December 2011
19 posts
"The Money" →
Holy shit. Louis C.K. made a million dollars off his ‘Live at the Beacon’ special that was self produced, self edited and self released. He’s also giving more of the money made off it to charity than he is keeping for himself. Best dude backed hard.
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Michelangelo easel painting →
A friend mentioned this in a post regarding a trip to the Kimball Art Museum and I hadn’t heard/seen it before. Pretty crazy, the tl;dr is that it has been authenticated as a Michelangelo by the Met in NYC and it is believed to be an early easel painting done by Michelangelo when he apprenticed under Ghirlandaio.
I’ll probably read The Agony and the Ecstasy for the whatever time...
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is...
– Mark Twain
I need to tattoo this on my hand.
Thanks Shantel! I like what this lady is doing a lot.
Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are...
– Steve Albini
(Recording today; my body is a sea of chemical reactions that are conspiring to make my stomach do somersaults and my brain doubt my hand’s intentions.)
Since I’m in full on ‘dicking off work’ mode here’s another part of my afternoon’s soundtrack..
This video is ridiculous(ly awesome).
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Merry Christmas →
“FFO 90s College Rock and being walked in on while masturbating”
How could this not be good? Fuzzed out fuzz pop from So Cal.
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By looking out, we look in, and find that the farther we voyage, the closer to...
– Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy)
An Icon's Iconography →
Great read about the beautiful Susan Kare and the icon/typography she created for the original Apple Macintosh (via Daring Fireball)