October 2011
27 posts
The Martians aren’t trying to run away from their lives or make excuses....
– Bruce Springsteen Releases New Sci-Fi Concept Album About Struggles Of Poor Miners Working On Mars
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Lefty Frizzell (48)
Alton Ellis (42)
João Gilberto (37)
Bill Evans (26)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore (24)
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Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Antônio Carlos Jobim (48)
Bob Dylan (38)
Roscoe Holcomb (38)
The National (23)
Bruce Springsteen (18)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Bob Dylan (105)
The Byrds (62)
Neil Young (30)
Tony Bennett (22)
Mel Tormé (16)
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in the fade: (written on my MacBook Pro) →
inthefade:
The front page of Wired has a collection of quotes about Steve Jobs. It’s a beautiful and humbling thing to read.
This is why Steve Jobs, in my eyes, is an inspiration. You can say what you want about his megalomania, his perfectionism, his use of Chinese labor (and trust me, people are saying…
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Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.
In his public life,...
– The statement from Steve Jobs’s family. (via newsweek)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
The Byrds (32)
Bob Dylan (30)
Van Morrison (26)
Wilco (24)
Megafaun (21)
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"Why no credit? The photographer 'plagiarised' by... →
austinkleon:
A sensationalized story from the Independent. Here’s the lowdown, buried about 5 paragraphs in: this “photography enthusiast from Pennsylvania” posted a bunch of antique Japanese photographs on his Flickr stream, which Dylan then painted.
Dylan’, whose gallery won’t reveal the price of the paintings, did not actually breach copyright - since the antique images from Oechsle’s Flickr...