Best Boss Ever? Michael Steele & The RNC Interns | TPM Photo Galleries. I wonder if we’ll ever see any of them again, recast as evidence in a scandal.
Kelly and I caught Alasdair MacLean, from shared favorite the Clientele, at Union Hall for a solo show once a couple of years ago. We loved it, but his amazing finger-picking just wasn’t the same on an acoustic guitar and without shimmering reverb and vibrato. Here he plays the title track from the new Clientele album and a few older favorites, solo and electrified. Not to over-re-live XX Merge, but the Clientele were also among the best acts there. An early highlight for sure.
Free Music Archive: Alasdair MacLean – Live at WFMU on Irwin’s show 10/28/2009.
Lambchop – Give It from Merge Records on Vimeo.
Lambchop’s XXMerge set is getting a proper release and film!
Help! My door knob is stuck and I’m trapped in my room! | Ask Metafilter.
Not just because this is happening right now, but because it will probably happen to me sometime this week, and now I have a resource to turn to.
Thanks, Libby, for posting it. I made this mix over the weekend with the aim of documenting some of the songs I’ve woken up with in my head recently. A nice mixed-tempo one for running– lasts about 1:10.
Let me know what you think!
Barbara Kruger Covers Up the Lever House – ANIMAL.
This looks like a pretty amazing installation– Lever House, at 390 Park Ave, was just a few buildings away from where I first worked in NYC (which I came to refer to as “Dark Tower”). I often sat a cross this building and just stared at it over my food-cart lunch. If I were there now, I’d have something to read.
1975 – 1979 | The Movie title stills collection. With loglines!
The Spell has some terrific interiors, and was pretty great.
Cocaine: One Man’s Seduction is another can’t miss.
Is a good way to close out the summer (especially in free stream format). Expect this on my Best of 2009 list.
I love this song for more reasons than just that its title was a part of my wedding vows.
The two students, from the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, were handed their €5,000 cheque, which was later blocked by Paris Match.
via Student hoax wins magazine’s top prize – Europe, World – The Independent.