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cmpriest:Students in the Clarion West writers’ workshop are not having a particularly joyful Independence Day, I fear. Someone broke into the house where they’re staying (a sorority house in the U-district, I believe) and stole four laptops, some clothes, and possibly some other items; the damage is still being tallied.
Her post continues with a request for assistance and some other information. Please read it, and make any comments there.
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bouncy
i am about to start a very badily needed cover up. i found a good artist who drew up a nice traditional piece that involves a heart with wings. now my question is about colors for the wings?? can anyone show me some pics of wings for help with colors?? if so that would be super!!!
thanks!!
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Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear talks about the band's next album with Billboard.
The Schenectady Daily Gazette offers its summer reading suggestions.
see also: my list of summer reading lists
At the Penguin blog, author Nick Hornby weighs in on the current state of e-books.
Attempting to sell people something for four hundred pounds that merely enables them to read something that they won’t buy at one hundredth of the price seems to me a thankless task. (A member of staff at Borders told me that he attempted to persuade a young and famous comedian to buy an Iliad last week. He seemed interested, until he was told the price, at which point he swore loudly and walked away. So at the moment, they are priced too high for millionaire showbusiness entertainers.)
The Edmonton Sun lists comic book films currently in production o in the planning phase.
The Telegraph lists the ten greatest Doctor Who episodes ever.
KEXP features Firewater with an interview and in-studio performance.
Drowned in Sound interviews Ratatat's Evan Mast.
NPR recommends a summerreading list of superhero books.
Drowned in Sound interviews El Perro del Mar's Sarah Assbring.
Martin Atkins talks to NPR's All Things Considered about his new book, Tour: Smart.
In his recent book, Tour: Smart, and its companion DVD, Atkins has compiled his experiences to create a valuable resource for any aspiring touring musician or band. Atkins is now touring the country himself, telling bands all the things they don't tell themselves.
The Futurist recaps the Black Angels' recent WOXY Lounge Act session with a couple of the in-studio mp3s.
also at Largehearted Boy:
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
this week's CD releases
tags: music books popculture indie news
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
Acid Mothers Temple: 2008-06-18, San Francisco [mp3,ogg,flac]
other Acid Mothers Temple music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Jonathan Segel: 2008-06-29, San Francisco [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Angels" [mp3]
other Jonathan Segel music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Local H: 2008-06-21, Milwaukee [mp3,ogg,flac]
"BMW Man" [mp3]
Local H: 2008-05-08, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Lovey Dovey" [mp3]
other Local H music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Low: 1999-03-25, Radio K [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Starfire" [mp3]
Low: 1998-11-14, Duluth [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Landlord" [mp3]
other Low music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Robyn Hitchcock: 1999-08-18, New York [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Listening to the Higsons" [mp3]
other Robyn Hitchcock music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Rose Hill Drive: 2008-06-15, Iowa City [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Trans Am" [mp3]
other Rose Hill Drive music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Victor Krummenacher: 2008-06-29, San Francisco [mp3,ogg,flac]
"The Southern Heights" [mp3]
other Victor Krummenacher music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Bittorrent downloads will resume tomorrow
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous mp3 and bittorrent downloads
2008 Bonnaroo downloads
2008 Coachella music downloads
2008 SXSW music downloads and streams
2007 Austin City Limits Music Festival downloads
2007 Lollapalooza downloads
other music festival downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and album streams from weekly CD releases)
weekly CD release lists
tags: music download indie mp3 bittorrent
( woo! )
also, does anyone have any White Noise tattoos? I just finished the book last night and I'm in love with it.
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curious
Did Robert Graves steal from his mistress, Laura Riding Jackson? Mark Jacobs says yes: "Between 1926 and 1939, he was learning from her what she was doing and thinking," Dr Jacobs said. "He was taking her ideas, her research, he was simply shovelling it in to his own books.... She left her manuscript in Majorca. She later wrote to him [Graves] and told him to burn the manuscript. We now know that he didn't. It all appeared in dribble form in The White Goddess. He used it for his own ends without mentioning it to her. She only found out in the 1950s."
Relevant to last week's discussion of poetry & war: John Tipton has a new translation of Ajax-goes-to-Iraq: Tipton, who is highly conscious of the resonances of Sophocles' play with the current conflict in Iraq, includes a number of anachronisms, which anchor the play firmly in the present. For instance, his Ajax kills himself with Hector's gun, not his sword (a distracting mistake is that this Ajax also claims to be killed with "my own weapon," rather than simply "self-killed"); the Chorus compares Ajax to "a fast aircraft" and meditates on "the statistics of missiles." There are more obscenities than the conventions of Greek tragedy would have allowed: when Ajax realizes that he has "murdered farm animals" instead of soldiers, he shouts "Fuck. FUCK!" These details make it clear that we are to see these soldiers as modern combatants, struggling with the physical realities of modern warfare. (Via Philip Metres, who is I think too quick to identify Ajax & Achilles as sufferers of PTSD . . . .)
I commend to you PrimatePoetics, in which "Great apes using human language are creating a new literature": We are using the term poetry in a special sense. Poetry is a state of language in which we can't be sure to recognize it if we see it. Notice that our definition rejects as poetry most of the stuff written in broken lines which passes for poetry today. The very fact that there is still furious debate about the very existence of ape language shows that the language is still in its poetic phase.
Seth Abrams on the state of small poetry presses: out of the one hundred independent publishers of poetry in the United States I researched, I can only say for certain that two of them offer no-fee year-round readings of unsolicited full manuscripts.
Tess Taylor has a poem, "World's End: North of San Francisco," in Guernica: Here at the continent’s end, fortifications /linger for the end of the world. They greet / each California morning, these barracks in the fog.
Let me send American readers off for the holiday weekend with a beach-reading recommendation: Ciaran Carson's translation of The Táin, which came out in the US in February. The Táin is usually described as the Irish Beowulf--and there is *lots* of heroic violence, but also quick wit and raunchy fun for all! Screw Batman--I want to see Cú Chulainn: In that great massacre on Muirthemne Plain Cú Chulainn slew seven score and ten kings as well as innumerable dogs and horses, women and children, not to mention underlings and rabble; and not one man in three escaped without a staved head, or a broken leg, or a burst eye, or without being scarred for life in some way. And Cú Chulainn came away from that encounter without so much as a scrape or scratch on himself, or his man, or his horses.
So, apparently, I missed (as well as a lot of other people) the notices put up when QT switched to E10 Fuel. I've always been a hardcore QT customer, my father always told us to only fuel up at QT's unless we were out of town and unable to locate one. And their new food stuffs are the shiznit! But I digress...
I drive a 2002 Kia Rio and until recently I averaged 32 miles per gallon. Suddenly it dropped to between 24-26 miles per gallon. I started worrying that something was wrong with my engine, especially after it started running rough. Then my dad said something about "Where are you filling up?" and "You know several places are now using an Ethanol mix, right?" It was that same day that I noticed Shell's signs stating "100% Gasoline". So I decided to try using Shell's gas and lo and behold I'm now getting an average of 35mpg! The only draw back is Shell's gas is 10 cents more per gallon than E10 fuel. However! If you do the math 10 center per gallon vs. losing 2 gallons of gas per tank... Yeah. QT can suck it, they've lost a customer. Forever. Or at least until Oklahoma becomes an E10 mandated state.
You might want to check out the dangers of Ethanol. Contrary to popular belief, not all cars are proven capable of handling E10 fuel. Mine isn't. In fact, until I have a professional look at it, I'm still not entirely sure if I caught it in time. There may be permanent damage. But since I don't save my receipts I can't make QT pay up. Ethanol is alcohol, alcohol = water, water = fuel seperation, fuel seperation = clogged fuel injectors/pumps and eventual failure. This actually explains what happened to my old car and why the gas seperated so fast. Grrr.
Sorry, I didn't mean this to turn into a rant. LOL I just wanted to pass this on before someone else starts having car trouble.
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irritated
I'm new to the community here, but I've been looking at Lit tattoos for a long time now. I've got two tatts already on my back and I'm itching for a new one. I want Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Quote:
"Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat
"I don't much care where..." said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
I think I might want the last line, followed by an image of the cat(or just his grin :D ), but I'm not sure where. Hrm. I'm debating on the ribcage under the breast but I realize that this is a fairly common place for lit tattoos. I'm not sure if that puts me off at all >_<
Do you think its too much if I use the entire quote? I feel a bit piecemeal at the moment.
( Here are a pic of my current tatts )
Opinions?
So here ya go!
It is not perfect, but it is creative, touching, and blessed with style. I enjoyed it, from the social commentary down to the silly little love story.
It looks terrific, the sound design is wonderful, and the script only stumbles in a very few places.
See it.
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A friend with excellent taste suggested I should listen to the Vampire Weekend album some more, and sure enough, the more I listen, the more I enjoy!
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reciatio!)xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have tried to be friendly to a few folks entirely too many times, and I give.
I've known many shy people who come off as snobbish, so I always try not to assume, but...
*sigh*
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At least I've the day off tomorrow. My parents and little sister are in town, so I'm very excited!
I'm also spending my lunch hour with a ridiculously sexy woman, so... :)
Enjoy!
- Music:The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
The whole quote: "This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive."
Big question about placement.
Instinctively I think it should be a chest piece just because of the heart, but I already have quite a bit going on on my shoulders, and I am not sure how a heart would fit into what I have already. I really like the uniqueness of what I have right now and I feel like a heart might be too much right there.
Any other ideas for placement?
For reference here I am.
- Mood:
hungry - Music:Danger Man - "Hired Assassin"
The 2008 Bonnaroo music download page has been updated with a direct mp3 download of the Bonnaroo Superjam as well as a bittorrent lossless download of that same performance.
The New York Times reviews the first Feelies show in 17 years.
Circling through four chords with a jabbing lead-guitar lick, “Time Is Right” was a new song that sounded as if the Feelies had never disappeared. They were still what might be a garage band reimagined by mathematicians, a psychedelic band with no illusions, a folk-rock band hypnotized by repetition, a punk band for introverts. From 1977 to 1991, their initial run, the Feelies traveled a clear path between the Velvet Underground and current indie rock. Their songs, by the guitarists and singers Bill Million and Mr. Mercer, use rock rudiments to build incrementally from meditation to frenzy.
Time Out New York interviews Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth.
TONY: Fair enough. So, in an all-female alt-rock bass-off, who would win: you, Kim Deal or D’arcy?
Kim Gordon: D’arcy? D’arcy who? [Laughs] I don’t know. Probably Kim [Deal]. But I don’t think of myself as a musician. I’m more of a visual artist who happens to play the bass. I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There’s a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
Bettye Lavette talks to the Montreal Gazette about her music career.
"Three weeks before my first record came out, I was in the 10th grade," LaVette said. "Over the years, in retrospect, the fact that my career did not work, commercially, forced me to have the opportunity to learn (to interpret songs). If I had become a big star, I would have been busy being a big star," she added, laughing the infectious laugh that seems to punctuate her every comment.
The Baltimore Sun interviews the Watson Twins about their new album, Fire Songs.
Why'd you decide to cover the Cure song "Just Like Heaven"?
We were back home in Louisville, [Ky.], for Christmas, and they were doing the Top 100 of all time. It was so nostalgic for me. I love the Cure. I was like, 'What if we totally did this exactly opposite of the way Robert [Smith] does it?' We just started playing along, and it totally just came together. There wasn't much thought about 'Oh, let's put a harmonica on here.' It just kind of all came together. ... It's such a great song, and I love the lyrics of it, and it's nice to be able to hear it sung so slowly.
Indie Shows 1980-1999 is a Flickr group of concert photography.
nyctaper is offering mp3s of DEVO's recent Brooklyn performance at McCarren Pool.
Black Angels guitarist Christian Bland talks to the Nashville Scene about his band being labeled "psychedelic rock."
“I think of it more as preservation with progression,” Bland explains. “We use effects that people in the ’60s could never have even dreamed of. By using ’60s gear (which is the best sounding since it’s the highest quality) in combination with our ‘new’ pedals, we can create a different level of psychedelia channeled from 2525. You’ve gotta find the right gear to make the right sounds. The right sounds are the ones you hear in your head first.”
Tampa Calling lists rock's biggest talent-squanderers.
The Los Angeles Times examines the deal that will make Sloane Crosley's essay collection, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, an HBO miniseries.
For Crosley, a publicist at Vintage Books, the rush of favorable reviews and HBO's interest has been dizzying. But she's never at a loss for zingers when it comes to the adaptation of her book: "The world I describe is about how people live now," she said. "It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere." And she swears she wasn't thinking about a potential film or TV deal as she wrote the book. "I don't walk around thinking, 'Yes, this should be a young female Larry David,' " Crosley, 29, said. "But sometimes you just can't help but wonder, is this an essay I just wrote, or is it secretly Episode 1?"
see also: Crosley's Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay for the book
Creative Loafing Atlanta profiles author Salman Rushdie, "the enchanter of Emory."
The contemporary zeitgeist shaped Rushdie's recent books, such as the name-dropping New York novel Fury, and Shalimar the Clown, which recounted Kashmir's tragic history through a doomed Romeo and Juliet love affair between a Muslim boy and Hindu girl. His latest book, The Enchantress of Florence, offers a change of pace and takes place entirely in 16th-century Italy and India, as if Rushdie wanted to cleanse his palate of modern-day political conflicts.
How To Split an Atom lists 32 sci-fi novels you should read.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog offers a sampler CD of tracks that will be available at the Free Music Archive they are helping curate.
WHYY's Fresh Air recommends my favorite novel of 2008 so far, Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, focusing on The Great Gatsby references.
If you're going to invoke Gatsby as often as O'Neill does in Netherland (and, by the way, catching all those references to ferry boats, Jewish frontmen and death by drowning is, undeniably, part of the insider fun of reading this novel), you'd better be able to acquit yourself honorably against the sheer gorgeousness of Fitzgerald's prose. O'Neill does — and, believe me, I can't think of many novelists I would put within spitting distance of Fitzgerald. O'Neill is a wide-ranging stylist capable of whipping out unexpected but precisely right words like "peregrinating." He's also adroit at muted comedy, as when Hans looks at Ramkissoon's hairy chest and spots "a necklace's gold drool."
Drowned in Sound lists the best of 2008's forthcoming albums.
NPR's Morning Edition profiles British songstress Duffy.
also at Largehearted Boy:
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
this week's CD releases
tags: music books popculture indie news
Summer time is definitely here... And I love it.
I went to our local nursery and bought flats and flats of red, white and pink begonias to plant in my whiskey barrel planters around my house. While I was there, I found this really nice sized Crepe Myrtle to plant in my yard. Those things get freaking huge. I finally transplanted my cactuses into these cowboy boot planters that I have in my rock and cactus garden. It looks awesome.
So after my beloved Bub helped me plant my flowers, and then water them, I got the water hose after the boys. They seemed to love that. Then we got a water slide out, hooked it up to the water hose, and they loved that too! Well, not my youngest son so much.
We were sitting around outside, then my husband mentions that he is ready to put the pool back up and that's when my youngest son decided to come around. I swear my kids are fish. Down deep inside. 
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amorous
I’m in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel behind Grand Central Station for the ICON conference, which started yesterday with a Sketchcrawl and a panel on the role of illustrators’ societies. On the schedule for today, there are studio tours and the opening reception tonight with Steven Heller and other luminaries, then the next couple days are full of workshops and events. If anyone wants to go, the organizers are encouraging those of us already registered to bring another person along for only $145 (you have to cough up something extra for the workshops). That’s down from the $595 it would normally cost. This buddy thing is not advertised on the site but I’m betting that if you just show up and tug on someone’s sleeve, they’ll be your “buddy” and get you in for that cheap price. It’s worth a try. At the very least, stop by and meet people hanging out in the bar! We are all wearing big tags around our necks and are easy to identify.
UPDATE
I may have spoken too soon (or late, rather) - checking further into it, they seem to have made a buddy cut-off date of June 30. And, the form says $450, not the $145 that the email notification did. So be warned. Still, how can they turn you down if you’re standing there with money in your hand - ? And, people are milling about outside the roped-off area, so you can still network.
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
Sunken Treasure Records, the record label of Robert Duffy (proprietor of the music blog Donewaiting.com), has opened a digital download store. To celebrate, you can choose your own price for the self-titled album from the Columbus band Miranda Sound.
Miranda Sound: "Falling Man" [mp3] from Miranda Sound
Miranda Sound: "Leave Everyone Behind" [mp3] from Miranda Sound
Miranda Sound: free and legal Western Reserve album download [mp3]
"Jackson Milton" [mp3]
other Miranda Sound music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Calamity Magnet: "Baby, You Forgot" [mp3] from
other Calamity Magnet music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
The Chap: "They Have a Name" [mp3] from Mega Breakfast
The Chap: "Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley" [mp3] from Mega Breakfast
The Chap: "Proper Rock" [mp3] from Mega Breakfast
The Chap: "Caution Me" [mp3] from Mega Breakfast
other Chap music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Dr. Dog: "The Ark" from Fate (out July 22nd)
other Dr. Dog music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
John & Jehn: one track [mp3]
other John & Jehn music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Today's free and legal recordings of live shows, rarities, and demos available via bittorrent:
Dead Meadow: 2008-05-05, Madison [flac]*
other Dead Meadow music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Liz Phair: 1994-03-18. San Francisco [flac]*
other Liz Phair music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Pearl Jam: 2008-06-28, Mansfield [flac]*
other Pearl Jam music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Portishead: 1998-03-26, Dallas [flac]*
other Pearl Jam music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Radiohead: 2008-07-01, Amsterdam [flac]*
Radiohead: 2008-06-14, Nimes [flac]*
other Radiohead music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Ramones: 1996-04-26, Pittsburgh [flac]*
other Ramones music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Smiths: 1983-10-21, London [flac]*
other Smiths music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Wilco: 2008-05-16, St. Louis [flac]
other Verve music blog posts at Largehearted Boy
Various Artists (Leonard Cohen Tribute): 2008-06-26, Montreal [flac]*
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous mp3 and bittorrent downloads
2008 Bonnaroo downloads
2008 Coachella music downloads
2008 SXSW music downloads and streams
2007 Austin City Limits Music Festival downloads
2007 Lollapalooza downloads
other music festival downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and album streams from weekly CD releases)
weekly CD release lists
tags: music download indie mp3 bittorrent
Poet and Bookslut contributor Daniel Nester looks at “parodeities": rock songs with lyrics altered to make them Christian.
A perfect example of rock parody-as-study guide is “Learn Some Deuteronomy,” perhaps my favorite ApologetiX song. The tune is Def Leppard’s 1987 hit “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” said to be the greatest strip club song of all time. Here’s ApologetiX’s chorus:
Take your Bible—Shake it off
Everybody—breaks the law
Learn some Deuteronomy—can you name those laws
Learn from Deuteronomy—c’mon try because
Learn your Deuteronomy—you ain’t good enough
God’s Law—is tricky to keep—born again you must be, yeah
The London Review Bookshop -- where if I could, I would live -- has just turned five years old. Andrew Stilwell gives the secret of their survival, and it involves cake.