February 2012
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January 2012
19 posts
Peter Saville on his album cover artwork →
youmightfindyourself:
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division (Factory, 1979) This was the first and only time that the band gave me something that they’d like for a cover. I went to see Rob Gretton, who managed them, and he gave me a folder of material, which contained the wave image from the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy. They gave me the title too but I didn’t hear the album. The wave pattern...
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Justine is the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved...
– Napoleon Bonaparte on the Marquis de Sade’s Justine (via 18thcentury)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-1-1) →
Scott Walker (15)
Smog (14)
Roy Orbison (6)
Steve Reich (6)
The American Analog Set (5)
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December 2011
24 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Smog (11)
Bruce Springsteen (7)
Cocteau Twins (5)
Big Country (5)
The Vaselines (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Magnetic Fields (14)
T. Rex (10)
VHS Head (10)
Beck (9)
Akron/Family (7)
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We must follow the Biblical mandate of using honest weights and measures – not...
– Ron Paul
That’s the most compelling argument for the gold standard I’ve ever heard.
Hahahaha
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Harald Grosskopf (7)
The National (3)
The Album Leaf (3)
Holger Czukay (2)
Flipper’s Guitar (2)
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November 2011
23 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Panda Bear (11)
Tom Waits (9)
Eola (9)
Bruce Springsteen (8)
Modest Mouse (6)
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Let everything that’s been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them...
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via take58)
If I ever write a book on the German Way of War, or war in general, this quote will be there.