Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
rock out with your tongue out
This post is dedicated to my brother, who just finished building his own TB-303, complete with iPhone interface. Long live the acid!
Here’s the best part of a three-part documentary on Jori Hulkkonen’s acid symphony, “So Run the Tears Like Wine.”
Tip of the hat to Sasha Frere-Jones for pointing out one of the other parts of [...]
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
notes from the middle of the night
The writer Aimee Bender gets up straight from bed and goes to her computer. She says she likes to write when her mind is only half awake because connections between seemingly disparate things are much more apparent then. Her creativity can flow when her conscious mind hasn’t quite revived.
I can’t say I’m writing a novel, [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
two weeks in the shit
I’m going to try very hard not to be one of those new parents who fixates only on how cute his new little one is, how everything infant- and child-related is suddenly the most important thing in the world, and how the over-abundance of beauty in my house must mean there’s a new well-spring of [...]
