September 2009
14 posts
“Truly two of the best calls of the year.”
– This prediction by Mariners’ Announcer Mike Blowers before the game, where he nails the hitter, pitch count, and location of the hit ball well before the start of the game, is sensational. via @matthewbaldwin
Life magazine archive →
The entire Life magazine weekly, archived and free for viewing at Google Book Search. Love it.
“I’d never heard the Herrmann/Psycho influence. Until now. And now it’s all I can...”
– Merlin Mann, on the Psycho / Eleanor Rigby connection. This is quite fascinating. Listening to the strings from Eleanor Rigby alone, without any vocals, is really really fun. It’s much darker than I ever gave it credit for. And now, noting the similarity between them and the Psycho score, it will...
HBO Imagine →
It’s not TV. It’s HBO. On the Internet.
I’ve only watched 27% of these parts, but I’m hooked. Hope I have time to watch more later.
WatchI’m going to want to watch this later, but don’t have the time to for now. 30 minutes of St. Vincent and Andrew Bird has got to be good.
I’ve got to go do a #14. →
List: The Other Bathroom Numbers.
WatchSpike Jonze + Brad Pitt + very large Sumo Wrestler = Softbank Sumo (via the NY Times article I previously mentioned).
“It’s like the studio was expecting a boy, and I gave birth to a girl.”
– This long article about Spike Jonze and his drawn-out process for making Where the Wild Things Are is a really good read. I’m super excited about the movie, too.
Top 10 Albums of the Oughts
Since Pitchfork is coming up with all of these decade-ending “Top _____ of the 2000s” lists (with certainly more to come), a couple of my friends and I decided to come up with our own list: our personal Top 10 albums of the 2000’s.
In order to decide my final top 10, I made a quick list of the albums from 2000-2009 that I will happily listen to ad infinitum, and ended up with exactly 35 albums...
WatchChris Ware, Andrew Bird and This American Life. Three great tastes that go great together! via @Feltron
“Oh, damn, I got Viagra again. What did you get?”
– I ♥ Ze Frank.