May 2013
6 posts
“I saw a guy in Brooklyn once with a handlebar mustache, pierced ears, a fedora...”
– Marc Maron
My friend Marc Maron, whose new TV show Maron just premiered on IFC, wrote this great piece for the Times about finding the perfect pants. And just living your life. (via putthison)
AUSTIN KLEON: 90 minutes →
austinkleon:
Is 90 minutes the magic amount of time you need for a productive work session? explore-blog posted this bit of Tony Schwartz’s article, “Relax! You’ll Be More Productive”:
In the 1950s, the researchers William Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman discovered that we sleep in cycles of roughly 90…
“When you want genuine music—music that will come right home to you like a bad...”
– Mark Twain (via heavychaff)
Hawkwind - Silver Machine (Promo) [Complete] -... →
Inspired by the post from Heavy Chaff tonight.
Untitled: Space Madness: Reasons To Love Hawkwind →
basilksledge:
Dave Brock and the over forty musicians who have played with him have created some of the most timely and timeless music in all of Rock and Roll. Moving from its psychedelic roots to the creation of space rock, being on the forefront of the punk and new wave scenes and all the way up to the…
For your education.
April 2013
11 posts
“If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck...”
– John Lennon (via heavychaff)
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Razze Dazzle
I’ve been listening obsessively to the podcast 99% Invisible. Today I stumbled on this episode about WWI ship camouflage and it kind of blew my mind.
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HeavyChaff: 1976=Year Zero: Revisiting The First... →
heavychaff:
(John Graham Mellor aka Joe Strummer aka God as far as you’re concerned)
In late 1976 three records came out in England that proved to the opening salvo in an all out attack against the pompous British mainstream music and by extension all of British culture. By the end of 1978 this…
Great article by a my friend Daniel Blatney about the first British punk singles.
HeavyChaff: 1976=Year Zero: Revisiting The First... →
heavychaff:
(John Graham Mellor aka Joe Strummer aka God as far as you’re concerned)
In late 1976 three records came out in England that proved to the opening salvo in an all out attack against the pompous British mainstream music and by extension all of British culture. By the end of 1978 this…
Guitarists With Digit Issues
basilksledge:
Jerry Garcia: 9 Fingers
Django Reinhardt: 8 usable fingers
Tony Iommi: 8 fingertips
Hound Dog Taylor: 11 fingers
Apochryphock 'n Roll
heavychaff:
John Wayne once encountered Elvis Presley and commented on the song “Blue Suede Shoes” “Do you wanna know why I don’t wear suede shoes?” the Duke asked the King. “I was using a men’s room urinal when a fella using the urinal next to me, recognized me and without breaking stream turned to me and said ‘Oh my God, you’re John Wayne.’”
“He wouldn’t know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed...”
– Lyndon Johnson (via)
March 2013
4 posts
Hugo Chavez's embalmed body will be permanently...
breakingnews:
Venezuela’s acting president said Thursday that Hugo Chavez’s embalmed body will be permanently displayed in a glass casket so that “his people will always have him.” Vice President Nicolas Maduro says the remains will be put on permanent display at the Museum of the Revolution, close to the presidential palace where Chavez ruled for 14 years.
Photo: Carlos Garcia Rawlins /...
February 2013
10 posts
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January 2013
1 post
December 2012
4 posts
November 2012
6 posts
Dan Harmon Poops: Current Harmontown Tour Dates w/... →
danharmon:
Let’s sell these mothers out with Harmontown fans so I don’t have to perform for anyone that expects anything better!
1/10 Phoenix, AZ Stand Up Live
Tickets: http://standuplive.com/show.cfm?id=201470&cart
1/11 Austin, TX Cap City Comedy Club
Tickets: https://seatengine.com/event/1916
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October 2012
6 posts
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium...”
– Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought. (via imathers)
Truth.
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September 2012
6 posts
