Every Day I'm Tumblin'

82°06′S 54°58′E — the most inaccessible point in Antarctica, the...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:16 -0800

82°06′S 54°58′E — the most inaccessible point in Antarctica, the farthest from the ocean, and the coldest place in the world. Located there is a bust of Lenin staring off towards Moscow.Twenty feet below is an old Soviet research hut.

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Pictureplane - “Goth Star”

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:45:40 -0800

Pictureplane - “Goth Star”

AraabMUZIK (Dipset’s in-house producer) going crazy on an...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:43 -0800

AraabMUZIK (Dipset’s in-house producer) going crazy on an Akai MPC

"A typical American teenager will process over 3,000 discrete advertisements in a single day, and..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:07:37 -0800

“A typical American teenager will process over 3,000 discrete advertisements in a single day, and 10,000,000 by the time they are eighteen.”

- Frontline: The Merchants of Cool

Also, you’re doing yourself a great disservice if you haven’t read this.

The Strange Boys - “Woe Is You And Me” My dude...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:00 -0800

The Strange Boys - “Woe Is You And Me”

My dude Matthew’s band is opening for The Strange Boys on Saturday in Oakland at Ghost Town Gallery. GTG is an art “space” located in a West Oakland neighborhood most of “us” would probably not normally see.

Ride - “Drive Blind” From the British...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:06:54 -0800

Ride - “Drive Blind”

From the British shoegazers’ first release, 1990’s eponymous Ride EP.

Today in San Francisco you could go see Peter Bjorn and John,...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:35:46 -0800

Today in San Francisco you could go see Peter Bjorn and John, The Juan Maclean, Girls, The Fiery Furnaces, Real Estate, or Pregnant. I, however, will be going to the opening of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

The xx - “Crystalised” I guess I should have posted...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:08:00 -0800

The xx - “Crystalised”

I guess I should have posted my favorite song of the year by now. Here’s a video for the song by my AFK friend FakeTV.

Sensory Homunculus I miss this high school biology...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:03:07 -0800

Sensory Homunculus

I miss this high school biology meme.

“This model shows what a man’s body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its sensory perception.”

(cf. Cortical Homunculus)

Loose Joints - “Is It All Over My Face” (Larry Levan...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:21:00 -0800

Loose Joints - “Is It All Over My Face” (Larry Levan mix)

Some Arthur Russel/Larry Levan fire. Still Ill posted this a long time ago but I’ve started to strategically save my reblogs so that every day I may be tumbling.

This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass! (I...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:20:00 -0800

This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!

(I apologize to non-Tumblr users, but basically the twelve year olds that run this site just did a very annoying stunt wherein a person’s proposal to his girlfriend was shoved down the throats of thousands of users who could not care less and subsequently crashed the entire site.)

Built To Spill - “Twin Falls”

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:11:29 -0800

Built To Spill - “Twin Falls”

Svalbard, Norway A kittiwake soars over a large iceberg.

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:59 -0800

Svalbard, Norway

A kittiwake soars over a large iceberg.

In Which I Improve Upon The Best TV Series of the Decade

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:18:48 -0800

In Which I Improve Upon The Best TV Series of the Decade:

This list by the Onion AV Club is pretty comprehensive, almost everything that should be on it is. Their top 5 is close to flawless (some people who are not me might argue that The Sopranos > The Wire). Overall I would turn their top 30 into a top 40 by adding Extras, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Stella, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Rome, Lucky Louie, Peep Show, and maybe Family Guy. My personal top 10 from the list are bolded:

1. The Wire
2. Sopranos
3. Arrested Development
4. Freaks and Geeks
5. Mad Men
6. Breaking Bad
7. The Office (UK)
8. Lost
9. Deadwood*
10. The Shield*
11. The Office (US)
12. Battlestar Galactica
13. 30 Rock
14. Futurama
15. Veronica Mars*
16. Friday Night Lights*
17. Firefly
18. How I Met Your Mother*
19. Big Love
20. Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!*
21. Curb Your Enthusiasm
22. Six Feet Under*
23. Undeclared
24. Dexter*
25. Buffy The Vampire Slayer*
26. The Venture Bros.
27. Flight Of The Conchords
28. Eastbound & Down
29. Wonder Showzen
30. The West Wing*

_{*I have never seen an episode}

You might also be interested in this Times UK list of 100 best movies of the decade or The Telegraph’s list of 100 books that defined the decade. I think a best magazines of the decade list would be a good blog gimmick, let me know if that exists anywhere.

The Decemberists - “The Rake’s Song” I haven’t...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:03:01 -0800

The Decemberists - “The Rake’s Song”

I haven’t really paid attention to The Decemberists for a while, but this is as good as songs from Castaways and Cutouts.

Photo

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:40:52 -0800

Watching Football Increases Crime

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:25:58 -0800

Watching Football Increases Crime :

“We test this hypothesis using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location and time fixed effects, weather factors, the pre-game point spread, and the size of the local viewing audience, we find that upset losses by the home team (losses in games that the home team was predicted to win by more than 3 points) lead to an 8 percent increase in police reports of at-home male-on-female intimate partner violence. There is no corresponding effect on female-on-male violence. Consistent with the behavioral prediction that losses matter more than gains, upset victories by the home team have (at most) a small dampening effect on family violence. We also find that unexpected losses in highly salient or frustrating games have a 50% to 100% larger impact on rates of family violence.”

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Men Are Pigs Are Men

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:19:17 -0800

Men Are Pigs Are Men

Grass Widow - “To Where” Sorry Girls, I think these...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:03:08 -0800

Grass Widow - “To Where”

Sorry Girls, I think these actual girls put on the best show of any local band this year, or maybe the second best after Sic Alps.

#cat #jump #fail

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:28:00 -0800

#cat #jump #fail