My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-5)
- Levon Helm (11)
- Arlen Roth (6)
- Grizzly Bear (6)
- Mediengruppe Telekommander (5)
- Kenzo Digital Presents (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Buy a bag of lettuce at the supermarket and this is what you get: a chart that explains what is what. How many types of lettuce are in there? 6? 7? It’s quite incredible.
Op-ed Contributor: We the Bachelors (NY Times)
As we commemorate Independence Day, we often remember the familial connections of our founders: John and Abigail, George and Martha. It’s a way to integrate women into the story, but also reminds us that the delegates were working not for themselves but for future generations. Single men fall out of this narrative, rebuked by the Revolutionaries and historians as selfish men who chose personal pleasure over duty to country.Single white men: the real victims of oppression in Revolutionary America.
Erm, sorry PPG, this kind of remark is the exclusive territory of male chauvinists reading feminist inspired history. You don’t get to turn the tables! (Actually, this Gerry story is quite interesting.)
Arturo In Letto - “Ciao Marco”
I can’t get my brother’s song out of my head. Damn you AJ.
Wait for the chorus. There’s a dance.
Whether this becomes a hit or not in Italy will once and for all settle any questions about Italians’ sense of humor.
The Beach Boys- Wouldn’t It Be Nice
You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But let’s talk about it
Wouldn’t it be nice?
This song is so good, even Leonard Bernstein loved it.
393Levon Helm - ‘Got me a Woman’
Levon Helm is a hero of mine. After beating cancer he is still running strong, playing folk and blues in a barn in upstate New York. This is from his recent record. Still singing about farming, women and being on the road. I think his daughter(s) sing(s) backup for him.
1Colbert: Jeff Goldblum Will Be MissedTragic, truly heartbreaking.
Hehehe.
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - ‘Cold Roses’
I can never get enough of this song. The harmonising, the riff, the rocking chick on bass, the incredibly composed drummer who’s vital to the song. And repeat.
Fiona Apple- Love Ridden
I want your warm, but it will only make me colder when it’s over… .
only kisses on the cheek from now on/and in a while we’ll only have to waive
392More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly. When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.
— Vanity Fair (via joshmohrer)Ha, this is exactly the quote I wanted to paste here.sade:
Ricky Gervais reads out advice on how not to contract HIV.
Mind bogglingly funny. How does he make it so funny? It’s not that great, the material, but he works it.
(via jager)
Erm, this has been floating around tumblr for days. Why post it unsourced/unreblogged? That’s misleading.jstn:
nothing happens when you die
you don’t leave your body or fly off into the sky
the deities you count on were just made up by some guy
WTF?! is this Nick Drake mashed up?
501Wow… compare this to Pat Boone. Sweet.
