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My final decision on Crystal Castles

I can’t hate the band that gave us Thrash / Thrash / Thrash

Dec 31st

“Upon Viewing Brueghel’s Landscape...

Dec 31st

wolfsden: A friend once told me that, if he ever met Lou Reed, he would rather meet Lou Reed the legendary asshole than a Lou feigning friendliness. In that spirit, let me ask: what better way to ring in my twentieth year than being taken down by Alex Balk? I’m not entirely sure whether I’m facilitating a tumblr feud here or what but I’d hate for Jonah’s birthday to be...

Dec 29th

Shakespeare Video Games

mollylambert: Grand Theft Othello Titus Rock Bandicus Super Macbethtroid The Merchant Of Zelda Coriolanus Trigger Henry VI: Goldeneye The Merry Wives Of Warcraft Shrew Fighter Tony Hawk’s Hamlet Romeo and Clank Final Fantasy XII-th Night Mike Tyson’s Punch-Othello Measure for Measure Gear Solid King Lear’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Goneril Tomorrow

Dec 28th

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Dec 27th

Cam'Ron's Rhyme Book →

This is old, but it bears repeat visits, as it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life. It originated on ohword.com, which doesn’t seem to be operational anymore.

Dec 27th

Dec 26th

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wolfsden: The fact that Charlie Kaufman predicted Harold Pinter’s death could be something out of a Charlie Kaufman movie.

Dec 26th

Animal Collective - “Summertime...

Dec 25th

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Dec 24th

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Modern puzzle:

magicmolly: Calculating how much time to spend consuming other people’s experiences (via blog) and experiencing stuff yourself (to blog about). I think this is actually what I was thinking about last night.

Dec 24th

Export/Import

In my Baroque and Classical class (the same one I tumbled about over and over in the days leading up to my exam) we touched on the idea that, in the 17th and 18th centuries, Vienna and the Italian principalities were net exporters of music/composers, and Culture in general, whereas Paris and London imported their musical cultures (Handel and Haydn being the prime examples) without ever producing...

Dec 24th

Alasdair Roberts - “Long A-Growing” ...

Dec 23rd

“Perhaps unfortunately, the song about Theodor Adorno descending from the...”

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Dec 23rd

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson -...

Dec 21st

Dec 19th

superfuzz: bonnie ‘prince’ billy and matt...

Dec 19th

Symphony No. 7 in A Major - 2nd Mvmt....

Dec 18th

Charmingest wall post ever

“I remember when I used to pass notes about you.”

Dec 18th

Dec 17th

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“Mastery, rather than originality, was the objective all artists then strove to...”

– [Richard Taruskin] This is mostly true (though if mastery was that important I’m not sure where that leaves Haydn, who was a middling musician but, I’d say, the era’s most imaginative composer), but if we insist upon separating a composer’s talent into these two categories...

Dec 17th

Tristan at the Met

wolfsden: I don’t see why more stories don’t revolve around love potions. That way you don’t have to worry about creating chemistry between romantic leads, even if they’re both opera singers. God, Jonah is seriously killing it over on his new tumblr.

Dec 17th

Things you would advertise if you were in...

tesslynch: hahanotfunny: benwasser: Dr Pepper Tesco Value chocolate mousse snack packs Top Ramen Clean forks Pistachios Sparkling Grape Juice Stofers Mac N Cheese …Not colon cleanses. Cashmere socks Salted butter The Week Things related to menstruation The last one is because I’m taking the target audience into consideration. Pretzel Goldfish That’s all.

Dec 17th

Where did the day go?

I always lose track of time when I have a day devoted to studying in front of a computer screen. My fluctuating appetite punctuates the daytime hours pretty reliably, but after sunset I’d be hard pressed to tell you whether it were closer to 6:00 or 11:00. I’ve found the only benchmarks I need are 10:00pm and 1:00am, when gaining or losing a digit in the hour shifts all the little...

Dec 17th

Watch

This piece probably won’t be on my Baroque and Classical Music final on Wednesday, but instead of marking up key changes in the scores to my Mozart symphonies I just spent half an hour watching this. It’s Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111, the last one he ever wrote, and it’s quite possibly the greatest work ever written for solo piano (this coming from a...

Dec 16th

Dec 14th

Did I really just throw my jacket in the wash

with my cell phone still in the pocket? Jesus, my parents will never believe that this isn’t a bid for a Christmas iPhone. Update: yyup.

Dec 13th

A dramatic reading of a real breakup letter. →

tesslynch: bikerfish: Get your lolz on at ytmnd.com. An old favorite of mine that I haven’t thought of in years. This is why I love tumblr. Oh, and the best part of this is a little after halfway: “maybe I do maybe I don’t gotta problem you ain’t my boyfriend anymore”

Dec 12th

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