http://asilenttreatment.org Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:08:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=142 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. http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=140 Even though you will like this I am tempted to file it under "Niche Spectacular". Jangly brit-pop ala The Wedding Present? CHECK. Girls playing guitar? CHECK. Dueling, shout-y vocalists? CHECK. Spazzy Superchunk-y melodies? CHECK. The sum effect is a little bit like. If you melted a pound of cheddar and ... http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=136 For a length of time when I was kid my father was a Party Clown. Long from being truth at this point, it's degenerated into a kind of trivia, falling into that genre of factoid that's meant to both spur a conversation of it's doldrums and explore something deep and ... http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=134 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/ http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=132 Time Magazine, not usually a bastion of thought-provoking, progressive journalism, has published one of the most interesting, uh, "Spirit of the Times" articles in awhile. The Top 10 Ideas That Are Changing the World Today - It'd be easy to jot down a few freebies (Uhhhh green technology uhhhh saving ... http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=130 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 ... http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=129 Grizzly Bear: Grizzly Bear: Grizzly Bear: http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=124 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 ... http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=118 We liked Coraline for a bevy of reasons, not the least of which was teeny-tiny mixed-media sculpture that deserves it's own NICHE SPECTACULAR post. But nothing made me as happy as the completely unexpected appearance of a 30 second John Linell song. I once joked that They Might Be Giants' ... http://asilenttreatment.org/?p=114