June 2010
11 posts
Olde Rapping
“Birthed and reared in West Philadelphia, the days of my childhood and early youth were spent in the wildernesses just beyond our village, where my companions and I passed many an hour roaming free and frolicking, oftentimes playing ball sports in the proximity of the schoolhouse. I recall a certain occasion on which two wastrels came upon us, interrupted our pursuits, caused a general...
WELCOME FRIENDS TO BLACK CONGO NC
bcnc:
This is the beginning. This a chronicle following B C N C and the making of Live In Miami 1984, a journal that will see us through a tour slated for September 2010, and beyond. The plan is to fill these pages and spaces with items we find particularly inspiring, with songs of our own creation and created by others, with photos pulled from the depths and plucked from the skies, with art and...
I WAS CHILLWAVE BEFORE CHILLWAVE WAS COOL...
The wordery: Little Non Fact
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design the very first Pizza Hut, and that, until the recent organizational make-overs, that classic Pizza Hut look was taken from Wright’s original?
Adam, Phil & Ben Got Iced.
yougoticed:
Now that Chris Swanson is back home, he can bring the summer games to his brothers in Bloomington. At last week’s Tallest Man On Earth concert Chris Iced Adam Voith (above), Phil Waldorf (below) and his brother Ben (2 below). Note that Ben’s wife and Darius Van Arman (of Jagjaguwar) look on as Ben contemplates taking down the tasty Ice.
And I can always say, “I was...
GLOBISH FOR BEGINNERS IN THE NEW YORKER
Some have argued that English has certain properties—a flexible grammar, a lack of masculine and feminine forms—that make it easier to learn, and thus to export. These qualities, though, are offset by arbitrary spelling, and, besides, there are other languages, such as Russian, that have spread despite being difficult to master. Armies and navies are ultimately more important than syntactic...
May 2010
16 posts
The Wordery: Oilcean
BPGlobalPR Can we just start calling it the oilcean and move on please? #bpcares
Maya’s tirade, typical in the way it moved from... →
(via jacobsknabb)
I think this article was pretty right on. I always just assumed MIA was a silly asshole. What’s the big old deal?
The Wordery: Bag Wine
Often, you’ll hear people jokingly speak of totally slumming it for a night of drinking Boxed Wine. Less we forget that inside that pretty box is a catheter-like bag from which they are actually drinking their wine.
Watchchristymullins:
This morning I “jungle ran” a 5k through the Exotic Feline Rescue Center where 206 lions, tigers and leopards are caged and fed horse carcasses, about 40 miles outside Bloomington. See part of my jog through Purrassic Park above. Maybe my best Saturday in Indiana yet.
Two things to take note of here:
1) For better or worse, our records show that the term “Purrassic...
The Wordery: Writer's Blog
Sorry I’ve been lame on this. I’ve been busy, okay?
Will Oldham Stars in R. Alverson Film - New...
twentyfourbit:
In addition to announcing their forthcoming release of R. Alverson’s debut film, The Builder, which features music by Bon Iver, Gregor Samsa, Pan American, Robert Donne, and Spokane, Jagjaguwar revealed yesterday that they will also drop the film’s soundtrack of “new, unreleased and demoed songs from artists like Califone, Luke Temple and Sam Amidon.” (Download Amidon’s album...
“My favorite compliment that I got from a writer early on was, ‘you leave out all...”
– Amy Hempel (via newspaperblackout)
Read Amy Hempel and Mark Richard and shut up.
WatchFOOT PORN SENT FROM FRIENDS (Check out the tramp stamp on the one).
Congratulations, Winning Yard!
You just won the Bloomington Near West Side Yard of the Month! Here’s a shitty plastic sign to handicap you during the next round of voting!
Watchgeorgebrazil:
Kentucky Dubby dance party. I lost. What else is new?
I do the things other people blog about.
April 2010
21 posts
“This generation needs to be turned on to the tangible side of music, I want to...”
– Jack White, NYTimes (via yvynyl)
For the record, I haven’t thought about Jack White more than twice in the last five years. But somehow, this will make twice in the last month. Me and Jack-o, back together again.
Post-Language Hall of Fame: Protein Spill
Dining with esteemed colleagues at a Thai buffet yesterday, the topic of family vacations to Florida’s Disney World came up. Label Assistant Kathy said when she visited as a girl, with all her excitement for the Magic Kingdom, she tossed her cookies in the parking lot after climbing out of the family mini-van.
Label Publicist Abe, who a few years back had been part of a wedding party at...
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The Pre-Party of Disembodied Poetics: Steve Reid
This is pretty fucking perfect.
And a nice little quote from Reid on his musical philosophy:
“Today’s music is driven by the rhythms. That’s the key. There are going to be no more Coltranes or Hendrixes: all this shit on the top has been played already! Now it’s about mixing the whole thing up with the rhythms. It’s not an intellectual thing anymore. It’s a...
Post-Language Hall of Fame
FINGERBANG.
The Wordery: Retronym
Found this one actually used on Wikipedia. It’s the term for any out-of-date slang name for a certain sub-culture, demographic etc. A good example may be if you were to refer to a hipster as a “beatnik.” This came up as a UK-based friend referred to local hooligans as “neds.” It’s a nice little post-language word of its own. Read more about Neds HERE.
UPDATE...
THe Kentucky Dubby 2010
Me come yah fi drink milk, me no come yah fi count cow!
COACHELLA 2010 IN PHOTOS
Jack White or Danny DeVito as The Penguin in Batman Returns?
The Wordery: Yardifact
The treasures of the neighborhood, yardifacts are the many wonderful items to be found at a rummage sale down the street, in the shed you enter but once a year or among the rubble of that exploded old-timey glass factory in the woods along the railroad tracks just at the edge of town (my hometown actually had this).
It's YOUR PUNERAL, DUDE
Gay Friend: Well, I like him but it probably won’t amount to much. But it’s just a raw, natural attraction. What do you think?
Me: Carpe rectum, dude.
Thay It Ain't Tho
Christy: So, you see how Simon is doing that half-blinking thing with his eyes? When cats do that, it’s them saying “I love you.”
Me: He must really be smitten with that orange then.
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The Wordery: Bedaybee Wipes
What are baby wipes if not the poor man’s bidet?
It's YOUR PUNERAL, DUDE
Me: Listen, Stevie, really, I’m not trying to blow any coke up your ass here.
The Wordery: Crapsize
Verb. When a situation takes an unexpected turn for the shitty.
March 2010
10 posts
The Wordery: Introdouche Yourself
Sometimes the ultimate wrong thing is said right off the bat, before you even have a chance. Best to just walk away and try back later.
See also: Introdouche myself