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“I SAID MAKE IT BLUE NOT BABY BLUE!” —(via clientsfromhell)

Dec 31, 200921 notes

Completely agree - her iTunes originals version is captivating

britticisms:

“Maps” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Wait. They don’t love you like I love you.

YYYs sound best on slower jams. There’s something striking about Karen O’s voice, or lack of a strong one, that works best when the tempo is drawn out. She sounds vulnerable, and honest, which makes the songs like “Soft Shock” but especially “Maps” completely breathtaking.

Earlier this year I said:

Is there a more decade-defining slow jam than “Maps”? It is the most unlike the group’s core material and yet it speaks to the listener immediately and without pretensions. You understand exactly what O sings and it is precisely her voice, the apparent vulnerability, which speaks to a generational yearning not yet explicitly articulated.

So yeah, this is my Song of the Decade.

(P.S. Check out the acoustic version below.)

This is Nwk’s song of the decade too. If only because we’ve become entirely too familiar with “Hey Ya!”

Dec 31, 2009130 notes

Dec 31, 20092 notes

“Because the federal agency that regulates alcohol, the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau, prohibits manufacturers from making health claims, most makers takes pains to say they are not implying health benefits. Bailey, for example, is quick to point out that Lotus Vodka is a far cry from homeopathic: “Alcohol is bad for you, ours is just slightly less bad.” —

Eve Conant, being service-y on the subject of vitamin-enhanced booze. (via newsweek)

this totally gives me supermarket chills when thinking about everything in green packaging that has some sort of labeling titled “whole grain”, “organic”, “low sodium”…well, you know what i mean.

semantics, people….

Dec 31, 20094 notes

“People are good and trustworthy and generally just concerned with getting through the day,” Newmark says. If most people are good and their needs are simple, all you have to do to serve them well is build a minimal infrastructure allowing them to get together and work things out for themselves. Any additional features are almost certainly superfluous and could even be damaging.” —

Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess (via rahmin) (via jayparkinsonmd)

…Previously

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YES

Dec 31, 200910 notes

metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery

from this brilliant little ted talk on the power of the metaphor by author james geary

Dec 31, 2009

combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought

- albert einstein on his scientific method

from this brilliant little ted talk on the power of the metaphor by author james geary

this needs to go up in everyone’s cube….