January 2011
49 posts
Muppets with Human Eyes →
December 2010
54 posts
Punk Gatekeeping: A Distro's Description of...
Driving, melodic punk/hardcore (but NOT “melodic hardcore” if ya get the distinction)
Catchy but not at all vapid
Sounding like a cross between Portland, Southern California, and Copenhagen
More.
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Belushi as Beethoven; ragtime.
Been studying up.
Shaq got fined $35K for complaining about the refs. Here’s how he responded.
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Meet Rick Ross's Manager Gucci Pucci: A Preview of... →
GUCCI PUCCI
Santa Lives in Chelsea
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I want to become a very reliable brand, like Whole Foods
– Lil’ B
Ya Dead
hoeplease:
WE STILL THE MURDER TEAM
No Layout →
The gist:
“No Layout is a digital library for independent publishers, focusing on art books and fashion magazines. It is meant as a support for printed publications, allowing users to flip through full content on any screen without downloads or apps. A promotional and archive tool.”
Which sounds kinda dry, sure. But it’s really, really neat.
The Internet Rabbit Hole, Vol. 3923903238923:...
From Ghost Capital:
HG Halid (Goran Bare) was the singer for the Croatian garage punk band Majke. He also knows his Turkish music. So when a wave of trendy commecialized faux-Turkish folk music swept up Yugoslavia in the early 90s, Hali decided to make a record mocking the trendies, using Turkish melodies backed by a hapdashed punk band. His pal Zdenko pressed up 500 copies of this four song...
I haven’t died,” he said. “Right now I’m drinking a beer...
– Yao Ming out indefinitely with stress fracture in ankle - ESPN
YAO!
Diddy Explains
Where did the name of the group, Dirty Money, come from?
I was always jealous of rock groups that had cool names: Silversun Pickups and Smashing Pumpkins, N.E.R.D., Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance. I wanted something that related to me and Dirty Money is my black hip-hop soul record.
So there’s that.
Foggy Tokyo →
On Football Manager '11
From the mighty mind of Brian Phillips, RE: soccer simulator Football Manager 2011:
You can look for the team with the most unspeakably badass name (Turkey’s Afyonkarahisarspor, which means “Black Rock Opium Sport Club”) or the silliest name (the Netherlands’ Go Ahead Eagles, which is basically a 1970s trumpet line waiting for its cartoon credit sequence) or the name that...