January 2009
103 posts
smallison:
Glassjaw - Cosmopolitan Blood...
WatchLil’ Wayne interviewed by Katie Couric:
“I’m a gangsta Ms. Katie”
Animal Collective - Lion in a coma (2009)
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Ramsey Boyd - 65 & Sunny
“The bicycle is the most civilised conveyance known to man. Other forms of...”
– Iris Murdoch
parastroika:
Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 - Neutral Milk...
Radiohead - Worrywort (Knives Out EP)
NYT: Bel Canto Magic in a Scottish Castle Haunted... →
A few years ago the soprano Anna Netrebko and the tenor Rolando Villazón were fast becoming opera’s most successful duo franchise in works like Verdi’s “Traviata,” the sensation of the 2005 Salzburg Festival, and Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette.” So there was great anticipation for their joint return to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The run of four...
“No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one.”
– Unknown
Thinking of jailbreaking
Has anyone done this to their iPhone? What are your opinions?
Al Jazeera Eng: Obama will 'Talk with Iran' →
Barack Obama, the new US president, will engage in “tough and direct” diplomacy with Iran “without preconditions”, the White House has said.
The Obama administration said in a website statement on Wednesday that it aimed to use “the power of American diplomacy” over what it called “Iran’s illicit nuclear programme, support for terrorism, and...
“Growing up is giving up!”
– Anonymous
Politico: A new leader for 'a new age' →
With one swift stroke—just 18 minutes of words, delivered with a stern tone and a steel gaze—Barack Hussein Obama sliced through the usual clutter and ambiguities of American politics and revealed what it looks like when history turns on a pivot.
The Bush years are over. Obama’s inaugural address could not have made the ending more stark, with repeated lines signaling a new direction and...
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The Inaugural Speech of President Barack Obama →
“We’re back bitches!!!!”
– U.S.A. to the World
Inauguration of the 44th President of the United...
Here we go baby!
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Hot Chip - Wrestlers
“I read once, passingly, about a man named Shakespeare. I only read about him...”
– Malcolm X
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NYT: Obama Shutting Down The War Machine →
“On his first full day in office, Mr. Obama will order American military leaders to plan the speedy withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq and will direct his economic advisers to do everything possible to avert a prolonged downturn and double-digit unemployment, his top aides said Sunday.”