FUCK fucking Time Warner Cable. They apparently have made no progress on the internets installation. HATRED AND FIERY BRIMSTONE ( Read more... )

sak vide pa kanpe/that which is empty cannot stand up

Because I am obsessive and strange, I just found the entry in spikespeigel's journal in which I downloaded Rebellion (Lies) from him. On October 6, 2004. 24 days after Funeral was released. And I said this:

DUDE ( Read more... )

Man, it's like 1997 just exploded in my face.

Firstly I must have signed up for Portishead's email list years and years ago, but still long after the band was (relatively) defunct. And I just got an email today when I got home from work, about THISAnd I'm flipping out. Portishead. In concert. With new songs. For the first time in fucking ten ( Read more... )

The National Geographic Photo of the Day. Good picture. Good, good picture. Actually, the coolest shot of the bridge I've seen yet is in a book I found this summer. At the Borders where I work there was always a display of local photography books right across from the counters, and when business was slow I would pick one out and look through it ( Read more... )

Hi. Um, Bear McCreary either scored the trailer for Little Children [speaking of which, OMGFINALLY!], or some composer really really likes Passacaglia.

IMDb says the film's scored by Thomas Newman. [!!!] But that says nothing about the trailer.

Also, according accidentally to tonight's The Office, there are a lot of eucalyptus in Pennsylvania.

[prompted by a mention in hobviously's journal]

Poll iTunes 7

I posted about the advent of iTunes 7 already, but it was in the middle of the night and ostensibly everyone was asleep ( Read more... )

Things No One Told Me, Being A List:

- Not only was Thom Yorke's Black Swan featured over the credits of A Scanner Darkly [I knew that, I'm not dumb], but Radiohead had FOUR songs in the film: Fog, PULK/PULL MOTHERFUCKING REVOLVING DOORS --er, that's not the name of the song but more my expression of holy fuck, Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors was in a ( Read more... )

Oooh. Oooh.

I had a post full of glum, mostly over stupid studies that use IQ tests to prove that men are smarter than women [um, okay], and my stupid size-too-small wellingtons, but this! It makes me happy.

Stylus is ranking the top 100 music videos of all time. [This isn't the article from this summer, where Pitchfork ranked the best music ( Read more... )

Audiophiles, iTunes users, people awake at this hour ( Read more... )

I'm going to surprise everyone and talk about a British man. [Who is not Thom Yorke, David Tennant, James Norrington, or any of the other blokes from the UK I've been blabbing about lately. See, I told you it was a surprise ( Read more... )