drat fink

this one first

"You see, futility does have its advantages."

garbo rants

billmon talks, and all was good.

oh no, not again

The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey)
Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions\Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions Vol. 4 - London
Nirvana - Blew
Nina Simone - African Mailman
Mozart - The Wind Concertos, Serenades & Divertimenti (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)\CD6\14 Divertimento Es- dur KV 252 (240a) 1. Andante
The Overtakers - Beware (Trojan Rude Boy Box Set\cd2 - rudies all round)
Beth Orton - Blood Red River
Petula Clark - Let It Be Me
REM - There She Goes Again
Bob Dylan - Wild Mountain Thyme

waldmart

the creator of Outfoxed has a blog. here he talks with barack obama about progressives concerns with obamas recent centerist panderings.

hearing aide

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Come And Get These Memories 1963
Horace Andy - Dub Down Rome
Komeda - Focus
Shorty The President - President Mash Up The Resident
Yardbirds - I Aint Done Wrong
Augusto Pablo - Thunder Clapp
Johnny Cash - Let The Lower Lights Be Burnin
Senor Coconut Y Su Conjunto - Blue Eyes (Bolero)
Madlib - Gog Was Wrong
Townes Van Zandt - Loretta

shuffle bored

e'ry one luvs dem random shuffles.

velvet underground - jesus (closet mix)
the human league - i am the law
danielson family - big baby
herbie hancock - dolphin dance
nina nastasia - the body
amon duul ii - soap shop rock
diana ross - just say, just say
buffalo springfield - special care
hank williams - moanin' the blues
wire - outdoor miner

jump the blog

not exactly a watershed moment but blogworthy -- harry shearer is guest blogging for josh marshall as josh goes off to perform some prosaic ritual. i look forward to joshs guest spot on the simpsons next fall.

oooh, papa mao mao

i havent linked to billmon since his resurrection but this one was too good to pass up.

just peachy

"She came up the stairs briskly that first day, looking like a girl just out of Bryn Mawr--the whitest of white gloves, the whitest of blouses, the grey tailored suit, the tailored hat, the most immaculate scrubbed look! We're used to a certain amount of careless dressing in Hollywood; nothing about Grace was careless. Even better than the clothes was the quiet, shy, interested manner; she becomes articulate and gay as she gets to know you, and hers is a childlike ability to be pleased. In the pale frothy negligee of Rear Window, she positively giggled at her image in the mirrors. "Why, I look like a peach parfait!" she said."

highly rising

"Like it or not—and there are good reasons to at the very least feel pretty uncomfortable about it—Paul Stallings is a Lower East Side visionary. He’s imposed his twenty-story glass-and-aluminum conception—the Hotel on Rivington—on the area’s self-consciously bohemian tenementscape. "

hotel-on-rivington