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Watching this tow truck shit on HELICOPTER STEREO. I want to see some shit GO DOWN.
Things Klout thinks I’m influential about.
TACOS. KLOUT THINKS I’M INFLUENTIAL ABOUT TACOS YOU GUYS.
I AM A TASTEMAKER. FINALLY.
Saw Tim Minchin last night for the 1st time with @jasonmesches @AdamGeorge4 @hbcurtis and @_drharris. Found this piece, “Storm”, absolutely mind blowing. If you haven’t heard of or seen him, definitely worth taking a look.
Casey Neistat was hired by Nike to make a commercial for their Fuel band. Instead, he and his friend Max circled the globe in 10 days. Here’s the video they made instead.
I WANT TO GO TO THERE. Google’s augmented reality headset Project Glass: One day…
When copywriter Robert Pirosh landed in Hollywood in 1934, eager to become a screenwriter, he wrote and sent the following letter to all the directors, producers, and studio executives he could think of. The approach worked, and after securing three interviews he took a job as a junior writer with MGM.
Pirosh went on to write for the Marx Brothers, and in 1949 won an Academy Award for his Battleground script.
Here is the letter:
Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land’s-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid. I like elegant, flowery words, such as estivate, peregrinate, elysium, halcyon. I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words, such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip. I like sniggly, chuckling words, such as cowlick, gurgle, bubble and burp.
I like the word screenwriter better than copywriter, so I decided to quit my job in a New York advertising agency and try my luck in Hollywood, but before taking the plunge I went to Europe for a year of study, contemplation and horsing around.
I have just returned and I still like words.
May I have a few with you?
Robert Pirosh
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Today’s aural fixation: Department of Eagles covering Elvis Presley’s Love Me. A simple, sweet song to sweeten your Tuesday. Enjoy!10 plays
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Off her new album ghostbird, here’s Malaysian artist Zee Avi with Siboh Kitak Nangis. If there’s one thing I love, it’s gorgeous music and lyrics that I have no chance of understanding. All the same, something about her voice really gets me - this is music to bury yourself in the pillows to, music to drink coffee in bed. This is music that makes me glad I have orange curtains. LISTEN. Find the album. Listen more. More music here. Check it.20 plays
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I don’t know who this is, but WDS posted it and I dug it so I stole it and put it here. Also: Here’s a photo I’m stealing from their site too. Because look! Hulk Hogan! Bare female breasts! All good.0 plays
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I don’t have my car. Some lady reversed into me. All good, no worries, everything’s fine and dandy - but I’ve been listening to someone else’s radio presets in a rental car - some ghost who seemed to really like KCRW and oldies. This song was on it this morning and I was driving just a little too fast and I was just the right amount of slightly hungover and I’m wearing a skinny tie and the windows were down and there was just so much good about the moment. Come on. Give it a spin. You’ll feel cool, I promise.0 plays
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Let’s all talk about how amazing this cover is. It sounds like something that fell off of the Treme soundtrack and took a left turn at True Blood blvd. Hip, dark, fresh, imminently danceable. Would love to hear some sick remix of this bumping in a club. Florence and the Machine - Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly cover) off of the Rave On Buddy Holly tribute album. Here’s the video - look how much fun she’s having!122 plays
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Amor fati is a Latin phrase loosely translating to “love of fate” or “love of one’s fate”. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s life, including suffering and loss, as good. Moreover, it is characterized by an acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one’s life. I can live with that.0 plays
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Via copycats, the rest of my life’s aural fixation is G Love and the Avett Brothers covering Paul Simon’s 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover. DIVE THE FUCK IN.6910 plays
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Off of the forthcoming Ukulele Songs by Eddie Vedder, here’s the only legitimate reason anyone should even pick up a Ukulele, the classic Tonight, You Belong To Me, most memorably performed by Steve Martin in The Jerk. As a means of comparison, here’s Steve below.20 plays
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copycats: Dearest by The Black Keysoriginally by Buddy Holly via fuckyeahpastiche: A substantial portion of my music library is devoted to Buddy Holly and his Rockabilly contemporaries. I’m particularly partial to Mr. Holly, which has me absolutely thrilled for this upcoming tribute album (save for the Kid Rock track… confusing). Click through to onethirtybpm for more info.3975 plays
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Via copycats, pump your monday the fuck up with The Knocks covering Ain’t Too Proud To Beg by the Temptations. Enjoy it, folks. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg by The Knocksoriginally by The Temptations c/o idontlikeyourtunes2032 plays
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Everybody’s new darling, Mumford & Sons, tear into the Beatles classic Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight. Take a listen, it’s delightful. via Pigeons and Planes, which you should all be reading.10 plays
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Today’s Aural Fixation: The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness The first single off of the band’s upcoming album Angles, due March 22nd. Very excited for this one — their first in quite some time. Download the track yourself by going to The Strokes’ homepage and filling out their forms. Or just go here. I tried, record label, tried.0 plays
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Today’s Aural Fixation, via @jonnyumansky, is Dreams Up by Hoodie Allen. Back at it!0 plays
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Today’s aural fixation: Dirty Gold - California Sunrise. FUCK. Why isn’t it summer yet?10 plays
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New Orleans-based indie rockers Generationals have an 80’s surf kind of sound with but with a modern spin and indie style. I really love their 09 album Con Law. and can’t recommend it enough, to be honest. This song, Trust, is off a forth-coming EP of the same name, and bodes very well for the band’s follow up album Actor-Caster, due in March 2011. It was released to the KCRW DJs the other day and, uh, my copy fell off a truck. So. DON’T ASK QUESTIONS JUST LISTEN TO GOOD MUSIC OK? The video is awesome and exactly 100% what it should be. If you dig the song, give the video a watch. Generationals - Trust from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.10 plays
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Today’s Aural Fixation: I Need A Dollar (Chrome Remix) - Wu Tang Clan ft. Aloe Blacc. Listen to this.10 plays
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I’m still crazy for last night’s Boardwalk finale, so here’s the increasingly-stuck-in-my-head theme song. Like many other HBO shows, this is a real-ass song that was appropriated by HBO and now will forever be tied to the show. Try to listen to “Woke Up This Morning” without feeling like you’re in Jersey. You can’t. You can’t!40 plays
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A Bluegrass Sunday Aural Fixation: Crooked Still – Come On In My Kitchen. I could live in this song forever. It makes Life feel like an episode of Justified and there’s nothing wrong with that at all. EDIT: The download button up top doesn’t work. But THIS LINK does. So. Right click and “save as” to snag a copy of this for yourself. Come on. It’s worth it. Give it another listen, it’ll grow on you.20 plays
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Today’s aural fixation: Ain’t No Shooter Shining (Weezy vs. Bill Withers) and if I’m correct that’s just a little bit of Spoon thrown in towards the very end. A chill way to get through the work day.10 plays
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Loving Barbara’s Pursuit of Happiness cover. Like the Ukelele cover that was floating around online a few weeks back, but dreamier. Maybe the most uplifting I’ve ever found the song. I’ll be listening to this a bunch more, that much I’m certain.1653 plays
