February 2012
1 post
December 2011
4 posts
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
6 posts
Lloydtube
thinkstank:
Website that plays the audio to any provided youtube video against an animated gif of John Cusack, as Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything, holding a boombox over his head and yearning desperately.
This was surprisingly easy to hack together, so go get your lloydtube.com on.
June 2011
4 posts
anthom asked: Are you truly stooping so low as to ask yourself a question? What kind of loser are you?
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
6 posts
Eight Years Old, Dude →
Somehow, while life has been happening and I’ve been not writing here, this blog turned 8. They grow up so fast, especially when you’ve been neglecting them for the past year. Photo…
I’ll Be a Blue Moon →
Given that my last update was inspired by hearing a Big Star cover, it’s only fitting that last Wednesday’s tragic news about Alex Chilton (Big Star’s lead singer and songwriter) should bring…
Name Me →
I’m considering changing the name of this blog — to what, I’m not sure. Spring will be here soon, and as the Earth itself begins to blossom again, so do my ideas and thoughts, in ways that are less…
December 2009
3 posts
A million hugs from untold million iTunes sales
Can someone tell me how Owl City happened? I mean, not in the “why do bad things happen to good people sense,” although if you have some answers for theodicy, that’ll work as well.
I want to know how a guy goes from recording albums in his parent’s basement to getting signed by a major label. Is it Myspace? Was “Be My Escape” such a huge recurrent hit that...
The Wrens - I Guess We’re Done
This song is...
“If you weren’t such a fucking gay, you’d be 21.”
– Random guy on cellphone at gym, proving that homosexuality slows the aging process.
November 2009
4 posts
Moments in Song: Burlington →
Carla and I are leaning against a rock on Church Street in Burlington, VT, enjoying the unseasonably warm November day. The scene surrounding us is a perfect cross section of hippie and…
Three things about Marco Arment
merlin:
(and a couple things about you, me, and a metaphorical horse)
Yes. Long. Again. Deal. Thanks.
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After over a week away from the computer and “social media,” I was afraid to jump back into things and lose any clarity my vacation might have afforded me. It took reading this post from Merlin Mann to figure out why.
“…struggling to subsist on a diet of...
October 2009
4 posts
A piano/vocal cover of American Music Club’s...
September 2009
4 posts
Knife Show Redux: The Dark Underbelly →
By now in the history of this little blog, can I assume anyone reading is familiar with Tom O’Dell and his wonderfully bizarre late-night cutlery-hawking enterprise?
If not, click the links….
Possible song titles for my new album
I Will Rattle Off a List of Tasks I Am Performing Each Day, In Hopes of Convincing You (And, Coincidentally, Myself) That I Am Better Off Without You (When In Fact, I Am Not)
Household Drudgery Will Not Take My Mind Off The Emptiness Deep Within My Soul (this is sort of a country-tinged rewrite of track 1)
The Closer You Listen, The Less This Song Makes Sense. But It Sure Does Rock, Huh?
...
August 2009
4 posts
Hey, Wha’appen? →
Screw the conventional blogging wisdom (ie. “don’t apologize or otherwise even acknowledge that you haven’t been posting”). This is not an apology, just an update of sorts. If nothing else, it’s for…
March 2009
1 post
New Song - Light of Day
February 2009
1 post
