Archives since Nov 04
December 2011
November 2010
March 2010
December 2009
- 20 songs from my favorite 20 albums of the 2000s
- "Used to be, we were innovators. We were leaders. We were builders."
November 2009
- Song of the Day: Bibio's "Bones and Skulls"
- Song of the day: John Callaghan's "Phylactery (Based on Tilapia by Autechre)"
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
- "In reality, there's no such thing as clean coal."
- Music vs. the music industry
- "Arbitrage the difference"
- Song of the Day: Boards of Canada's "Skyliner"
- Song of the Day: o9's "Terminal Orange"
- Song of the Day: Plaid's "Buns"
- "Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky"
January 2009
- Song of the Day: John Tejada's "Bounce"
- Song of the Day: Hudson Mohawke's "Velvet Peel"
- Song of the Day: Squarepusher's "Star Time 1"
- Song of the Day: Bjork's "Alarm Call"
- Song of the Day: Animal Collective's "Daily Routine"
- If Obama were to succeed
- Streets Stimulus
- The Obama Plan: Fiasco Potential is High
- Farewell GWB
- Seth Godin: Is everything okay?
- "The Invention of Air"
- Seth Godin: Happy new year
December 2008
- Song of the Day: The Lonely Island's "Jizz in my Pants"
- Mix of the moment: Lee Burridge's "All Day I Dream of Her."
November 2008
- Song of the Day: Animal Collective's "Brother Sport"
- Song of the Day: Max Tundra's "Until We Die"
- Song of the Day: Schneider TM's "The Light 3000 (There is a Light that Never Goes Out)"
- Song of the Day: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's "Is This Love?"
- Song of the Day: Nightmares on Wax's "Damn"
- The Unfinished Swan
October 2008
- Song of the Day: Antipop Consortium's "Ghostlawns"
- Song of the Day: Chk Chk Chk's "Me and Guiliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)"
- Charles meets Barack
- Song of the Day: Gang Gang Dance's "Princes feat. Tinchy Stryder"
- Song of the Day: Busdriver's "Imaginary Places"
- Song of the Day: Aphex Twin's "Ziggomatic V17"
- Song of the Day: The Sea and Cake's "On a Letter"
- Song of the Day: Sun Ra's "Stardust for Tomorrow"
- Song of the Day: Animal Collective's "Safer"
- Song of the Day: Squarepusher's "A Real Woman"
- Song of the Day: Squarepusher's "Iambic 9 Poetry"
- Song of the Day: Squarepusher's "Iambic 5 Poetry"
- Song of the Day: Squarepusher's "Port Rhombus"
- Song of the Day: Squarepusher's "Star Time 2"
- Song of the Day: Born Ruffians' "Litle Garçon"
- Song of the Day: Autechre's "Rae"
- Song of the Day: Flying Lotus's "RobertaFlack (feat. Dolly)"
- Song of the Day: Squarepusher's "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
- Song of the Day: Davy Graham's "Both Sides Now"
September 2008
August 2008
- As time finally runs out on this presidency, ask yourself this:
- "Nice story. That's the way to run a culture."
- On environmentalism, patriotism, conservatism, corporatism, the policies of John McCain, and me
July 2008
- "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious... takes longer."
- I was hypnotized, I was hypnotized, I was hypnoti-ized
- "This is the moment."
- "We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet."
- San Francisco as it was
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
- New Jamie Lidell for 2008
- "The truth is that the Republican party tonight is in complete disarray."
- “The battle between Democrats and Republicans is being superseded by the battle between The Money Party and The People Party.”
- “I want a guy that’s gonna sit down and look a seven year old kid in the eye and say, ‘I’m gonna fight for your dad’s job.’”
December 2007
- I made a list of my favorite songs and sounds of 2007
- Radiohead covered The Smiths and I just found out about it yesterday?!!
- "There's only three things I've ever been afraid of: electricity, heights, and women. And I'm married, too."
November 2007
- "It is impossible to make money off the internet. If you don't believe me, Google it."
- Scott, Abby, and Woggy. Just three more weeks to go.
- The Office is "Shut Down for Good."
- "The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area."
- "Republicans may just nominate someone dumber than Bush and crazier than Cheney."
- "Look at the statistics rather than your stereotypes."
October 2007
- "Why would they put it on the internet and invent mp3 players if it was against the law?"
- Chris Dodd: No more of "this false dichotomy that we're only going to be safer if we give up our rights."
- The truth about telecom amnesty
- Albert Gore Jr. and George W. Bush
- In Rainbows sounds like it was muffled by pillows
- The sun flowers are singing
- Profit from dissatisfaction
- Take the time to think.
September 2007
- Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?
- Animal Collective plays Fireworks, live at the Fillmore
- "You better watch out, you don't really know who you're dealing with."
- I saw Animal Collective at the Fillmore tonight
- Ah, AT&T. So good in some ways, and absolutely evil in all the rest.
- Brilliant doesn't even begin to describe the new Battles video for Tonto
- "It's not a price cut, it's a repeal on the nerd tax."
- "I want us to be completely open and say yes to everything, even if it's shocking and painful."
- bloxorz rulz
August 2007
- "Turns out if you want something to last, it's got to grow slowly."
- "It doesn't matter what you think."
- From the skies high above Northern California
- Bush did not nickname Gonzales "Fredo," after the weak brother in "The Godfather," without reason.
- "But let them watch Nascar!"
- "I call this feeling Living In The Future."
- "I wonder what would have happened if they'd spent the trillion or two on alternative energy instead."
- "Giuliani is no more an expert on terrorism than Ray Nagin is an expert climatologist or the mayor of Tokyo is an expert seismologist."
- Bush's folly
- Two weeks of travel, eight great 'saidbest' to share
- You're either with us or against us
- On architecture and culture: New York's high-rise buildings engage their surroundings and help create community. San Francisco's new buildings in SOMA are fortresses completely withdrawn from the city fabric.
- "No, we're not questioning the Generals. Mr. President, we are questioning you."
- "If you're not actually burning or freezing, heat and cold are just sensations."
- Harry the Bryant Park Caterpillar
- "It’s like we’re living in a third world country, ruled by iron-fisted fascists, whose way of dealing with public unrest is through force and violence."
- "If we trip, let us learn from it instead of trying to hide it; when we leap, let’s show others how to leap."
- "Now, ask any designer and they’ll tell you that design is about communication."
- "They didn't care that Rush was a thrice married drug addict and they don't care that Rudy's a thrice married, pro-choice cross dresser."
- "The stakes must keep rising because that is, paradoxically, the only way for them to avoid taking responsibility for their failures."
- We are not better than them: Our ideas are.
July 2007
- "This is how scandals unravel. You find a thread and you pull it."
- Vice President Cheney sent Gonzales to Ashcroft’s hospital room
- But if they can't face Youtube how can they defeat the terrorists?
- That is what Alberto Gonzales does. He lies to protect the President. And the President will never fire him.
- "That's what the internet is all about, people in funny hats making things that people like."
- Introducing Forklift Entertainment's first release: Sky Observer's Guide 070707
- The sky in San Francisco in July
- "Usability is not a strategy for design success."
- Fenslerfilm GI Joe PSAs help computer
- Flight of the Conchords: ''If You're Into It'', ''Coco's Song'', and ''Part-Time Model''
- What else has the iPod killed?
- The scene outside (and well before) the Home Run Derby in San Francisco
- They woke up one day and realized that Apple has an 80% share of digital downloads
- George W. Bush is obstructing justice
- Story of the
DayBush presidency : Keith Olbermann Asks Bush and Cheney to Resign
June 2007
- This is a genuine outpouring of love and enthusiasm and excitement
- July 29, 2007. iPhone. San Francisco.
- Rupert is gonna absolutely eviscerate the Journal
- The iPhone is a gift for every cell phone marketer in the world
- It's all around you
- To blithely wave away the current horror on the ground
- So let's not fool ourselves. It's not about children. It's about women.
- Not only have our gender assumptions been tested and exposed
- You can quibble all you want over tiny mistakes
- nothing more than tiny fragments of a finger snap
- I haven't even talked about figuring out what product to build, building it, taking it to market, and standing out from the crowd.
- The Real Work
- Filet-O'-Fish... Filet of fish. No.
- This one is personal
- I don't know why I thought I could resist it
April 2007
- The decoy effect
- Bring your own big wheel. Lombard Street. Easter Sunday.
- I think I can do better. So arrogant!
March 2007
- Niger please!
- $11.50 for a hamburger? Y'all must be crazy!!
- It's hard to find out where to go
- Cuz they'll tickle you until you're giggly
February 2007
- The machine is us/ing us
- 7407 -- Seven of my favorite new songs for 2007
- Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
- Life may sometimes be sad, but it's always beautiful
January 2007
- Quite possibly the most hysterical thing I have ever seen...
- Meanwhile, big news in the telecom industry
- Matt dances very badly, but most people don't seem to mind.
- They criticize what you say, but they never give you credit for how loud you say it
- I made a mix of my favorite songs from my favorite albums of 2006
- The spider didn't build a web, it built a hammock
- No, trying to download the what what
- A penguin and carnation, a lemon and dalmatian, though I look for inspiration, still my favourite combination...
December 2006
- Not sure where to start on this one...
- One: cut a hole in the box
- I binge on communion wafers, jesus juice, and laxatives, then turn the other cheek and purge my sins
- I haven't been reading, and I haven't been writing, but I have been working. A lot.
- It's late, again, and I should be asleep now, but...
November 2006
- Finally, a moment of peace and quiet
- I can neither play the drums nor the piano
- Very few of us have one of each kind
October 2006
- Do you know Squarepusher?
- Is it out of touch? Or is it the touch?
- It's possible that I spent too many years working in a cube farm...
- Everything here is fantastic
- A brief explanation of my intentions with tankt.com...
- An exercise in writing simply, honestly, fearlessly... toward a more complete definition of me...
- Ten things I thought neither possible or plausible, until these past 96 hours...
- Autumn (summer) in San Francisco
- I Was Born a Unicorn versus Punk Rock Girl versus YouTube.
