Month: January 2013
January 7, 2013
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THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST: Role Reversal: Why TV Is Replacing Movies As Elite Entertainment
Once upon a time, over a generation ago, The television set was commonly called the “boob tube” and looked down on by elites as a purveyors of mind-numbing entertainment. Movie theaters, on the other hand, were considered a venue for, if not art, more sophisticated dramas and comedies. Not any more.…
January 6, 2013
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Favoriting/Liking shows the writer someone is paying attention. It says “way to go, keep it up!”
Don’t be stingy people!
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My DD, @lucyschafer, is a @StarbucksCanada barista. Check out her drive-thru customers!
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Ray Bradbury, Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 91 – NYTimes.com
Ray Bradbury at a book signing in California in 1997. Steve Castillo/Associated Press Ray Bradbury , a master of science fiction whose imaginative and lyrical evocations of the future reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 91.…
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Quitting NHL is the new quitting Instagram.
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http://www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com
January 5, 2013
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That’s pretty awesome. RT @NPsteve: WARNING: these album cover alterations are BLASPHEMOUS.
http://bargainbinblasphemy.tumblr.com/
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Frank Ocean wrote a song for the Django soundtrack, but it didn’t make the cut. Here it is:
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Top 30 Albums of 2012
It has become my tradition to publish a year-end “Top 30 Albums” list — at least it’s a tradition if three years in a row makes a tradition. Last year I posted my Top 30 Albums of 2011 and the year before I had my Top 30 Albums of 2010.
While I love doing this to help others discover great music, it’s actually more important for me personally as it drives me to stay on top of new music all year long. In fact, next week I’ll start building my “Top 30 Albums of 2013” list!
I’m really happy with the 2012 list. Lots of new acts — Jack White is probably the closest to a mainstream rock act on the list — and lots of geographic diversity with bands from Canada and the US abut also Iceland, Norway, Sweden, The UK, and Australia. Hell, I’ve got two bands from Iceland in my Top 30. I’m also happy I ended up with 10 or so female vocalists without any conscious effort on that front.
Here you go! Enjoy!
Note these are in alphabetical order. I could never rank these absolutely — it would change daily.
- Break It To Yourself by Andrew Bird
- Bloom by Beach House
- Everyday Kingdom by Ben Howard
- The Bravest Man In The Universe by Bobby Womack
- Sun by Cat Power
- Kill For Love by Chromatics
- Here by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
- Pale Fire by El Perro Del Mar
- The Lion’s Roar by First Aid Kit
- channel ORANGE by Frank Ocean
- The Ghost In Daylight by Gravenhurst
- Visions by Grimes
- A Cynic’s New Year by Horse Feathers
- Blunderbuss by Jack White
- Celebration Rock by Japandroids
- ƒin by John Talabot
- good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar
- Born To Die by Lana Del Rey
- Lonesome Dreams by Lord Huron
- The Lumineers by The Lumineers
- My Head Is An Animal by Of Monsters And Men
- Gossamer by Passion Pit
- Adventures In Your Own Backyard by Patrick Watson
- Shrines by Purity Ring
- Valtari by Sigur Rós
- Lonerism by Tame Impala
- Trouble by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
- Gone by Vacationer
- Coexist by The xx
- An Awesome Wave by ∆
And as I did with my Top 3o Albums of 2010 Mixtape and 2011 Mixtape, I’ve done a Top 30 Albums of 2012 Mixtape featuring one favourite track from each of these thirty albums.
I’d love to know what albums we have in common and which ones you think should have made my list but didn’t. Use the comments people, don’t be shy!
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Hey Twitter! I made you a mixtape!
http://8tracks.com/kenschafer/top-30-albums-of-2012
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Don’t Make Us Treat Our Customers Like Criminals! – Blacknight Blog
This post is probably a little longer than my normal ones and is probably best classified as a “rant”. You have been warned. Now please read on. Online Crime Is A Serious Issue Crime, fraud, scams etc., they’re all very bad things. They’re also not going to go away anytime soon. As a domain name…
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My name is Dken. The D is silent.
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One organism, one vote! MT @aatishb: anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva is spouting pretty vile and inflammatory nonsense. pic.twitter.com/dYgtZE8g
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I just posted my annual “Top 30 Albums” list. Enjoy!
http://schafer.com/2013/01/top-30-albums-of-2012/
January 4, 2013
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Google Places Is Over, Company Makes Google+ The Center Of Gravity For Local Search
When Google+ and Google+ Pages for business were introduced a little less than a year ago many people in the local search arena began anticipating the day when Google would merge or integrate Google Places and Google+ Pages. Well, today is that day. Google Places pages have been entirely replaced by…
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Narwhals make way more sense now:
https://twitter.com/unboredme/status/287211640045318144/photo/1
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I just lost The Game.
January 3, 2013
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Introducing the kids to “The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly” before seeing Django Unchained tomorrow.
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Hoping for an open N on the board. pic.twitter.com/XDjR8ZIB
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Hoping for an open N on the board.
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Joho the Blog » Distribution models that work. Are we finally getting it (them) right?
Joho the BlogDistribution models that work. Are we finally getting it (them) right? – Joho the Blog Hard to Read? Style 1 Style 2 Default Toggle Sidebar Distribution models that work. Are we finally getting it (them) right? Posted on:: June 2nd, 2012 Is it just me, or are we in a period when new…
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My vinyl collection goes from 1973 (when I buying records) to 1983 (when I switched to CD).
A rather blinkered view of pop music.
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Original 7″ of the B-52s’ “Rock Lobster”. pic.twitter.com/jbSCMOxf
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Original 7″ of the B-52s’ “Rock Lobster”.
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♫ “This ain’t rock’n roll, this is genocide!” ♫
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Spinning the black circle. pic.twitter.com/fVjbpswT
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Spinning the black circle.
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Squirrel Sees Leopard.
Best. GIF. Evar.
http://twitpic.com/bs2ibt
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Heads up @emmamwoolley
RT @jessicaspacekat: I made a Lorem Ipsum generator that only uses William T. Riker quotes
http://www.rikeripsum.com/
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Married? Fancy Wedding? See what you’d have now if you’d invested in $APPL instead:
http://applevsyourwedding.com