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Wedding/new suit
So, on the 24th of October, my step-brother is getting married. This isn't what's concerning me though. I'm actually trying to find a new suit or outfit to wear for this. Being a bit of a lanky fellow and it being October, I was thinking of a nice, dark brown (you may also call this color "chocolate"). A white shirt and a plum tie would seal the ( Read more... ) -
NISENNENMONDAI
On the Electrical Audio forum today another user pointed out the existence of the band Nisennenmondai to me. Now that I've watched these youtube videos of them (see below) I couldn't be more thankful for that person for posting! This band, made up of three women from Japan and whose name means "Year 2000 problem," fucking rock.
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Butterflies? Dangerous?
lord_whimsy, who knew that your idyllic childhood passion could also bring out the darker forces in people?
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New Jim O'Rourke
According to UK magazine The Wire, Jim O'Rourke's next album is going to be titled The Visitor. It's going to be released by Drag City September 7th in the US, and August 31st in the UK. I'm pumped. -
Scott Foust
Artist Scott Faust is a person who I discovered from shopping at the website Mimaroglu Music Sales (ran by Keith Fullerton Whitman aka Hrvatski), where you can buy a good number of his projects, including his most active group Idea Fire Company. After reading Whitman's exclaiming comments I started becoming curious about Foust, and immediately went ( Read more... ) -
So...
I was reading Boing Boing today and though lately they haven't posted anything of real interest to me in weeks, this really caught my eye: New fashion copyright bill will let big companies own public domain designs and bury young, indie designers under in legal costs.
Cory Doctrow's post then links to this Fashion Incubator post, where Kathleen ( Read more... ) -
On Folk, or really, what I've been listening to
With Lisa Hannigan spreading like wildfire across the Internet thanks to Stephen Colbert, the other day I found myself saying in a post about her on lord_whimsy's LJ that I'm "nowhere near where she's coming from, musically." Which is not to say that I hate the folk genre, but it dawned on me that it's not really my thing at allI've dabbled in folk in the ( Read more... )
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