whose Band Opened for Blur, Ages Ago

2. Damon Albarn was very drunk. He climbed the rafters, hung upside down, shouting into a megaphone. I thought he might die.

it gets even better.

something to pass along to someone close to you.

I studiously avoid looking at myself in a mirror. It would not be productive. If we think we have physical imperfections, obsessing about them is only destructive. Low self-esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

spiral stairs reporting from new zealand

READ ALL ABOUT PAVEMENT REUNION GIG No. 1

John Strohm's father is a great writer...

I spent time with John in Boston in the late 80s, driving over the Berkshires from Williams College where I taught for a term. John was hanging out with the Pixies, and once he took me over to Kim Deal’s apartment. We sat around with Kim and Black Frederick, or whatever his moniker is, and some dope came out and we smoked a little. A couple of years later, John mentioned that evening to a friend, who said, dubiously, you mean your dad has met the Pixies? Met the Pixies? (John said, bless him.) My dad parties with the Pixies.

the sandpit

everyone i work with is madly in love with this

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Dude, You're 42.

Can you really be rushed into marriage? C'mon. I sympathize with you, but not very much.



Adler said the star- crossed lovers met at a Hamptons Labor Day party, where their mothers introduced them. After that, he said, she was hell-bent on marriage. The two courted for only six weeks before Adler proposed at the Diamond Cellar store in Columbus, Ohio, where Adler, a clinical opthamoligist, lives.

"She kept rushing me and rushing me," he said.

When he slipped a radiant-cut, 4-carat diamond ring with diamond side stones set in a platinum band onto her hand, Friedman accepted.

But the very next day, Friedman managed to convince the appraiser, who valued the ring at $70,000, to put her name on the appraisal in preparation for selling the ring in her name, he said.

"The lies were piled higher and higher," he said. "You have no idea."

For instance: She told him she was 30 but turned out to be 41, said Adler. He couldn't ever figure out what she did for a living, though she claimed to sell high-end cosmetics. Also, she said she was moving to Ohio to be with her betrothed but never hired movers.

Plus, he said, she began making pricey demands, including that he buy a new BMW...