Hitched.

I am not a person who really likes audiobooks. You can’t hold them, they don’t weigh you down. You can’t glance back a few words, you can’t observe the careful and considered placement of commas and semicolons. You don’t have to struggle to turn the page of a crowded train that jostles it’s riders back [...]

I have been trying to update more, but it’s become clear that I essentially built this template for someone else.
Anyway, favorite thing of the week- I went through about 40 iterations of this video. I liked this one the best. Sick shred master action around 1:40.

I could, and will, do a round-up of the sudden glut of 8-bit hip-hop floating around the more recessed corners of the internet, but in the meantime:
http://www.shotthen.com/2009/02/04/8-bit-hip-hop-medley/

Allow me to beat a dead horse: I do not play as many video games as I used to. Or, at least, I’m playing them on different devices now. My time with the screen-hogging, explosive, DAY ONE ZOMG, blockbuster is nearly at an end. I just don’t have the time or self-confidence to whittle away [...]

Grizzly Bear:

Grizzly Bear:

Grizzly Bear:

I’m not a big fan of linking to leaked records. It feels vaguely uncouth. But the new Bonnie Prince Billy record leaked and I wrote this up quickly for a SUPER-SECRET record sharing group I’m a part of and then I figured I’d done all that work that I may as well pass it along [...]

Themes: White boy hip-hop guilt/Space-age R&B/music you couldn’t make 20 years ago/music for getting stuff done/uncertainty/certainty/uncertainity
I’m engaged in the process of swapping ecommerce systems at work. This is sort of like moving from Pluto to Uranus, in as far as they’re both other planets and as much as the basic rules of the universe apply, [...]

If you’re not hip with the kids, then you’ve probably missed the hilarious Songsmith debacle. Released by Microsoft as, uh. A. A thing, it works like this: You sing something and then it makes music. The results are uniformly horrible. Then some enterprising young internet folks decided it’d be funny if they took the vocal [...]

I think half of my entries begin with “I MEANT TO WRITE BUT I DIDNT BECAUSE I AM BUSY”, which is to say that I make excuses, so henceforth, no more excuses, I abandon all responsibility. Hence, this video of the “Duck Press”, a kitchen gadget I only wish I had a need for:
The Feedbag [...]

YouTube is a treasure trove of  “Did that really happen?” talk show moments. Behold it’s finest treasure, Husker Du playing the Joan Rivers Show: