June 2011
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Melody Mondays - Order is restored
It’s not my fault. I’ve only been absent one week, tis your perception of time that is a wee bit off. The Mad King was murdered so I had to go deal with that for a bit. Don’t worry I left before the war started between the North and the South. I also needed to help set up Troy and Abed in the Morning—-their production budget is a bit low. I return from far and wide,...
Jimmy Kimmel's Prank on Ron Artest
via youtube.com The best part of this season was Ron Artest. I love having people like this on my team.
May 2011
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Melody Mondays - The Uniqueness of Voices
02_Under_Cover_Of_Darkness.mp3 Listen on Posterous The Strokes - Under Cover of the Darkness Even with such a distinct sound as the Strokes have—with their catchy bass lines, and sustained poppy electro-guitar notes— who would they be without Julian Casablancas? It’s unfortunate for the other band members but Julian is The Strokes. Just like Bono is U2. Voices can...
April 2011
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Melody Mondays - Canadian Invasion
I_Choose_Me.mp3 Listen on Posterous Kai - I choose me. Cue the sunshine, cue the birds, cue the kids rolling in the grass, cue the laughter, cue the joy. Just broke-up? Lost that job? Turn this on and turn on your unabashedly adorable swagger. This song simply exudes excitement and confidence about life. The kazoo has a lot to do with it. I mean, it’s called a KAZOO. The...
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Melody Mondays - Adele "Rolling in the Deep"...
Rolling_in_the_Deep_(feat._Childish.mp3 Listen on Posterous Adele - Rolling in the Deep [Remixed by Jaimie xx ft. Childish Gambino] Nothing has been dominating my playlist lately. Which is why this post is coming a bit late. I figured I would mix it up and use this as an excuse to talk about one of my favorite entertainers du jour. For the life of this blog, I don’t think...
Melody Mondays - NewVillager "Lighthouse"
Wikipedia says NewVillager is a “multi-media” duo, half from San Francisco and half from New York. You’re not familiar with the term multi-media? I pity you and empathasize all the same. NewVillager is more than just music, they create “music, drawings, animations, performances, films, lectures, books and writings.” This schizophrenia of interests manages to leak...
March 2011
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Melody Mondays - The Naked and the Famous "Girls...
Hello The Naked and the Famous. Hello New Zealand. Hello fresh, emotive music. The Naked and the Famous are a relatively new band and definitely on the rise. They mix electronic, with rock, with some interspersed harsher garage-y sounds. You may have heard one of their stand out tracks [“Young Blood” and “Punching in a Dream”] on Chuck [YES] or Gossip Girl or...
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Crying is allowed
Especially from laughing your pants off.
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A Challenge to Challenging Startup Lawyers
I don’t often write rebuttals to famous bloggers. Reasons being 1) They’re the popular ones that everyone will believe over me 2) They’re the ones with the experience/knowledge and half the time I believe them over myself and 3) I just don’t write enough here. Really though, I’ve never been one to ingest what people throw at me [influential, powerful, or...
Social wants to be mobile: Quipble on Color.
Why do I have to comment on the newly released mobile app Color?Almost every publication that I read has written SOMETHING about Color—including the LA Times. I really won’t add anything to the conversation, except of course my invaluable opinion. Wait was that The Los Angeles Times? Mainstream media coverage? I really can’t let the LA Times and the rest of old media beat me...
Hello beautiful. Won't you stay with me for a...
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I would gladly live in this bomb shelter.
via homedsgn.com What is it about tall, aged, raw brick walls that allure me so? They somehow manage to convey a cold industrial pragmatism simultaneously with a warm rusticity. But it is definitely more than that.
Melody Mondays - Robyn is Indestructible x2
This seemed like a nice way to transition from the more serene winter days to Spring break woo hoo! As in the break into springtime. I’m too old for the other stuff. Here are two versions of Robyn’s “Indestructible.” The first is an acoustic which is heavy on the strings and the second is a remix by Laidback Luke that’s heavy on the...
February 2011
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Melody Mondays - "All of the Lights" instrumental...
The Portland Cello Project created this great interpretation of Kanye West’s “All of the Lights.” It’s the song stripped of the bass beat, the rapping, and the Rihanna. It’s lush, layered and luminous. (Yes, I did go for the alliteration and the pun all in one.) It also does a wonderful job of exposing what’s beneath many of Kanye’s songs—depth....
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In-app subscriptions will be a catalyst for Apple...
Today Apple announced a new feature for iOS devices that has me all riled up: in-app subscriptions. Although there are a lot of contentious issues with Apple’s subscription policies, the really exciting part is what this foreshadows. I think subscriptions will be huge—for Apple TV. Media execs have a right to be upset over being forced to manage their subscriptions through Apple....
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Melody Mondays - Lovefool Acoustic
Lovefool (Puck Version) by The Cardigans (4468 KB) Listen on posterous It is Valentine’s Day after all.
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Melody Mondays - Cruising on the East Coast with...
Cape Dory by Tennis (5612 KB) Listen on posterous So many images fill my head when I listen to Tennis, and especially “Cape Dory.” Knee length skirts, a live band, someone having way too much fun on the symbols, and driving through the New England summer in a 60s convertible with a passenger wearing these. Sometimes Tennis definitely overuses filler sounds like “sha...
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Melody Mondays - Smiles for all Californians
(7279 KB) Listen on posterous A part of me wants to require all Southern Californians listen to The Smiles album at least once. Very few bands/songs are really able to convey the “SoCal” aura—however imagined it is. If you like Vampire Weekend, but want less prep, and more beaches, you’ll like The Smiles. I have room in my heart for both. Although their first...
Francis Ford Coppola: "Who said art has to cost...
We have to be very clever about those things. You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had another job. I have another job. I make films. No one tells me what to do. But I make...
January 2011
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The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
via swiss-miss.com Touché.
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Curiously fun to watch the "old guys" debate...
via cnn.com To fear the leadership of the “masses” is a bit of an overreaction I’d say. Leaders will exist everywhere, and social networks are just a microcosm of what happens in the physical world. Or rather, a mini-cosm. Not yet a full grown cosm, but they’re getting there.
If any company needs C-level Gen Y blood, consider...
Bringing Gen Yers into top management teams may provide the knowledge and energy to speed up the renewal of American business leadership and American business. For startups, we already bring in “adult supervision” to complement the skills and knowledge of entrepreneurial “kid techies.” For the thousands of big companies lumbering along the 21st century, it’s time to...
December 2010
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I hope everyone is having a Bon Hiver
Re: Stacks by Bon Iver (9399 KB) Listen on posterous (5634 KB) Listen on posterous
October 2010
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I'll have the same as Kobe, thanks.
I’ve always been comfortable as a kid growing up to think that when my career is over, I want them to think of me as an overachiever despite the talent that I have,” Bryant said. “To think of me as a person that’s overachieved, that would mean a lot to me. That means I put a lot of work in and squeezed every ounce of juice out of this orange that I could. via sports.yahoo.com
Atomic Tom iPhone band---WIN.
via techcrunch.com Simply the next step in Steve Jobs’s reinvention of the music industry.
Sorry Google, I meant astronut.
via adsoftheworld.com Oh to be an ad-man.
September 2010
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Stop motion gone indescribably amazing.
via youtube.com The story goes: I was looking up swing music because I heard this peppy little number from the Hype Machine today (http://poorsadmanharris.tumblr.com/post/1042697089/this-is-the-two-man-gentle…. The first video link from Google? The music video for Coldplay - Strawberry Swing. Thank goodness for the inefficiencies of the web. This is BY FAR my favorite stop motion...
Don Draper on his iPhone 4
via rollingstone.com Madness!
August 2010
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Derek Fisher, talk show guest host, interviews...
Still riding that Championship high. Wheeeeee. Doc Rivers is a silly silly misinformed man.
Friendly for iPad made a boatload of money simply...
Friendly for the iPad is the highest grossing social application and the 7th ranked top grossing app in the entire app store. Amazing revenue for a program that simply restyles the touch version of Facebook (touch.facebook.com) that too few people know about. Include me in that list, as, until today, I thought the touch version was still in development. Can you guess which of the two pictures...
June 2010
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Why are you staring at me Daughter?? - Ron Artest
via youtube.com 4:40 is classic! Amazing to see such candidness.
Kobe Bryant - the Kloser
via youtube.com VitaminWater is on a marketing tear: the Facebook flavor, the most ridiculous man in the world and now this. I’m probably a little biased though. Side note—this is probably the most likable that I’ve ever seen Kobe be.
May 2010
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Ceci n'est pas un nerd
via gizmodo.com And YOU are????
April 2010
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Holy awesome Batman, this bowtie pasta is stylish...
via rotinrice.blogspot.com They, however, look quite sad when cooked.
March 2010
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I wish this would happen in SoCal
via gizmodo.com Ermm… Sustainability, check. Minimalistic, check. Beautiful, check. Techy, check. The idea behind this man made energy generating waterfall is that it will have a whole bunch of solar panels to generate energy during the day, excess solar energy will pump seawater to the top, and in the night the water will be released as a waterfall that powers a hydroelectric...
10 Questions with Tracy Morgan -- Time Magazine
via youtube.com I have always been a huge fan of him as a comedian and a character (since Tracy Jordan basically = Tracy Morgan), but after watching this video I can trulysay I’m a fan of him as a person. Hilarious and genuinely candid are a good combination. I’m definitely going to read his memoirs now.
Sometimes new technology can be a bit...
via time.com and cracking-the-code.blogspot.com I still haven’t found a good use for Wave. It’s definitely “cool”. People just don’t seem to want to use it with me =T.
February 2010
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Can you guess which hit tv show's cast is behind...
AWESOME.
What happens when you add Iron and Wine to Kid...
Pursuit Of Happiness (Kid Cudi Cover) by Barbara (5369 KB) Listen on posterousA ripped and tipsy rapper. Har har har. Barbara - Pursuit of Happiness. Yes, I refuse to capitalize the D in Cudi. Yes, in 6th grade I would type with intermittent capital letters because I thought people would think I was cooler.
My favorite thing about Lunisolar New Year is the...
The New Year cuties are quite delicious.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar
Matt Costa - Mr. Pitiful
Mr. Pitiful by Matt Costa (3495 KB) Listen on posterous I love the beginning of this song.
Until now, I had a love/hate relationship with...
via lifehacker.com I’m so excited, I want to go try this out right now. Stupid rain………
Remember when calculator watches were the coolest...
via cgi.ebay.com This bad boy even has data storage! I’m glad the whole shove anything you can into a watch phenomenon never caught on. Watch + (mp3 player, memory stick, remote control, phone, walkie talkie, PDA…. there must be more).
January 2010
9 posts
Stop finishing my awesome jokes!
Oh mother sweetness - A Phoenix Take Away Show
1901 Lisztomania + One Time Too Many Long Distance Call
Aimee Allen - Santeria
Santeria (Sublime Cover) by Aimee Allen (4005 KB) Listen on posterous Sublime!
This tickles my geek heart in all the right...
via youtube.com Ooo. Yup. Delicious. Giggity giggity.
Driving through flooded streets = jumping in...
Love it! That’s me in both pictures. Minus the Porsche—-and the Tiger.
LAKERS ROLLING
via silverscreenandroll.com Not quite right now, but this graphic is FRIKIN AWESOME!
I don't believe in curses. But these Clippers are...
via sports.yahoo.com CANNOT believe that after 5 bajillion sports commentators warned Blake Griffin of the “Clippers Curse” that not one of those assumption could jinx/break it! CANNOT stand to think that Griffin’s career will forever be marred by injuries a la Shaun Livingston / Danny Manning. I hate to quote Bill Simmons on this but….. “Dear Blake, Run....